Okay, this game has a small mix of a review but mostly it's good. Starting out I have to say game developers need to spend the money to hire testers. The game has a ton of bugs including a bug that corrupts your save game data so you have to start over, or, if you're lucky, start from the last save before the newest one. My arms always tend to go off screen in first person mode, or block my view by moving up and into the middle of the screen, and, like all games on this particular engine, it's so easy to get stuck in between rocks, branches on tree and in one occasion in between the railing of a staircase.
Now that the bad stuff is out of the way, here's my review of the actual game and not just the bugs. This game, is in fact, awesome. I thought because Bethesda wasn't the full time developer on this game that the game would suck, but in fact, it's even better than Fallout 3. There's more missions to go on, more companions, new enemies new guns, they took some of the somewhat unnecessary skills out of the game and replaced them with skills that are more necessary depending on the way you play the game, such as survival if you're playing it on the new hardcore mode, where you have to watch out how hungry, thirsty and tired you are. Survival allows you to cook the food you find in the wasteland which feeds you more, or allows you to make special tools for healing limbs and such.
The aiming system seems much more realistic, relying more on your skill rather than the games d20 (luck) to factor in so you can more easily snipe people earlier in the game if you buy a scope for one of the weaker rifles. There are so many quests that after you've done about one half of the main quest you can already have 20+ levels under your belt and still not have met half of the factions in the game. For instance, I'm level 15 right now and I've just decided to head into the New Vegas strip, I have people to chose for my companion and to tell you the truth, that are at least 4 others I can go out and find, but haven't found yet. I wanted to more the main quest up a bit so I could get into New Vegas for another quest that I was on.
Like Fallout 3, you can chose to be good and evil and although this isn't forced nearly as much as in Fallout 3, it's more hidden. For instance, and there's spoilers in this example so skip the next couple of sentences if you don't want to spoil anything, there's a mission in a town called Novac (which, humorously is just a "No Vacancy" sign as the town name) where, to advance the main mission, you have to clear out a nearby facility of Ghouls (Fallouts version of zomies is the closest I can explain them) and when you get in there you hear a guy on a speaker as you to go find their room. The guy on the speaker is part of an order of good Ghouls who are trying to fulfill some religious type thing in where they take off in rockets to find a place of their own. Anyway, there's an underlining decision to make here. Most people are going to take their extra quest and be good and try to get them out by clearing the facility out of the Nightkin in the basement and not kill anymore ghouls (which can be hard if you're not sneaky) and help them escape. However, not noted, is that you can just kill all the Ghouls, good and bad, skip their quest and just run back to Novac and tell them it's cleared out. Of course, that's going to negatively effect your ending credits in the game, but it's a much quicker way to get through the main mission.
Other than that, the graphics of the game are pretty stunning. Las Vegas is already a desert, yes, however they still manage to find a way to make Las Vegas look like even more of a wasteland. The facial expressions aren't nearly as good as they can be (when comparing to games like Half-Life 2) and it's not nearly as big of a hit on you when you first leave the doctors office as it was in Fallout 3 leaving the Vault because you're not on a cliff overlooking the entire wasteland. The new guns seem more up to date and not like a bunch of scrap thrown together, the fire effects are nice but nothing too impressive you now have plasma weapons instead of just laser weapons for energy which are a cool effect and finally the deaths are still outstanding. While you don't dismember people nearly as much as in fallout until you get the bloody perk, you still have a good number of ways to create gore in the game.
My only complaint that doesn't involve glitches is that the game isn't as open to early exploration nearly as much as the last one, you kind of have to follow the main quests for a couple of towns in order to level up or else you're going to die. I don't mean that you might die, I mean that you will. If you leave the first town out the back way you end up heading into dens of the two (debatably) strongest enemies in the game. You end up having to follow the main quest rather than just explore or else you're going to end up dying a lot.
All in all Fallout New Vegas is a great game in itself and after a couple of patches will be just about perfect. I can't wait to see the DLC they end up coming out with this one. The game play is great. The Graphics are just as good as ever. Finally, one thing I forgot to mention before, the game seems much more moddable on the PC than Fallout 3 considering there's numerous user made mods for the game already out. If you're a gamer, I'd definitely pick this one up and try it out.
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