Those who want to understand, will understand it. So why it's not better than Fallout 3, despite many improvements? Simple: because Fallout 3.is Fallout 3. It is fun to play, has a nice plot, and it's nice to be seen and listened. Fallout: New Vegas is undoubtedly a masterpiece.
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The soundtrack is full of new songs, and once again it is good to listen and rediscover the classics of old music. New Vegas' typical "western" art style is great, although a little excessive in some cases. Sure, compared to Fallout 3, it has aged, but still knows how doing its job. The graphics component of New Vegas, is good. It's a rather improved gameplay, that's pretty obvious. The different endings and choices have been well studied, and every game path you choose has its own pros and cons that inevitably, and rightly, sooner or later come into conflict. "Hard Core" mode is a great addition, and a good challenge for those who want more. New Vegas' map is quite extensive and there are many interesting places to explore. The advancing of skill is the same, but some additions like the "Wild Wasteland" perk, are really original and give the game something more. No doubt it is a much more structured and complex system. The karma system also has been rewritten: I can't tell if it actually is better or not but, in New Vegas, character's reputation, the karma in fact, varies according to different factions and the relationship the character has with them. Objects such as Workbench or Reloading bench are very useful. Firearm modifications are not many, but a good thing. Here some elements were reprocessed: the way to walk of the character is very much improved, weapons now allow to "aim down sight" with most of them. There are in fact all the components that made the third chapter excellent, but with additions. New Vegas' gameplay is certainly not new to those who have already experienced Fallout 3.
A plot and thematics certainly well structured. The whole plot is a political and social battle based on whole 20th century's history, as said. And obviously there is the current that rejects the others: anarchy and self-management, to leave the city of New Vegas literally with "no gods, no masters". Then there is authoritarian and economic pseudo-capitalistic power of Mr. An eternal political and social struggle: NCR's liberal-conservative democratic but corrupt government, opposed to the strict, but efficient, military dictatorship of Caesar's Legion. Regarding the thematics of the plot, New Vegas, definitely doesn't shine, even if they are very good. This narrative device, among other things, is a concept almost identical to that used for the Van Buren project, or "Fallout 3 that has never been" and it is right that it has been reproposed here. But the story of the Courier and the Platinum Chip gave a reason to go on: it's very nice, retrace the events backwards, searching for clues, to find out the facts and the responsables who have tried to kill him and the reason why. I must say that the beginning and first hours of the game are a bit strange and dispersive. The setting in the western United States, a return to origins, is certainly fascinating. I remain more attached personally to Fallout 3, although I must admit that New Vegas was a masterpiece.
New Vegas is, in some ways, the "new Fallout" that a lot of fans wanted.
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