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Fallout: New Vegas is a open world, rpg and post-apocalyptic game
developed by Obsidian Entertainment
and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on October 21st 2010 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 227,700 reviews of which 218,763 were positive and 8,937 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.98€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/Vista/XP
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz
- Memory: 2GB RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 10GB free space
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series
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Fallout: New Vegas is the bastard child of a philosophy major and a Mad Max fever dream—and I mean that in the most loving, nuclear-glowing way possible. This isn’t just a Fallout game. This is the Fallout game. The others are great, sure, but New Vegas walks into the bar wearing a duster, sipping whiskey through a straw made of moral ambiguity, and says, “Let’s talk about free will, baby.” You’re a courier. You’re not the Chosen One, you’re not a Vault Dweller, you’re not the secret child of anyone important. You’re just a mailman who got shot in the face, buried in a shallow grave, and said, “Nah, I’m not done yet.” And then you crawl back into the wasteland, fueled by revenge, questionable choices, and a steadily increasing addiction to Nuka-Cola and poor impulse control. And oh boy, the choices. This is Fallout at its peak RPG power. Want to side with the authoritarian bureaucrats of the NCR? Go for it. Feel like throwing in with Caesar’s Legion, who are essentially a bunch of Roman cosplayers with a slave economy and severe mommy issues? Sure. Want to say “screw all of you,” hijack the robot army, and become an immortal casino god with your own personal army of vending machines? Now we’re talking. This isn’t a game that hands you a morality meter and pats you on the head. This is a game that says, “Here are 37 ways to handle this situation. None of them are good. Pick one and live with the consequences, you absolute maniac.” The writing? Shakespeare meets Mad Max meets a conspiracy theorist yelling from a burned-out recliner. It’s dark. It’s funny. It’s smart. You’ll meet characters like a ghoul cowboy radio DJ, a talking brain in a jar that insults your intelligence, and an AI that just wants to be your best friend while it takes over the Mojave. The factions? Deep. Every group, from the Great Khans to the Brotherhood of Steel to the Strip’s Three Families, feels like they’ve got their own goals, history, and long-standing beef with half the wasteland. You can spend 100 hours just trying to keep everyone from killing each other—or you can blow them all up and dance on the ashes. The Mojave Wasteland? Ugly-beautiful. It’s not Fallout 4’s flashy ruins or Fallout 3’s green-tinted hellscape. It’s brown. It’s dry. It’s desolate. And it is absolutely packed with weird, meaningful, haunting little stories. Every random shack, every skeleton propped up against a jukebox, every half-buried terminal tells a story—and usually a depressing one. Companions? Actual people, not loot mules. They react to your decisions. They argue with you. They sometimes try to kill you. And they’re all tragic messes. Boone is hunting the people who destroyed his life. Cass is trying to drink hers away. Arcade is a sarcastic brainiac hiding his ties to a shadowy science cult. It’s like collecting emotionally damaged Pokémon, but with more whiskey and trauma bonding. Is it buggy? Yes. Of course it is. This game was duct-taped together with dreams and RAM limitations. The physics will break. The NPCs will T-pose. The dialogue might occasionally glitch into the void. But you’ll keep playing. You’ll have to. Because once New Vegas sinks its claws in, it doesn’t let go. Final verdict: Fallout: New Vegas is what happens when you give a brilliant writing team absolute creative freedom and a busted game engine and say, “Go nuts.” It’s chaotic. It’s deeply flawed. It’s full of soul. And it’s still, to this day, the best example of what Fallout can be when it's not just about nukes and loot, but about who you are in a world that stopped making sense 200 years ago. 10/10. Would sell my soul to a robot, betray every faction, and end the game alone with a revolver and a thousand-yard stare again. This is your story, Courier. Make it as noble, ruthless, or unhinged as you want. The Mojave doesn’t care. But you will.
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before i played this game i was lazy, suicidal, sad, and didnt do much aside from gooning. nothing has changed but game is good.
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if i could bottle the feeling of walking out of doc mitchell's house for the first time and seeing the sun rise over goodsprings, i'd never feel hollow again. fallout: new vegas isn’t just a game—it’s a world, a philosophy lesson, a grim joke, and a personal pilgrimage all in one. when people ask me what makes a game truly great, i point them straight to the mojave. let’s start with the world. the mojave wasteland isn’t the biggest open world out there, nor the prettiest in a conventional sense, but it is, without a doubt, one of the most alive. every location tells a story, not through exposition dumps or flashing arrows on a map, but through design, placement, and mood. you can stumble across a burned out caravan with corpses arranged in a desperate circle, or find a skeleton lying in bed next to a bottle of pills. nothing shouts, “look at me!”—it just waits to be discovered. the storytelling in fallout: new vegas is something else entirely. it respects the player’s intelligence. it gives you choices that matter—not just in how the story ends, but in how you experience it moment to moment. siding with the ncr might bring stability, but at what cost? throwing in with caesar’s legion might mean order, but can you stomach their brutality? or maybe you want to carve your own path, go independent, and become the wildcard. every faction is flawed. every ideology is tested. and you’re never told which is right. that’s the magic. and then there’s the writing. oh man, the writing. it’s sharp, witty, dark, and human. characters like ulysses, veronica, arcade, and boone feel like real people with convictions and baggage. even the minor npcs have something memorable to say, a little piece of themselves etched into the world. whether you’re chatting with the king about the spirit of elvis or confronting benny in the tops casino, the dialogue always feels grounded and meaningful. gameplay-wise, yeah, it has its jank. the combat isn’t exactly buttery smooth, and the engine is creaky even by 2010 standards. but once you get past the occasional bug or awkward animation, you start to appreciate how much the mechanics serve the roleplaying. want to be a silver-tongued pacifist who never fires a shot? you can. want to be a ruthless explosives expert who solves every problem with a stick of dynamite? totally viable. the game doesn’t punish you for being weird or niche—it celebrates it. the dlc content deserves its own love letter. dead money is a haunting, suffocating story of greed and obsession, with a tone so different from the base game that it feels like a playable nightmare. honest hearts explores faith, trauma, and cultural identity in a surprisingly touching way. old world blues is pure sci-fi absurdity, a campy romp full of brilliant writing and self-aware humor. and lonesome road is the game’s introspective finale, a philosophical debate with the ghost of who you could’ve been. each dlc is a unique experience, and together they deepen the game’s themes and scope immeasurably. the music… my goodness, the music. both the ambient score and the radio tracks are pitch perfect. wandering the desert as johnny guitar plays softly in the background isn’t just atmospheric—it’s emotional. it makes you feel like the last living soul in a forgotten america. mark morgan’s tracks still send chills down my spine, and the radio hosts (especially mister new vegas) bring a comforting, melancholic voice to the chaos. but maybe the most important thing about fallout: new vegas is how it stays with you. it’s not just about quests or leveling up. it’s about the feeling of making choices and living with them. it’s about the little stories that only you experience because of the way you played. it’s about becoming someone in a world that’s been broken and reforged a hundred times. and in a strange way, it makes you reflect on your own world, your own choices, and what it means to try to do good in a place that often feels like it’s gone too far wrong. there’s no game like it. no other title has captured the same blend of freedom, depth, wit, and soul. it’s imperfect, sure, but so are the best things in life. and maybe that’s why i love it so much. because beneath the dust and decay of the mojave lies something incredibly rare—a game that trusts you to find your own meaning. so yes. ten out of ten. always has been. always will be. look, say what you want about the other factions, but following mr. house in fallout: new vegas is absolutely justified—and honestly, he might be the closest thing the mojave has to a real good guy. yeah, he's a cold, calculating technocrat, but in a world ravaged by nukes, raiders, and two-bit dictators playing war, isn’t that exactly what you want? the man had the foresight to protect vegas from complete destruction during the great war centuries ago, and he’s the only one with a real, long-term vision for rebuilding civilization without descending into fascism or chaos. the ncr is bloated, corrupt, and can’t manage its own supply lines. caesar's legion is a straight-up slaver cult. going independent sounds fun until you realize it just leads to more instability and warlords fighting over scraps. mr. house wants order, progress, and a future run by intellect and efficiency—not superstition or bureaucracy. plus, he doesn’t pretend to be your friend—he’s honest about what he wants, and he rewards competence. in a world full of liars and killers, that kind of clarity is rare. so yeah, i backed house, and i’d do it again. mr. house is just like mr. hicks. mr. hicks is, without question, the coolest history teacher i’ve ever had—possibly the coolest person to ever set foot in a school, period. this man has over 600 hours logged in fallout 4, and he brings that exact kind of post-apocalyptic passion into the classroom like he’s teaching from a bunker in the glowing sea. he doesn’t just talk about historical wars—he lives it, connecting everything from the roman empire to cold war politics with the factions in the fallout universe. one day, i drew him a picture of an ncr ranger from fallout: new vegas—full gear, the big iron, the cool helmet, the whole thing—and he was so stoked about it, he actually put it up on his classroom wall. for a while, it just hung there like a silent guardian of the wasteland, watching over desks and textbooks. it made me feel like i’d added something real to that room. but then—tragedy. someone took it down. no warning, no explanation, just gone. like it never existed. probably some admin who thought it wasn’t “school appropriate” or whatever, as if a drawing of a ranger is somehow more threatening than literally everything that happens in the school bathrooms. still, mr. hicks was cool about it. he said he’d pay me to make another fallout picture that was school friendly. the man’s a legend. if there’s ever a fallout-themed high school, he better be principal.
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This is one of the best RPGs of all time and probably the best game in the Fallout series. After 14 years, playing the game today still gives a great experience, although encountered crashing a pack of times. The story is rich and explorable areas are huge. After 100 hours into the game, I still have lots of areas haven't been to and many quests not experienced. Most of the quests have multiple ways to handle and there are consequences. Followers could take action without your instruction so beware. The combat system is quite unique. You can play either as FPS / action game or strategic game. Both are viable. Achievements are overall very doable. GRA achievements and collection related achievements are probably the most difficult ones. Hardcore mode is more tedious so better to do hardcore in the second run. Overall this is a must play for single player who love story rich games.
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Decide to replay the game with mods (including a weather mod) Sandstorm starts Decide to wait out the sandstorm in a nearby cave The cave has a creepy vault entrance I go into the vault and its completely empty with the exception of a couple enemy creatures Decide to look deeper into the story of the vault Find out a gruesome story about how every year the vault residents had to offer a sacrifice or else everyone would be killed Decide to dig deeper Find out that this vault was a social experiment and if there wasn't a sacrifice nothing would happen Only 5 residents actually survived to find this out Quickly run outside the vault after finding out this insanely gruesome story Sandstorm is over 10/10 storytelling
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Fallout: New Vegas is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.
Fallout: New Vegas is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.
Fallout: New Vegas received 218,763 positive votes out of a total of 227,700 achieving an impressive rating of 9.50.
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Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Fallout: New Vegas is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Fallout: New Vegas is not playable on MacOS.
Fallout: New Vegas is not playable on Linux.
Fallout: New Vegas is a single-player game.
There are 7 DLCs available for Fallout: New Vegas. Explore additional content available for Fallout: New Vegas on Steam.
Fallout: New Vegas does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Fallout: New Vegas supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Fallout: New Vegas is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Obsidian Entertainment
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Bethesda Softworks
Release
21 Oct 2010
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