
Playing through and exploring the world New Vegas presents is incredibly rewarding and the more you play, the more you're sure to appreciate. Actual landmarks like the Hoover Dam and the Helios Solar Energy Plant dot the landscape, which are tons of fun to explore.

In fact, the wasteland setting in New Vegas is easily one of the game's best features. Much like the Washington DC setting of Fallout 3, the map of New Vegas is incredibly large and impressive. The world is as massive and creative as ever, but playing through the latest chapter in the critically acclaimed franchise grows incredibly familiar and tiring all too quickly.Īs you'd expect, New Vegas takes place in the year 2281 in a post apocalyptic Las Vegas, Nevada. On the one hand, it adds to the experience first seen in Fallout 3 wonderfully, but on the other, that experience is nearly three years old. Now however, it seems to be hurting the franchise more than anything else.įallout: New Vegas is a difficult beast to review.

In the two years since its release, Bethesda has kept Fallout 3 relevant thanks to a steady stream of downloadable content that expanded the game universe. Some traits, such as Bloody Mess and Finesse, were converted into perks for Fallout 3.Fallout: New Vegas - Cheat Happens Game Review Racial traits only appear in Fallout Tactics. Traits added by the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues. In Fallout Tactics, where characters of different races can be created, traits also have different racial requirements. Note that if you chose no trait at character creation, you cannot fill the empty slot with this perk. Choosing the Mutate! perk lets the player change one of their traits. In games where traits exist, one can choose up to two traits when designing a character (or none at all).

Traits have positive and negative results, unlike perks in earlier Fallout games (with the lack of traits in Fallout 3, some perks do have negative effects).

Traits modify different aspects of gameplay, such as primary statistics, derived statistics and skills.
