Fallout: New Vegas will be officially launching in South Africa this Friday, 22 October 2010. The North American market has had the game for a couple of days now, and the press review embargoes have been lifted. MyGaming decided to take a look at what the international gaming press thinks of the game.
For a quick overview of the average scores (at the time this article was published) we turn to two old favourites: Metacritic and Gamerankings.
Metacritic
PC – 88/100 based on 10 reviews.
PS3 – 85/100 based on 14 reviews.
Xbox 360 – 84/100 based on 27 reviews.
Gamerankings
PC – 83.80 based on 5 reviews.
PS3 – 81.50% based on 4 reviews.
Xbox 360 – 84.63% based on 16 reviews.
So far it seems that Fallout: New Vegas is receiving fairly good reviews, hovering between the 80% and 90% mark. MyGaming intends to have our Fallout: New Vegas review up soon and we’ll keep readers posted on our thoughts on the game. Check out MyGaming’s Fallout: New Vegas screenshot gallery for a taste of the post-apocalyptic action in store.
Below we take a closer look at what a selection of gaming review websites think of the game, with abridged versions of their review opinion.
PC Gamer – 84/100
“The central story is a big improvement on the dad-quest of Fallout 3. Twisty moral conundrums are laid at your feet as you pick and choose who to piss off (and you’ll always piss someone off). When a game asks you to lead someone into a sniper’s line of fire, but doesn’t specify who, you definitely have to confront your id. There are things to see, sure, but the rewards aren’t nearly as interesting in New Vegas. I didn’t get as much out of heading for intriguing things on the horizon as I did in the previous game. With some new technology and the ambition to create a full world as compelling as the previous game’s, it could have been wonderful.”
Ars Technica – Verdict: Buy
“For all of its grandeur and epic narrative, New Vegas is a game of small moments. These moments make the world feel real and are equally as satisfying as reaching a new experience level or surviving a close battle. If Fallout 3 left you thirsting for more wasteland exploration, New Vegas is just the thing…[and] it’s also a great entry point for new players. However, it doesn’t add enough new to entice players burnt out on the previous game.”
Joystiq – 3.5/5
“New Vegas is perhaps best thought of as an alternate reality version of what Fallout 3 could have been, if set in the American Southwest. The only other major overhaul is Obsidian’s faction system, which lets you earn the respect or hatred of the Mojave’s tribal clans. By presenting no clear “bad” or “good” clans, Obsidian really lets you figure out the groups you identify with and cast your lot with them, free of the constraints of traditional morality. Unfortunately, this can make things a little confusing, especially in the game’s main quest line, which concerns the clans battling for control of New Vegas.”
CVG – 8.1/10
“Have you played Fallout 3? If so, then you’ve played Fallout: New Vegas. The writing is better, there’s more to do and a lot has been improved, but the actual minute-to-minute experience of playing it is identical – flaws and all. Combat is still flimsy and inconsistent. The story and dialogue are better, but the characters remain impossibly ugly and stiffly animated.”
Gamer’s Hell – 7/10
“Hidden beneath the game’s numerous bugs, to-and-fro pacing issues, and overall unattractiveness lays an intriguing adventure full of twisting and crisscrossing possibilities—but as you decide whom you’d like to be buddy-buddy with, in order to extrapolate your character’s real contribution to the game, you’re often forced to watch more than play.”
The Escapist – 4/5
“It’s disappointing to see such an otherwise brilliant and polished game suffer from years-old bugs. Seeing the exact same bugs in a new game, two years later, is harder to excuse. Truth be told, I enjoyed New Vegas a lot more than Fallout 3, but I can’t give it a full score on the basis of the bugs alone.”
Eurogamer – 9/10
“Fallout: New Vegas is still a fantastic game, only slightly held back by its increasingly outdated tech. Obsidian has created a totally compelling world and its frustrations pale into insignificance compared to the immersive, obsessive experience on offer.”
IGN UK – 9/10
“Playing Fallout: New Vegas in hardcore mode is a revolution. You become a true wastelander, collapsing onto whatever roadside mattress you can find to stave off sleep deprivation, lapping dirty water from toilet bowls to hydrate yourself, going through every bin and abandoned building you can find for morsels of irradiated food and dying almost every time you venture off the beaten path. It changes the whole way you play the game, completely altering your worldview.”
If you’d like more insight into the review opinions of the gaming press, head on over to the Fallout Wikia. The fine folks that maintain the site are hard at work compiling review scores and opinion blurbs as they continue to come in.
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