Fallout: New Vegas
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Firearms, energy weapons, explosives, and melee combat against human and mutant enemies with blood spray, and a targeting system that lets the player blow off body parts.
The player can consume and trade addictive chems such as Jet, Psycho, Buffout, and Med-X, plus alcohol, with an in-game addiction system.
Post-apocalyptic setting steeped in slavery, mass death, crucifixions, cannibalism, and cult experiments on trapped people.
A Vegas casino offers prostitutes the player can pay to solicit, and one quest involves hiring a sex robot.
Attacks and an optional perk can dismember enemies, blowing off limbs and heads into gibs.
Frequent strong profanity in dialogue, including 'f--k' and 's--t'.
Radiated ghouls, mutated creatures, and tense areas such as a toxic-cloud vault carry frightening, unsettling moments.
The player can steal, pickpocket, and murder NPCs, damaging their standing with factions.
Caesar's Legion crucifies and tortures prisoners, shown on-screen and discussed in dialogue.
Sex work and casual encounters are handled through dialogue that fades to black, with recurring bawdy innuendo about brothels and a sexbot.
Casinos offer blackjack, slots, roulette, and a card game played for in-game caps.
Some skimpy outfits worn by casino sex workers and showgirls; no explicit nudity.
Standard combat against wasteland creatures such as geckos, coyotes, and bighorners.
Dialogue and lore reference sexual assault of captives by the slaver Legion.
A few characters reference suicide in dialogue and backstory.
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What it is
Fallout: New Vegas is an open-world action role-playing game set in a post-nuclear Mojave Desert, where the player controls a courier who survives being shot and gets pulled into a war between factions fighting over New Vegas and the Hoover Dam. Play involves exploring the wasteland, talking through branching dialogue, and fighting human raiders, mutants, and creatures with guns, energy weapons, and melee, including a targeting mode that can dismember foes. Alongside the combat, the game contains fictional drug use and addiction, alcohol, casino gambling, sex work, slavery, crucifixion, and other grim adult subject matter, with frequent strong language.
How it's framed
The game presents its harsh world without a fixed moral stance, letting the player choose to help or exploit others; a reputation and karma system reacts to choices, and the story deliberately explores greed, excess, and the ethics of competing factions rather than endorsing any single path.
Details
- Developer
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- Oct 19, 2010
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