Your info to New Vegas is here.

Since the teaser was released many were wondering when will they get details regarding Fallout: New Vegas. Well that ends today as we have details from The Vault (Fallout Wiki Page).  There’s a lot of new things awaiting in Vegas and here’s what we got summed up for you:

There is an optional hardcore mode, the character needs to drink water, ammo has weight, healing isn’t instant etc. Normal mode is more similar to Fallout 3 gameplay.

Vegas didn’t get many nukes. More intact buildings, as well as desert vegetation. Vegas itself is mostly intact.

The storyline is focused on the New California Republic vs. Caesar’s Legion vs. New Vegas residents.

You are not a vault dweller but are given a Pip-Boy by someone who is one. You are a courier, left for dead and saved by a friendly robot.

There is a screenshot of a vault suit as well.

There is an assault rifle looking like the M4, as well as a new machine gun that shoots grenades.

There are special moves for melee weapons in VATS – specifically a move for a golf club called “Fore!” which seems to be a groin shot.

The Hoover Dam is in the game and is supplying electricity to the city.

There is a quest to rescue a ghoul from some super mutants. The ghoul can then become your companion

The Geckos are back.

Skills have a bigger effect on conversation choices. E.g. someone with a high Explosives skill may be able to have a coversation about explosives where appropriate.

Bartering is not just lower prices but negotiating for better rewards.

All dialogue options are shown to all players, regardless of whether you have the stats to succeed or not, though there’s no punishment for failure.

There is a Reputation system for each settlement like in Fallout 2 in adition to Karma.

Followers can be managed through a context-sensitive menu, with orders like “follow”, “stay” or “attack”.

There are both dumb and intelligent super mutants, including the elite Nightkin.

Some super mutants look similar to the ones in Fallout 3, while others are new. There is e.g. a female super mutant with a blonde 1950s style wig and heart-shaped glasses who apparently is one of their leaders.

Screenshots include a guy with a beard and straw hat, a ghoul an NCR Ranger.

The only picture of New Vegas itself is concept art and not a screenshot.

Some location screenshots include a huge model dinosaur advertising a hotel, some satellite dishes, an array of solar panels.

A character generation shot showing a “vigour machine” instead of the skill book.

NCR base is the McCarran Airport, Caesar’s Legion is based in the Vegas Strip, while super mutants are based in a place called Black Mountain. There is also a town called Fremont and another called Primm. A topless reuve is mentioned as being in the latter. Area 51 also appears.

NCR Ranger armor is similar to a brown combat armor with sleeves, there are concept arts of a Ranger.

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Taken captive by aliens you must fight your way off the alien ship.

Wandering the wasteland you venture off to explore a strange radio signal coming from a crashed alien spacecraft, but once you see the wreckage your beamed up to a alien spacecraft where you are trapped as a hostage, this is Mothership Zeta.

Once aboard, you of course have to find a way to get out but the only way to do that is to help out others who are captured by the aliens as well. The way you escape your cell is by starting a small fight that catches the aliens attention and let’s you have at them. Once escaped, you have to go around the entire spaceship looking for a way out while to certain task’s to get the others to help you.

Now I felt that Mothership Zeta is a great piece of content although you won’t be missing out on much if you buy it, but I like to call it “the add-on content that doesn’t matter”. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Mothership Zeta is tons of fun to play epically when using the new energy weapons although they feel somewhat powerful once you get back to the wasteland. Either way I had a blast playing this piece of content although there isn’t much special about it.

Fight your way around the Mothership!

Mothership Zeta is a load of fun but, as I’ve said in my previous reviews, there are issues that possibly won’t surprise anyone who has played any of the Fallout 3 add-on content. But for Mothership Zeta, there weren’t as much as I expected. There were the occasional freeze issue but rarely any framerate drops. This leaves me wondering why the other pieces of content aren’t like Mothership Zeta as terms to issues since for this content there rarely are. Some of the issues though is when you get probed by the aliens (yes, sadly your character has to take is like a man or women depending who you are) the game will lock up freeze, and sometimes when you have to destroy generators later. Now everything is still the same here in terms of gameplay and for sounds but one thing that is different is how when your low on health you can use arch ways to heal up and new to the game, is something called alien epoxy which is used to fix weapons and I recommend you use it on the rare weapons such as the Tesla Cannon.

MotherShip Zeta is a nice piece of content which I enjoyed from start to finish although this is just an add-on content for you to do to spend more hours on the game and of course you can come back to but has nothing to do with the game itself. Either way, it’s fun to play nonetheless.

Come and visit Point Lookout!

While roaming the waste’s you suddenly find out a boat has docked at the mouth of the Potomac river and awaits for you to take the trip to Point Lookout.

You arrive at the boat and a woman approaches you asking to help find her daughter at Point Lookout, of course you accept and while there you meet Tobar the ferryman, who asks if you would like to visit Point Lookout. Of course you buy a ticket and set sail to the southern part of Maryland. When you reach Point Lookout, Tobar tells you there is smoke coming from a house and says you should investigate it while you roam around the area, this is where your quest begins.

Aside from the other Fallout DLC’s this is possibly the biggest add-on to date. Point Lookout is huge other from the capital wasteland. Just exploring the area alone will take you multiple times just to explore the whole place when your not doing quests. Point Lookout is a whole different area and once you get off the boat the first thing you may do is investigate the house, what I did was explore because it’s a whole new experience away from the wasteland we all know. Bethesda did a great job making Point Lookout, the swamp vibe takes you out of the wasteland and let’s you know there were more areas effected by the bombs.

The Civilians won't take to kindly to your appearence

When your exploring you’ll get a chance to meet the folks of Point Lookout and when you do,  they’ll greet you by trying to take you down and out. Gameplay is of course the same here, new weapons such as the double-barrel shotgun will make you want to approach everything differently. You may also want to know that this is one of the most challenging pieces of content that I have played thus far and there are many things you won’t see in the wasteland such as, a Swamplurk (which looks like the swamp man surprisingly) and the hill-billies who lurk around the area.

Now, like my past Fallout 3 DLC review’s Point Lookout does have it’s fair share of issues and like all the others, there are audio issues with the dialogue, there are still framerate issues and freezing issues and hopefully like I said in my past reviews, they will be patched asap. Point Lookout is possibly one piece of Fallout 3 content you need to download if you aren’t going to buy them all or some of them, this is worth your purchase.

PSN@Home Editors Choice Award!

A desperate message is heard throughout the wastes and you learn that this is more than a message. It’s a quest into The Pitt.

You meet a man named Wernher who asks you to help him get a cure that raiders in an area in Pittsburgh know as the Pitt have created to cure his fellow slaves. You accept and begin a quest to free his slaves, upon entering The Pitt, your greeted with a welcome comity of raider who go guns blazing on you as you try to enter. Once that’s taken care of, you start to make your way into the Pitt and realize that this is worse the capital wasteland. The slaves are being mistreated, and horribly taken care of and you then decide whether you want to help out the slaves, or the raiders.

This was a good way of opening up seeing how grimy and dirty, The Pitt really is. As soon as you get there you know this way different from the capital wasteland, the environment feels totally different  and takes you away from that comfort zone that is the capital wasteland. Once your in the pitt, you can either be disguised as a slave or go guns blazing, but I chose to go with being a slave. I lost everything and had to work my way to get close to the leader of the pitt. You’ll fight in an arena to earn your place and you’ll collect steel ingots in the steelyard with new creatures to fight called trogs and boy are they creepy.

The Pitt, is a horrible place that you may choose to save or let it stay under the hand of the raiders.

The Pitt looks great on PS3 as it was on it’s counter parts. Everything you can expect in the Pitt is all here. The Auto Axe is possibly the most bad ass weapon that my character has ever held but there is a bug where it will sometimes disappear from your characters hands although your still equipped with it and well as making your Pipboy-3000 disappear as well. The gameplay is still that same however, if you have read my past review on Operation Anchorage, I found a lot of issues on there and I sadly found some on here. The framerate would drop randomly and the game would occasionally freeze here and there but when it was all smooth the Pitt wasn’t bad. It felt like, there was something missing without this content after exploring the wasteland this was much needed to visit another area other than D.C. . This content wasn’t as bad as Anchorage but, their noticeable.

Sounds are a bit different when visiting the Pitt. The sounds of the game make you feel like there is a lot going on in the Steel Mill and how horrific the place is. Another bug I encounter was with the audio again, sometimes there would not be any sounds at all or sometimes the dialogues would just not be up to sync or there wouldn’t be any dialogue at all which was bugging me as well.

All in all, The Pitt is a very interesting piece of content, the quests are good as well as the new weapons that you’ll receive upon visiting The Pitt. Hopefully Bethesda can fix the issues in the other DLC.

Scores:

Presentation: 7.5

The Pitt is interesting for those wanting to see what Post-Apocalyptic Pittsburgh is like.

Graphics: 8.0

A new area to explore and wander around, The Pitt looks good.

Sound: 8.0

Hearing sounds of the mill makes it great, but the dialogue bugs should be fixed.

Gameplay: 8.5

Still the same but new choices make you decide how you want this DLC to play out although there are bugs that will disrupt your play through.

Replay Value: 8.5

Once your done you can still come back to explore some more and do some side quests afterwards

Final Score: 8.1

Take on the Chinese Resistance in this DLC

Operation Anchorage takes you on a quest that will put you in the pit of the Battle of Anchorage before the Bombs dropped, is this DLC sturdy or does it fall short?

While roaming around the wastes you receive a distress signal coming from the Brotherhood Outcasts, of course you go to investigate and find out that there is a small battle going on but once that’s said and done the outcast’s ask for you help. What they need you to do is enter a simulation of the Battle of Anchorage and your the only person who has a piece of technology (your handy dandy Pip-Boy) that will download data to unlock a vault full of goodies once you finish the simulation. Once your in the simulation, your character wakes up with an objective to take out artillery guns that are harming the military’s plans. This is just one of the quest’s that you start once the DLC loads up.

When playing the DLC you lose all items that you go in with because in the simulation it’s not necessary. That means no stimpaks, and no ammo and other items that you would use. Only what’s provided in the simulation is the only thing you can use and in order for you to get health you use health dispensers that are provided for you in the simulation as well as ammo dispensers. While doing quests, you can have a strike team to help you out and you can choose who you want backing you up, say two snipers and an assault specialist. If you strike team goes down and they will, you can call in another strike team and choose again so you can make the perfect team when they aid you in your quest’s.

Though it looks large, Operation Anchorage isn't as huge as you think

What I liked was a change in appearance, how you go from the capital wasteland to a snow filled area that is in the midst of a battlefield and your caught up in it. Instead of seeing the same old capital wasteland it was nice just to be somewhere else for once. Now gameplay is still the same as always and the score is still there to back up the action. Now there are issues and sadly there are a lot of issues in Operation: Anchorage. Once issues I had was constant freezing of the content and what I would have to do it reset my PS3 and boot is up again just so it can freeze once again and I would have to repeat this process until the DLC cooperated with me. Another issue is the dip in framerate just when your about to head into the action the framerate will drop to make the DLC barely playable and this made me furious because there were barely anytime where the content would just play right. Hopefully Bethesda can patch this up asap.

Operation: Anchorage is a nice piece of DLC that is interesting to see how the Battle of Anchorage went during the Fallout 3 era but, with the constant freezes, framerate issues and audio issues (dialogue would not be up to sync or there wouldn’t be any dialogue at all) made this one of the frustrating DLC’s so far.

Scores:

Presentation: 8.5

Nice to see a new area for change.

Graphics: 8.5

Snow looks great, and so does Anchorage.

Sound: 7.5

Audio bugs are around and it’s not pretty, and the Fallout 3 score is still in-tact

Gameplay: 7.0

Awesome to run around and take out the Chinese Liberation when your able to play without and issues.

Replay Value: 6.0

Sadly once you finish it you won’t be able to go back into the simulation which I found disappointing. But the weapons you gain make up for it.

Final Score: 7.5

End the Enclave once and for all

Bethesda has just released their first DLC on PS3 for Fallout 3, Broken Steel. Broken Steel takes you on a quest to end the enclave once and for all but does it make up for the wait?

So Finally, after all the wait the first bit of Fallout 3 DLC finally hit the PSN after it was delayed in September. Broken Steel is the first DLC released for PS3 unlike the Xbox 360 which was the console’s third DLC. Broken Steel takes place 2 weeks after the final fight for the purifier. Once you wake up you don’t realize what has happen in the past couple day other than getting the purifier started once Elder Lyons tells you that there are remnants of the Enclave left, it then becomes your job to stop them and take them out once and for all.

This DLC was probably the best to start out on the PS3, as the level cap was finally raised to 30 and you return back to the Wasteland after an abrupt ending. While playing the DLC, I enjoyed that I was able to roam free once again but, what I really enjoyed was using the new weapons that weren’t available before. Also, whats great is that there are new enemies to face and some are difficult than before and I had a hard time taking them out be perfectly honest. Broken Steel is great to get ahead before the other piece’s of content come out and I say it’s well worth you $9.99 .

Feral Ghoul Reavers are the toughest bunch in Broken Steel

Only issues I had were some framerate issues when it got to crowded on screen and the occasional freeze issue, especially when I earned the earned the gold trophy. Other than these issues, it’s a great add-on for you to max out your stats as much and earn new perks. Can’t wait for the next batch of DLC Bethesda!

Scores:

Presentation: 8.5

Fallout 3 is still the same as they left it

Graphics: 8.5

Still the same Wasteland we missed with extra places to visit

Sound: 9.0

Same score, but new gun sounds make it great.

Gameplay: 9.0

If you haven’t guessed it, it’s still the same but new choices make you decide how you want this DLC to play out.

Replay Value: 9.0

Once your done you can still roam around the Wasteland doing extra missions and our course earning trophies is never a bad thing.

Final Score: 8.8

Everything you could ever want in Fallout 3

Finally, Bethesda has released information regarding the DLC for Fallout 3 and it’s coming out on September 24th starting with Broken Steel, and afterward Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt on Oct 1st, and finally Point Lookout and Mothership Zeta on Oct 8th. Once all that is done, on Oct 13th The Game of the Year Edition will be released in stores and will contain every DLC that is released and of course Trophies. I for one cannot wait since I am a huge fan of Fallout 3 but patience is virtue and I’m sure we’ll all be happy once Broken Steel hits next week.

Here We Come, Sorta.

Fallout 3 has just received an update, once the game is in your PS3 and booted up you’ll be prompt to download 1.61 . Now wait a minute, Fallout 3 was at 1.3 last time we checked, does this mean that DLC will be on it’s way tomorrow with Broken Steel hitting the PS3 first instead of Operation: Anchorage? Only time will tell.