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 | Fallout: New Vegas Collector's Edition |
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. It's the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead...and that's before things really get ugly. It's a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It's a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way.As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you'll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare "winner takes all" and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3.Enjoy your stay.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #210 in Video Games
- Brand: Bethesda
- Model: 11755
- Released on: 2010-10-19
- ESRB Rating: Mature
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.00 pounds
Features
- "Lucky 7" poker chips. Each of the seven poker chips was designed to represent chips from the major casinos found on the New Vegas strip and throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
- A fully customized Fallout: New Vegas deck of cards. Each card in the pack has been uniquely illustrated to depict characters and factions found within the game.
- A recreation of the game's highly coveted "Lucky 38" platinum chip.
- A hardcover graphic novel "All Roads", that tells the story of some of the characters and events that lead up to Fallout: New Vegas. "All Roads" was written by Chris Avellone and created in conjunction with Dark Horse Comics.
- The Making of Fallout: New Vegas' DVD. This documentary DVD will contain exclusive video content, including interviews with the developers in which they take you from concept to creation.
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From the Manufacturer
| Experience all the sights and sounds of fabulous New Vegas, brought to you by Vault-Tec, America's First Choice in Post Nuclear Simulation. Explore the treacherous wastes of the Great Southwest from the safety and comfort of your very own vault: Meet new people, confront terrifying creatures, and arm yourself with the latest high-tech weaponry as you make a name for yourself on a thrilling new journey across the Mojave wasteland. | |
 PUBLISHER:
Bethesda Softworks
DEVELOPER: Obsidian Entertainment
ANTICIPATED
RELEASE DATE: 10/19/2010
PLATFORMS: Xbox 360™ / PLAYSTATION®3 /
Games
for Windows
GENRE: Post Nuclear Role-Playing | Description: Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. It’s the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot in the head and left for dead…and that’s before things really get ugly. It’s a town of dreamers and desperados being torn apart by warring factions vying for complete control of this desert oasis. It’s a place where the right kind of person with the right kind of weaponry can really make a name for themselves, and make more than an enemy or two along the way. As you battle your way across the heat-blasted Mojave Wasteland, the colossal Hoover Dam, and the neon drenched Vegas Strip, you’ll be introduced to a colorful cast of characters, power-hungry factions, special weapons, mutated creatures and much more. Choose sides in the upcoming war or declare “winner takes all” and crown yourself the King of New Vegas in this follow-up to the 2008 videogame of the year, Fallout 3. |
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| About Bethesda Softworks Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Titles from two of the world’s top development studios – Bethesda Game Studios and id Software – are featured under the Bethesda Softworks label and include such blockbuster franchises as DOOM®, QUAKE®, The Elder Scrolls®, Fallout®, Wolfenstein™ and RAGE™. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com. Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas are trademarks or registered trademarks of Bethesda Softworks LLC in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. About Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian Entertainment is an entertainment software development company passionately dedicated to making high quality, next generation games for Windows PC and console systems. Obsidian was founded in 2003 by five game development veterans who've produced, programmed, and/or designed award-winning role playing games for a variety of platforms over the last 15 years. The five founders are: Feargus Urquhart, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, Chris Avellone and Chris Jones. Many of Obsidian's talented employees have worked on award winning products for organizations such as Black Isle Studios, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Neversoft, and others. Obsidian Entertainment's Web site is located at www.obsidian.net. | |
Customer Reviews
High-octane Clash of Two 'Fallout' Factions Infested with Bugs
War...War never changes. But
Fallout has over the course of its long-winded history.
It
started as a spiritual sequel to 'Wasteland', CRPG that started
'Post-Apocalyptic' gameplay back in 1988 by Interplay, whose division
Black Isle is behind seminal CRPG classic such as 'Baldur's Gate' and
yes, you guessed it, 'Fallout' and 'Fallout 2'.
After Interplay
was disintegrated, some of the people went to Bioware, some of them went
on to found Troika, talented but unfortunate developer who met its
demise after three original and interesting but very buggy CRPG with
dissimal sales. Some of them went on to found Obsidian, yet another
talented but somewhat disappointing developer whose track record
includes 'Knights of the Old Republic 2', 'Neverwinter Nights 2', 'Alpha
Protocol' and upcoming 'Dungeon Siege 3'.
Why am I reciting a
history lesson here? When Bethesda acquired the right for 'Fallout' IP
from Interplay and released its biggest financial success yet with
'Fallout 3', fans were divided into two distinctive factions and has
been feuding over which is better.
Faction Red: Bethesda ruined
the memory of the greatest CRPG of all time by dumbing down everything
we loved about our precious franchise. It's 'Oblivion with guns'.
Faction
Blue: Bethesda successfully resuscitated the dead franchise by
streamlining many archaic elements and implementing new refreshing
elements. It retains all the core elements from 'Fallout'. We love it.
I
personally love all of them and none of them are perfect to feud over
petty differences in semantics.
After court-feuding over who's
got the right to the entire 'Fallout' series, Bethesda settled with the
right to all future single-player Fallout game and right to license the
right to Interplay to the development of 'Fallout MMORPG'. So both
'Fallout 4' and 'Fallout Online' are coming; both will be published by
Bethesda and 'Fallout 4' will be also developed by Bethesda.
So
with the help of creative minds behind the original 2D isometric Fallout
games using the same engine and costruction set Bethesda did for FO3,
can Obsidian right the wrong by Bethesda? (Bethesda still owns the IP
and publishes it.) That has been the question by Faction Red.
If
you are a fan of 'Fallout 3', rest assured FONV is exactly like FO3 with
nothing taken away with some newly improved elements added. You will
feel right at home with the game. Control, menu, movement, combat,
Pipboy and VATS are all identical. What's added are new perks system,
new aiming system and new NPC companion command system.
Unlike
FO3, there are tons more factions now in play and you can choose to side
with certain faction with consequences. Faction dynamics play much more
intimate and important role, and are tied directly to the choices you
have to make (think Morrowind). You cannot possibly satisfiy everyone in
FONV. You'll have to actually play multiple playthrough to experience
everything. Choices you make will definitely make the differrence in
character interaction and will give out whopping 27 unique important
quests all littered with different endings with each ending giving you
various permutations (think Gothic and The Witcher), unlike the
cookie-cutter, same-difference 5 endings FO3 offered. Every time you
make someone beneficiary, you will make someone else unhappy. All of
your choices will resullt in some type of consequences. There is no more
good and evil morality play here. This time, it is a wild wild west.
Everyone is a cutthroat. In fact, style of the game is reminiscent of
old western movie and FO3 rolled into one.
Dialogues are much
more sarcastic and darkly humorous. Voice-works are well-done by many
celebrities. Characters are wackier. General tone of the game is morally
even murkier and overall darker, albeit humorous on par with the first
two games (especially Fallout 2).
Soundtrack once again retains
the signature feel of the series by utilizing slew of retro 40s and 50s
classic pop music. Orchestral score is once again done by Inon Zur.
While
level-cap has been increased to 30, leveling up needs more attention
because you cannot be a jack of all trade in FONV; especially in light
of new 'Hard-core' mode that is included in the game. You need to hunt
and cook / harvest / steal and eat, you need to drink and you need to
sleep to survive or pay the consequence. You cannot carry infinite
amount of ammo either. You can freely choose whether you want to play as
'Hard-core'.
You can now mod your own weapons on the work bench
with more variety and freedom than you were able to in FO3.
Graphics
are still competent but are aging fast now. The general tone of the
color scheme is changed from green to orange. While Obsidian claims
graphic is slightly improved, I think graphically everything looks
little bit uglier overall, probably stemming from mismatched color
schemes throughout the environment. Sometimes, the world feels like
messy crayon artwork from kindergarten wall. But the world is much
livelier and you now see some level of active civilization represented
by glowing neons of Vegas Strip.
So it sounds like I am trashing
FO3 and praising FONV to no end. Not so fast. FO 3 is still a great game
but I like FONV slightly better in terms of the improved gameplay.
However, FO3 is much better in depth of contents, presentation and
storytelling. Morrowind and Oblivion is still my king of CRPG with much
stronger community support. So what is wrong with the game?
Welcome
to the bugfest 2010. It's a grand feast of technical mess; frame rate
stuttering issue, game crashing and freezing, characters stuck in the
environment, disappearing act of characters and items (even save-game
files make the cameos in the act) are some of the widely reported bugs
across the all platforms. Yes, CRPG and nonlinear, free-formed,
open-ended game in gigantic scope as big as FONV will always be buggier
than linear, focused games like Halo and Modern Warfare due to virtually
impossible task of QA stemming from endless in-game possibilities, and
yes, nothing gamebreaking, But there are tons of minor glitches that are
annoying and tiresome when you play the game that gives you anywhere
from 40-200 hours and upward. This is the buggiest Fallout entry.
Here's
a helpful site to alleviate your potential problems.
[...]
Another
thing is everything in FONV is awfully familiar with FO3, not
necessarily a bad thing in itself. Just don't expect the same kind of
awe-inducing wow moment like when you came out of Vault 101 for the
first time in FO3 or cinematic end-battle.
If you are not a fan
of CRPG or you hated FO3, there's nothing new for you to see here. Just
like FO3, this is not a FPS, even with enhanced aiming mechanics. Hit
points and damage are governed by your stats. This game will be just as
boring as FO3 to you.
If you are a fan of open-world game such as
GTA, be warned; FONV is not a open-world action game. It is open-ended,
nonlinear, free-formed CRPG that focuses on traversing and finding new
places, engaging with different characters, performing quests,
dungeon-crawling and "role-playing". There are tons of small,
interesting and quite often excellent depiction of personal conflicts
and backstories, but there's no 'save the humanity' type of grand plot
and cinematic cutscenes between each level.
And if you think
'Borderlands', which is by the way solid and entertaining action game,
is better than FO3, stay away from FONV. Customization of stats,
leveling up, armors and weapons by themselves do not make action game
like 'Borderlands' a RPG. You'll be wondering why your excellent
marksmanship repeatedly proven via endless hours of online multiplayer
session is not effective in Nevada / Mojave wasteland.
Last, but
not least, PC version of FONV utilizes Steam, which is the most popular
DRM and the least intrusive DRM currently available in the market. It
offers many incentive, convenience and great pricing for older games
compared to other DRM, but Steam is still DRM. Convenience of not having
to worry about the actual gamedisc by using Steam is nothing compared
to not having any DRM so we can install the game and put away our game
for display and collection. We won't be worrying about gamedisc if DRM
doesn't check the disc every five second during the gameplay if the disc
is authentic in the first place. Dual release with non-Steam version
after initial release or guaranteed future DRM deactivation patch will
surely pacify every morally just legitimate paying customers who
genuinely want to support developers but are turned off by hands-on DRM.
So
why did I still choose PC version over console version?; GECK, easier
patching and community support, because I expected that game like FONV
would always be buggy. To Bethesda's credit, the game looks and plays
exactly the same on either PC or console, barring framerate, graphics
and resolution, so the experience will be identical unlike other CRPGs
like 'Dragon Age: Origins', 'Two Worlds', 'Sacred 2', 'Divinity II', and
'Risen' on consoles to name a few.
But to Steam's credit, it's
'one-time only' activation through Steam and it doesn't require for you
to keep the disc running in your optical drive once the game is
installed. There's no constant Internet connection requirement while you
play your game and there's no installation limit. And if you are into
social-networking aspects of Steam, you won't have much problems. But if
you are turned off by anything other than disc-based DRM, you are
warned. I found myself grudgingly and reluctantly giving up to the spell
of Fallout series this time but this is only the second Steam-powered
game I purchased since Half-Life 2 back in 2004.
Overall, FONV is
outstanding CRPG marred only by technical shortcomings and it is an
excellent extension of FO3 world created by Bethesda but is also a love
letter to the bygone era of glorious golden age of CRPG from the minds
of the classic Fallout series in FO3's clothes. You will find many
references made toward FO1 and FO2. FONV finds the sweet spot between
the two warring factions (?) in my opinion. Short of bringing 'Fallout:
Van Buren' to life, this is the best Fallout game you will get. So jump
into the wasteland.
FONV is the best Obsidian work to date.
Amazing collector's edition
This Fallout New Vegas
collector's edition is sick! the feel and look of it definitively worths
its price. The leather-like case is tough and looks very nice. The
poker chips feel like real ones, they are not made of cheap plastic,
they are heavy and look very real. The platinum chip is heavy too, not
made form aluminium if u thought that. The graphic novel has very good
illustrations, two words: Dark Horse. In my opinion, the cards are
maybe, if not, the coolest thing of the set, they are each one
illustrated with a different detailed drawing and some phrases of the
character represented. This collectors edition is a must have for every
Fallout fan, like I said before, definitely worth the price, and
something as nice as this will easily worth twice on the future so you
can even look at it as an investment :D
Better
Loyalty to the Original Fallout Titles
I am a long-time fan of
Fallout, having owned and completed all the previous versions multiple
times. Fallout 3, while fun, was not very true to the original game,
and, with the exception of the Feral Ghoul Reavers, was too easy.
Fallout: New Vegas hearkens to the game play and feel of Fallout 2.
Giant Radscorpions are a serious threat to the player, mutants don't
just die after three shots to the face, and the voice-overs are not
acted by just one main actor with a few other voices, like Fallout 3.
The game flow is logical and the missions are more story-based and less
contrived than Moira's tasks for her survival manual. So far I am about
36 hours into the game play and have enjoyed almost all of it, with the
exception being a few video glitches, like enemies embedded in rock, or
the player getting stuck inside a game surface and having to load from a
previous game point, which can be overcome more easily by frequent game
saves. With the addition of cooking at campfires, some of the better
elements of Oblivion have been introduced. The scenery is lush and
detailed, and the game play is smooth. I would give this game a 95%
rating, and so have given it a 5-star rating with Amazon.
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