Fallout 3‘s gunplay had the personality of stale mole rat meat, but New Vegas stepped up and transformed the series into a brilliantly charming shooter. We’ve already written at length about the brilliance of Fallout: New Vegas, but one of Obsidian’s most impactful changes often flies under the radar. was a far cry from the neon-soaked depravity of the New Vegas strip. The dingy two-tone aesthetic of the Capital Wasteland of Fallout 3 was washed away by the Mojave’s sunshine, and the annihilated, hostile ruin of D.C. READ MORE: How ‘Halo Infinite”s grapple-shot makes it the best sandbox shooter in the seriesįor a game built in the same engine, Fallout: New Vegas was night and day to Bethesda’s Fallout 3.However, while Bethesda did a brilliant job at revitalising Fallout for the 21st century, it would take Obsidian’s 2010 hit Fallout: New Vegas to shake off some radiation from the days of dial-up. The Capital Wasteland’s rad-soaked hellscape introduced the ’90s Fallout series to 3D for the first time, with a world that was rich in fantastic quests, eccentric characters, and a banging soundtrack. This week, Andy Brown takes a trip to the Mojave Wasteland to see how Obsidian‘s brilliant Fallout: New Vegas transformed the post-apocalyptic series into a 21st-century shooter.įallout 3 deserves praise for a lot of things. Hit Reload is a weekly column on everything first-person shooter.
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