The best parts of foraging and scavenging, be they digital or reality, are the moments when you’ve found something rare and valuable under a veneer of waste. The experience of scavenging has been enriched through the added mechanics of recycling ammo, plant picking, and food preparation, but these mechanics are undercut by a dearth of valuable finds. I'd enter buildings to find piles of absolute junk. I wasn't finding anything unique or interesting. When I entered the Mojave Wasteland, I immediately began exploring aimlessly (like I had in Fallout 3), but that became boring quickly. You will have to walk far stretches before you find something genuinely worth exploring.Įven then, most locations you discover aren't going to feel that special. New Vegas is extensive, covering Vegas, its strip, and surrounding cities like Primm, but it’s significantly less dense. Las Vegas has its share of landmarks, but none that hold the weight of our Capital city. I explored every nook and cranny of the Capital Wasteland because combing the crumbled remnants of our nation was inherently interesting. They are functional landmarks that unite America by their presence. We all know what the United States Capital building looks like we all recognize the beacon of the Washington Monument. Even if you’ve never been there (and in 2010 I find it more likely than not for someone to have visited DC at least once) the landmarks are universal. DC is so dense with recognizable locations and names that it can feel familiar to almost every American. In retrospect, Washington DC was a prime location for Bethesda ( Fallout 3’s developer) to pick. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded. It’s a formula that works when there is a rich world to explore – the essence of Fallout 3 was that you would always wonder what you’d find a little further down the road, what crusty gem could be hiding amongst a mess of dirty crates and shelves. In both games you’re allowed free reign to explore these areas, meet people, complete quests, level up (strengthen your character, whom you create), and scavenge the wasteland. Embedded into each game is a deep role-playing system built on exploration of a huge map.įallout 3 takes place in Washington DC while New Vegas takes place in the Mojave Desert, right up I-15 and into Las Vegas. At first glance both look like a first-person shooter such as Call of Duty or Halo, but Fallout is hardly about shooting. Both New Vegas and Fallout 3 are role playing games about surviving in a dystopic American wasteland post-nuclear war. It is impossible not to compare Fallout 3 and New Vegas, partly because they are so similar aesthetically and they play largely the same.
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