QuakeCon 2010: Fallout: New Vegas Extended Hands-On Preview

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 03:46pm 18/08/10 | 20 Comments

GamesCom might be making an impact right now, but most of those games won't see the light of your disc-tray until 2011, very soon, however, Fallout: New Vegas will.

But for those who are still on the fence about this one, concerned that it might just be of the "expansion" type, we've put together a new extended hands-on preview from some, well, extended play time we managed to nab at this year's QuakeCon to let you know how it stands alongside Fallout 3, within the Fallout universe and among your "should I buy this?" list.

Click here for the full preview. And click here for details on the game's pre-order special editions.

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konstie
Posted 03:58pm 18/8/10

Stevey, you looking forward to this one?

Edit: I f***ed up, didn't realize you wrote the preview. Lawl.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 04:11pm 18/8/10

God I laugh out loud every time I see your avatar Konstie

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KostaAndreadis
Posted 04:29pm 18/8/10

New Vegas will indeed eat up a lot of free time. But said free time was going to be used on videogaming anyway. So it's a win win situation.

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Basket
Posted 04:49pm 18/8/10

^ YES!

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d^
Posted 05:31pm 18/8/10

Nice work, can't wait, still have to run through Fallout 3 though, so pile this on the list of games I still can't get enough time for.

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konstie
Posted 05:33pm 18/8/10

All hail King Homer!

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 06:40pm 18/8/10

In all honesty, after having logged 150+ hours into Fallout 3 and DLC, I reckon there's going to be more in this...

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Enska
Posted 10:24pm 18/8/10

Hellz yeah, I should be just finished with all fo3's dlc by the time this drops :D

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Ospi
Posted 06:41am 19/8/10

More excited about what the community can do with it as well. They turned F3 from a great game into something epic, looks like this is a great base to work from as well.

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DM
Posted 07:21am 19/8/10

Over 150 hours? jesus christ what have you been doing?

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WirlWind
Posted 12:05pm 19/8/10

Hopefully they fix alot of the annoying crashes in the game. FO3 and Oblivion both had way too many crashes to enjoy the game (constantly mashing save button) for the longest time...

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infi
Posted 01:47pm 19/8/10

I'm pumped. GOTY!

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fpot
Posted 02:20pm 19/8/10

Fallout 3 was cool. I did the operation anchorage DLC and get the chinese stealth armour at the end of it. With my high sneak skill I was literally invisible to all enemies when in sneak mode. Coupled with my silenced perforator obtained from the pitt DLC and I pretty much easy moded the game. Was still fun, though.

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infi
Posted 04:41pm 19/8/10

Good review, the thought of this game me moist.

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DM
Posted 05:16pm 19/8/10

Pre-ordered collectors edition on PC for this. So far i've dumped about... 35 hours or so into F3 since I bought the game when it was there was that quakecon sale.

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Target
Posted 01:01am 20/8/10

I reckon I've sunk over 200 hours into Fallout 3, haven't yet played any of the DLC except Operation Anchorage, and there's still plenty of stuff I haven't done in the main game world. :)

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DM
Posted 07:50am 20/8/10

I don't like some of the DLC, like Zeta for example because by the time your finished it you have like 50 alien repair tools, 800 odd ammo for your extremely strong alien blasters and tons and tons of money in the form of those weightless alien crystals. Too easy to rule the game from then on. I avoid that place.

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Crans
Posted 07:55pm 24/8/10

Can't wait, nice write up too. Looks like it's ticking all the boxes on the 'Successful Sequel' sheet in my books :D

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deus
Posted 09:37pm 25/8/10

Sooo beautiful, yet so neutral...

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orbitor
Posted 09:46pm 25/8/10

I don't like some of the DLC, like Zeta for example because by the time your finished it you have like 50 alien repair tools, 800 odd ammo for your extremely strong alien blasters and tons and tons of money in the form of those weightless alien crystals. Too easy to rule the game from then on. I avoid that place.

yeah the game is too easy in general. i strongly recommend the Fallout Wanderer's Edition mod (FWE) which balances the game out brilliantly (including the DLC) so it's a challenge all the way through.

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