The story structure is one of the main differences between Fallout 3 and New Vegas. Why weren’t these places bombed? How is the dam still running? The Hoover Dam is the backbone of the storyline in New Vegas: the keys in this world are the dam and the New Vegas Strip, so whoever controls them has the power.
But in a post-apocalyptic America, explained Bergman, “News travels very slowly, so there aren’t really very many direct connections to Fallout 3.” That’s liable to be the case when nuclear weapons take out much of the country - although two of the locations that seemingly lucked out were the Hoover Dam and New Vegas. His responses indicated that, aside from using the same engine, New Vegas couldn’t be more different from its predecessor.įallout: New Vegas (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC)įallout: New Vegas takes place in 2280, three years after Fallout 3, on the opposite side of the country. He also answered the many questions I peppered him with, including a number of questions comparing this game to Fallout 3.
But while New Vegas is the same type of game, and it’s running on the same engine, and you’ll be doing a lot of the same kinds of things you did in Fallout 3, making that assumption is not only selling the game short - the assumption doesn’t really hold up at all.Īt a preview event last month in New York, Jason Bergman - a senior producer working on the game at its publisher, Bethesda Softworks - handed me an Xbox 360 controller and gave me free rein to roam around in a beta version of New Vegas.
It’s easy to look at Fallout: New Vegas and assume that it’s merely Fallout 3 in the West instead of Washington, D.C.
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