Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. While New Vegas is not a direct sequel, it uses the same engine and style as Fallout 3, and many of its developers worked on previous Fallout games at Black Isle Studios. It is the fourth major installment in the Fallout series and sixth overall. The game is set primarily in a post-apocalyptic Nevada, California, Arizona and Utah.
The game was released on October 19, 2010, in North America, October 22, 2010, in Europe, and November 4, 2010, in Asia. It is available on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. A backwards compatible version for Xbox One was released on June 23, 2016.Fallout: New Vegas announced in London at VG247
Aspects of the game's storyline are continued in the Fallout TV series. Despite concerns about the ending of the TV series, Emil Pagliarulo stated that New Vegas is still canon, saying, "Of course it is."Fallout Reddit
==Gameplay==
===Changes from Fallout 3===
There is a Karma system incorporated alongside reputation system, similar to Fallout 2.PC Gamer Edwards, Tim (February, 2010), March issue of PC Gamer: pp. 40-41. Reputation is a form of tracking relationships within the many factions and towns of Fallout: New Vegas, such as the NCR or Goodsprings. A high reputation with a faction or town may give certain benefits, such as gifts from the people who live there, while a low reputation may lead to hits being taken out against them. Karma in Fallout: New Vegas has less of an effect than reputation, which is the primary factor affecting how people react.
A modding feature allows for the modification of weapons by adding scopes, extended magazines, silencers, and more. Weapons can have a maximum of three attached mods, and they cannot be removed once placed. Obsidian implemented this feature as a direct response to the popularity of the Weapon Mod Kits mod for Fallout 3.Gamespot Interview with Chris Avellone at E3 2010
A new companion wheel has been added to quickly and easily give companions commands such as "Talk," "Use Ranged Weapons," and "Wait Here." It also makes it easier to restore their health using stimpaks and swap equipment. The companions also have specific likes and dislikes; giving a sniper companion a shotgun, for example, will result in a negative impact and decreased effectiveness.
There are now unique versions of weapons which have different textures and adornments. Counting all the add-ons, there are a total of 81 unique weapons. Some require the completion of a quest to find, are looted, or can be found in specific locations.
===Combat===
Gameplay includes a combat system that allows for both first and third person view and features the ability to use weapon iron sights. The game also made a change from the true bullet flight paths in Fallout 3 to simulated bullet flight paths, which means the bullets, when fired, originate from the center of the screen's crosshairs, rather than the tip of the gun's barrel.J.E. Sawyer in Obsidian forum
Fallout: New Vegas utilizes the Damage Threshold (DT) mechanic. If an enemy has a high DT, some weapons may be ineffective. This is indicated by a red shield near the enemy's health bar when attacking it, both in and out of V.A.T.S. The damage threshold will be due to high armor or a built-in mechanic to that character, and will require the Courier to either retreat or attack with a more powerful weapon.
The Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, or V.A.T.S., is an active pause combat system implemented in the game. While using V.A.T.S., the otherwise real-time combat is paused. Use of one's weapon can be seen in slow motion and greater detail. Attacks in V.A.T.S. cost Action Points and one can target specific body areas for attacks to inflict specific injuries. Melee weapons now have special moves in V.A.T.S., such as "Fore!" for golf clubs, along with special Unarmed moves such as Ranger Takedown. The player character will take more damage in V.A.T.S. than in Fallout 3 (75%, up from 10%). One can choose to activate or deactivate a dynamic "Kill Cam," which shows one's success in combat in slow motion. The setting can also be changed to only show this cinematic viewpoint for the last enemy of a group.
===Hardcore mode===
Hardcore mode is an optional setting that attempts to make the game more realistic, with gameplay elements such as dehydration, and non-instantaneous healing. It can be turned on and off mid-game. Either a trophy or achievement is awarded for completing Fallout: New Vegas on Hardcore mode. In order to earn it, the entire game must be played in the mode from the point first prompted until the endgame sequence, without ever turning the setting off. The Casual/Hardcore mode distinction is independent of difficulty settings.
===Character system===
The SPECIAL system returns and directly influences speech options and quests. Traits can be chosen and perks are gained every two levels.
===Gambling===
The city of New Vegas, as well as other smaller settlements in the game, have a variety of colorful casinos or other forms of gambling to explore. In Fallout: New Vegas, several gambling mini-games have been added, including Blackjack, Roulette, and slots. Outside the casinos, many people across the Mojave play Caravan, a card game designed by Obsidian specifically for the game. One's Luck contributes to the outcome of gambling games. One will receive money for winning, and casino floor managers will congratulate the player character with food, drink, or a comped suite at the hotel. Winning too much money after that, however, will result in the floor manager letting them know they will not be able to earn any more winnings. Although one can no longer gamble in that casino, they are still able to enter and buy items or food.
==Story==
===Setting===
Fallout: New Vegas takes place in 2281, four years after the events of Fallout 3, 40 years after Fallout 2, 120 years after Fallout, and six years before the events of Fallout 4. The game is set in the Mojave Desert following the Great War. Three entities are vying for control of New Vegas and the surrounding region, including the New California Republic, Vegas' Mr. House and Caesar's Legion.
===Main story===
The Courier, the player character, was meant to deliver a package to New Vegas but they were intercepted by some Great Khans led by Benny, near Goodsprings. Benny steals the package, shoots them twice in the head, and leaves them for dead in a shallow grave. They are rescued by a robot named Victor, transporting them to nearby Doc Mitchell, who saves their life. After the Courier is given some medical tests, they enter the open world, and the quest Ain't That a Kick in the Head begins. 
At Goodsprings, may choose to assist in providing the town defenses against a gang known as Powder Gangers, or keep finding Benny. The Courier is then encouraged to go to Primm. In Primm, the Courier may choose to rescue deputy Beagle in a hotel. Beagle will direct the Courier to Novac, although entering it is still optional.
The Courier will likely need to discover Benny is in the Tops Casino in New Vegas; one method is by speaking to Jessup in Boulder City. Upon finding the gate to New Vegas' Strip, the player can get in through some different methods. A surprised Benny is then confronted in the casino. He may be killed by the Courier; if not, he will escape somewhere else but later get crucified by Caesar.
===Endings===
The game's ending is dependent on what actions are taken during the game's events, with separate ending slides for each major location, political faction, and recruited companion. The Courier is influenced to take one of four possible ending paths; at the end of all four paths, there will always be a battle at Hoover Dam because whoever controls the dam's power effectively controls New Vegas and the region's power.
There is no explicitly known canon ending as well.
* Mr. House: The Courier sides with Robert House who wants the platinum chip from Benny. The Courier does many tasks for Mr. House, as he is actually a bedridden old man. During the Hoover Dam battle between the NCR and Great Khans, the player will encounter a final figure: the NCR's Lee Oliver who can be killed or talked down into surrendering.
* Caesar: The Courier sides with Caesar's Legion, a fascist faction which is homophobic, rapes and enslaves people, but justifies their ways because they view themselves as providing order to the wasteland and securing trade routes. Caesar asks the Courtier to kill Mr. House, deal with the Boomers, White Glove Society and Brotherhood of Steel. Caesar then has headaches from a brain tumor and asks the Courier's aid. Later, Caesar asks the Courier to assassinate NCR president Aaron Kimball. During the battle between the NCR and Great Khans, the player will encounter a final figure: the NCR's Lee Oliver who can be killed or talked down into surrendering.
* NCR: The Courier works for the NCR. Their first task is to recruit the Boomers against the Legion. After, they are tasked with restoring peace to Freeside by either killing Pacer or being a diplomat. The Courier meets with Cassandra Moore at Hoover Dam; she asks the Courier to kill the Great Khans, do some errands at the Gomorrah casino, kill Mr. House or leave him braindead, make a treaty with or kill the Brotherhood of Steel, and try to protect Kimball during his speech. During the Hoover Dam battle between the NCR and Legion, the player will encounter a final figure, Lanius who can be killed or talked down into surrendering.
* Yes Man: This obedient robot named Yes Man is programmed to never keep a secret and is loyal to anyone who talks to it. Yes Man asks the player to usurp Mr. House, deal with five factions, steal Mr. House's securitrons in his secret fort, and possibly enlist the aid of the Followers of the Apocalypse. During the Hoover Dam battle, the robots fight for an independent New Vegas. The Courier will also have to deal with both Legate Lanius and Lee Oliver's fates.
==Products==
===Collector's Edition===
The Collector's Edition of Fallout: New Vegas includes Fallout: New Vegas; "Lucky 7" poker chips, replicas from the ones found in the game; a deck of Fallout: New Vegas themed playing cards; a replica of the "Lucky 38" poker chip (the platinum chip) from the game; All Roads, a graphic novel serving as a prequel written by Chris Avellone; and the "Making of Fallout: New Vegas" DVD. The entire package comes in a collectible Fallout: New Vegas box. The Collector's Edition was also available for pre-order.
===Add-ons===
A total of six add-ons, Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier's Stash, and Gun Runners' Arsenal were released.
Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues and Lonesome Road cost $5 in USD each, although they are cheaper as part of the Ultimate Edition.
====Explorable quests====
* Dead Money — The Courier is abducted and the player temporarily loses access to their inventory. Dead Money is known for being very challenging and similar to a survival horror game, making the player feel dis-empowered and vulnerable to various death traps. The maze-like map features winding hallways. The Courier learns about the story of the Sierra Madre and is forced to wear an explosive death collar, along with three other victims, Dog and God, Christine Royce (the former girlfriend of Veronica Santangelo) and Dean Domino.
* Honest Hearts — The Courier boards a caravan company to the Zion Canyon. They become intertwined in a story about tribes and a man named Joshua Graham. To begin Honest Hearts, the Courier must have less than 75 to 100 pounds in their inventory, depending on factors.
* Old World Blues — The Courier is abducted, but they get to keep their inventory this time. They find themselves in large circular dome called Big MT and finds a group of scientists called the Think Tank who have transferred their minds into robots. At the beginning of this add-on, the player can expect little gameplay, as the opening features a lot of dialogue with the scientists. The main bulk of the gameplay consists of fetch quests.
* Lonesome Road — The Courier takes a linear journey through the Divide to meet a man named Ulysses. The player gets access to a laser detonator which can detonate nuclear warheads to clear their path. The end of the quest affects the Mojave, as the Courier can decide where to send a nuke.
====Microtransaction bundles====
Fallout: New Vegas locks some exclusive content (weapons and armor), as well as some achievements and trophies, behind two main microtransaction bundles (Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal). Both of them combined cost $3 in USD. The items obtained assist the player in gameplay and can make the game easier. These packs also include some ammo, health items, super stimpaks and doctor's bags, as well as a Vault 13 canteen which will regularly heal the player's HP and display this message: "You take a sip from your trusty vault 13 canteen"
There were also four different pre-order bonuses, including the Classic Pack, Caravan Pack, Tribal Pack, and Mercenary Pack. Each one had a unique suit of armor and a unique weapon not found in-game, along with a few other in-game items. All of them are lumped together in the Courier's Stash bundle.
===Ultimate Edition===
The Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition was released on February 7, 2012 in North America and February 10 in Europe. The package contents are the base game along with all add-ons, including Gun Runners' Arsenal and Courier's Stash.
==Development==
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Discussions for New Vegas began between Obsidian and Bethesda in 2008/09. They knew the game would not be a direct, traditional sequel to Fallout 3 and it was referred to as "Fallout 3.5" within Obsidian. It was specifically designed to be more of an expansion pack rather than a sequel. However, Todd Howard felt strongly that New Vegas should be its own game. Obsidian saw the project as akin to the Grand Theft Auto titles Vice City and San Andreas - not numbered entries in the main series, but still full games in their own right. As Bethesda "had dibs" on the U.S. East Coast, Obsidian set the game in the American West. Obsidian submitted a three-page pitch to Bethesda for the project, which they named "Fallout: Sin City." The game was later renamed to "Fallout: New Vegas."Eurogamer - Fallout: New Vegas was once Fallout: Sin City and had three playable races
For inspiration, New Vegas recycled and repurposed various ideas from cancelled Fallout projects such as Van Buren and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2. For example, Arcade Gannon and Hoover Dam were meant to appear in Van Buren while Caesar's Legion were meant to be in both Van Buren and Brotherhood of Steel 2.
The team initially did not have access to the source code until Bethesda cleared the security of it. They used development tools for a few months before they were given the source code, which let them dive in to deeper development.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 4:47:53)Joshua Sawyer: "'Did they give you full source code and engine access during development?' Yeah, the source code came... we actually had to work on the game - until we had secure...everything's secure to the extent that Bethesda wanted - we worked with just the development tools and not source code for a few months, and then we got the source code and dove in."
The game was originally slated to have three playable races - human, ghoul, and super mutant. This idea was abandoned due to issues with the engine, specifically with how the weapons and armor would work. The biggest technical issue that the team faced during development was working with the PS3's hardware; as New Vegas is a very memory-intensive game, they had difficulty with the PS3's split memory pool.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 3:25:37)Joshua Sawyer: "'Regarding the hardware of the day, what was the biggest headache?' It was the PS3's memory. [chuckles] I mean, for this project, it was the PS3's memory. The PS3 had a split memory pool, and this is a very memory-intensive game, and it made it... just made it hard."
The launch version of the game spent a total of 18 months in development,Joshua Sawyer on Formspring and Obsidian was given nearly an additional year after to produce the four add-ons and release patches. Project director Joshua Sawyer has stated he believes the game realized most of his development ideas during this time.Fallout: New Vegas 10th Anniversary Charity Stream (reference starts at 4:53:34)Joshua Sawyer: "'Would I say the game realized most of my development ideas during its 18 months?' Yeah.'" Sawyer described the development process as having used "a lot of overtime" and while he admitted the game was created with a few weekends of mandatory crunch, he does not consider the game being crunched as a whole.Joshua Sawyer at Reboot Develop 2018: "No, not by the definition that I gave. We worked sprint overtime, we didn't crunch, though. Fallout: New Vegas was made without crunch by the definition I gave."
One major idea that Sawyer decided to cut was post-game content which could allow the player to keep playing after the ending, similar to Broken Steel. He decided to cut it because the team was falling behind when it came to reaching development milestones, and he commented the decision "was made relatively late in the project and I made it because the area designers were falling behind on area milestones and would not be able to complete both the core required content and post-game content in the remaining time. We did design post-game reactivity. We just didn’t have time to implement it."Joshua Sawyer on Tumblr
The game was announced on April 20, 2009, at Bethesda's London showcase.VG247 - Fallout: New Vegas announced in London The first official information was released in the February 2010 issue of PC Gamer. A cinematic teaser trailer and a gameplay trailer were then subsequently released.
===Developers===
Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment, a company founded by Feargus Urquhart and Chris Avellone, two of the creators of Fallout 2, originally at Black Isle Studios. The project was led by Joshua Sawyer, one of the lead designers of Van Buren (the canceled Fallout 3 project by Black Isle Studios). John Gonzalez was the lead creative designer, while Obsidian founder Chris Avellone, who worked on Fallout 2 and Van Buren, was a senior designer. Joe Sanabria was the lead artist.
==Controversies and censorship==
===Metacritic bonus===
Bethesda offered a bonus in their contract with Obsidian as a perk, tied to the review score from the review aggregate website Metacritic, if Fallout: New Vegas achieved a minimum of 85. Upon release, Fallout: New Vegas only achieved an 84 point score on its PC and Xbox versions, missing the quota from receiving the bonus, which was not given. For their work on Fallout: New Vegas, Obsidian Entertainment received a straight payment, as was explained by Chris Avellone on Twitter. The tweet with Avellone's explanation circulated quickly, but was deleted shortly after several game news publications reported on the bonus benchmark being missed. An interview with Feargus Urquhart also delved further into the topic, with Urquhart discussing the realities of the bonus and the situation.IGN interview, bonus is discussed at 26:00 Jason Schreier for Kotaku wrote on to examine the disparity of using Metacritic as a benchmark for rewarding bonuses, pointing out that Metacritic uses an untransparent formula for aggregating scores and discusses the non-universal review scales that differ greatly from publication to publication.
The missed royalties were revealed the day following Obsidian's announcement of nearly 30 layoffs, and cancellation of Stormlands, only known as project North Carolina at the time. In a discussion about profit margins for games, Joshua Sawyer explained that in his entire career he has only received bonuses for Icewind Dale and the Pillars of Eternity. To date, Fallout: New Vegas has sold 12 million copies, though Obsidian Entertainment never received any bonuses.Joshua Sawyer's Twitter In 2020, Avellone later elaborated on the subject, describing Bethesda in instances where they went "above and beyond," and never mistreated the group.Chris Avellone's Twitter In 2022, Avellone wrote in Fallout Apocrypha, "We didn’t ask for this, they offered it, and it was our responsibility to hit that review score. We did have to have layoffs at Obsidian around this time period, but the bonus from Metacritic wouldn’t have prevented that from happening."
===Censorship===
* In the German version, there is no gore. German players who want the full Fallout experience can, as with Fallout 3, buy the Austrian version, which basically features the uncut PEGI version with German speech and text. However, the German Ultimate Edition is completely uncensored.
* Just like in Fallout 3, the Fat Man weapon was once again renamed to the "Nuka Launcher" in the Japanese version of Fallout: New Vegas. The Little Boy mod was not.
* The physical disc for consoles of Fallout: New Vegas was officially banned in the United Arab Emirates, but the ban was repealed later as it did not contain enough violence to meet the ban's criteria after a test run. The ban lasted for about a day after the game's release and the game was soon stocked in stores fully uncensored (with gore) alongside the Collector's Edition. The Ultimate Edition was released without any issues.
==Reception==
===Launch reception===
Fallout: New Vegas received "generally favorable" reviews on Metacritic, receiving a metascore of 84/100 on both PCMetascore for Fallout: New Vegas on PC, Metacritic, Retrieved June 19, 2020 & Xbox 360,Metascore for Fallout: New Vegas on Xbox 360, Metacritic, Retrieved June 19, 2020 and 82/100 on PS3.[hhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210225055219/http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/fallout-new-vegas Metascore for Fallout: New Vegas on PS3], Metacritic, Retrieved June 19, 2020
New Vegas received criticism for technical issues such as frequent crashing, as well as having hundreds of bugs and glitches. Edge Magazine gave the game a 6/10, commenting, "Creatively, New Vegas gets almost everything right. Mechanically and technically, it's a tragedy. So, it's a simultaneously rewarding and frustrating game."
GameSpot gave the game a higher 7.5/10, praising it for having more complexity to its mechanics, but also said, "there are far more bugs than you should expect from a modern role-playing game." and "the constant glitches invade almost every element of the game and eventually grow wearisome." They also felt that its "main story isn't compelling" and criticized some of the quest design, mentioning, "in certain cases, the quests just aren't designed particularly well. Searching for a key in a vault overrun with vegetation can turn into a major hassle. Avoiding an artillery bombardment isn't fun in the least and feels out of place given the measured pace at which you move. And an optional quest in which you hop from one computer terminal to another to isolate a virus leads to frustrating trial-and-error guesswork."
===Post-launch reception===
After the game's launch, both the PC and PS3 versions received seven patches in order to fix the bugs and technical issues. The game received several awards and nominations, including a Golden Joystick Award for "2011 RPG of the Year" and nominations for two 2011 BAFTA Awards including Best Strategy Game and Best Story.IMDB Game Awards - Fallout: New VegasFallout: New Vegas on Wikipedia2011 Golden Joystick Awards
The public perception of New Vegas, especially the idea that New Vegas was better than Fallout 3, had a noticeable turnaround throughout the 2010s. For example, near the game's launch, a portion of players felt New Vegas either did not live up to Fallout 3 or considered New Vegas to be on par with it, especially due to the technical issues and the game's lack of DLC at the time.New Vegas GameFAQ reviews Fallout 3 and New Vegas had a Metacritic user score around 8, with New Vegas once having a 7.9 in 2011. In recent years, the game has received more acclaim and is considered by most players to be the best Fallout game, partially due to disappointment with Fallout 4 and 76.GamingBible article By 2015, the score was bumped up to 8.5, and by 2022, the score managed to be bumped up to 8.9, an entire point above the 7.9 it once had in 2011. Meanwhile, the user score of Fallout 3 still maintains around 7.9.
Three of the four DLCs received generally positive reviews at around 9/10 on Steam ratings, although one exception is Dead Money, which stands around 6/10 in comparison. Many players disliked the "speaker mechanic" which will immediately kill the player character if they stand near a radio for too long, since if they cannot disable it in time, they will be instantly killed.
Also praised is the game's approach to LGBT representation,PinkNews: The trailblazing Fallout games were way ahead of their time when it comes to LGBT representation since it was released in 2011 in a time where homophobia was more rampant, same-sex marriage was not federally recognized in the United States, and DADT was still a policy. Two of the companions, Arcade Gannon and Veronica Santangelo, are gay. The story treats gay people sympathetically as they are being oppressed by Caesar's Legion, and the player is able to choose perks which can provide optional flirtatious dialogue with characters of the same sex as the player character, providing roleplaying options.
==Potential sequel==
Although a number of hoaxes and purported leaks took place, no Fallout: New Vegas 2 plans are currently confirmed. In February 2022, several news outlets reported that a sequel to Fallout: New Vegas, also developed by Obsidian Entertainment, was in "very early" talks, based on a leak from VentureBeat journalist Jeff Grubb. Grubb stated that such a project would be multiple years away, though it would soon materialize as a result of Microsoft owning both Obsidian and Bethesda.Fallout New Vegas 2 reportedly in "very early" discussions at Microsoft and Obsidian
==Behind the scenes==
===Developer quotes===
;Themes
* Joshua Sawyer: "One of the Obsidian owners came up with the idea that you start the game by being shot in the head and dropped into a desert grave. It was my idea to end the game by resolving a conflict between NCR/Caesar's Legion at Hoover Dam. Everything else was developed by John Gonzalez."Joshua Sawyer on Something Awful
* Joshua Sawyer: "One of the themes we identified early on for F:NV was "recreating the new world in the image of the old"
* Joshua Sawyer: "The reason why F:NV's extensive use of western trappings overlaps fine with the imagery of Vegas is because the golden age of TV & film westerns was in the 50s and 60s, which was also the golden age of Las Vegas. We're already conditioned to accept these things overlapping. ~*Joshua Sawyer on Twitter
;Bethesda Game Studios involvement
* Joshua Sawyer: "Bethesda handled the budget, high-level scheduling, most of the QA, marketing, PR, music licensing, and all other publishing duties. All of the development was done internally, though some of the Bethesda F3 devs gave feedback on our design docs.Joshua Sawyer on Tumblr
* Question: "So this is a rather obtuse question, but I was wondering how much influence Bethesda exerted during development? Did you have to get shitloads of things approved by them, or were they more of a exterior presence, not really considered most times?"Joshua Sawyer: "They mostly just asked us to avoid using certain groups or subjects for a variety of reasons. Though Bethesda reviewed everything we did, it was extremely rare that they asked us to change something."Joshua Sawyer's Formspring answers, archived on RPGCodex forums
* Question: "Did Bethesda do the QA on Dead Money?"Joshua Sawyer: "We have a small internal QA staff, but Bethesda handled/handles the majority of QA for F:NV and its DLC."
* Question: "What role had the additional Bethesda writers in F:NV? With all due respect, but I doubt producers/QA testers would write characters..nonetheless, I'm curious."Joshua Sawyer: "They wrote some of the barkstring voice sets for generic NPCs."
==Gallery==
===Covers===
FNV box art PC (US).jpg|Box art for the PC version
FNV box art PS3 (US).jpg|Box art for the PS3 version
FNV box art X360 (US).jpg|Box art for the Xbox 360 version
FNV Rear game cover.jpg|Back cover art
_FNV-Ultimate-Edition-Announce.jpg|Ultimate Edition box art
===Screenshots===
Goodsprings.jpg|Goodsprings, where the Courier begins their journey
Veronica Santangelo.jpg|Veronica Santangelo, the first openly lesbian companion
Yes Man Tops.jpg|Yes Man
DB gift shop view.jpg|Dinky the T-Rex at Novac
Deathclaw alpha male FNV.jpg|Deathclaws which disincentivize players from rushing to New Vegas
NewVegasStrip.jpg|The Strip, which requires 2000 caps, 80 Science, or certain sidequests to be done in order to enter
Hoover Dam aerial view.jpg|Hoover Dam
Crashed B29.jpg|The sunken Crashed B-29 which is based on a real historical event
FNV Lanius.jpg|Lanius, a possible "final boss" who can be fought directly or talked down using 100 Speech
===Concept art===
FNV concept art People.jpg|Concept art
FNV concept art Vegas Skyline.jpg|Concept art of New Vegas
FNV concept art Hoover Dam.jpg|Hoover Dam concept art
FNV concept art Junkyard.jpg|Wasteland concept art
Conceptart-thefort-B.jpg|Caesar's Legion concept art
Camp McCarran.airport concept.art.jpg|Camp McCarran concept art
==Videos==
Fallout New Vegas Intro (HD)
==See also==
* Fallout: New Vegas news
* Fallout: New Vegas Manual
==External links==
* Fallout: New Vegas on Steam
* Official site (archived)
==References==
 
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