Fallout: New Vegas

Overview

Fallout: New Vegas is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is set in the Mojave Desert 204 years after a nuclear war. The player is a courier who survives being shot in the head and gets pulled into a fight between factions over Hoover Dam and the region.

It plays from a first-person or third-person view in an open world. Combat can be paused with the V.A.T.S. targeting system, and the player carries a Pip-Boy 3000 for menus, maps and radio. Dialogue works through conversation trees, and the player's choices shape a reputation with each faction. Compared with Fallout 3 it adds iron sights on guns, item crafting, and an optional Hardcore Mode that adds survival needs.

After Fallout 3 shipped in 2008, Bethesda hired Obsidian to make a spin-off. Obsidian picked Las Vegas and the Mojave because they fit the 1950s look of the series and the Mad Max feel of a ruined world. Project director Josh Sawyer wanted the story to be about greed and excess, and the team had 18 months to finish. The map was built with US Geological Survey data and reference photos Sawyer took in the area. Inon Zur wrote the score, and more than 65,000 lines of dialogue were recorded, another Guinness World Record for a single-player role-playing game.

It came out in North America on October 19, 2010, in Australia on October 21 and in Europe on October 22. By November 8 it had sold five million copies. It launched with a lot of bugs, including crashes, corrupted saves and frame rate problems, and patches fixed many of them in the months after. Six add-ons followed: Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal.

Reviews were positive. Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 82 out of 100 and the other versions 84. Bethesda had offered Obsidian a bonus for an 85, and the game missed it by one point. Critics liked the writing and quests, and some felt it played like a big expansion to Fallout 3. Estimates put sales at about 11.6 million by 2015.

Opinion of the game has warmed since release. Many players and writers now rank it as one of the best games in the series, and a long-running mod scene has kept it going.

Official trailer

Fallout: New Vegas Trailer - E3 2010, IGN. Watch on YouTube

Gameplay

Fallout: New Vegas (PS3) Playthrough | Part 1 (No Commentary), Rellings. Watch on YouTube

Screenshots

Game details

Genres

Action role-playing

Developer

Obsidian Entertainment

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Series

Fallout

Engine

Gamebryo

Composers

Inon Zur

Designers

Josh Sawyer

Writers

John Gonzalez

Producers

Mikey Dowling, Jason Fader, Matt Singh, Tess Treadwell

Directors

Josh Sawyer

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Subscription history

Disc IDs

The serial printed on the disc and the case. It tells you which region a copy is from.

Trophies

Trophies76

Platinum possibleYes

Platinum

1

Gold

6

Silver

22

Bronze

47

Total

76

Points

2205

Platinum time

80 hours

Difficulty

5 out of 10

Playthroughs for platinum

2

Playthroughs for 100%

2

New Game Plus

No. A second run starts from scratch.

Platinum without online

Yes

Online trophies

0

Boosting needed

No

DLC has trophies

Yes

Platinum includes DLC

No

100% includes DLC

Yes

DLC still for sale

Yes

DLC note

Five packs add 25 trophies outside the platinum.

Missable trophies

13

Chapter select fixes a miss

No

Separate trophy lists by region

No

Only in a language other than English

No

Region note

One list for every region.

Online-only version

No

Digital-only

No

Disc-only

Yes

Trophy list shared with other versions

Yes

Other versions

The Ultimate Edition disc uses the same list.

Players with the platinum

6.48%

• Platinum Trophy Collect all other 50 Trophies for this Trophy. Platinum 6.49% of players
• New Kid Reached 10th level. Bronze 54.83% of players
• Up and Comer Reached 20th level. Silver 40.73% of players
• The Boss Reached 30th level. Silver 26.33% of players
• Ol' Buddy Ol' Pal Recruited a companion. Bronze 54.61% of players
• The Whole Gang's Here Recruited all companions. Silver 15.67% of players
• Crafty Crafted 20 items. Bronze 52.86% of players
• Mod Machine Installed 20 weapon mods. Bronze 14.22% of players
• Walker of the Mojave Discovered 50 locations. Bronze 44.72% of players
• Master of the Mojave Discovered 125 locations. Silver 23.61% of players
• Globe Trotter Discovered all snow globes. Silver 13.87% of players
• You Run Barter Town Sold 10,000 caps worth of goods. Bronze 43.8% of players
• Blast Mastery Caused 10,000 damage with Energy Weapons. Bronze 26.84% of players
• Love the Bomb Caused 10,000 damage with Explosives. Bronze 14.18% of players
• Lead Dealer Caused 10,000 damage with Guns. Bronze 44.1% of players
• No Tumbler Fumbler Picked 25 locks. Bronze 41.71% of players
• Stim-ply Amazing Healed 10,000 points of damage with Stimpaks. Bronze 19.72% of players
• New Vegas Samurai Caused 10,000 damage with Melee Weapons. Bronze 18.32% of players
• Jury Rigger Repaired 30 items. Bronze 51.83% of players
• Hack the Mojave Hacked 25 terminals. Bronze 15.73% of players
• Artful Pocketer Picked 50 pockets. Bronze 7.41% of players
• Outstanding Orator Made 50 Speech challenges. Bronze 34.79% of players
• Desert Survivalist Healed 10,000 points of damage with food. Bronze 8.28% of players
• Old-Tyme Brawler Caused 10,000 damage with Unarmed weapons. Bronze 15.4% of players
• Know When to Fold Them Won 3 games of Caravan. Bronze 13.95% of players
• One Armed Bandit Played 10 spins of Slots. Bronze 31.2% of players
• Little Wheel Played 10 spins of Roulette. Bronze 22.75% of players
• Double Down Played 10 hands of Blackjack. Bronze 32.93% of players
• Caravan Master Won 30 games of Caravan. Silver 8.49% of players
• The Courier Who Broke the Bank Got banned from all the Strip's casinos. Silver 11.7% of players
• Hardcore Played the game from start to finish in Hardcore Mode. Gold 11.06% of players
• Ain't That a Kick in the Head Completed Ain't That a Kick in the Head. Bronze 92.45% of players
• They Went That-a-Way Completed They Went That-a-Way. Silver 56.72% of players
• Ring-a-Ding-Ding Completed Ring-a-Ding-Ding. Silver 49.9% of players
• The House Always Wins Completed The House Always Wins. Silver 14.52% of players
• For the Republic Completed For the Republic. Silver 15.53% of players
• Render Unto Caesar Completed Render Unto Caesar. Silver 12.3% of players
• Wild Card Completed Wild Card. Silver 24.09% of players
• All or Nothing Completed All or Nothing. Bronze 13.88% of players
• Veni, Vidi, Vici Completed Veni, Vidi, Vici. Bronze 11.85% of players
• Eureka! Completed Eureka! Bronze 14.82% of players
• No Gods, No Masters Completed No Gods, No Masters. Bronze 21.48% of players
• Come Fly With Me Completed Come Fly With Me. Bronze 51.39% of players
• Talent Pool Completed Talent Pool. Bronze 19.89% of players
• Return to Sender Completed Return to Sender. Bronze 21.55% of players
• Arizona Killer Completed Arizona Killer. Bronze 11.97% of players
• You'll Know It When It Happens Completed You'll Know It When It Happens. Bronze 22.02% of players
• G.I. Blues Completed G.I. Blues. Bronze 40.72% of players
• That Lucky Old Sun Completed That Lucky Old Sun. Bronze 41.96% of players
• Volare! Completed Volare! Bronze 38.8% of players
• The Legend of the Star Completed The Legend of the Star. Bronze 12.81% of players
• Assemble Your Crew Recruited Dean Domino, Christine and Dog. Bronze 35.16% of players
• Cash Out Confronted Father Elijah in the Sierra Madre's Vault. Silver 28.65% of players
• Having a Ball Completed the Sierra Madre Gala Event. Bronze 32.64% of players
• Safety Deposit Box Trapped Father Elijah in the Sierra Madre's Vault. Gold 20.39% of players
• Sierra Souvenir Aficionado Collected 500 Sierra Madre Chips. Silver 33.61% of players
• May my Hand Forget its Skill Evacuated Zion. Gold 18.71% of players
• In a Foreign Land Scouted the Zion Valley for signs of the White Legs. Bronze 32.39% of players
• O Daughter of Babylon Crushed the White Legs. Silver 28.65% of players
• When We Remembered Zion Arrived at Zion. Bronze 36.66% of players
• Restore Our Fortunes Resupplied Daniel and the Sorrows. Silver 33.82% of players
• Cardiac Arrest! Recovered X-13 cardiac regulator sneaky suit! Bronze 34.84% of players
• Making Friends Reactivated all of the Sink's robotic assistants. Silver 31.28% of players
• Make up your Mind Made up your mind... about your brain. Bronze 33.16% of players
• Outsmarted Completed Old World Blues. Gold 33.04% of players
• Spinal-Tapped! Recovered X-8 vertebrae-pulse-de-sensitizer frequency! Bronze 35.37% of players
• ED-Ecated Found all of ED-E's upgrades in the Divide. Bronze 13.69% of players
• Condemned to repeat it Decided the fate of all the Divide dwellers. Bronze 31.76% of players
• Hometown Hero Completed Lonesome Road. Gold 29.73% of players
• Rocket's Red Glare Acquired all upgrades for the Divide's signature weapon. Silver 16.23% of players
• Warhead Hunter Detonated all of the warheads in the Divide. Silver 10.53% of players
• Curios and Relics Caused 10,000 damage with unique Mojave Wasteland weapons. Bronze 28.71% of players
• Master of the Arsenal Caused 10,000 damage with Gun Runners' Arsenal (GRA) Weapons. Silver 26.92% of players
• Up to the Challenge Completed any three Gun Runners' Arsenal (GRA) one star (*) Challenges. Bronze 8.92% of players
• Combat Veteran Completed any three Gun Runners' Arsenal (GRA) two star (**) Challenges. Silver 8.61% of players
• Pros Only Completed any three Gun Runners' Arsenal (GRA) three star (***) Challenges. Gold 7.32% of players

Space and patches

Update patch01.07

These are the patches Sony still hosts for this disc ID. The game's real history can be longer.

DLC

Four story packs and two item packs were sold on PSN, and all six are still in the PS3 store. Five of them add trophies.

Items

Name	Date	Adds	Price	Obtainable today
Dead Money	2011-02-22	A heist on the Sierra Madre Casino.	US$4.99	Yes
Honest Hearts	2011-05-17	A trip to Zion National Park and a war between tribes.	US$4.99	Yes
Old World Blues	2011-07-19	B-movie science and a group of mad scientists.	US$4.99	Yes
Lonesome Road	2011-09-20	The courier tracks Ulysses through the Divide.	US$4.99	Yes
Gun Runners' Arsenal	2011-09-27	Weapons, mods, ammo types and challenges.	US$1.99	Yes
Courier's Stash	2011-09-27	The four pre-order item packs.	US$0.99	Yes

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Online servers runningNo online features

Plays offlineYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Services

Service	Status
Online features	Does not exist

Reception

Aggregates

Outlet	Platform	Score	Scale
Metacritic	PS3	82	100
Metacritic	Xbox 360	84	100

Critics

Outlet	Score	Scale
IGN	8.5	10
GameSpot	8.5	10
Eurogamer	9	10
Game Informer	8.5	10
GameSpy	4.5	5
G4	4	5
Official Xbox Magazine	9.5	10
Official Xbox Magazine UK	9	10
PC Gamer UK	84	100
Edge	6	10

Staff and cast

Staff

Role	Name
Director	Josh Sawyer
Designer	Josh Sawyer
Producer	Mikey Dowling
Producer	Jason Fader
Producer	Matt Singh
Producer	Tess Treadwell
Writer	John Gonzalez
Programmer	Frank Kowalkowski
Artist	Joe Sanabria
Composer	Inon Zur

Cast

Actor
Rene Auberjonois
Felicia Day
Dave Foley
John Doman
Michael Dorn
Kris Kristofferson
Zachary Levi
Wayne Newton
Ron Perlman
Matthew Perry
William Sadler
Danny Trejo

Notes for collectors

• Bethesda offered Obsidian a bonus for an 85 on Metacritic. The PS3 version scored 82 and the others 84, one point short.
• Obsidian had about 18 months to make the game.
• The disc ships with patch 01.06, a 306 MB download, and 01.07 on top of it.
• Four pre-order bonuses with starting weapons and items were offered through different retailers. Courier's Stash later sold them as an add-on.
• The Platinum needs the other 50 base game trophies. The 25 add-on trophies are not part of it.
• The Hardcore trophy asks for a full playthrough in Hardcore Mode.
• Obsidian reused assets from its cancelled Alien game.
• The Ultimate Edition has three disc IDs of its own and is a separate release.

Credits

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Developer

Obsidian Entertainment

Director

Josh Sawyer

Released

2010-10-19

Age rating

ESRB M

Disc ID

BLUS30500

Region

US

Time to beat

about 26.5 hours