Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition announced

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 3 November, 2011

Out next year for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Bethesda has announced the Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

It launches in Europe on 10th February and in the US on 7th February 2012.

The Ultimate Edition has all the game add-on content for New Vegas, including Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier's Stash and Gun Runners' Arsenal.

The DLC adds new areas and increases the maximum level cap to 50.

"For players who are seasoned explorers of New Vegas or just getting into the game for the first time, the Ultimate Edition expands beyond the Wasteland like never before with the Sierra Madre Casino, Zion National Park, Big MT research crater and the treacherous Divide now open for exploring," Bethesda said.

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Comments (26) Latest comment 7 months ago

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  • Rack #1 7 months ago

    Wow, really? I never saw this coming!

    As it stands though I ended picking this up with 3 of the expansions for about £18 on a steam sale. Anyone still holding out though should be excited as it's a pretty fantastic game.

  • Naka1888 #2 7 months ago

    Never really enjoyed New Vegas as much as Fallout 3 - this could be a good buy though as I haven't played the DLC.

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #3 7 months ago

    "Game of a Couple of Years Ago Edition" doesn't quite have the same ring, does it?

  • DozyKipper #4 7 months ago

    This is all very lovely, I'm sure but when is the Mass Effect 2 Ultimate Edition coming out? :p

  • Kanselier #5 7 months ago

    It is only worthy of the Ultimate addition if the game does not crash/bug out/freeze every time it senses something may possible be wrong in some parallel universe. I still have to finish the PS3 version after many many months of playing, restarting the system, playing, swearing at the broken game, restarting the system, playing, getting headaches due to the slideshow it produces, restarting the system.

    Yes I am very bitter. No more Bethesda game for me until they build an new engine from scratch. Skyrim, you shall not pass my doorstep.

  • Vedfolner #6 7 months ago

    Ha, and I nearly bought this for a tenner the other day. When will I ever learn?

  • The-Jack-Burton #7 7 months ago

    I was just about to buy this again yesterday, store has new copies for $14, and then I remembered that I should probably check to see if a complete edition is coming, and voila

  • jonfon #8 7 months ago

    Gah, I missed this Steam Sale. Checked out the total cost of the DLCs on Steam last night and it came to 45 yo-yos :(

    Time to start praying for the end of year Steam Sales to happen again this year and give me stuff for cheap/

  • rtk79 #9 7 months ago

    Great game. Ugly box art.

  • basiclee #10 7 months ago

    @Naka1888 I felt the same, there's no doubt NV is a great game but I just didn't feel the same love for it as I did for F3. I really should give the expansions a go though as it was probably the add-ons which helped to make me love F3.

  • Murton #11 7 months ago

    Ultimate Edition? Well I suppose they had to call it something after failing to take a single GOTY. That should have been a lesson to Bethesda that their broken engine would no longer be tolerated, even with Obsidians superior storytelling and overall ambition making up for some of its failings.

    @kanselier - I'm the same way mate. I'll grab Skyrim once I have independent verification that it works on PS3.

  • jimmyjimbob #12 7 months ago

    Not out till Feb?? pfff

  • Inmediasress #13 7 months ago

    @Naka1888
    Yeah especially the Music got really annoying in NV after a while, Fallout 3 was better I liked the ruined City environment far more than a ruined!? desert.

    @Kanselier
    Yeah after the god knows how many patches it still manages to crash on me sometimes or forget to load itself.
    Do hope they don't release Skyrim in such a condition.

  • wattsn26 #14 7 months ago

    Will this all be on one disc for PS3? Or will they just put a download code in it?

  • jonfon #15 7 months ago

    @Murton
    That's pretty much why I refuse to buy any Bethesda games on consoles. At least on the PC if an official patch doesn't come down the pipe quickly there's a decent change some clever sod will put up a Mod to fix some issues.

    Loved NV to bits (more "soul" than Fallout 3 IMO) and never has any *serious* issues with it (got lucky), but the first thing my Courier saw when waking up was some old dude with his head slowly spinning around clockwise, which was a bit disconcerting (well it would have been if it wasn't an Obsidian game and was expecting something. NWN2 was an unholy mess)

  • jimr9999us #16 7 months ago

    Finally

  • saku_luk #17 7 months ago

    @Kanselier Fallout games are great, love them... but the fact is if you have a good enough PC it's better to play it on it. Bathesda games tends to be buggy from day 1 ~_~ ... at least with PC version community can patch whatever can be patched faster than Bathesda can...

  • Hindle #18 7 months ago

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  • Murton #19 7 months ago

    @jonfon

    I retired my PC some time ago, got sick of fighting with DRM and poorly optimised console ports so I do the vast majority of my gaming on the PS3 now. For the most part it's been better that way, but after Fallout 3 I refused to buy another Bethesda made RPG on launch, I picked up FNV as a timesink for 15 quid after losing my job last year and regretted it the day after when the same memory leak that ruined my Fallout 3 game hit in just 9 hours, making FNV similarly unplayable from there on.

    Seeing that Skyrim is the same engine with a new name, I'm more than a little wary as to what the performance will be like. I'll let me brother beta test for it me and if it doesn't cause him to throw his controller through his TV by Christmas I'll request it as a birthday present in January or something.

  • bengaming #20 7 months ago

    Anyone who hasn't picked this up yet is in for a treat. Absolutely fantastic RPG. Fans of Fallout 3, please don't take this as an insult, I appreciate Bethesda reviving the IP, but New Vegas is the true successor to Fallout 1 and 2.

  • onlynapkin #21 7 months ago

    And it ends.

    I can't wait for Fallout 4 and Dragon Age 3 to finally drive the stake through the story-driven RPG's heart.

  • svenjl #22 7 months ago

    @Kanselier
    Fallout 3 was buggy too. I later got the GoTY Ed and it was super! No bugs or major glitches and a real treat. The NV Ultimate Ed will no doubt be patched up the ar$e cause it would be pretty dumb to have to support the definitive version of the game!

  • ProfDrMorph #23 7 months ago

    @wattsn26
    I'm wondering the same thing (or similar: DLC on a second DVD (Xbox 360)). At least the Fallout 3 GotY came with two discs: the first one was just the regular game disc of the non-GotY version (with a different label though) and the second disc contained all the DLC for installing on the hard drive.

    I actually need the DLC on a physical disc. I live in Germany but prefer to play the English version of almost any game. And often games have country-specific DLC codes which means they won't work for me if I buy a UK version. And in the case of Fallout: New Vegas I would be out of luck anyway since the German version of the DLC (which is the one I would be getting anyway) is incompatible with the UK version. At least that's what Obsidian's support told me when I was having trouble redeeming my pre-order DLC code. :( I already own New Vegas but would buy it again (at reasonable price) to get the DLC. I did the same with Fallout 3 (the GotY was cheaper than all the DLC on the 360 combined ;) ).

  • jonfon #24 7 months ago

    @onlynapkin
    The Witcher 2 says "hi" (actually it probably said something rude with lots of farming phrases used as double entendres, but you know what I mean)

    Personally I'm hoping Bioware got a shock with the reception DA2 got and can pull something out of the fire with 3, assuming it ever happens, but I'm not holding my breath either. The whole thing stank of B-level cash-in (and I'm saying that as a Bioware fanboy & DA: O fan).

    And I still have faith in Obsidians focus in RPGs after New Vegas. Bags of stories in that. In an ideal world Bioware would just hand DA3 to Obsidian and let them get on with it (and then hopefully debug it *before* it was released for a change).
    Edited by jonfon at 04/11/11 @ 10:49

  • Kikizosan #25 7 months ago

    Bought first two DLC in the recent sale (on XBLA), then just went straight on to the next two and GRA. Was planning to wait for this box version, but glad I didn't. Thoroughly enjoyed all the DLC packs, and can now plunge straight into Skyrim. :p

    Well worth playing the DLC if you enjoyed the main game. Honest Hearts was a bit basic, but the other three had some really great atmosphere/additions to the main game.

  • Kanjin #26 7 months ago

    Good news for me, as I don't cough up for Xbox Live. Can only hope they've thrown some more fixes in there as well.