Fallout: New Vegas bound for autumn

By Robert Purchese Published 4 February, 2010

Obsidian's PC, PS3 and 360 follow-up.

Bethesda has confirmed Fallout: New Vegas for an autumn 2010 release.

The date coincides with a brand new trailer, published moments ago on Eurogamer TV.

Fallout: New Vegas will be developed by Obsidian Entertainment, the team behind Neverwinter Nights 2, Knights of the Old Republic 2 and now Alpha Protocol.

New Vegas is a follow-up to the Goliath Fallout 3, and brings to life the magical land of Vegas.

The game's in development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Flying_Pig #1 2 years ago

    Want. Now

  • darc #2 2 years ago

    Me. Too.

  • lennon #3 2 years ago

    Cool. Cant wait

  • SYS64738 #4 2 years ago

    Y. Es.!.

  • Retroid #5 2 years ago

    \o/

    Loved Fallout 3 and am really looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

  • Spekingur #6 2 years ago

    I'd really like to see modern Dubai in a Fallout setting. Never going to happen though.

    I just wish they would try and use other settings around the world for a Fallout game rather than just in the US.

  • SYS64738 #7 2 years ago

    @ Spekingur

    Isn't there a game coming out along those lines. Forgot the name though.

  • ckyman2 #8 2 years ago

    I think I might have to freeze my self like Eric Cartman, till autumn >_<
    Edited by 1 at 04/02/10 @ 15:37

  • SAMagic #9 2 years ago

    I'm going moist!

    Absolutely can't wait for this.

    @dangerpuss: Bear in mind they were virtually given the engine and have had just to create the content, so I don't think it'll be too much of a stretch.

    @Spekingur: See Special Ops: Fall of Dubai. It looks interesting, but could potentially be just another shooter.

  • Artemus #10 2 years ago

    So is this a true sequel rather than a spin-off?

  • mega7ech #11 2 years ago

    Yay! Oh.My.God! and lots of other celebratory comments! Fallout rocks!

  • Nanocrystal #12 2 years ago

    Boring trailer, but I'm still looking forward to it. If it's half as good as F3, it'll be amazing.

  • SAMagic #13 2 years ago

    @Artemus:
    Think of it as a whole new campaign. It's using the same engine but is brand new content, a fresh storyline set in the same relative area as FO1 and 2 - and it's by some of the guys behind the original games to boot.

    It's a little confusing I know, but Bethesda probably wanted to save the title "FallOut 4" for their own sequel.

  • E_Goldstein #14 2 years ago

    My Fallout lobe is tingling like a 9v battery. However, that trailer looks like a mix of Wall-E and Killzone 2 (the red eyes!).

    Ah well, as soon a pip boy appears i'll know everything is fine.

  • ZuluHero #15 2 years ago

    As long as they stay faithful to Bethesda's efforts i'll be one happy vault dweller!

  • Vlad27145 #16 2 years ago

    Appears to have an overall darker tone than FO:3. I'm not really sure if that's true to the series, but on the other hand anything that's different from FO:3 might be welcome. I really wanted to like that game... I did... moderately... but it still "filthied" my memories of the first two Fallouts.

    Here's hoping in Obsidian 0_o... Do your "child" justice Urquhart

  • Nanocrystal #17 2 years ago

    Can you import your F3 character?

    /jk

  • Vlad27145 #18 2 years ago

    @E_Goldstein

    LOL, it reminded me of Wall-e as well. Robot picking up junk with 50s music in background... guess that may be why :D

  • Razzajazz #19 2 years ago

    @Spekingur, SYS64738

    The game you're looking for is Spec Ops: The Line

  • Nazo #20 2 years ago

    After the Abysmal state Fallout 3 PS3 was released in (and still is in as far as I'm aware) I'm reluctant to go near anything by Bethesda for a good while.
    KOTOR 2 doesn't fill me with confidence either, unfinished mess in the end, such a waste.

    I'll definitely be waiting for the reviews, then waiting longer for people to actually play the thing before I even consider this.

  • darkmorgado #21 2 years ago

    As long as they stay faithful to Bethesda's efforts i'll be one happy vault dweller!

    You realise the guys at Obsidian made the original Fallout games, right? If anything, you should be more concerned as to whether Bethesda stay faithful to Obsidian's vision.

  • Machetazo #22 2 years ago

    Fine. Don't tell me anything about the game, then. Really? That homely radio thing was awesome the first time, and most every other time the trailer/ad played, it was brilliuantly done, imo....just had less impact after a while, and a long while's since passed. If it's a new game, I want to see it do more. I want to know what the new game is about. Why the need to rely on FO3's advertising, and emphasise brand recognition? Isn't the name enough?
    Come back when you have something that you've worked on, to show, please.
    Edited by 1 at 04/02/10 @ 16:08

  • Toothball #23 2 years ago

    Guess I should finish Fallout 3 at some point.

  • ZuluHero #24 2 years ago

    @darkmorgado

    Yep - but Bethesda are paying the bills! :)

  • Murton #25 2 years ago

    Here's hoping that Obsidian do a better job in terms of build quality than Bethesda did with Failout 3, that and any expansion packs planned being available on all platforms. PS3 really got the shaft with Fallout, early beta quality release with almost no patching and no expansion packs until the GOTY release.

  • seanthejackal #26 2 years ago

    finally i was getting sick of looking for new news lol

  • Dark_Stranger #27 2 years ago

    Note to self: remember to make sure I have save point before I enter final game area so that once completed I can carry on exploring and not get locked in room, unless I buy extra content.

  • hibee #28 2 years ago

    @Nazo: As I understand it KOTOR 2 was rushed out the door by Lucasarts, forcing Obsidian to ditch loads of content and cobble together the ending as best they could (though maybe you could argue they were too ambitious in their design to begin with). The bits of the game that are finished are pretty stupendous though, so assuming Obsidian have learned their lesson and that Bethesda have given them enough time I'm really excited for the results. Fallout's coming home :)

  • Widge #29 2 years ago

    Depends. Depends if they inherit issues that are tied to the engine they are using. Seems like whatever platform you had, there were problems with Fallout 3.

    Still enjoyed it though, the only thing that I suffered from was the freezing once my save game started getting towards the end of the game.

  • Red-Moose #30 2 years ago

    KOTOR2 was a complete and utter mess after the polished KOTOR.

  • man.the.king #31 2 years ago

    I hadn't heard of this before. Is this DLC to Fallout 3 or an entirely new game?

  • sarcasmoidosis #32 2 years ago

    Please don't suck, please don't suck.

  • smelly #33 2 years ago

    >Less bugs,

    I never saw ANY bugs while i was playing .. must be special.

    I loved number 3.. will be buying this

  • Tomo #34 2 years ago

    Ugh. I got bored of Fallout 3 fairly quickly, but watching that trailer makes me want it still. FFS.

    I'm such a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic.

  • 1471 #35 2 years ago

    @Machetazo "Fine. Don't tell me anything about the game, then. Really? That homely radio thing was awesome the first time, and most every other time the trailer/ad played, it was brilliuantly done, imo....just had less impact after a while, and a long while's since passed."

    When you say the first time do you mean the very first time?

    [link url=http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=WkBNKa2KXZE
    ]http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=WkBNKa2KXZE
    [/link]

    A very long while has since passed.

    As for the rest, it just seems to be the current thing for big games. A bit of mood music to whet your whistle, not really to inform you of the game.

    @Vlad27145 "Appears to have an overall darker tone than FO:3. I'm not really sure if that's true to the series"

    Looks bloody grim, yeh. Fallout 2 was much more of a barrel of laughs than the first one but still:

    [link url=http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA
    ]http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA
    [/link]

    The end of it's intro always leaves a chill in my spine, so we'll see how the actual game turns out.

  • CunningLinguist #36 2 years ago

    This will probably turn out to be exactly what FO fans wanted out of FO3, but never got. Just seeing that pissed off cowboy put a smile on my face. FO3, while solid, had very little in terms of originality. Then again what should one expect when their aim was to copy, not to create. Hope to see Mark Morgan back in charge of the soundtrack, FO3 was utterly disappointing in that aspect.

    As for ZuluHero, at the risk of sounding pompous, LOL! Keep shoveling mate!

  • Murton #37 2 years ago

    You realise the guys at Obsidian made the original Fallout games, right? If anything, you should be more concerned as to whether Bethesda stay faithful to Obsidian's vision.

    Actually Obsidian didn't exist when the original Fallout games were made, it's just where many of the original creators have ended up after drifting through a load of other great RPG makers such as Black Isle and Bioware. I also think it's fair to say that Bethesda have already been tested against the "vision" and didn't quite measure up, but with some of the originals on board I reckon we'll be seeing some good stuff from New Vegas, if Obsidian can fix that broken engine anyway.

  • UncleLou #38 2 years ago

    Obsidian? Holy cow, that's the best news ever. I really liked Fallout 3, but the writing almost entirely lacked the wit and poignancy of F1/2, while Obsidian probably has the best writers in the industry.

    KOTOR2 was a complete and utter mess after the polished KOTOR.

    That it was. It also had dialogues, characters and a plot that were infinitely better than Bioware's wooden effort, however.
    Edited by 1 at 05/02/10 @ 08:47

  • Yossarian #39 2 years ago

    "As long as they stay faithful to Bethesda's efforts i'll be one happy vault dweller!"

    Comments like this make my blood run cold. What a wretched videogaming world we live in today.

  • Silvervein #40 2 years ago

    Each to his own.

    To me, fallout 3 is a forgettable shooter that tried to differentiate itself from other shooters with gory slow motion death sequences. Name of the game, and couple of in game names is all that it inherited from fallout 1/2.
    Which kind of made me sad, since there's a horde of shooters out there, but very few good rpg games (and by rpg I don't mean diablo and its clones).

    Still, chris avellone has a lot of my respect due to his writing skills..not to mention that he did work on fallout 1/2. So who knows? Maybe despite being forced to use shooter engine that's about as suitable for an rpg game as a steamroller for formula one race, they will manage to make something good?

  • schnide #41 2 years ago

    Fallout 3 is a shooter? Arf.

  • Jelly_Head #42 2 years ago

    @designerheadache

    Memory leaks? Really? Can you cite a source for this? I haven't had any problems with Fallout 3 on PS3 beyond the odd graphical glitch (which I've also seen on the PC version).

  • Zebula77 #43 2 years ago

    I'm currently on my third playthrough and I'm STILL not tired of Fallout 3. Sure, the numerous bugs and glitches are annoying, but very quickly forgotten with such a great game.

    This follow is most desired, indeed.

  • TheGuvernor #44 2 years ago


    Sorry, but I thought Fallout 3 was the most over rated load of bollox in recent times.
    I appreciate that I'm against the flow here.
    But it was piss boring, sub par graphics, the combat was woeful & the animations comical.
    I ponied up $50 for it - so at least I'm not a pirate!
    Give me STALKER any day.