Bethesda reveals Fallout: New Vegas

Published 4 February, 2010 Duration 2:10

Will you win big at Vegas, or will you end up a penniless, radiation poisoned husk of a corpse, rotting gently in the corner of a craps table?

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  • Zephro #1 2 years ago

    Here's hoping it's better/closer to the originals than Fallout 3!

  • Twin_snakes #2 2 years ago

    FUCK YEAH!!!!
    Edited by Twin_snakes at 06/02/10 @ 13:45

  • DarthInsinuate #3 2 years ago

    Good to see they're getting good milage out of that little Ron Perlman soundbite.

  • alexander_light #4 2 years ago

    Isn't that a CLP_TRP?

  • ToxicdeepEyes #5 2 years ago

    The helghast are coming!!!

  • seanthejackal #6 2 years ago

    Its the commies

  • Danbojones Verified Senior Staff Writer, GamesIndustry International #7 2 years ago

    Curious use of the Sri Lankan flag at the end...

  • Dexter2015 #8 2 years ago

    This intro is kinda disappointing--

  • AphoticCosmos #9 2 years ago

    Meh, not really up to the same standards as the Ink Spots intro for Fallout 3. Being in-engine helps.

  • MrTeatime #10 2 years ago

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  • crazyhorse174 #11 2 years ago

    Fallout 3 disappointing? Are we thinking about the same game here? Fecking amazing more like.

  • MrTeatime #12 2 years ago

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  • the_mtfr #13 2 years ago

    What the fuck is this one-wheel robot? How is it supposed to realistically have balance in the middle of a trash pile???

    Seriously, these days, devs could just put a white cube, spin the camera around it, have dramatic music, a grave voice and then tease a game's title.

  • Raz76 #14 2 years ago

    The 50's ditty/dystopic setting combo is getting a good workout this year.

  • Zephro #15 2 years ago

    I'm with MrTeaTime, the best thing about a Fallout game should be the writing and the plot. 3 falls far behind 1 or 2.

  • penhalion #16 2 years ago

    I was about to cuss when the "War...War never changes" voice over came in. Seriously, fallout simply isn't fallout without that quote.

    Now I'm actually excited!

  • Inigo #17 2 years ago

    The problem with Bethesda is that they never release any information on the games until they come out. We can look forward to 9 months of teaser images and videos. I don't think i can hold on that long.

  • schnide #18 2 years ago

    So it's out this year, but the best they can release is a poor trailer where nothing happens, copying the exact same style of the intro to Fallout 3? I want this to be as amazing as it's predecessor - it's just that there's nothing to show me that here.

  • saintedd #19 2 years ago

    Looking forward to it already. Not much to go on by this video though.

  • Jelly_Head #20 2 years ago

    Loved Oblivion, but couldn't get into Fallout. I think I got about three quarters through, but the scenery is just so bleak and depressing, it saps the fun out of the gameplay for me.

  • NunianVonFuch #21 2 years ago

    Hope Obsidian do a good job and get time to finish a game for once. Grumble grumble.

  • StooMonster #22 2 years ago

    It's not a Chinese flag, is the 'Bear Flag' which is current flag of the State of California and has been since 1911.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cal...

  • MMMMMM7 #23 2 years ago

    Are those in game graphics from the ID Tech 5 game engine ?
    Maybe, but whatever they are really atmospheric and the song from Frank Sinatra is perfect. I really liked
    the sand dropping from the robots hands as well as the waving of the flag of California and the cap.
    A teaser trailer that makes you dream and hope for another quallity
    game from Bethesda.
    Edited by MMMMMM7 at 04/02/10 @ 21:51

  • trip919 #24 2 years ago

    It’s been a shit day, but this has made me smile from ear to ear. Can’t wait.

  • Masaroth #25 2 years ago

    Flags from the NCR(as said above) which were a growing force in the first two. Seeing as its obsidion devolping it should be a bit more of a throwback to the first two as a lot of devs from black isle are at obsidion. Just hoping they finally are given enough time to finish it as their dialogue and story writing are ussually top notch.

  • Triggerhappytel #26 2 years ago

    "The 50's ditty/dystopic setting combo is getting a good workout this year."

    Yeah, I agree. Was this prevalent in FO1 & 2, as I played FO3 after BioShock, and it felt a lot like that particular element had almost been lifted from the latter wholesale?

    "Loved Oblivion, but couldn't get into Fallout. I think I got about three quarters through, but the scenery is just so bleak and depressing, it saps the fun out of the gameplay for me."

    Yeah, I'm the same. I really like parts of the gameplay, but I find it such a trudge to get through as the whole world just looks so dull and grey, and even after 10-odd hours I had to constantly refer to the map as the whole place just managed to look the same.

  • mkreku #27 2 years ago

    @schnide: Fallout 3 copied the intro from Fallout/Fallout 2. And now New Vegas is continuing the tradition. They're not "copying Fallout 3's intro".

  • Downside #28 2 years ago

    Mmm it's Vegas baby!! Over 100 hours in fallout 3 tells me I'll be sorted for top quality gaming for the next twelve months after this little beauty comes out. I didn't expect this to come out in 2010, I'm very happy ..

  • kangarootoo #29 2 years ago

    I enjoed FO3, but the key issue for me was the miserable locations. Of course I realise that a post apocalyptic world is supposed to look brown (though only in games, in real life plants would return much more quickly than suggested in the game).

    As a friend of mine said "Everything is just brown sand, whereas Oblivion looked like the sort of place you might want to go on holiday". All the quests were cool, but it could have just done with some environmental variety.

  • venum #30 2 years ago

    good, really good. It seems much darker than fallout 3.

  • schnide #31 2 years ago

    @mkreku

    Fair enough - I honestly didn't know. But they still could've done it better than this.

  • DRE4DNOUGHT #32 2 years ago

    Vagas in the background didnt looked all that nuked to me

  • GitSomE_UK #33 2 years ago

    All this moaning about post apocalypse looking brown and grey... that's the point! Was Hiroshima a place of happy colours and rainbows after the bomb dropped? No it was fucked.

    FO3 captured Post Apocalypse brilliantly, if you want colours Mario Sunshine is waiting.

    I want depressing scenes, bleak landscapes and misery because that's what Post Apocalypse is.

    As for this, the City has power, buried body in shallow grave, reads Mafia control to me. I think it'll be similar to the place in Max Max 3 a warped vision of civilisation rebuilt.

  • kangarootoo #34 2 years ago

    @DRE4DNOUGHT

    "Vagas in the background didnt looked all that nuked to me"

    Yeah, its my hope ot holds a bit more variety.


    @GitSomE UK

    Hmmm. As I suggested in my previous post, nature takes over surprisingly quickly after catastrophes.


    "Was Hiroshima a place of happy colours and rainbows after the bomb dropped? No it was fucked."

    Well directly after the bomb was dropped, of course not. But then you should not be surprised to learn that a bus shelter directly after being hit by a mortar looks pretty fucked too.

    It has perhaps escaped your attention that FO3 is supposed to be set many decades after the war. What does Hiroshima look like today? Brown and grey? Piles of sand? Broken barb wire fences and piles of rubble along every street? No, not really.

    It is reasonable to assume a break down of society meant people couldn't rebuild sky scrapers, but its not reasonable to assume that grass seeds that could carry several hundred miles on the wind before a nuclear war can't do so after a nuclear war.


    "FO3 captured Post Apocalypse brilliantly"

    As I already said, it caputured video games post apocalypse brilliantly. It captured hollywood movie post apocalypse equally well. But any suggestion it is brown because it is actually really realistic is no defense at all (because... its rubbish).

    Though frankly I don't really care whether it is realistic or not. I do care that all the environments in a video game I was playing looked the same.

    It got repetetive, whereas Oblivion showed great variety (such that you could tell which part of the island you were on purely by examining the plant life) and was more enjoyable for it. Simple as that.

  • mkreku #35 2 years ago

    I always assumed than an all-encompassing nuclear war would drive up so much material in the air that the sun wouldn't reach the ground for a hundred years, ie. nuclear winter. No plants would spread without heat and sunlight.

    This is the main reason why civilisation hasn't rebuilt itself, apart from the massive amounts of radiation embedded in everything.

  • kangarootoo #36 2 years ago

    This is perhaps true. I don't know on what scale FO3's war was supposed to have operated. Maybe it was supposed to be like that.

    The contradiction however being that if the sun isn't reaching the ground, why can the player see the sky? Seems to me that the first things that would start to recover (however long it took) would be the plant life and insects - these being well established once people decided to come out of their bunkers and start rebuilding.

  • Zephro #37 2 years ago

    Well the hint is probably in the word "new" i.e. it's a rebuilt Vegas not the nuked shell of Vegas.

  • karstux #38 2 years ago

    This looks all very nice, but Vegas is Obsidian's new game, not Bethesda's. I really wish Bethesda would finally announce what they're currently doing... I'm hoping for a new Elder Scrolls...

  • kweeky #39 2 years ago

    No bombs dropped on Vegas?

  • Guv #40 2 years ago

    Just read the PC gamer Preview... pure gold! really looking forward to this one!

  • Talbot #41 2 years ago

    Las Vegas? Bit of a shame, would have preferred a different locale, perhaps somewhere not in the bleak boring landscape of Nevada. Saying that Fallout 3 was my only Fallout.