The Good: Manages to bring a new vibe to the somewhat tired Fallout gameplay model. The Bad: That itself gets pretty repetitive after awhile. The Ugly: With a whole lotta dying and reloading. I'm really conflicted about the first DLC for Fallout New Vegas – Dead Money.

We play a couple hands of Fallout: New Vegas. Find out if it's worth the gamble in our in-depth review…

+ Loads of missions and replay value; -/+ Little improvements over Fallout 3

-/+ Little improvements over Fallout 3

Playing Fallout New Vegas over the past year, I've come to see the main storyline and the tales told through the downloaded content packs (DLC) as two separate entities. Really, if this were anyone else other than the team of Bethesda and Obsidian, the plot and gameplay found in the four DLCs would...

In "Fallout: New Vegas" you sort of do begin with a birth, a re-birth specifically as you are rescued from the grave (literally) and patched up, from a bullet to the brainpan that thankfully missed it's mark, by the wise and haggard Doc Mitchell.

ld World Blues is the third expansion to hit New Vegas, and this one is arguably the pick of the bunch. While Dead Money and Honest Hearts were far from bad, neither had that extra spark to make them essential downloads, whereas this latest offering attempts to deliver a little something more to the...

Although big name franchises usually mean some sort of high-profile success for a studio, it also comes with high-profile pressure. It is human nature to want to try something different, but gamers are notoriously resistant to any sort of change.

It hurts to not score this higher, especially considering the incredible writing and epic amount of well-varied quests, but the rampant bugs and gameplay that is getting stale really drag this down. Someone please take Gamebryo out back and shoot it.

Well my experience reviewing Fallout: New Vegas has been quite astounding, and in that I mean it was unfortunately not as enjoyable to play as I had hoped. Taking into consideration that I am a fan of the Fallout series, having played all iterations since the original Fallout released in 1997...

Fallout: New Vegas brings this beloved franchise to a location only Fallout could do justice: Vegas. Fallout: New Vegas takes all the action, humor, and post-apocalyptic grime and grit of this legendary series, and raises the stakes.

Fallout 3 was one of my favorite games of 2008. I rarely, if ever, log over 100 hours in a single-player video game, but found myself unable to put the controller down when playing Fallout .