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Essay / Fallout: New Vegas - 541
A misplaced headshot by a mysterious man in a checkered suit and a quick burial in a shallow grave kicks off the next chapter in the juggernaut series of Bethesda: Fallout: New Vegas. Although New Vegas is larger and more packed than any other Fallout game to date, "this game still feels like a huge, impressive expansion" (Steimer) compared to its predecessor. The setting takes place in a massive West Coast wasteland littered with gangs, dead people and ravenous creatures contesting the reconstructed ruins of Las Vegas, renamed New Vegas after the nuclear war with China, as the wondrous centerpiece of the wasteland. To complete all of the game's quests, missions, and adventures, "expect to accumulate a total of approximately 100 hours." (Steimer).Fallout: New Vegas feels like an expansion to Fallout 3 with the same basic gameplay controls and skills with a few additional improvements only slightly tweaking the first-person shooter (FPS) aspect of the game. Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, a technology that allows the user to freeze combat and target certain locations on an enemy, was not designed....