Aside from a cursory description of the game's premise on its
official website, we've heard very little about
Fallout: New Vegas. Today, friends, that changes, with a
USA Today feature that reveals the game's protagonist as a shot and left-to-die package delivery boy who finds himself in Sin City "and the surrounding area" in 2280. "You were a courier, and you were obviously carrying something that somebody wanted," Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines says of the player's character. "Part of the story is finding out what you had and what they took."
Hines additionally insists
New Vegas will "feel" far different from 2008's
Fallout 3 through one key aspect: the setting. "Vegas is up and running. It is not a ghost town. It still exists and thrives. There are casinos, and you can go down onto the Strip. It will have a very different feel from that standpoint."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hines also notes that the
New Vegas will "take you hundreds of hours to explore every nook and cranny" -- not unlike the 2008 iteration of the
Fallout franchise. We'd be straight lying if we said we weren't unbelievably ready to invest that time in more of the
Fallout universe this fall, even after
all of last year's DLC.
Fallout: New Vegas plot details surface from USA Today originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
