The sun beats down relentlessly, bleaching the wood and fading the canvas of the tents and huts in the base camps. Straggly bits of scrub poke out from between vividly red rocks. It's about the same size as the DC wasteland and just as desolate, but in a brighter, bolder way. (Good job, then, that there are shady characters outside offering easily concealed items like switchblade knives for sale.) Wandering past a bottle of whisky left unattended on a bar, I idly selected the option to steal it - only to find myself under fire from several directions and being forced to leg it.Ĭut to the Mojave desert wasteland, another location on show during the E3 demo. There are those Securitrons, for starters, along with human security guards who will insist on searching you for weapons when you enter casinos. This may be Vegas, but that doesn't mean anything goes. If things do go your way, you might want to quit while you're ahead, as the casino manager is likely to turn up and turf out those who win too often. You might want to check how many luck skill points you've earned first, however, as this will directly affect your chances of winning.
You can play all these games in New Vegas, along with a newly invented card game called Caravan, which is played throughout the world.
Toggle the 'hardcore' option on and you'll have to make sure your character gets enough sleep, food and water. But I only had time to visit The Tops, which seemed to be a pretty traditional place complete with slot machines, roulette wheels and blackjack tables. The finished game will feature a variety of themed casinos, such as the swank Ultralux and the seedy Gomorrah. I got to try some of these out during a playtest of Fallout: New Vegas at E3. Vegas wasn't as badly hit by nukes, it turns out, so the sky is still blue and the casinos are still open for business, offering all manner of services to those looking for a good time. The setting for the follow-up to Fallout 3 is altogether glitzier, trashier and generally less grey. In other words, we're not in Washington DC any more. Vegas isn't about to let a bit of war get in the way of fun. They patrol the strip, which is just as brightly lit and busily populated as it ever was. In fact, the whole place is run by one Mr House, a mysterious overlord who maintains order with the help of those robot policemen, known as Securitrons. Welcome to the world of New Vegas, where the house always wins. What comes to mind when you hear the word Vegas? Elvis? Showgirls? Marg Helgenberger swabbing semen off the underside of roulette tables? Or post-apocalyptic landscapes, warring mercenaries, plasma rifles and robot policemen?
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