Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money

Fallout: New Vegas - Dead Money

If you were to your list of favorite aspects Fallout: New Vegas, "Trap avoidance" would not be a top entry. But New Vegas the first downloadable add-on, dead money, requires you to make your way through streets infested with traps and corridors, where you keep your eyes open and ears hungry you do not miss the signs of the game mortal danger. Focus on the detailed exploration works as a strength sometimes, other times, weakness. Escaping a mine-infested streets can make progress tense, which in turn causes a pleasant feeling of relief, you must make it through unscathed. On the other hand, in the end, these constant dangers lead to frustration because the labyrinthine levels and monotonous sucking the joy of exploration. Fallout: New Vegas - dead money, too often, says the worst qualities of the main game.

For example, it is amazing that a developer Obsidian Entertainment have decided to put more bits of jumping into the game engine is horrible, mechanical jumping answers. Fortunately, the great voice acting, and intriguing new characters offers a counterpoint to the shortcomings and inspire you to pursue any frustrations.

How Fallout 3 add-on, dead money from the radio signal. In this case, the signal to pull the entrance of the bunker, where you are unconscious, stripped of membership, and with a collar, which threatens to explode if they refuse to comply with its orders. Orders from a holographic image is a man named Father Elias, who recruit for your help to infiltrate the notorious Sierra Madre casino Gazza and wealth within it. Many have already followed the signal, and apparently failed in their task, the victims Casino, built-in defenses, a dangerous red mist that has been established over the area, their greed and treachery. You have no choice but to follow the orders of Elijah, which means that to find the other three individuals, and convince them to follow your example.

The dead money is the highlight of the characters - particularly the three members who are related to you, especially when you through the dangerous corridors and then the image for your home is a mess mysterious. Mutation of two personalities is more memorable in their obedient alternately hungry and deceive (the dog), a sophisticated and logical (God), eager to keep their other stupid "in a cage." Each person has their own gains additional partners, and the dog is one of the most useful. If you do not dismember the creatures you meet up again after the defeat, but the dog can nibble on their bodies torn down to make them dead forever. Christine, another partner, is a mute who communicates clumsily animated gestures, but eventually you find that still bite like a dog. And then there's Dean, Ghoul smarmy with slippery morality, talent and self-preservation.

Spend as much time in the streets adjacent to the casino, go to important places while avoiding a number of dangers. This danger is your collar that beeps - and finally explodes - as you walk too close to radios and other devices that trigger the self-destruct mechanism. You can destroy most of these instruments, even the location during the small window of opportunity can be a challenge that requires you to put you in danger of finding temporary radio crime and shoot him. Your necklace is not the only reason to proceed with caution, however. The streets are littered with bear traps and mines, and the doors can be protected with traps gun. And then there's the dreaded red cloud that reduces your health, you should breathe its vapors long. The pace is slow and methodical, and at first, makes the resulting tensions for a nice touch to explore typical New Vegas.

Changes in tension with the boredom of the time, though. This is due in part to the identity of the corridors you walk. The villa is divided into different parts, but the maze of streets and balconies looks much the same wherever you go, and the Quest inaccurate indicator is not always a clear direction. Red Cloud and soft lighting in the atmosphere at first, but because there is so little to lose muddiness believes that a short cut to complain. Feeling slow - often, to save and load - you can not fail to investigate, without holding back so many rigid rules. When you make the mess, your eyes Thanks for the visual variety, invulnerable, but it is not easy holographic guards run into disappointments.

Fortunately, the flexibility of New Vegas shines through the dark times of trial and error, especially in how to approach your relationship once you enter the casino. If you are not great in combat, there is much more likely to talk your way out of some missions and cutting systems security. If you prefer to get their hands dirty, you get new toys to play with, like bear traps fashion melee weapons, throwing spears, and a gun that comes in handy during the final sequence. If you have these with them at the end of the extension, you must keep with all they have stolen, if not dead money is an experience that often encapsulated. It has its own economy based on the chips of the Sierra Madre, and has its own ATM network. (A nice touch: it is the codes to unlock new items to buy these machines glowing.) Also offers smart features new players and revenue of inventing.

Dead Money is a change of pace from Fallout: New Vegas, if not always pleasant. Rhythm tense, deliberately giving rise to the difficulty that the game forces you to watch every step you take a stroll through the dull surroundings. Do not forget the roots of Fallout this content, however, there are many oddities techniques for remembering them. VATS goal activation, while firing the turret can get the game stuck in slow-motion purgatory for a minute or more partners can become entangled in the environment or inexplicably his way over the rooftops while crossing the street. However, Fallout: New Vegas - dead characters and great writing provocative money to make a detour for fans of Fallout tempting pain of something new. You also get some of their investment here, depending on the severity of their exploration, it can take four to eight hours dead money for only $ 9.99. We hope that the next add-on New Vegas clubs that play is good instead of forcing its lowest level of backlash in the players they want to do things his way.

Turn by turn, will lead these three characters in key places, and even if you leave behind when you arrive, continue to participate in your adventure. It's a shame that all three require you to fill in the attempt to get safely to your destination. At that point, when you bring your partner with a third goal, all you can do is moan, when the battery is expected to constitute an excuse to go to collect, or kill something.

Gunning on the neck as the speaker signals to your imminent death provides relief from rising levels of stress, because there is an endearing and spotting a bear trap, before it damages you.

Forced stealth sequence in which the means of being seen immediate death of fire is the New Vegas at worst, as are several sections to escape this time trial of your patience, and you curse the clumsy movements and backlash vague feeling direction. Casino trip will reward you not with the fascinating exploration, but with a great backstory revealed in the writings terminals and voice recordings. Sierra Madre resource wealth is not locked in the trunk of the casino - this overview of greed and deception past and led one man to protect the woman he loved.