A LONG time ago, a friend of mine was bragging to me about how great the original Fallout was, and went to show me it on his computer. When he went to start the game, it turned out that he had damaged the disk, and he was unable to show me the game. I have heard a number of good things about Fallout, and thought I should try it out for myself some day. A while back, when Steam had a promotion on Fallout: New Vegas, I purchased the game, but didn't start playing it until a week ago.

I was quite surprised when I first started playing the game, because I thought all the Fallout games was 3rd person from a 2/3 perspective, but once I started playing Fallout: New Vegas, of course I found out it was a first (though can be over the shoulder third) person perspective game.

While I like the concept of a role playing game, most of those games are from the 2/3rds perspective, with wooden (non-moving) card board cutout NPCs, who stay in the same place at all times. When I think of role playing games, I would prefer something a bit more like Deus Ex or System Shock 2.

I am quite impressed with the NPCs in New Vegas, as they walk about the town, engaging in various activities and react to my actions and words in mostly appropriate ways. If I steal something, kill someone or say the wrong thing, the NPCs will change their attitudes towards me. This makes for a much deeper gaming experience than the usual RPG gives.

Still, there is a bit of a short coming of the games reliance on what appears to be roll base attacks. While there is no turn based attacks, which are an unnecessary hold over from the days of pen and paper RPGs, still I think that some attacks would instantly kill, where as I have to wear the enemies stats down in order for me to defeat him.