He also answered the many questions I peppered him with, including a number of questions comparing this game to Fallout 3. But while New Vegas is the same type of game, and it’s running on the same engine, and you’ll be doing a lot of the same kinds of things you did in Fallout 3, making that assumption is not only selling the game short - the assumption doesn’t really hold up at all.Īt a preview event last month in New York, Jason Bergman - a senior producer working on the game at its publisher, Bethesda Softworks - handed me an Xbox 360 controller and gave me free rein to roam around in a beta version of New Vegas. It’s easy to look at Fallout: New Vegas and assume that it’s merely Fallout 3 in the West instead of Washington, D.C.
