Fallout: New Vegas for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

If you're looking for a review of the story, gameplay, etc you will be better served looking at other reviews. I am giving this game a 1/10 solely based on the fact that it is a technological abortion.

Game freezes are commonplace - so commonplace you will feel required to save every twenty-five feet. Made it from the bottom of the stairway to the top? Celebrate with 20 seconds of saving!

NPCs and creatures disappear, get stuck beneath the floor, etc.

Your saved games might even get corrupted.

Other reviewers probably tuck those three facts at the very bottom, if at all. Not me. If it's not a game I can PLAY, it's not a game. Sadly Fallout: New Vegas, regardless of the size of its scope, is not a game I can recommend to any friends. It is evident that the developer rushed the product to market (even having the gall to claim it was tested by 300 in-house testers - there is no way even 3 testers could miss this many bugs) and may not have even have the capacity to fix it, given any length of cycle. Yes, it is that bad. Yes, it gets worse the longer you play it. Yes, I am sending this back.

1 Take Fallout 3 (itself a wonderful game), move it to Las Vegas only by replacing the metropolitan area of what most people will immediatly recognize as a very faithfull representation of real life landmarks of Washington DC with the metropolitan area of a fictionalized version of Las Vegas but otherwise leave the game world exactly the same.

2 Include a flaw in the game's software design that crashes the PS3 so frequently that it earns the title a dubious reputation that will keep half of all potential consumers away.

3 Disregard basic conventions of video game logic that we all consider universal. For instance: make a gun shot to the face at point blanc range cause only minimal damage, followed by a punch to the gut that utterly destroys multiple internal organs, or establish the rule that all but only a few healing items will restore a petty few hitpoints and even then just for a few seconds only (which one can instantly see makes them an irrelevent factor to the point that I have to ask why have them in the game at all).

4 Assume that Fallout 3 was so good that you don't have to try very hard. Sleep in, and only work half days. Make the exact same mistakes that every other video game company made before their "indestructable jugernaut of the industry," went bankrupt and everybody that once admired them were suddenly mocking them.

5 Blatantly bribe well known game critic sites for undeserved positive reviews based on incomplete demos.

6 Don't bother doing anything about that programming flaw. Just release some downloadable content and hope the consumers will forgive you. Smile innocently like there's nothing wrong.

7 File for bankruptcy. Look for ways your company can save whatever money you still do have. Become close personal friends with that guy who thought his idea for the Sega Dreamcast was a stroke of genius and it would save the company's console division. Hope that some day you will be able to live down all the humiliation from this.