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While Fallout: New Vegas isn't comparable to Fallout 3 when it comes to the length and prestige of its list of awards, it certainly scored a lot of nominations, the latest being for the Best Writing category of the 11th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The other nominees are: Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego), Heavy Rain (Quantic Dream), Mass Effect 2 (BioWare) and Costume Quest (Double Fine).
Here's also a round-up of some of the awards Fallout: New Vegas has won:
The Guardian puts it at 5th place in its Top 20 of 2010 games. <blockquote>The game's appeal is similar to Red Dead's – as Jake Arnott put it in his review, "Perhaps its greatest strength is the fact that everybody can play it differently. Rigidly follow the main storyline – or wander off and ignore it entirely. Try and be as moral as possible – or kill and rob the first merchant you come across. It's a tailor-made gaming experience where everything can be done at your own pace and in your own way."</blockquote>Wired puts it at 20th place in its own Top 20.<blockquote>With Fallout 3, Bethesda planted its flag in the wasteland sands, reviving the venerable PC franchise for a new generation. Fallout: New Vegas brings the game back to its roots. Obsidian, a studio founded by folks who created the original games, took the West Coast homecoming seriously, delivering plot, characters and places that are harrowing, creepy, quirky and sometimes altogether odd. Fallout: New Vegas may be buggier than a Radroach nest, but wading through the pests is totally worth it.</blockquote>Platform Nation has a top 10, Fallout: New Vegas scoring at the bottom.<blockquote>Let’s be clear. On a purely technical level, this is a horrible game. It’s broken in a way I haven’t experienced from a top-tier release in a LONG time. The thing is, I couldn’t stop playing it regardless of this cold, hard fact. New Vegas is an amazing tale- compelling in a way that few other games were this year, while surpassing Fallout 3 in the process. I lived in this world for over a month, and I can’t wait to jump back in for a second run.</blockquote>G4's Eugene Morton puts it in his Top 5 games of the year.<blockquote>The only thing I didn't like about Fallout 3 was how depressing it was. I had to take three different kinds of an antidepressants to keep me from shooting myself in the face with a plasma rifle. I'm so glad Fallout: New Vegas is set in Nevada. The sunshine, desert air and prostitutes roaming the New Vegas strip really do a lot to elevate my mood.</blockquote>Maximum PC included it in an interesting piece about the games of the year 2010.<blockquote>Looking back, of course, I see it as an example of modern-day Fallout's storytelling style perfected. An utterly engrossing trail of environmental clues, a narrative that doesn't unfold unless the player takes an active role in discovering it, and a horrifying (though undeniably provocative) examination of what humans are capable of when their backs are against the wall -- Vault 11 had it all. </blockquote>Splintside includes Fallout: New Vegas at 10th place in its Top 10 of the funniest games of 2010.<blockquote>The game is packed with jokes, and the exploratory nature of the game makes finding them all the more special. Unlike many games that try to be funny, the humor in Fallout: New Vegas works because it's optional. You feel like you're participating. It's your choice to name the sex robot FISTO. Or not. You can embarrass a cannibal by faking human meat. Or not. </blockquote>Gamasutra's includes it a place 7th of their Top 10 of the Games of the Year 2010 (surprisingly enough, Mass Effect 2 was 9th).<blockquote>The distinct influence of Rome's tragic story of out-of-control power on the gameworld is well-thought, and appropriate, and the game offers enough freedom that the player can choose to make it either a celebration or a condemnation of all kinds of excess. And as the game starts to draw a story of factions warring for control, the loyalty system in which the player participates provokes lots of thought on the nature of power in a world with laws upended.
So maybe it needed a little more time, but in a year of big blockbusters, a project with a little subtlety, a richly-realized world and a thoughtful, multilayered story came much appreciated.
</blockquote>PC Gamer US chose Fallout: New Vegas as its RPG of the year.<blockquote>Obsidian’s writing sparkles with fascinating characters and quests that pay loving homage to the franchise’s PC roots at every opportunity. Its main quest begins as a small-scale tale of personal revenge in the Mojave, but blossoms into an opportunity to decide the outcome of a wide-open conflict that will upset the balance of power of an entire region.
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And while it’s a cross-platform game, Fallout: New Vegas reminds us why the PC is more often than not the best place to experience an openworld RPG like this one. It looks far better on the PC than any other platform, and mods step in afterward to unlock its full potential. Fallout: New Vegas is truly our adventure.</blockquote>The Escapist's Russ Pitts puts it among his five favorite games of 2010.<blockquote>In New Vegas, you can choose to side with one faction or another. Or another. Or go it on your own. Or ignore the main story and collect rare guns, make your own ammo, meet a large cast of party members and an even larger cast of secondary characters, and generally "wander the wastes," just like in the good, old days.
It's a shame, then, that the game is so painfully broken that you'll frequently wonder why you bother. Hopefully by the time you're reading this, a major patch, said to fix a multitude of problems across all major platforms, will have been released. If this game had been released in anything approaching a perfect state, it'd be a shoe-in for GOTY. As it is ... it's not getting my vote.</blockquote>IGN UK awards it the "Best Bang For Your Buck award.<blockquote>With no subscription fee and no tiered payment system, what you get for the base price of Fallout: New Vegas dwarfs its competition. For over a hundred hours you could roam the vast wastes uncovering new items, quests, and points of interest. The best part is that it's not just a huge amount of content, but a huge amount of good content. Obsidian is no stranger to building role-playing games, and New Vegas is the best of its efforts. Whether you're looking to play blackjack in a dingy poker room, fire off energy blasts at monsters, chew on a new story, or simply aimlessly explore, it's all here.</blockquote>Spin.com puts it at the 5th place of its Top 10 of 2010's games.<blockquote>The relentlessly grim Fallout: New Vegas is packed with detail, forcing players to choose between a collection of rival factions, each with their own methods and motivations. This sequel brings a freshness to Fallout, including the ability to reload key moments, play the role of noble peacekeeper or immoral marauder, and see how the universe's time-continuum changes with each character.</blockquote>FearNet puts it among the best games of 2010.<blockquote>Despite being just as great as its predecessor, Fallout 3, New Vegas loses a few points for the unpolished state it was delivered in. While the story was fantastic, and the Mojave Desert was wonderfully fleshed out, it doesn’t change the fact that the sheer number of game-killing bugs that made it out the door. It’s like being on a date with a beautiful, intelligent woman who also happens to have gas: it’s a great time except for the occasional, derailing moment.</blockquote>Games.on.net also mentions it among the best RPGs of 2010.<blockquote>More importantly, Fallout: New Vegas did something that Fallout 3 ultimately failed to do – use exploration of the wasteland to tell the story better than any narrative. Every place and person you encounter during your travels informs the post-apocalyptic world that little bit more, making the resolution, no matter which one you end up with, that little bit more satisfying.</blockquote>Fallout: New Vegas also won the Best PC RPG of the Year award from RPGFan.<blockquote>While it's certainly true that Mass Effect 2 was one of the best out-of-the-box titles for the PC this year, and Fallout: New Vegas struggled out of the gate with bugs and other issues, when it comes down to it, Fallout: New Vegas is the much more open game for PC, with mods aplenty and a great fan environment. Much like Obsidian's earlier title, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas gains a lot of points because of its openness that adds to the just-needs-a-little-more-QA readiness of the initial release. Is Fallout: New Vegas a better game than Mass Effect 2 out of the box? No. Is it the game that people will get the most out of for the PC? Absolutely.</blockquote>Fallout: New Vegas is the Best RPG of the Year also for Playstation Lifestyle.<blockquote>Wandering around the world of Fallout is as fun as it is rewarding — you never know when you will find a unique weapon, or a friendly NPC offering a special side-quest. Besides the exploration, the quality of the writing is spectacular. Every character has been meticulously crafted, and the backstory of some of the NPCs will rival plots of other full retail games. The main story line will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end of the game. Fallout makes you craft and manipulate relationships between rival factions in a way that no other game has achieved. Though maybe not as grand in scope as Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas is still a game that will be cherished for years as a fine example of how RPGs should be.</blockquote>And while not technically an award, the game rental service GameFly listed it at 9th place on its Most rented crossplatform titles Top 10.
Here's also a round-up of some of the awards Fallout: New Vegas has won:
The Guardian puts it at 5th place in its Top 20 of 2010 games. <blockquote>The game's appeal is similar to Red Dead's – as Jake Arnott put it in his review, "Perhaps its greatest strength is the fact that everybody can play it differently. Rigidly follow the main storyline – or wander off and ignore it entirely. Try and be as moral as possible – or kill and rob the first merchant you come across. It's a tailor-made gaming experience where everything can be done at your own pace and in your own way."</blockquote>Wired puts it at 20th place in its own Top 20.<blockquote>With Fallout 3, Bethesda planted its flag in the wasteland sands, reviving the venerable PC franchise for a new generation. Fallout: New Vegas brings the game back to its roots. Obsidian, a studio founded by folks who created the original games, took the West Coast homecoming seriously, delivering plot, characters and places that are harrowing, creepy, quirky and sometimes altogether odd. Fallout: New Vegas may be buggier than a Radroach nest, but wading through the pests is totally worth it.</blockquote>Platform Nation has a top 10, Fallout: New Vegas scoring at the bottom.<blockquote>Let’s be clear. On a purely technical level, this is a horrible game. It’s broken in a way I haven’t experienced from a top-tier release in a LONG time. The thing is, I couldn’t stop playing it regardless of this cold, hard fact. New Vegas is an amazing tale- compelling in a way that few other games were this year, while surpassing Fallout 3 in the process. I lived in this world for over a month, and I can’t wait to jump back in for a second run.</blockquote>G4's Eugene Morton puts it in his Top 5 games of the year.<blockquote>The only thing I didn't like about Fallout 3 was how depressing it was. I had to take three different kinds of an antidepressants to keep me from shooting myself in the face with a plasma rifle. I'm so glad Fallout: New Vegas is set in Nevada. The sunshine, desert air and prostitutes roaming the New Vegas strip really do a lot to elevate my mood.</blockquote>Maximum PC included it in an interesting piece about the games of the year 2010.<blockquote>Looking back, of course, I see it as an example of modern-day Fallout's storytelling style perfected. An utterly engrossing trail of environmental clues, a narrative that doesn't unfold unless the player takes an active role in discovering it, and a horrifying (though undeniably provocative) examination of what humans are capable of when their backs are against the wall -- Vault 11 had it all. </blockquote>Splintside includes Fallout: New Vegas at 10th place in its Top 10 of the funniest games of 2010.<blockquote>The game is packed with jokes, and the exploratory nature of the game makes finding them all the more special. Unlike many games that try to be funny, the humor in Fallout: New Vegas works because it's optional. You feel like you're participating. It's your choice to name the sex robot FISTO. Or not. You can embarrass a cannibal by faking human meat. Or not. </blockquote>Gamasutra's includes it a place 7th of their Top 10 of the Games of the Year 2010 (surprisingly enough, Mass Effect 2 was 9th).<blockquote>The distinct influence of Rome's tragic story of out-of-control power on the gameworld is well-thought, and appropriate, and the game offers enough freedom that the player can choose to make it either a celebration or a condemnation of all kinds of excess. And as the game starts to draw a story of factions warring for control, the loyalty system in which the player participates provokes lots of thought on the nature of power in a world with laws upended.
So maybe it needed a little more time, but in a year of big blockbusters, a project with a little subtlety, a richly-realized world and a thoughtful, multilayered story came much appreciated.
</blockquote>PC Gamer US chose Fallout: New Vegas as its RPG of the year.<blockquote>Obsidian’s writing sparkles with fascinating characters and quests that pay loving homage to the franchise’s PC roots at every opportunity. Its main quest begins as a small-scale tale of personal revenge in the Mojave, but blossoms into an opportunity to decide the outcome of a wide-open conflict that will upset the balance of power of an entire region.
[...]
And while it’s a cross-platform game, Fallout: New Vegas reminds us why the PC is more often than not the best place to experience an openworld RPG like this one. It looks far better on the PC than any other platform, and mods step in afterward to unlock its full potential. Fallout: New Vegas is truly our adventure.</blockquote>The Escapist's Russ Pitts puts it among his five favorite games of 2010.<blockquote>In New Vegas, you can choose to side with one faction or another. Or another. Or go it on your own. Or ignore the main story and collect rare guns, make your own ammo, meet a large cast of party members and an even larger cast of secondary characters, and generally "wander the wastes," just like in the good, old days.
It's a shame, then, that the game is so painfully broken that you'll frequently wonder why you bother. Hopefully by the time you're reading this, a major patch, said to fix a multitude of problems across all major platforms, will have been released. If this game had been released in anything approaching a perfect state, it'd be a shoe-in for GOTY. As it is ... it's not getting my vote.</blockquote>IGN UK awards it the "Best Bang For Your Buck award.<blockquote>With no subscription fee and no tiered payment system, what you get for the base price of Fallout: New Vegas dwarfs its competition. For over a hundred hours you could roam the vast wastes uncovering new items, quests, and points of interest. The best part is that it's not just a huge amount of content, but a huge amount of good content. Obsidian is no stranger to building role-playing games, and New Vegas is the best of its efforts. Whether you're looking to play blackjack in a dingy poker room, fire off energy blasts at monsters, chew on a new story, or simply aimlessly explore, it's all here.</blockquote>Spin.com puts it at the 5th place of its Top 10 of 2010's games.<blockquote>The relentlessly grim Fallout: New Vegas is packed with detail, forcing players to choose between a collection of rival factions, each with their own methods and motivations. This sequel brings a freshness to Fallout, including the ability to reload key moments, play the role of noble peacekeeper or immoral marauder, and see how the universe's time-continuum changes with each character.</blockquote>FearNet puts it among the best games of 2010.<blockquote>Despite being just as great as its predecessor, Fallout 3, New Vegas loses a few points for the unpolished state it was delivered in. While the story was fantastic, and the Mojave Desert was wonderfully fleshed out, it doesn’t change the fact that the sheer number of game-killing bugs that made it out the door. It’s like being on a date with a beautiful, intelligent woman who also happens to have gas: it’s a great time except for the occasional, derailing moment.</blockquote>Games.on.net also mentions it among the best RPGs of 2010.<blockquote>More importantly, Fallout: New Vegas did something that Fallout 3 ultimately failed to do – use exploration of the wasteland to tell the story better than any narrative. Every place and person you encounter during your travels informs the post-apocalyptic world that little bit more, making the resolution, no matter which one you end up with, that little bit more satisfying.</blockquote>Fallout: New Vegas also won the Best PC RPG of the Year award from RPGFan.<blockquote>While it's certainly true that Mass Effect 2 was one of the best out-of-the-box titles for the PC this year, and Fallout: New Vegas struggled out of the gate with bugs and other issues, when it comes down to it, Fallout: New Vegas is the much more open game for PC, with mods aplenty and a great fan environment. Much like Obsidian's earlier title, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas gains a lot of points because of its openness that adds to the just-needs-a-little-more-QA readiness of the initial release. Is Fallout: New Vegas a better game than Mass Effect 2 out of the box? No. Is it the game that people will get the most out of for the PC? Absolutely.</blockquote>Fallout: New Vegas is the Best RPG of the Year also for Playstation Lifestyle.<blockquote>Wandering around the world of Fallout is as fun as it is rewarding — you never know when you will find a unique weapon, or a friendly NPC offering a special side-quest. Besides the exploration, the quality of the writing is spectacular. Every character has been meticulously crafted, and the backstory of some of the NPCs will rival plots of other full retail games. The main story line will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end of the game. Fallout makes you craft and manipulate relationships between rival factions in a way that no other game has achieved. Though maybe not as grand in scope as Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas is still a game that will be cherished for years as a fine example of how RPGs should be.</blockquote>And while not technically an award, the game rental service GameFly listed it at 9th place on its Most rented crossplatform titles Top 10.
