A misplaced headshot from a mysterious man in a checkered suit and a quick burial in a shallow grave kicks off the next chapter in Bethesda's juggernaut series: Fallout : New Vegas. Even though New Vegas is more expansive and jam-packed than any other Fallout game to date, "this game still feels like a huge, awesome expansion" (Steimer) compared to the game's predecessor. The setting takes place in a massive West Coast wasteland littered with gangs, death, and ravenous creatures that contest the reconstructed ruins of Las Vegas, renamed New Vegas after the nuclear war with China, as the wasteland's beautiful hub. To complete all of the game's missions, quests, and adventures, "expect to clock up a total of around 100 hours." (Steimer).Fallout: New Vegas feels like an expansion to Fallout 3 with the same basic gameplay controls and abilities with a few added enhancements that only slightly change the first-person shooter (FPS) aspect of the game. The VATS (Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System), a technology that allows the user to freeze combat and target certain positions on an enemy, was not...