Intriguing New Screens For Latest Fallout:NV DLC, Old World Blues
Originally announced back in May as part of a trio of add-on content, the latest Fallout: New Vegas DLC, Old World Blues, resurfaced today with a small handful of in-game screens. Unfortunately, there was little in the way of new information to what scant details are already known about the upcoming DLC. So, just to recap: Old World Blues is the second part of a trilogy of downloadable game content meant to expand the world of Fallout:NV as well as draw a close to the tale of its protagonist.
OWB takes place out in the big, expansive desert of New Vegas, which locals originally thought to be uninhabitable. The protagonist stumbles upon a variety of pre-war research facilities that offer some—no doubt gruesome—clues as to the original nature of the monsters who roam the American wasteland. Taken prisoner by a team of mad scientists looking for a lab rat, the player is given the choice of turning on their captors or looking past minor disagreements to team up and take on an even bigger threat (hopefully a Godzilla-sized super-dooper mutant, cause that would be awesome).
Smack your mouse over the button that says “Continue Reading” to take a gander at the screens.
Old World Blues will be released simultaneously for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on July 19th, 2011.
i just got this game for 10 bucks at best buy…please shipping and handling -_-
i got the game and all the dlc off steam for 20 dollars, the game itself was for 15. I knew that best buy was selling it 5 dollars cheaper but it was really fucking hot outside.
Fuck you gabe.
gaben knows~
I can’t wait for Old World Blues personally, if it means the atmosphere (level of, not exact same because the Villa was fuck-off creepy) and story of Dead Money without bomb-collars and death gas and floor traps and Ghost People, because making me crawl and sneak through content is a really shitty way to make it last longer.
Also in typical Dooley fashion, the informative blip is a bit misleading because New Vegas is surrounded by goddamn desert, and so people might me mislead into thinking it’s somewhere in the familiar Mojave Wasteland, which is basically constituted of the map around the city itself. So for the interested:
This is the third of four planned DLC, although where the arc concerning the prophesied “Battle of the Divide” is concerned, this is the second DLC supposedly involving it, as it was referenced to in Dead Money, the first in this arc– the Lonesome Road continues this, and will be released not long following Old World Blues. It takes place in a facility called then Big Empty (aka Big Mtn. R&D Facility), where most of the technologies featured in Dead Money (Holograms, Holorifles, bomb collars, Ghost People hazard suits, Saturnite alloy) originated from, and run by the apathetic minds of pre-War scientists. And while the origins of some of the Mojave’s horrors might be explored there, such as the spore carriers of Vault 22 and Zion Ntl. Park, nowhere does this extend to all of Fallout’s myriad mutants.
Oh snap. This looks pretty cool – still going to wait for the obligatory GOTY edition, though.