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Post-apocalyptic madness.
That's the best description of Fallout New Vegas from Bethesda Softworks.
Much like its predecessor Fallout 3, the game captures the feel of a nuclear aftermath.
Fear, helplessness, and desperation hang thick in the atmosphere and danger lurks.
The Nevada landscape, littered with the debris of a fallen age, offers a harsh and cruel setting as you carve your path through a wasteland of distrustful locals, bandits, rival security forces and mutant creatures straight out of the lakes of Chernobyl.
It's all of the fears of a modern age bottled up into one big worst-case-post-nuclear tonic.
The setting takes place just nine years after the events in Fallout 3 and roughly 200 years after the Great War that ended in disaster for the planet. The Mojave Wasteland, a territory including parts of California, Arizona, and Nevada is now a battleground to gain control over the Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, one of the cities that escaped physical devastation during the war and has since been rebuilt in a sort of Mafioso style playground called New Vegas.