I personaly found it interesting to be placed in a underhanded position like that were as your life depends on others. I felt that while it was not a copy/paste fallout rendition I found it very worth while and at a lot of points of it challenging. I would say buy it if the money is in your budget. I think newer fans would enjoy Dead Money just as much if not more than older fans like myself.

Why did you really open a 5 month thread? (Around that long)

From a realism standpoint, I find it hard to believe how such unimaginable technology (vending machines, holograms, Cloud Superweapon) is found at a casino. I would be more convinced if it was meant as a self-sufficient city that Sinclair intended to be the starting point for mankind. It would fit the "begin again" theme and Frederick's ego as being the savior of mankind's future. Instead, it's just a casino with inexplicably high-tech (more than Mr. House or any other place we've seen) security and machinery.

You didn't pay attention to it much, did you?

damnit, i got necrod.

Dead Money is fun, but I am often getting lost.

Dead is as different of a feel to FO: NV as FO3 was to FO 1 & 2. Personally I thought FO2 was (and arguably still is) the best RPG ever made! It was so awesome that I litterally beat the game 30X (yes I kept count) and explored every possible char variation, dialogue, and easter egg there was to find. Hell, I even played the game to the point that I got a hex editor and "tweaked" the game so the timer (yes, FO2 DID have a time limit! It just happened to be a very LONG one) would never end my game but simply revert back to yr1 whenever it hit the end so that I could keep playing.

Does that mean I didn't like FO3 and FO: NV? No. I love em both! But they are vastly different games. FO3, while being a superbly made game, lacked a lot of the funny pop culture references that were scattered throughout the original FOs. FO: NV brought back some of that charm while utilizing the same engine and gameplay mechanics that we saw in FO3. All the while, Dead Money forced us to play the game in a way we were not use to playing, stealthy w/ a heavy dose of melee. Rather than comical, DM is much more serious, all the time. But still fun as heck!

Yes, DM certainly does worth it. And i must say even there was no wasteland, super mutants etc... DM "felt" Fallout. Struggles of the new communities, searching for remmants of the old world... the very consept of Fallout.