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Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts

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Average score: 65% (based on 24 ratings)

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Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 19 ratings with 1 reviews)

Plenty of indians, but no cowboys

The Good
Honest Hearts expands on the back-story of the Burned Man, a character from the main New Vegas game who's believed to be missing and dead. Instead however, he's moved on and is trying to defend a tribe which is on the verge of being wiped out by a more aggressive clan.

Visually, Honest Hearts is amazing, with the action taking place amid vast canyons and gullies, and with some weather effects (e.g. rain) which aren't encountered in other areas of New Vegas. And there's a few new weapons to play with, too!

However...

The Bad
For all that it's visually interesting, Honest Hearts is perhaps the dullest area to explore in New Vegas. The main story is incredibly cliched, as are the characters you meet - everything revolves around the "humble indians living a simple pre-industrial life" trope. And it's not actually that much fun to explore: the mountains and canyons seriously restrict your freedom to move around the map, and there's not much other than a few tribal villages and a handful of abandoned pre-war buildings.

Overall, I fairly quickly lost interest, completed the main storyline and moved on to Old World Blues...

The Bottom Line
Competently implemented, but fairly dull compared to the rest of New Vegas!

Xbox 360 · by Jamie Mann (17) · 2015

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Critic reviews added by Cavalary, Alsy, jaXen, Alaka, Yearman, Patrick Bregger, lights out party, Jeanne.