However, the gameplay element just ticks me off. The storytelling, as always, is excellent and the design is wonderful. Dealing with the extreme personalities of the DLC was wearying. One of them is a traumatized surgical victim who can't talk, one is a split personality super-mutant, and the other one is a psychotic man-child ghoul. While the villain, Elijah, is an enjoyable antagonist just about everyone else is just plain strange. The vending machines can convert casino chips into Stimpacks, Holorifle ammunition, and anything else?ДЇinally, I'm not even a big fan of the characters present in the game.

Fallout's universe has power-armor, nuclear-powered everything, and space-travel but I think a lot of the stuff present in the game exceeds the bounds of what is possible in the game's lore. There's also the lore-breaking technology present in the game. It's not exactly wowing me in terms of things to do or enjoyment to be had. I don't expect every game to have as detailed a atmosphere as Fallout 3's Point Lookout DLC but the Sierra Madre is a hotel with a ruined villa around it. The setting of the Sierra Madre Casino is, despite an impressive backstory, not that enjoyable of a location to explore. I don't want to creep around abandoned hotels, I want to heroically fight my way through hordes of bad guys.Дead Money suffers for other reasons as well. I wouldn't have minded one or two of these suggestions but all of them together just stack together in order to make the experience a frustrating slog. I could go on and on but the game goes out of its way to prevent you from being able to play like you would normally during New Vegas. If you are a Guns-heavy character, you'll find almost no ammunition in the add-on and instead be forced to use a Holo-Rifle even if you have no Energy Weapons skill. This is in addition to the fact the game removes all of your equipment at the start of the game and forces you to scavenge from the decidedly thread-bones collection around you. Yes, Dead Money introduces enemies who are effectively immortal. Oh and you have to dismember certain enemies too or they regenerate. Large portions of the map are covered in poison gas. You're linked up to the slave collars of your Followers so if they die, you die as well. There's specialized devices which automatically kill you if you get too close to them.

Certain enemies are invincible, requiring you to sneak past them. It plays, instead, more like Metal Gear Solid than Fallout: New Vegas. Not even challengingly hard, either, just repetitive and boring.ДЇallout: New Vegas is one of my favorite games so it bothers me that they felt the need to drastically change the gameplay style for this add-on. The story was fine and I watched the remainder on Youtube but I couldn't justify playing the game anymore because it was so frustratingly hard.

Please understand this before I proceed with the rest of my review.Дead Money exceeds Splinter Cell: Conviction's laser traps, many old-school Nintendo games, and a number of other games I simply could not bring myself to care enough to finish. It is an excellently written story and the idea behind making a haunted casino in the middle of the Mojave Wasteland is an intriguing one. I would like to state that I am also deeply respectful of the team that created the Dead Money add-on for Fallout: New Vegas and applaud their ambition as well as artistic vision.

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