Fallout: New Vegas

18 cert, Bethesda, PS3 (also PC, Xbox 360)****

This one has a lot to live up to, as Fallout 3is an award- winning favourite with a loyal following. In Fallout: New Vegas, your character (a courier) is shot in the head and left for dead in the wasteland. Rescued and patched up, your main goal is to find out who tried to kill you and why. The RPG has hours of gameplay. You wander the wasteland, carrying out quests, or go straight to New Vegas and the mysterious Mr House. You must tread a fine line between the various factions in New Vegas. Talk to the wrong people or do the wrong thing and your reputation and karma will be affected, as will your ability to complete some quests. The game is slightly marred by several annoyances, including bugs that interrupt gameplay. Graphics, which for the most part are pretty good, suffer from texture pop-through, although some of this has been addressed in an update.