A cheap rehash of it's very successful predecessor that is but a shadow of what came before it

Another game bought in a Steam sale just because it was cheap. I hmmed and ahhed about this one for a while when it was on sale because it has a bit of a less solid reputation than the much lauded Fallout 3 that came before it. Some people said they enjoyed it more but a lot more said it was not as good. But then I eventually did buy it in that sale and I can say with certainty now that was a mistake.

This was made using the exact same engine so it looks and feels and behaves pretty much the exact same Fallout 3 did and also uses the same mechanics, menu systems, character building system, inventories, etc. It's all the same. The only differences are:

• Types of weapons (pretty much all small ballistic firearms and no energy weapons)
• The location (desert of Nevada as opposed to Washington D.C.)
• The story (you play a courier who narrowly survives an attempt on your life seeking revenge)

I don't know what it was about this game that rubbed me the wrong way because mechanically, it is identical to the awesome game that came before it but I just did not enjoy it at all. I did not care at all about this nameless courier or the fate of New Vegas. And it just felt like a chore going through all these events that I was uninterested in after enjoying Fallout 3 and all of it's missions so much. It may have been a bit of an uncanny valley situation where it was so similar to something that I liked a lot, but it was not that and one of the main aspects of what made the previous game great (the story) seemed so pointless and inconsequential in this one, it just turned me off.

If you enjoyed Fallout 3, by all means try this one but beware because it seems to be a bit of a Marmite game.