Fallout: New Vegas Preview
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Fallout's game world is built on the concept that the future as imagined during the post-war 1950s in America came true.shortly before a massive nuclear war destroyed civilization as we know it. This was an idyllic view of the future filled with atomic cars, robot servants and wholesome family values. As we know now, it's a far cry from reality, but this space age future filled the pop air waves a half century ago.
This atomic future is important to consider when imagining what New Vegas will be like. Remember, the Las Vegas of today is very different from that of the 1950s. The Bellagio and other swanky casino-hotels did not exist. The glitz and glamour of the main strip simply was not there. In fact, the world famous strip was just being populated with some of the classic hotels during the first boom period in the '40s and '50s with the Sands, Riviera, Fremont, and Flamingo hotels all being built. It's hard to imagine that the futurism of this period would have depicted the massive Luxor pyramid or the New York, New York fake skyline.
More likely than war torn glitz will be a game that features the remnants of a city controlled by mobsters. The city was essentially run by a massive crime syndicate in the '50s and many of the famous hotel-casinos of that time were funded by ill-gotten money. This was a money laundering and tax-evasion outfit on a grand scale.
