I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say that it’s probably not what you’re expecting. How can you resist? It’s nowhere near The Strip, though, but is instead far off in the wasteland. As before, a radio signal reveals a new location on your map, promising the opening of the brand new Sierra Madre casino. That said, given the possible endings of the core game, I’m hard-pressed to come up with a different solution to suggest to them. This is a clunky way of implementing bonus content, and I’m sort of surprised that Obsidian didn’t come up with something more elegant.
Like the early DLC for Fallout 3, you’ll have to use a saved game from before the finale of the core New Vegas storyline. Dead Money continues this trend and does a mostly excellent job of it, making it a worthy successor to its downloadable forebearers. The best of the expansions, like Point Lookout for the last game, presented whole new settings, characters, and stories that were both complete on their own and yet still fell very much a part of the game as a whole. While I enjoyed the central storyline of New Vegas more than that of Fallout 3, I think that both games succeed most in the smaller and mid-sized stories that populate most of their post-nuclear worlds. I played all five of the DLC exapansions for Fallout 3 and enjoyed them quite a bit, so I’ve been looking forward to some DLC for Fallout: New Vegas ever since I completed my conquest of the Mojave Wasteland.
