This astounding Fallout New Vegas conversion harkens to the ’90s games

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Fallout New Vegas might just be one of the best RPG games ever made. So what happens when a team of dedicated modders take that foundation and attempt to make their own spin-off from it? You get Fallout Nuevo Mexico, that’s what. With 18 minutes of newly released footage, the colossal Fallout New Vegas mod is looking to add a new story and mechanics, and offer up an experience reminiscent of the original ’90s games, while we all wait for the elusive Fallout 5 release date to come around.

The team behind Fallout Nuevo Mexico – a total conversion set five years after the original 1997 game built in the New Vegas engine – has shown off a staggering 18 minutes of footage, with even more on the way.

Like Fallout London, which was pushed back to avoid Starfield, Fallout Nuevo Mexico is a total conversion for Bethesda’s RPG series, which basically means it uses the skeleton of a previous game to build an entirely new one. That means characters, quests, assets, the world itself, and more are all brand new. Think of it like a big DLC for the recent Fallout games, except with a new player character and mechanics too.

Going back to the Fallout series’ roots, Nuevo Mexico wants to give you an engaging story with two options when starting out: The Convict, or The Dreamer. The convict starts out in a prison run by robots before escaping during a riot, while the dreamer path sees you playing a ghoul in a pre-war military base which gives you a whole new look at one of the core parts of the series. Here ghouls are on a quest to try and find a way to conceive children, tying it right back into the wider lore.

The convict and the dreamer don’t just have different starting points and cultures to deal with; the dreamer, as a ghoul, can