FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS, BUT WEIRD

Mix it up with some randomness.

- Chris Livingston

The great thing about playing a deep and rich RPG like Fallout: New Vegas is that the choices you make can ensure each playthrough will be a little bit different. But despite playing the game a number of times since its release in 2010, I’ve never had a playthrough turn out quite so different as when I installed the NV Randomizer mod.

The mod, as you can probably guess from the name and a quick glance at the images on these pages, randomizes the hell out of Fallout: New Vegas. Which is why within just a couple hours of beginning my game I was already armed with a hammer capable of one-shotting most enemies, a talking coyote had asked me to submit to a credit check, and I’d met an NCR military policeman whose head was a just skull in a fishbowl.

I’d also come across Mr House within an hour of starting the game. The real Mr House. Not the computer screen version, the withered old man on life support version. And not at the Lucky 38 casino as you might expect. I just found him out in the desert. That’s pretty damn random!

HOUSE CALL