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In an exclusive first look at Fallout New Vegas, CVG sister mag PSM3 reveals that developer Obsidian has taken dialogue and scripting up a notch in the sequel to Fallout 3.

Lead producer of Fallout New Vegas, Larry Liberty said: "We had to modify the dialogue engine from Fallout 3 to include the types of dialogue and options that we wanted.

"We want real, memorable characters. I think it helps you to remember parts of the world you'd otherwise forget."

As part of its world-exclusive cover feature, PSM3 played an extensive demo of New Vegas. The mag reported that it was 'apparent that Obsidian are much more comfortable behind the keyboard than the team that made Fallout 3 and, before that, Oblivion. The scripting is wittier, the characters more distinct.'
Considering what I thought of Fallout 3's characters, script and writing, it wouldn't take much at all to improve on it. Ahem.

On a less grumpy note, I'm expecting a lot from Obsidian in this area. Writing has always been the strong point of the team's major names. Technical stuff, less so. That's where I expect Bethesda to do their work, since that's their strong area. If this partnership works better than the ones Obsidian have had with Bioware, and the two teams play to their strengths, we could have an incredible game.