Thursday, 19 July 2012

DLC #52 - Fallout : New Vegas - Dead Money

Escape Father Elijah's clutches, and take
your revenge.
Dead Money finishes off the story driven New Vegas DLC, and although the trophies aren't exactly challenging, the various game mechanics will make you work for them a little harder than you may enjoy.
                
Out of the 5 trophies, 4 of them are progression based (noticed the pattern yet?), and just require you to beat the game, though you will need to bring out the good, old save game trickery again if you don't wish to play this episode through twice to grab everything on offer.
                                                                 
The story doesn't exactly branch, but there are two different ways to end it, with a trophy granted for each way, so as long as you save before accessing the vault, you can reload your save and perform the opposite action for whichever trophy you need. Thankfully, you won't have to replay any long branches or anything like with previous pieces of DLC and the main game, so you won't feel like you're wasting time.    
                                     
The only other trophy, "Sierra Souvenir Aficionado", comes from collecting 500 Sierre Madre chips, which are scattered around practically everywhere, so as long as you're aware to look out for them, you shouldn't be in any danger of missing them, or not collecting enough of them. 
             
Just a word on the previously mentioned game mechanics, they don't make the story challenging, just a little bit frustrating. The episode is probably the longest out of all the DLC, but only because you'll be scouting out radios to avoid your collar being blown up, or red clouds to avoid being poisoned and killed. It means the pace of the game is broken quite often, and that makes it seem longer than it really is.                                                                    
All in all, you're probably looking at about 6 hours to beat the DLC, providing you make sure you can reload a save before the opening of the vault.

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