The spinoff of a popular first-person RPG series gets handed off to a new studio that’s never made a first-person game before. Envisioned as an expansion, it grows into a full game, though its developer has only 18 months to finish it. It launches with a host of bugs that make it frustrating if not unplayable for large parts of its audience. That might sound like a nightmare, but instead, it ended up as a nearly universally beloved entry in the series, frequently cited as one of the best RPGs of all time.
That’s the story of Fallout: New Vegas in brief. Despite the strange circumstances of its development and the buggy way it came into the world, New Vegas was praised immediately after its release on October 19, 2010, and it’s only grown into more of a classic in the years since. And just in time for its 15th anniversary, it’s also available for free with Amazon Prime this month, in case you’ve somehow slept on it all this time.
