
The New California Republic plays a major part in the game's story, being in a three-way struggle amongst the Caesar's Legionslavers, and the mysterious Mr. The story has taken some parts from the Fallout and Fallout 2 stories, and is for the most part unrelated to its predecessor, Fallout 3.įallout: New Vegas takes place in 2281, four years after the events of Fallout 3, thirty-nine years after Fallout 2, one-hundred and twenty years after Fallout and six years before the events of Fallout 4 .

The Hoover Dam supplies free electricity and water to those who control it. Thanks to Robert House, the city of Las Vegas itself wasn't hit as hard as most of the other districts, with most buildings being left intact as a result. Before the Great War was the Resource Wars, during which the United Nations disbanded, a plague rendered the United States paranoid, and Canada was annexed. The game is set in and around a post-apocalyptic retro-futuristic Las Vegas, following the Great War between the U.S., and China as a conventional and nuclear war that occurred on October 23, 2077, and lasted less than two hours, while causing immense damage and destruction. The game spent a total of 18 months in development.

A cinematic teaser trailer and a gameplay trailer were released.

The first official information was released in the February 2010 issue of PC Gamer. Fallout: New Vegas was announced on Apat Bethesda's London showcase.
