Underplayed Gems

Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road (2011)

Fallout: New Vegas - Lonesome Road cover
Developer
Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Genres
Shooter, Role-playing (RPG)
Rating
3.4 of 5, 70 player ratings
Main story
about 53 hours
Completionist
about 95 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

A bleak, storm-battered post-apocalyptic journey weighed down by personal reckoning and harsh terrain.

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About

In Lonesome Road you are contacted by the original Courier Six, a man by the name of Ulysses who refused to deliver the Platinum Chip at the start of Fallout: New Vegas. Ulysses promises the answer as to why he didn’t take the job, but only if you make one last journey into the hurricane-swept canyons of the Divide, a landscape torn apart by earthquakes and violent storms. It's up to you whether you take the job or not.

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