Bethesda: Facties in Fallout: New Vegas zijn niet zo zwart-wit

Pete Hines van ontwikkelaar Bethesda heeft in een interview wat meer laten weten over de werking van facties in Fallout: New Vegas. Zo maakte hij duidelijk dat de twee grote facties in de game niet zo zwart-wit zijn als je zou verwachten. Er is niet altijd een duidelijke goede of slechte aanpak en je zult dus regelmatig in een ‘grijs gebied’ actief zijn tijdens het werken voor de facties. Hines vertelde:

“Without giving too much away, in general you’ve got two main factions in the game fighting for control over the Mojave wasteland, NCR and Caesar’s Legion. We’ve tried to have everything in Fallout: New Vegas not to be so black and white. These are the good guys these are the bad guys, if you join with these guys you are bad, if you join with these guys you are good. It’s not quite that cut and dry. When you talk to folks, things you are doing may feel a bit more evil or feel more good guy, but you can join either side and help their cause in terms of helping them buy more control of the wasteland.”

Verder zijn er ook genoeg kleinere facties in de ‘wasteland’ van New Vegas te vinden. Dit alles met het oog op meer speeltijd en herspeelbaarheid van de game:

“There are a lot of smaller factions in the wasteland that maybe neutral in terms of which way they are leaning. And working through some of those factions and how they act, or the quests that you do for them, or how you resolve things related to those smaller factions as well as those larger faction, you’re kind of helping chart the course of what is going to happen in the Mojave and who is going to win. They may send Rangers out, the badass guys that you see on the box cover are the Rangers, those are the elite of the NCR, and they may send those guys out to take you out. Where you have become such a nuisance that they want to try to get rid of you.

So the wasteland changes itself like that more than anything else, which is, I’m moving around and trying to get into Helios One. But when I get there the NCR is in control, I spent all this time fighting them I can’t just be like ‘hey guys how’s it going’, it is going to make it much more complicated to get into that facility. It is more about that and offers more replayability.”

Nog iets meer dan een maand geduld en dan kunnen we zelf de wereld van Fallout: New Vegas gaan ontdekken.