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New Vegas starts in 2281, 15 years before the events we see in the television show.

In this game, you play not as a Vault Dweller or a Dweller Descendant, but as Courier 6, a glorified Amazon delivery driver.

And at the top of the game, you get a bullet to the brain.

Miraculously, they survive, and after some recovery, you leave with the goal of getting revenge on whoever put a hole in your head.

But along the way, you get caught up in all the weird politics of the Vegas Strip, a strip that was much more lively than it is in the TV show.

Back then, it was filled with life and people rather than just deathclaws, so the political situation was a little... complicated.

There are four major groups who are constantly fighting for control over New Vegas and the Hoover Dam.

If you're not really into the whole democracy thing, you can choose to side with Caesar's Legion instead, the wannabe Roman centurions who love slavery and hate women.

Or if none of those options are appealing, you can choose to put yourself in charge of everything with the help of an AI program called Yes Man.

The problem is, both of these quests can be done before you have to pick a definitive ending, meaning you can activate the giant robot army and then go completely off course with the Legion or the NCR.

So, not super definitive, but we're not done.

In the show, the NCR is very obviously not doing so hot.

We are.

Well, if this is winning...

I would hate to see what losing looks like.

As far as the Legion goes, it's nowhere near as powerful as we see it in New Vegas.

Plus, we see Caesar's cold dead body splitting what's left of the Legion in half.

If you side with the Legion in the game, you either cure Caesar's brain tumor or you let Caesar die on purpose.

Caesar is dead.

At your hands is crime.