But where New Vegas started weaving and everything together around ten hours into the narrative proper, New California does it from the very first frame all the way to the end.
New California has branches upon branches of narratives all weaving parallel and often intersecting with one another, similar to how New Vegas was structured. Keep in mind, everything within this review is based around one 18ish hour playthrough, with one story path. The biggest one being: What kind of game is Fallout: New California trying to be? It was subtle at first, but as I reached the I-138 – I-15 Beltway, and came across a massive battle between the NCR and Survivalist Raiders that quite literally exploded a long stretch of highway with mortars and vertibirds, questions starting poking at the back of my brain.
It was after leaving the safe confines of Vault 18, and heading west on an extended trek across an almost entirely deserted road towards Union City, that the initially phenomenally designed and written Fallout: New California started to show cracks in the plaster.
