Fallout: New Vegas.

I'm VERY excited about this one, Fallout 3 is one of my favourite games so I'm delighted to hear about a new game from the Fallout franchise.

Apparently, this one will build on the Fallout 3 engine...And thats where the similarities end.
There are rumours floating around that this game may have NO connections to the other Fallout games.

Personally, I was hoping for a Fallout 3 sequel, but I guess I can manage without one!

Anyway, here is all of the info I could pull from different websites about Fallout: New Vegas.

• The Brotherhood of Steel is back, but the core story revolves around the NCR and Caesar's Legion.
• SPECIAL now has descriptions - eg CHA 10 = Cult Leader, EN 1 = Basically Dead.
• Those descriptions for Strength: 10 - Hercules' Bigger Cousin 9 - Doomsday Pecs 8 - Circus Strongman 7 - Beach Bully 6 - Barrel Chested 5 - Average Joe 4 - Lightweight 3 - Doughy Baby 2 - Beached Jellyfish 1 - Wet Noodle
• You get a Vault 21 jumpsuit from the doc who revives you, along with a pistol and a Pip Boy 3000.
• Weapons can be modified, but modifications only have positive results. The magazine implies you won't need to make a choice between different mods, because they won't be mutually exclusive.
• And a little later the magazine contradicts itself by writing that adding a larger magazine increases reload times.
• Every weapon has a special attack, not just the golf club. It seems that Fore! does not mean groin shots are back for every weapon.
• Guns have different knockback amounts, pistols don't do much, shotguns blast people away.
• There's a town-specific reputation, and Obsidian has 'hinted' that the reputation will impact endings.
• Karma has been overhauled, tracking the factions and ideologies that you agree with.
• Nightkin are back, as blue-skinned Super Mutants who've gone schizophrenic through Stealth Boy use. They attack you while cloaked, deactivating cloak at the last minute to hit you with a club.
• The Tabitha situation can also be resolved by convincing Tabitha to revolt against the other Super Mutants.
• Helios One is not only a power plant, but also the location of the controls of a solar weapon developed by Poseidon Energy which you can employ yourself.
• You can now choose the main character's age.

As you can see, this could be the making of something amazing. More on this one when it happens. This game is like...pre-pre-pre alpha testing (ie they haven't even MADE the game yet), so it's gonna be a long time in waiting, apparently autumn 2010 is the estimated release date. But we know better than to trust the first published release date.