Accessible by examine a crashed satellite at a drive-in in the southern part of the wasteland, Old World Blues’ map, known as The Big Empty, is a completely separate area and, once completed, can be revisited for mop-up duties any time. Old World Blues bumped my level cap up by five and offered several new perks. The lukewarm reception of the first two packs tempered my expectations a bit, but that actually seemed to work in Old World Blues favor it’s a surprising and solid collection of content.įirst, let’s get a few mechanical facts out of the way. Old World Blues would have skipped right past my net as well had a review code not arrived. Dead Money appeared to focus on aspects of Fallout I didn’t find particularly interesting and Honest Hearts got lost in the shuffle.
While I spent more than seventy hours ravenously consuming the breadth of content offered by Fallout: New Vegas, I didn’t bother picking up either of the first two pieces of downloadable content.
