Fallout: New Vegas is a first-person role-playing game for the Xbox 360 set in a post-apocalyptic Nevada. Players assume the role of Courier 6, who, after surviving a treacherous robbery, embarks on a quest to retrieve stolen goods. Throughout the journey, players engage with various factions and explore the intricate socio-political landscape of the wasteland.
In this first-person Western RPG, the player takes on the role of Courier 6, barely surviving after being robbed of their cargo, shot and put into a shallow grave by a New Vegas mob boss. The Courier sets out to track down their robbers and retrieve their cargo, and winds up getting tangled in the complex ideological and socioeconomic web of the many factions and settlements of post-nuclear Nevada.