EuroGamer - The latest expansion to the scorched New Vegas landscape is almost the exact opposite of the previous offering. Dead Money was a narrative-driven adventure that took place in a boxed-off pocket universe, carefully set aside from the open spaces of the Mojave Wasteland. Honest Hearts inverts that equation, adding a decently sized free-roaming annex to the Mojave map, but spinning a story that feels thin and underdeveloped.
"Its interesting that so much discourse in the discussion of video games and video game theory tends to separate “gameplay” from “story”- despite there being more and more games coming out that tend to bridge this perceived divide between allegedly disparate elements, the idea that gameplay and narrative must be segregated from one another still tends to be the prevailing thought."
Aside from the canyon and the river, the rest of Honest Hearts was dull and a lot of the characters were pretty straight forward.
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