Fallout: New Vegas Prequel Mod Finally In Beta, 9 Years In Development

The PC gaming community has a really dedicated group of modders who invest years of their lives creating mods for the games they love. This doesn’t get more obvious than the case of the people behind the Fallout: New California mod, which has been nine years in development. Recently, the developers announced that it was finally entering Beta.

Originally planned for Fallout 3, it seems the people behind the project, which started out as Fallout: Project Brazil became has been working on it since 2009. Realizing that the title set in the Capitol Wasteland wasn’t going to cut it, the team decided to adapt it to the one set in the Mojave Desert. In its ModDB page, the project lead Brandan Lee announced that the mod is now stable enough to play.

“So after many years, not only is BETA 200 playable from start to end credits with no major interruptions but it's stable and finally coming together as a finished thing. We still have bugs, and we still have defects, but it's approaching a level of polish you'd expect from a release ready product most of the time,” Lee wrote.

Just to put some context into how impressive this mod is, it contains over 14,000 lines of dialogue, all of which are voiced by 42 actors covering 60 different characters. It’s nowhere near the 65,000 lines of dialogue of New Vegas, but for a fan-made project, this is more than astounding.

More to the point, the modders gave the project 12 endings as well as branching storylines that offer plenty of exciting opportunities for players to explore. There are numerous factions, of course, including the New California Republic, the Enclave, and even Raiders.

As PC Gamer notes, New Vegas is widely considered the best title in the Fallout series, which was actually developed by Obsidian. The developers tried to keep true to the original format of the game, which makes it all the more exciting for fans.