Elvis gets some new gear, the scorpions come for her, and she does some stuff no one cares about.

While looking at this video, a couple of things occurred to us: 1) every single segment of our playthrough has ended with a crash before the one-hour mark, 2) look at how unstable this big-budget game is compared to "budget" titles we recently reviewed, like DEFCON and DogFighter.  Of course, this game is a lot more complex, with a plethora of objects, NPCs with virtual intelligence, random events, and a large, continuous map. But it's been over a week since release, and there are still a lot of technical issues.  The game has a lot of superficial polish, but not much internally.

Also, we at Charlaxian.com were having a debate over whether or not Fallout 3 and New Vegas could be considered indie games.  Although they are big-budget productions, they could technically be considered indie in one respect: they're self-published.  What do you think?

Continue on to part five.

If you missed the earlier segments, start with part one here.