Fantastic game that you will want to play over again, despite the numerous, and obvious bugs.
GRAPHICS: 7.5
The graphics are the same as what you saw in Fallout 3 which is both good and bad. They are good because, well, they are decent looking graphics, however this engine is showing its age, and the textures used certainly seem very recycled from F3. Also, New Vegas was not suppose to be directly hit by a bomb which is basically why Vegas is still standing, however it seems just a decayed and destroyed as the rest of the world, it would have been very nice if they made Vegas and the surrounding areas a little more "intact", and less decayed from what they were.
CONTROLS: 9.0
Very easy to understand and use controls, just with you could scroll through your weapons and use a stimpack in game other then being forced to open your pipboy.
GAMEPLAY:9.7 not including the bugs or 8.7 including the bugs.
I am making my overall score without including the bugs, however I will mention them here.
There are many bugs within the game that you will run across, and here are a few I personally encountered and remember: Person showing up and the minimap and name of person coming up without anybody there (happened only once). Sometimes people would be standing on top of tables or chairs after loading an area. Couldn't finish 3 quests because of bugs within the quests. People acting like my companion is right next to me when they are actually waiting for me across the map. All my stuff vanished after stashing a ton of items in a container.
Besides the bugs however this is a very good, free flowing game. It is difficult where you feel it should be difficult and easy in other areas of the game. There is always something the do or somewhere to explore. You never find yourself saying, "Jeeze, I have nothing to do" And you also never say "omfg I have too many quests". The companion wheel is a very nice edition so you don't have to start dialog with the people you are traveling with every time you want to interact with them, and the places that you can visit have a very real, and down-to-earth feeling to them. The number of different factions you can also do things for is fantastic, I only wish there were a bit more reward for helping or hurting a faction besides for the end story.
SOUND: 8.5
The sound overall was actually quite nice in the game, I do wish the guns had some better sounds but the thing that brought the score down the most was the horrible music they chose for this game. A lot of it was very slow and boring music, I swear I just wanted to rest my head on my desk and sleep after listening to, too much of it. F3 didn't have as much music as NV but it was good. I was screaming for Butcher Pete to come hack some people up after awhile, I eventually just turned on Pandora and listened to that most of the time.
STORY: 9.8
The main story is good and it is fun to go after the people that shot you and left you in a ditch to start off the game, but the real story of the game comes out within the world. From both your companions that have there own stories and information about the world, and from the several different factions in general with their own viewpoints that you can help out along with way. And it is very rewarding where at the end of the game you see how what you did and the different choices you made affected the wasteland for years to come. It really makes you want to replay the game and make different choices to see how the outcome will be for different people.
MULTIPLAYER: N/A
OVERALL: 8.9