Sep 14, 2020 This feature was originally published in Oct 2017, and has been lightly re-edited.
Fallout: New Vegas's branching main questline is one of the strongest in the series but - as in almost every Bethesda-backed RPG - the meat of the game is in its side-quests. When you are not hunting down the mobsters that left you for dead, you can find escorts for casino clientele, bust open a human trafficking ring, or hunt down the rare eggs of critters across the wasteland.
But Come Fly With Me is the pick of the bunch. It compresses the best of New Vegas into a single, wonderful slab. It has memorable characters, tense combat, humour and meaningful choices to make. And, most excitingly, it has a trio of rockets launching into space soundtracked by Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. What more could you want?
It starts when you are directed to the REPCONN test site, a former rocket-testing facility west of Novac town. After mowing down a few enemies outside you are greeted by a gaggle of ghouls that believe they are on a divine quest to 'The Far Beyond', where everything their mutated hearts desire is up for grabs. They plan to reach ghoul heaven by riding in rockets. Problem is, those rockets are in the basement of the test site, where there are also invisible demons with big swords. That's where you come in.
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