Fallout: New Vegas - To Be Unveiled in OXM # 57

...And this time, it's right.  OXM has kicked up a preliminary cover for issue #57 - the one after the one just about to hit news stands - and Fallout: New Vegas will be the cover feature.

On a related note, Blend Games has a wish list for FO: New Vegas.  There are odd items in there but others would certainly be on my list:

A fixed version of V.A.T.S.

As a nod to the series' turn-based roots, Fallout 3 employs a combat mechanic called V.A.T.S.. In the middle of a fight, you're able to pause the action and queue up shots at specific points on an enemy. Rather than complementing the real-time FPS-like combat of the game, V.A.T.S. completely overwhelms it. By the end of the game you'll have enough Action Points to almost exclusively use V.A.T.S. in battle. It's just so much easier and more ammo efficient than real-time combat. V.A.T.S. isn't a bad feature but it needs to be tweaked so that you can only use it a handful of times per fight. Or perhaps it could be altered so that, say, aiming for a headshot is more complicated than simply selecting an enemy head and clicking on it. Maybe put a time limit on selecting your shots or make the damage scale with how quickly you queue them up?