The New West mod remakes Van Buren in Fallout: New Vegas
Pcgamer reports that a total-conversion mod remaking the lost Van Buren as a project for Fallout: New Vegas has released its first teaser and adopted the name The New West. The project previously released a demo under the name Revelation Blues, and the teaser arrived shortly after the climax of Fallout Season 2, when interest in New Vegas is said to be particularly high.
The trailer leans into classic Fallout tones and outlines Van Buren’s plot: a prison run by an AI called Odysseus that the player escapes from in the opening, and a New Plague ravaging the wasteland. Half of the teaser is soundtracked by Johnny Cash singing Wayfaring Stranger.
The team argues there is an advantage to remaking Van Buren as a New Vegas mod because several ideas from Van Buren were reused in New Vegas, including Caesar’s Legion, the Big MT, and Joshua Graham.