Fallout 4: Nuka World

Critic reviews

• GDGame Debate

  Stuart Thomas · Sep 24, 2016

  8.0

  DLC is a funny thing, really. It's lambasted as a cynical money-grab in many cases, but I feel confident in saying that you'll get your money's worth out of Nuka World. For me, it was the prod I needed to get back into the world of Fallout 4, and wonder why I'd ever really left.

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• CCOGconnected

  Nicholas Plouffe · Sep 09, 2016

  7.0

  I meant it when I said some of the quests were fun and interesting, and that you should get at least 15 hours or so if you do everything. It’s nice finally having a rifle that’s basically an AK-47, and you get a raider companion to add to your collection of followers. Even the set pieces like the rides and monuments are great to look at. Unfortunately for me at least, this is another example of coming close but still being oh so far away. This was a great opportunity Bethesda, and it seems you’ve gone with the safer route yet again.

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• DDestructoid

  Nic Rowen · Sep 04, 2016

  6.0

  Nuka-World is big and impressive and flashy, but just like any theme park, it’s all a facade. Peek behind the curtain and you can see the struts and wires that animate the mascots. In Nuka-World’s case, that’s a scaffolding made of bones and spent magazines. It’s up to you if that’s a park you feel like visiting.

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• UUSGamer

  Kat Bailey · Sep 02, 2016

  6.0

  Nuka-World's fantastic new setting and cool new opportunities belies its overall lack of depth. There's a lot to do in this expansion, but not a lot of it is all that interesting. It could be worse, but it could also be a whole lot better.
• PGPC Gamer

  Christopher Livingston · Aug 30, 2016

  7.6

  Of course, a raider settlement is still a settlement, and while there are some new decorations and shops to add, you’re mostly just replacing settlers with settlers that wear raider gear. My new raider settlement was even attacked by other raiders just minutes after I’d first raided it. So, even being the bad guy, I still have to contend with bad guys. Who knows, maybe I’ll rejoin the Minutemen at some point and re-convert that raider camp. I’m a fickle Overboss.

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• IIGN

  Dan Stapleton · Aug 30, 2016

  7.9

  Fallout 4: Nuka-World has a great setting that’s densely packed with spectacle, surprises, and tough battles (depending on your level), and the ability to conquer settlements back on the main map is a fun novelty, but the lack of meaningful decisions leave it feeling more like an actual theme park ride than a choose-your-own-adventure story. Next to Far Harbor’s intriguing storyline and moral decisions there’s not much nuance here.

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