The controls and graphics aren't as nice as Fallout 4, but the story and pretty much everything not directly related to gameplay is much better. Having come from Fallout 3/4 - the first gang of "bandits" I encountered I immediately just started to murder indiscriminately: that's what you do in Fallout. Turns out, these bandits had their own town and I could have interacted with them in more interesting ways. Fortunately, this was a lesson learned, and the various game factions, no matter how seemingly evil and potentially initially hostile, are actually interactive, and have their own tales to tell. This makes for a much deeper game experience and makes everything feel like it has a *point*. By contrast, everything in Fallout 4 felt like busywork: I built my followers a whole town, but now what? They barely even pretend to be happy about it. Why did I do this thing? In New Vegas, you do a thing for faction X, and it pisses off faction Y. You may be asked to *wipe out* faction Y, and you can do that thing. Or maybe you can broker a deal. Anyhow, tl;dr; if you like to play these games for the immersion, this is the best of the bunch.
Not totally terrible. I played this when I was young, so I have a warm place in my heart for it, but overall it's not nearly as good as the other "lords of the realm" games, including, IMHO, the somewhat maligned LOTR3. The AI is *super* wonky, and there are a great abundance of strategic "hacks" to beat the game without really trying. Like, more than almost any other strategy game I've ever played. Makes the game feel incredibly unbalanced, and I never feel like it's a genuine competition between 8 different races for control of Urak. It's all the other races acting in some bizarre random fashion, and me either pwning them with 0 effort, or randomly having an OP bandit gang pwn me. OTOH, the artifact-accumulation process is pretty satisfying, so if you're into just getting loot and leveling up, you'll enjoy this game.
Can't get my xbox one controllers to work on Linux. Support suggested to use antimicro, which is semi-functional, but coop only functions with controllers for some strange reason. I.e. I can't use coop, which is the whole reason I got the game.