Dead Money is a pretty interesting expansion of New Vegas, being the first one of them and a pretty different one compared to the other ones.

Dead Money follows the Courier adventures after listening to a broadcast inviting you to travel to the Sierra Madre Casino, only to be trapped by the so mentioned on the base game; Father Elijah. Only to be a pawn on his scheme of being used to organize a heist on the Sierra Madre Casino, but you are not the only one nor the first one Elijah has trapped into this deadly stunt.

Dead Money, as i said before, it's a pretty interesting spin on the formula of fallout in general, because at the start, the game strips you from your whole inventory and taking a more Survival Horror approach to it's gameplay, evading tanky and hard, finding keys or alternative routes to get to your objectives, having to find weapons, armor, ammo, Sierra Madre Chips to buy supplies from vending machines to assure your survival on the Sierra Madre AND most importantly, B A C K T R A C K I N G.

As i said before, the game normally engage you with tanky enemies who do a lot of damage, generally creating a fight or flight situation where you should decide whether wasting ammo is necessary or not. Sadly, this last only the first portion of the expansion due to the casino being operative in the first hour of the second half and breaking the resource management completely, i made like 8000 chips when the casino was activated and bought like 60 stimpaks and lots of ammo, and that really hurts the experience SO bad.

Fortunately, Dead Money has pretty good characters, a pretty good story and excellent lore. Everything is explained to you in things you find on the wild or trough visual storytelling.

I prefer to not talk much about the story, nor the characters to keep this review spoiler free but to say it in 3 words, play Dead Money. It's probably the second most engaging and fun expansion of this game, even surpassing the base game in every thing it does. It has funny characters, a fun story and lore, an interesting location and a interesting twist on the formula.

To me, 8/10, just because the game breaks it's own rules on the second half because of the casino, it should have been opened as you finished the DLC to help you finish exploring the Sierra Madre.

Also, "It's about letting go", the f@!$ i'm letting go those precious gold bars, f@$& you Elijah.