Fighting can be frenetic and intense, highlighted by various camera effects (e.g., slow motion, blurring, screen shakes) and depictions of dismemberment, blood spray, and blood trails. Players use chainsaws, laser rifles, knives, and sledgehammers to kill enemies.
Missions allow players to explore the Mojave Desert, surrounding casinos, and abandoned facilities other quests involve combat with human and mutant survivors. This is an action role-playing game, set in a post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert, in which players assume the role of a survivor hero who investigates a mystery and performs a series of quests.