Wasteland 2

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  1. zoom_mctwist
    Oct 8, 2014
    3
    I am shocked. How is it possible that so many people are blind, ignorant or just simply stupid? This is not even an average game yet so many critics and users are glorifying this product. Paid? Possibly...

    First of all I played all PC Fallout games from F1 to F:NV and many other great cRPGs like BG, PT, ID. This product has NOTHING to do with these great titles and should not even be    I am shocked. How is it possible that so many people are blind, ignorant or just simply stupid? This is not even an average game yet so many critics and users are glorifying this product. Paid? Possibly...

    First of all I played all PC Fallout games from F1 to F:NV and many other great cRPGs like BG, PT, ID.
    This product has NOTHING to do with these great titles and should not even be kept on the same shelf.

    You give this game 10? It is ok, if this is the first game you have played in your life.

    I don't want to repeat the same critical sentences that many bright users wrote before, so I decided to make pros and cons list to justify score I gave.

    Pros:
    - good cutscenes
    - nice 2D graphics (arts)
    - 1st hour of the game
    - bearable music

    Cons:
    - terrible combat
    - no tactics, just lazy, inane and extremly boring shooter
    - pointless skills
    - horrible graphics and animations
    - boring and repeatable missions
    - weak plot
    - empty world
    - many bugs
    - stupid enemies
    - no significant choices in dialogues
    - not enough ammo
    - poinless sniper profession
    - finding/ collecting loot from boxes takes 30% of the game
    - did I say booooring?

    Played it for 8 hours, uninstalled, came back to recent Divinity and Path of Exile.
    If you want to get more details read yellow and red user reviews. This is weak game so please don't even compare it with legendary F1, F2 or even FT:BoS. Just hope that upcoming Torment will be a way better.    … Expand
  2. haplok
    Oct 8, 2014
    6
    Yeah, actually it could be a 7/10, but the second half is very buggy.

    Well, first the good: I like the graphics. Weapon models in particular are nice. Though kill animations could be more varied/weapon dependant. You get to control 7 characters. It has turn-based combat with a cool Combat Initiative system. Oh and it has a GREAT atmosphere. Not so good: Its full of plotholes.    Yeah, actually it could be a 7/10, but the second half is very buggy.

    Well, first the good:
    I like the graphics. Weapon models in particular are nice. Though kill animations could be more varied/weapon dependant.
    You get to control 7 characters. It has turn-based combat with a cool Combat Initiative system.
    Oh and it has a GREAT atmosphere.

    Not so good:
    Its full of plotholes. Like if Rangers spent the last 15 years strenghtening their ranks and fortifying their position, how could they NOT secure their nearby respective water and food supply towns.
    Combat system is kinda simplistic. Flanking doesn't work well, as cover provides full 180 degree frontal protection. And you get the cover accuracy bonus even against enemies behind you... Ranged enemies run into melee range and want to hug you. You can't target and disable different body parts (there's only "headshot", which cannot score a critical hit). The critical hit system is pretty basic. Weapon ranges are pretty pathetic, especially for sniper rifles.
    There are no Perks/Talents/Feats!
    There are many redundant skills, such as Field Medic and Surgeon.

    The BAD:
    The attributes are weak, have very little impact on gameplay. The difference between 1 and 10 in Coordination or Luck attributes provides less to-hit bonus/critical chance then 1-2 weapon skill ranks.
    Skills are entirely severed from the attributes and function in a void. A Strenght 1 character will be just as good in the "Brute Force" skill, as a Str 10 body-builder. The skillschecks get progressively tougher in this game (regardless of what the skillcheck concern), only maximum skill ranks count. Which means that you designate some skills to each character in the start andalways onlyraise these skills. Level ups are monotonous, as you only get some hp and a few skill points which may or may not be enough to raise one of your chosen skills. It could just as well be automatic.
    The loor is entirely randomized. It seems in Arizona it was raining booby-trapped safes and boxes with master locks, as they are scattered everywhere, regardless if their location makes sense or not. Unfortunately they contain mostly useless, random junk.
    Armor is useless. The system is pathetic and actually it may be harmfull in the second half of the game.    … Expand
  3. Typhoon2142
    Oct 8, 2014
    8
    What the heck is wrong with most people? They either rate a ten because they have no idea what they are doing or they rate it zero because they found a bug or because the game wont run on their ancient, broken, virus-infected computers. Some people don't even own the game, let alone played it, yet they write reviews like a champion.

    They either praise the game as the new Jesus or they    What the heck is wrong with most people? They either rate a ten because they have no idea what they are doing or they rate it zero because they found a bug or because the game wont run on their ancient, broken, virus-infected computers. Some people don't even own the game, let alone played it, yet they write reviews like a champion.

    They either praise the game as the new Jesus or they condemn it to be the worst scam ever. This is going on all over metacritic, not just for this game. How can any sane person, who is not retarded and older than 12, rate this game zero or ten? This is not how rating works and defeats the purpose of this website. Roughly half of the 700 reviews here are written by trolls. You people are effectively making this site completely useless - but hey, it's what trolls do... In order to push their own ego, they destroy working systems that decent people created. That goes for all aspects of life, not just gaming and trolls are everywhere, making this planet a bad place to live on. Congratulations.

    Wasteland 2 is not a better Fallout 3, but it's a solid, enthralling, postapocalyptic RPG with nice visuals and audio. From a technical point of view, it could use some improvements, but the story and gameplay make up for that. The game is not for the casual Xbox gamer, but for the mature, hardcore gaming enthusiasts who are into turn based combat.

    It is not the best game ever, as those 10/10 losers say, but it's also not the worst game of all times, like the 0/10 trolls claim. You people think about what you're doing, because if you keep this up, you'll break yet another system that was working before. It doesn't help anyone. When this website goes down because decent people stop using it, your agenda goes with it.    … Expand
  4. schinderhannes
    Oct 8, 2014
    0
    wasteland 2 is a massive disappointment, imho this game is just a copy pasta of random elements of great games(fallout 1 and 2, tactics) all mashed up in one package to appeal to hardcore fans , and let me tell you that a mediocre package it is.

    Theres no love whatsoever on the making of this game. stat system is a joke, there isnt any synergy between skills and stats+ dump stats +    wasteland 2 is a massive disappointment, imho this game is just a copy pasta of random elements of great games(fallout 1 and 2, tactics) all mashed up in one package to appeal to hardcore fans , and let me tell you that a mediocre package it is.

    Theres no love whatsoever on the making of this game. stat system is a joke, there isnt any synergy between skills and stats+ dump stats + Huge ammount of skills bloat (lockpiking and safecracking seriously ? ). hell the game should be called safebox simulator 2014, because you will be picking locks and safes 20% of your time and each time you use the skills you have to wait 3-4 seconds to complete the skillcheck. and then guess what? every single safe or box, only have some crappy random loot junk.

    The combat is a bad joke, one of whe worst AI i ever seen, it just consists on killing the enemy has fast has you can,thats all....and let me tell you will be in combat alot, the amount of trash combat is way to much. i just want to finish is fast, thats how bad it is.

    Story is kinda ok, sometimes there are actually some cool dialogues and npcs but its a shame that 95% of the npcs are just fillers whitout personality whatsoever.    … Expand
  5. amock23
    Oct 7, 2014
    4
    First of all this is my 1st review on this site, and was determined to write it by the let down i've had with this game.
    Secondly, my mistake was (the same like someone else's here) that i got the game after reading all the positive reviews from overhyped rpg noobs and/or casuals. Everyone was comparing it to Fallout 1 and 2 and how great it was in comparison. I now srsly doubt 50% of    First of all this is my 1st review on this site, and was determined to write it by the let down i've had with this game.
    Secondly, my mistake was (the same like someone else's here) that i got the game after reading all the positive reviews from overhyped rpg noobs and/or casuals. Everyone was comparing it to Fallout 1 and 2 and how great it was in comparison. I now srsly doubt 50% of those ppl played those games. Prolly just saw some pictures or heard stories.

    Character customization and combat

    As you start you have to make a 4 man/woman squad and customize their talents as to what you'd might expect to find in the wasteland. So i did. The attributes are mostly a joke, as someone else here correctly noted, intelligence goes a long way as you lvl and pour points in whatever skills you want, coordination for ranged, speed for ap, and that's all you need. Tried making a blunt melee guy, ended up with a useless walking target that couldn't hit for **** and constantly ended up in the line of friendly fire, so i started again with an all ranged crew that chewed up everything. The skills are not influenced at all by the attributes, they just stack - say you want to max lvl blunt weapons, you could have str 1, or wanted to max lvl all speech skills, you could have charisma 1 and wouldn't matter.
    Also i wanted a bad ass on my team so i've put 4 skill (out of 12) points in hardass (speech) and brute force, big mistake as after 2 mins ingame my party got joined by a follower with 3 hardass (6 sk.p.) and 4 brute force (8 sk.p), and lvl 14 (if i remem correctly), of course u can refuse, but why would you do that?
    My main guy used an assault rifle bought before the 2nd mission(s), that could burst fire 3 bullets, and outdpsed everything, heavy weapons, sniper rifles, all of them. Major OP. So why would i want snipers on my crew (that fire one bullet and do half the dps my rifle guys did), when even their range is not that much bigger?
    Also throwable items such as grenades or dynamite have no prerequisites, you can throw better than a pro basketball player with no chance to hit modifier or anything. point-click-throw-boom-baddie-killed.
    Melee guys were mostly useless, could barely get to hit, and when they did hit the dmg was pathetic with weapons, as opposed to fists with brass knuckles which hit a lot harder, at a lower lvl skill, even more than pistols.
    If u draw first blood in a fight, the npcs will charge at you even tho they're ranged. Excepting the snipers, they took cover.
    No strategic shots (bodyparts), just "headshot" with major penalties that didn't make it viable.
    Weapon with 1% jam chance, jams constantly. Revolver jams more than semiautomatic :|
    Bleeding at first is critical, you can easily die from it if you don't have a surgeon on your team or enough med kits to outheal it, but as you advance and have +100 HP it's useless. On my 2nd run on ranger diff, i used the surgeon ability once.

    Story and exploration

    As for exploration the game tries to give you the impression of choice, i've put in about 20 hours, started the game twice, and it's all linear. 1st thing i noticed when i tried to explore was that i was "fenced" by "radiation clouds" on the map and i couldn't go anywhere except to where i was supposed to go. the "random" encounters on the map were all the same raiders or lizards, in the same instances over and over. finaly got some "Rad suits" from main story line and could navigate the map but not everywhere as rad clouds do higher dmg in zones you're not supposed to go yet, so thanks for nothing.
    As far as i got not one npc was memorable enough to remember it's name. Just one doctor that had a dubbed voice stood out for cursing at me for not saving her, and that's all.
    They boast a "you can resolve a quest in anyway you want"- riiiiiiiiiiight!! major bull****, you do it how they imagined you could do it (and sorry to say they lacked imagination on this department).
    You're pretty much an errand boy, go here, go there, good boy!

    In conclusion

    It lacks in every department in comparison with the classics Fallout 1 and 2, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, etc. It's weak and doesn't measure up to it's inspirations.
    Don't get fooled by the kiss ass' that rated it in the stars, it's at best a mediocre game, rated high by nostalgia fanboys and noobs/casual "rpg"-ers. I'm giving it a 4 because all the false advertising.    … Expand
  6. deadsanta
    Oct 7, 2014
    10
    Wasteland 2 is the sequel of the 1980's CRPG by Brian Fargo and the Fallout guys back when they all worked for EA. While it is not Fallout 3, like some folks were hoping for (and which generates a lot of baseless hate imo) it's a solid sequel to a classic RPG. Turn based isometric with decent if not overwhelming graphics and an attribute/skill system that again, takes more from WastelandWasteland 2 is the sequel of the 1980's CRPG by Brian Fargo and the Fallout guys back when they all worked for EA. While it is not Fallout 3, like some folks were hoping for (and which generates a lot of baseless hate imo) it's a solid sequel to a classic RPG. Turn based isometric with decent if not overwhelming graphics and an attribute/skill system that again, takes more from Wasteland than it does from Fallout (which I'm guessing would get them sued, since they don't have any rights to Fallout games).

    The plot is branching, with areas that one playthrough will not allow you to enter, based on your choices, and your actions have meaningful storyline driven consequences, albeit rather buggy at the moment. Combat is turn based and totally RPG-style (dice rule) but solidly tactical, with the caveat that like in almost every other strategy game, the AI can be rather stupid at times.

    Honestly, the zero scores here are utterly absurd, I'd normally give this game an 8-9, with points off for bugs and some rush finish lack-of-polish, but I'm bumping it to 10 just because the haters piled on too thick for an indie title. Yes, this is an indie title, a $3m kickstart does not put it into AAA territory, whose games run in the $50m range nowadays. You get what you pay for, and what you get is a sweet TBRPG throwback game.    … Expand
  7. lightzy
    Oct 7, 2014
    10
    Safe to say that now, post release, this is the new fallout 2.

    Except better in every possible way, and insanely long for a video game. Took me about 68 hours to complete, if that means anything, and I didn't even do every area in the game. Also incredibly well written, beautiful graphics, detailed in the most extreme way that a good RPG is detailed (descriptions for every single item,    Safe to say that now, post release, this is the new fallout 2.

    Except better in every possible way, and insanely long for a video game. Took me about 68 hours to complete, if that means anything, and I didn't even do every area in the game.
    Also incredibly well written, beautiful graphics, detailed in the most extreme way that a good RPG is detailed (descriptions for every single item, loads of text and flavor, great feel that draws you into the game world. A classic in every sense of the word.

    Crappy voice-overs but that's pretty much the only negative point. But seeing as there aren't that many, no biggie.

    In one word: AMAZEMENT!

    Ignore the negative reviews, they're from stupid idiots who rated the pre-release without understanding they bought a pre-release.    … Expand
  8. Gnawer
    Oct 7, 2014
    4
    There's a lot of talk how this game very specifically and successfully targets fans of the original Fallouts and Wasteland - I'm 100% such a fan. Played all possible Fallouts multiple times, etc. Expected a lot of this game. Couldn't play it. Graphics are too dark and you can't see anything behind huge walls and stuff. Stupid 3d makes everything move and rotate so much, I literally have aThere's a lot of talk how this game very specifically and successfully targets fans of the original Fallouts and Wasteland - I'm 100% such a fan. Played all possible Fallouts multiple times, etc. Expected a lot of this game. Couldn't play it. Graphics are too dark and you can't see anything behind huge walls and stuff. Stupid 3d makes everything move and rotate so much, I literally have a headache from it. Ok I get it, it's 2014, 3d rules, but I'd seriously prefer 2d isometric over this blurry garbage. Combat feels really weird: I get it that at the beginning characters supposed to suck, but must they suck so much? I guess dialogues are sort of good. Also the game crashes on me all the time. Ok, I run windows XP, but still. So, I'm not saying the game is a complete waste of time, but for me it didn't work.… Expand
  9. Spajwer
    Oct 7, 2014
    1
    For me? Starting with 4 characters? i Don't like that. World is empty, boring, graphics is bad and fights are slow and also boring. I played it almost 1 hour and after that sold it... big whoop for nothing...
  10. fckwasteland2
    Oct 6, 2014
    0
    Not even worth pirating. Really.

    Very dark, as in you can't see a god damned thing because the guy making it obviously used a screen that displays in braille. very funny as in how the front of the game doesn't connect to the back of the game in any way, 50% of the stats in the game don't do anything. Like at all. Very mature, as in the kind of maturity you'd only get from many    Not even worth pirating. Really.

    Very dark, as in you can't see a god damned thing because the guy making it obviously used a screen that displays in braille.

    very funny as in how the front of the game doesn't connect to the back of the game in any way, 50% of the stats in the game don't do anything. Like at all.

    Very mature, as in the kind of maturity you'd only get from many many years of fungal rot.

    Its big slow, empty, uses 20gb of your hard drive not because it needs to but because its 2014 so why the **** not?

    I've been gaming since 1994. I bought fallout 2 when it launched. This means that i understand it had bad graphics, but this wasn't because it was supposed to look old and **** it was because it was ALL THAT THEY COULD MANAGE, so if this game is supposed to be similar to fallout this is because fallout was based on wasteland. This leads me to conclude that fallout 1 and 2 were a complete revolution in comparison with wasteland 1. The good review of this game seems to be due to the fact that people paid for it in advance and were supplied with some very very thick rose tinted spectacles.

    Being someone whose head is up their own ass at the majority of times i can recognize when a game and it's white knight community are defending something. The positive ratings on this game are like the cells surrounding a swollen abscess, they are there to pretend to the rest of the body that a small distance away there is something pus filled and disgusting and that nothing has gone wrong and that it is safe to keep doing what you're currently doing.

    I was trying to like it but then one of the characters literally shouted ' you've got some balls going up against someone who's surname is death' This is when i understood that the 80s had come back, with all their low quality corny rubbish and that about 503 man-children from the 80s who never grew up had gone all peter pan on the game's user score. Seriously Fargo, we've all ****ing grown up since the 80s. I was born in 1985 and we don't need a game that has you sucking your own dick in the game dialogue just so you can score a few dollars off the people from the 80s who used to enjoy your donkey shows. The donkey used to dance, and you decided to make the show more extreme to the max and move it to Tijuana

    Just don't even ****ing download it, get Divinity original sin instead, its just as poorly made in some respects but at least the music is nice and the visuals are impressive in some cases. Its made by people who don't look an excel spreadsheet and thing, god damn those are some artistically placed rectangles!!!! Oh yeah and the characters in divinity have actual personalities and aren't just Dolf Lundgren ****ing Sylvester Stallone while Beverly-Hills cop's theme song plays in the background to the sounds of Iran and Iraq punching each other in the balls.

    Its a sad ****ing day when you'd rather play Call of Duty 17: The liberation of Benjamin the greenback than something that's supposed to be a fallout game.    … Expand
  11. Emrah
    Oct 6, 2014
    6
    This is definitely not a Fallout game that many of us have been waiting for. If you're a fan of Fallout 1 and 2, do not believe the polygon quote that you see on Steam. "I loved the old Fallout 1 and 2, Wasteland 2 makes me feel like I never stopped playing".

    The game is essentially a glorified Fallout tactics, with very minor RPG elements tossed it. Now if you ignore that, the game    This is definitely not a Fallout game that many of us have been waiting for. If you're a fan of Fallout 1 and 2, do not believe the polygon quote that you see on Steam. "I loved the old Fallout 1 and 2, Wasteland 2 makes me feel like I never stopped playing".

    The game is essentially a glorified Fallout tactics, with very minor RPG elements tossed it.

    Now if you ignore that, the game itself isn't... that bad, but it's certainly not an amazing game either.    … Expand
  12. wafelkill
    Oct 6, 2014
    10
    Just AMAZING!
    In age of brain dead games(push this button to go foward) its ablolute GEM!
    If you like to think when you playing and you like turn base RPG...go for it :]
    Best TB RPG since Front Mission 3!
  13. Draegnar
    Oct 6, 2014
    6
    Wasteland 2 could be a great game but right now (October 6, 2014) it is rigged with too many bugs and balancing issues. IMHO, this games was not ready for full release.

    Pros: - The post-apocalyptic feeling is great. - Dialogues and story are well written. - The huge amount of references and nods to the 80s is rather enjoyable. - Old-school cRPG are so rare nowadays and Wasteland 1    Wasteland 2 could be a great game but right now (October 6, 2014) it is rigged with too many bugs and balancing issues. IMHO, this games was not ready for full release.

    Pros:
    - The post-apocalyptic feeling is great.
    - Dialogues and story are well written.
    - The huge amount of references and nods to the 80s is rather enjoyable.
    - Old-school cRPG are so rare nowadays and Wasteland 1 was always one of my favourite.

    Cons;
    - So many fights and so little strategy involved, enemy AI is meh...
    - Lack of meaningful choices: open-ended quests are uncommon and mostly leads to flavor-only consequences.
    - A lot of skills feel redundant and artificial (there's 5 different skills for unlocking things, 3 for persuasive dialog,...).
    - Current attributes balance promotes character builds with 2 to 4 dump stats.
    - Ranged weapon balance is terrible: Assault rifles are OP, Sniper and SMG are OK, there's only one good Energy weapon in the entire game, the rest is garbage.
    - There's too much randomness in loot and skill success, savescumming will lead you anywhere.
    - UI is clunky and not user-friendly, too much wasted time in skill usage delays,...
    - Poor optimisation. For example, any activated alarm makes the game unplayable because of lag.
    - After first patch, there's still lots of bugged quests, combat related and inventory management issues (clicking dragging an item fail 2 times out of 3),...

    The most serious issues of Wasteland 2 comes from really bad design choices (randomness, artificial skills, balancing issues,...). This game seriously needs a huge re-balancing patch (or modding tools) to live up to its expectations.    … Expand
  14. Raskol
    Oct 6, 2014
    10
    I problably exagerate with this grade, this game was ruthless with me, got destroyed and reloaded so many times. For a long time a game made me think about what I do and gradualy I got in to the story and once your hocked you cant get out. Altough there is alot lacking in some areas, I am hopefoul I'll see more improvements in the future. This game is worth the money and hope more will getI problably exagerate with this grade, this game was ruthless with me, got destroyed and reloaded so many times. For a long time a game made me think about what I do and gradualy I got in to the story and once your hocked you cant get out. Altough there is alot lacking in some areas, I am hopefoul I'll see more improvements in the future. This game is worth the money and hope more will get back to the scene soon. I thank all the Kickstarter supporters for giving us this game. This is a must have for RPG gammers enjoy the game, please buy it and spread the word.… Expand
  15. weazz1980
    Oct 6, 2014
    9
    For the anxious people: If you liked Fallout 1 and 2 you will probably also like Wasteland 2. Now in detail: First thing to say: The graphics are appropiate for this game. They win no trophy, but they are good enough to transport the atmosphere of the harsh wastelands. It reminds of Fallout 2 but in 3D.

    I played for about 20 hours now and at around the first quarter of the story. I    For the anxious people: If you liked Fallout 1 and 2 you will probably also like Wasteland 2. Now in detail: First thing to say: The graphics are appropiate for this game. They win no trophy, but they are good enough to transport the atmosphere of the harsh wastelands. It reminds of Fallout 2 but in 3D.

    I played for about 20 hours now and at around the first quarter of the story. I picked a wide variety of skills for my party to be prepared for almost every situation, that's how i play such games. Later in the game i specialize my group when i have learned which skills and weapons are usefull. For the people who say: The attribute/skillsystem is **** sorry, but you have to read! Every skill and attribute is exactly described. And solely because other games need strenght for a meele charakter, doesn't mean that every game have to do it that way. Again, just read the description of the attributes.

    So for now my party is doing very well. The quests are very diversified and interresting. The locations are detailed and immersive. But for the hole experience you have to read a lot of text. All characters and locations you find have very well written descriptions and information for the plot or some quests. You have to think for yourself, there are no questmarkers or such things. And there are a lot of decisions to make, sometimes with an unexpected outcome. So the world and the story so far are great and i'm really enjoing it right now.

    The combat system pretty much is the same as it was in Fallout 2. You have cover, different firing modes, different calibers etc... this is important, because bigger bulltes punches better trough tough armor than smaller ones. The only feature i'm missing compared to Fallout 2 is to target specific bodyparts. But ok, no major gamebreaker.

    So in the end Wasteland 2 is a great game for me and i give it a solid 9/10.

    For the 0/10 people... seriously?    … Expand
  16. binmaze
    Oct 5, 2014
    6
    A mixed bag you got here. I like "Choose and take the consequences." aspect of quests.
    I really do. It is one of the best in that aspect.
    But other than that, it is not up to expectations. Most of all, the combat is way too boring. Can you believe it? It is no better than the text combat of original Wasteland which was made nearly 30 years ago. No, it's worse, because it is    A mixed bag you got here. I like "Choose and take the consequences." aspect of quests.
    I really do. It is one of the best in that aspect.

    But other than that, it is not up to expectations.

    Most of all, the combat is way too boring. Can you believe it? It is no better than the text combat of original Wasteland which was made nearly 30 years ago.

    No, it's worse, because it is slower.
    What is worse, you have to repeat it endlessly.

    And the skills.
    There are bunch of pointless skills and it requires you to use it over and over and over and over and over and over again. Oh god, I cannot overemphasize how boring it is.

    And there is no creativity of what so ever in using skill.
    Just a sickening amount of grinding.

    You may think it's not really a problem. But it is.
    It takes too much time just to pick a lock on a random box, or to open a door.

    If it had been an adventure game(combats and skills stripped off), it would have been better.
    But as an RPG, it is not a masterpiece they promised.
    It is just an ok game.    … Expand
  17. silverseed
    Oct 5, 2014
    0
    dont believe the fanboy 10/10 ratings around here, the game is a mess,Graphics wise the game looks terribad and with awful perfomance.(unity engine...)

    theres are alot of bugs and unfinished elements. lategame is completely broken in areas like hollywood/La , 50% of the quests are bugged, broken NPC quest triggers/scripts etc. Gameplay wise, the "tactical" combat is absolutly    dont believe the fanboy 10/10 ratings around here, the game is a mess,Graphics wise the game looks terribad and with awful perfomance.(unity engine...)

    theres are alot of bugs and unfinished elements. lategame is completely broken in areas like hollywood/La , 50% of the quests are bugged, broken NPC quest triggers/scripts etc.

    Gameplay wise, the "tactical" combat is absolutly dreadful, enemies like heavy gunners and other enemies run from the far side of the map, ignoring cover, and then fire one square away from you. every single encounter plays the same, every single enemie rushs to your positions.

    wasteland 2 is 15% npc interaction and story and 85% trash/mob combat,without any "tactics" its just mind numbing bad! How can anyone compare fallout 1/2 to this mediocre game    … Expand
  18. deettis
    Oct 4, 2014
    6
    Come on people, be honest with your reviews and try to hold on to your objectivity even if you're a kickstarter backer. I LOVE old school RPGs and I'm very excited that someone skilled is bringing them back. However, if an old school RPG, "a spiritual successor" of many games, is a simplified version of a game relesed FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, something has gone very, very wrong.

    The combat    Come on people, be honest with your reviews and try to hold on to your objectivity even if you're a kickstarter backer. I LOVE old school RPGs and I'm very excited that someone skilled is bringing them back. However, if an old school RPG, "a spiritual successor" of many games, is a simplified version of a game relesed FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, something has gone very, very wrong.

    The combat system of WL2 has almost no tactical aspects in it and the rules and physics of a gunfight have are not from this world. The cover system was a nice try to bring some tactics in to the game, but the logic of it is just silly.

    I wish it all had gone perfectly and we could've witnessed a cinderella story of gaming, but it did not go that well in all honesty. I'm sorry to say that this game is far to simplified and stupid for me to keep my interest in it and it only made me more hungry for a good turn based RPG.

    Please, my fellow gamers, be honest with your reviews, you're doing a disservice for the devs and to our whole community by praising a mediocre game. Wasteland 2 is a 10? Seriously? What is the far more versatile FO2 then, a 12?    … Expand
  19. konvice
    Oct 2, 2014
    10
    I am really dissapointed many people dont rate the game but
    their own expectations! This is pure Fact!! Each one who giving a low rating says: I expected more!!! but the game not bad.
  20. Cinnamoan
    Oct 2, 2014
    4
    if you're a true fan of post-apocalyptic games or rpg like this, don't believe on others high score reviews. obviously, they are paid or whatever. on the first hour of my experience, i was very excited, but after a while im just trying to convince myself this is a great game. but, something is really wrong:

    1. graphics? - yes, not a big deal for some, but it is 2014! it's a 3d game! and    if you're a true fan of post-apocalyptic games or rpg like this, don't believe on others high score reviews. obviously, they are paid or whatever. on the first hour of my experience, i was very excited, but after a while im just trying to convince myself this is a great game. but, something is really wrong:

    1. graphics? - yes, not a big deal for some, but it is 2014! it's a 3d game! and it's an after-over-20-years sequel! High-end android games like dungeon hunter 4 or nova are more good on visuals.

    2. battle? - having a range weapon (guns) is not an advantage even with far position melee enemies. in just 1 turn, they can move freely from far position just right in front of your team waiting for their next turn for an in-your-face smash! things like walls, boxes,etc. are not even a factor. you need to select to hide/cover up to use this things for added evasion. i created 1 char as a sniper. 1st time use of sniper rifle, it jammed! bare hands are useless. enemies has high evasion even on an early level. i suggest you build your main attackers as melee type. more reliable. hassle overall!

    3. gears? - no changing of appearance with new armors. still the same!

    4. exploration? - i dont understand the use of crouching. yes, you can crouch, but try to move, walk/run, you're back to standing position again. i set one of my team as a leader + perception for exploration. the fun part is you can examine things far (far from dota's sniper max attack range) from the position of your chars as long as you can see it on your screen. and, no stealth mode!

    5. others? - 49.99$ dlc on the game release.is it reasonable?

    at least:
    game conversations are good.
    cutscenes are good - true humans/actors
    story is good i think.

    not even close to divinity:os' over all quality considering its price.

    i don't know... just dissapointed. try it for yourselves...    … Expand
  21. riddim
    Oct 2, 2014
    0
    If not for nostalgia, this game would not be rated half as highly.

    - The Unity engine overhead is huge, make this a slow, bloated game to run. - The game balance is awful, with half the stats being ignorable. - The weapon balance is terrible, with assault rifles being far superior to any other weapon options. - The fighting tactics sit in a no-man's land where there are not enough    If not for nostalgia, this game would not be rated half as highly.

    - The Unity engine overhead is huge, make this a slow, bloated game to run.
    - The game balance is awful, with half the stats being ignorable.
    - The weapon balance is terrible, with assault rifles being far superior to any other weapon options.
    - The fighting tactics sit in a no-man's land where there are not enough options to keep it interesting, but there is too much tedious faffing about to get through quickly.
    - Some zones are so clearly better developed, in terms of graphics and content, due to their use in advanced promos (eg Ag Centre), whilst other lack sufficient detail to either carry the ambiance or even engage the story

    I have been eagerly waiting since the kickstarter to play the full version, but it is a terrible disappointment. If you want the burst of nostalgia for turn-based, group RPG play, then it will scratch an itch, but on its own merits, Wasteland 2 is a weak offer.    … Expand
  22. mweagle
    Oct 2, 2014
    7
    I can be very short about this one.

    The good: - Nice tactical combat with multiple characters that allows for a very versatile gameplay. - A lot of variety in the maps. - Solid quests, if you excluse some in the first half of the game. - Loads of stuff in the game. - Some nice humor and references in the game. - Nice RPG elements and the game gives you a lot of freedom to build    I can be very short about this one.

    The good:
    - Nice tactical combat with multiple characters that allows for a very versatile gameplay.
    - A lot of variety in the maps.
    - Solid quests, if you excluse some in the first half of the game.
    - Loads of stuff in the game.
    - Some nice humor and references in the game.
    - Nice RPG elements and the game gives you a lot of freedom to build and develop your characters.
    - No quests-a-la-follow-the-marker-marker-marker-marker.

    The bad:
    - Bugs bugs bugs bugs.
    - 1% Jam rate on a HMG and it still jams every gunfight...
    - Bad introduction to the game, nothing is explained so you are destined to make some wrong character creation errors. Although the game lets you figure stuff out yourself, some info about some crucial things (gameplay/gamemechanic wise)would be nice.
    - Every single thing is percentage/stat based. Sure, you can get 100%, but every single thing, from combat to lockpicking, to breaking walls to hacking computers is chance-based, with the occasion of a critical failure, making the objective perma-useless. Very annoying and a lot of quick-loading because of this. Should not be necessary.    … Expand
  23. pypes
    Oct 2, 2014
    8
    Want to open every door? loot every chest? Finish every mission, save every NPC, and skip half the dialog?

    Tough luck. If you want an immersive adventure game that rewards good decisions, punishes bad ones, and will make you wish you saved your game that little bit more often then this is what your looking for. Think fallout 2 with a free-roaming camera and oodles of content. Best    Want to open every door? loot every chest? Finish every mission, save every NPC, and skip half the dialog?

    Tough luck.

    If you want an immersive adventure game that rewards good decisions, punishes bad ones, and will make you wish you saved your game that little bit more often then this is what your looking for. Think fallout 2 with a free-roaming camera and oodles of content. Best played with notepad handy.

    Points deducted for clunky / unresponsive interface and occasionally annoying camera, but otherwise a masterpiece.    … Expand
  24. belfong
    Oct 2, 2014
    8
    Gotta love the writing and story. Interface is just too quirky for my taste. Confusing left or right click and multiple clicks to get something done. The RND seemed a bit unbalance. 75% chance to hit always result in misses for the melee guy Big Bert. It's kinda frustrating! And enemy seemed to have extremely high action point and can move from one end of the screen to the other in justGotta love the writing and story. Interface is just too quirky for my taste. Confusing left or right click and multiple clicks to get something done. The RND seemed a bit unbalance. 75% chance to hit always result in misses for the melee guy Big Bert. It's kinda frustrating! And enemy seemed to have extremely high action point and can move from one end of the screen to the other in just one turn. Other than that, it is the Fallout I know and love, and that is enough for me to bear a lot of its quirkiness!… Expand
  25. moseao
    Oct 1, 2014
    8
    I'm not even going to bother trying to avoid comparing it to the original Fallout games, or to the recent Divinity game, so on that note, it's maybe not quite as good as those, but still pretty close.

    Compared to the original Fallout games, I didn't feel like the story was as engaging, or the characters as memorable. The system is a little more modern, but often irritating as some    I'm not even going to bother trying to avoid comparing it to the original Fallout games, or to the recent Divinity game, so on that note, it's maybe not quite as good as those, but still pretty close.

    Compared to the original Fallout games, I didn't feel like the story was as engaging, or the characters as memorable. The system is a little more modern, but often irritating as some actions just waste the player's time for basically no reason. It'd also be nice to be able to enter turn based mode for certain actions, like if a character is bleeding out after a battle. I will say though, that skills in Wasteland 2 are more consistently useful than in the original Fallout games.

    Compared to Divinity, I personally like the atmosphere and game world in this one better, but the Divinity combat system wins hands down. Also, while I thought the crafting system in Divinity could use some work, there's almost no crafting to speak of here, even though I think it would make sense thematically.

    All told, Wasteland 2 is a solid game. Not perfect, but solid.    … Expand
  26. 123456
    Oct 1, 2014
    7
    As a veteran of Fallout and Fallout 2 I was looking forward to this game. Generally it is disappointing because combat is the worst thing about this game. After playing around 10 hours I have been frustrated by it a number of times.

    Ammo is scarce and PC's miss most of their shots unless you spend heavily in combat skills, which means you neglect the massive number of other useful    As a veteran of Fallout and Fallout 2 I was looking forward to this game. Generally it is disappointing because combat is the worst thing about this game. After playing around 10 hours I have been frustrated by it a number of times.

    Ammo is scarce and PC's miss most of their shots unless you spend heavily in combat skills, which means you neglect the massive number of other useful skills which make up parts of the game which are actually fun. Melee weapons beyond a nail board seem to be completely forgotten.

    Most of the fights, save a few, seem to be standoffs with little in the way of tactical cover, rather two teams blasting at each other until one crew dies. This is a major let down. Even setting up ambushes becomes a tedious tip-toe forward trying not to aggro the enemy, who can run at you like Usain Bolt and get into melee range on their first turn. There is no kind of CC or even debuffs.

    Loot is randomly generated apart from medical supplies and some mobs. You can easily get starved of one type of ammo so the pressure is on throughout the game to conserve as much as you can.

    The story is quite good so far, with a hard choice early on with real consequences. The dialogue is well acted and written, although sometimes you will want to turn the radio transmitter spam off so you can actually focus on your story.

    The "isometric" (3D) view is great, although the graphics in general lack a real polish, looking much like the first "Dawn of War" game which came out 10 years ago this month. The maps are exactly like the old Fallout games or even New Vegas, mostly brown but with some fun variations on the theme. The sizes are fine and walking them does not take too long. Loading times between maps were around 10-15 seconds for me. I have not found any bugs.

    There is a lot to like about this game, and like Divinity Original Sin its probably more fun with a guide on how to set your party up (which I think is a really lame thing). The combat is tiresome but the dramatic parts are good and the environment is what you would probably want. I don't think it is worth £30, if you liked fallout wait for it to be £20.    … Expand
  27. Ghoster
    Oct 1, 2014
    0
    Pretty pointless and bad-made game. Bad GFX which burn pretty much computer resources and terrible UI in combination with boring story and endless conversations which have no point put this game on the bottom of this year releases.
  28. FlorianGh
    Oct 1, 2014
    10
    This is not a game for everybody. This is a game for people that really enjoys true CRPG's. All the console gamer's should stay away because this game does not have flashy graphics with stupid story. You actually need to think to advance properly.
    I am so happy Brian Fargo and his team managed to pull such a fantastic experience. I also want to thank each and every baker for giving us the    This is not a game for everybody. This is a game for people that really enjoys true CRPG's. All the console gamer's should stay away because this game does not have flashy graphics with stupid story. You actually need to think to advance properly.
    I am so happy Brian Fargo and his team managed to pull such a fantastic experience. I also want to thank each and every baker for giving us the chance to play again a fantastic game like the ones from our childhood.
    I didn't play Wasteland 1 because I was to little. My first post apocalyptic game was Fallout 2. I remember that a very good friend of mine got me Fallout 2 and I was thinking that this is crap I mean I didn't like the graphics at the beginning of the game at the Temple of trials. Boy was I wrong. I felt in love with that game and after 2nd I played the first. After that I only liked Arcanum but although it was a great game it was not in the Fallout setting. Fallout Tactics was released and the graphics were great but that was not the Fallout I grew up with.
    Interplay lost the licence to Bethesda and so Fallout 3 was born. I liked it but it was like Fallout Tactics more of a spin off then the real thing. Fallout : New Vegas was great though thanks to Obsidian.
    But now we have the opportunity to play the real prequel of Fallout and what a great time this is for CRPG.
    For the ones that are asking how is WL2 compared to Divinity : Original Sin I have to say that I really like that game but I don't like the setting as much and the dialog seemed they repeated a lot. And now about the game itself :
    I like it from the beta. I played it since the very first beta and I just love how it has been upgraded and improved in every single way. I managed to finish the beta.Now that it's finally out I am trying to take my time and enjoy every pixel of it. I am not at all bored by having to start from scratch and I already managed to do the good part in Rail Nomad.
    The story is strong and very mysterious. The choices do matter in short and long terms.
    People complain about the graphics but I do like it a lot. I really love the gore in combat and the death animations.
    The Unity engine is great and I really like that we can have a bird eye view of the party.
    The music is incredible and Mark Morgan shows us what a talented man he is.
    My only complaint is the lack of stealth and steal but I can live without them. I know that steal tend to break the barter system.
    This game is the perfect example of the games that we love can have a big success as well as the dumb ones that have flooded the market in the past years.
    A lot of people complain that it has bugs and that the graphics are not top notch but if you like a game that is very well written and enjoy a good laugh you need to have this. This game is made with love and it really shows. All the details are there and almost every NPC has a story and the world around it's alive ( as much as it can being post apocalyptic).    … Expand
  29. jedidiah
    Oct 1, 2014
    7
    As a backer, I have waited the game too long. And this game should really be better. There are minimal improvement since early beta. I don't see why it gets such high reputation among the critic reviews.

    I list my humble complains here: The loot system is a pain. Random-drop makes the game experience unstable. Opening every safe and box provides very little fun. There should be less    As a backer, I have waited the game too long. And this game should really be better. There are minimal improvement since early beta. I don't see why it gets such high reputation among the critic reviews.

    I list my humble complains here:

    The loot system is a pain. Random-drop makes the game experience unstable. Opening every safe and box provides very little fun. There should be less containers and better loots.

    The difference of weapon strength between every tiers is very queer. If only there are several characteristic weapons of similar power, player can combat with more play styles.

    The skill success rate system is just very troublesome. If the game allows saving and loading, the check should better set as a threshold of all or none. Asking player to ponder for a proper action before an object may be funny in 1988 but not now.

    The 3 kinds of speech check make confusing in my skill-picking but not as much enjoyment in doing those speech.

    The maps are way too wide thus make too many running, as many user commented.
    The mini-maps are irrelevant.
    Tactic component of the battle is too thin and covers are difficult to use. The combat is not interesting.
    The story of NPCs are either very short or coming as a big mass in a very short moment. I was hoping a storytelling that allow their story to be discovered step by step.    … Expand
  30. Infaereld
    Sep 30, 2014
    9
    Originally coming from an Amiga and console background, I was a bit of a late bloomer with PC gaming so never played the original Wasteland and Fallout series. However, being a massive fan of Fallout 3/NV, I thought I'd give this one a whirl.

    This game has been very well made. Although still a tough buggy at times, the story, combat, character customisation, game world, loot etc are all    Originally coming from an Amiga and console background, I was a bit of a late bloomer with PC gaming so never played the original Wasteland and Fallout series. However, being a massive fan of Fallout 3/NV, I thought I'd give this one a whirl.

    This game has been very well made. Although still a tough buggy at times, the story, combat, character customisation, game world, loot etc are all top-notch.

    I can tell a lot of thought and talent has gone into this title and it shows.

    Here's hoping for a WL3!    … Expand
  31. fjo3
    Sep 30, 2014
    10
    The RPG I've been waiting for since 1998, when I first beat Fallout 2. This game gets a 9.5/10 in my book - it has flaws, but they are completely outshone by how perfect this game is in almost every way.

    I don't understand why this game gets so many negative reviews. It's not a game for everyone, but if you like turn based, strategic, old-school RPGs in a post-apocalyptic setting, it    The RPG I've been waiting for since 1998, when I first beat Fallout 2. This game gets a 9.5/10 in my book - it has flaws, but they are completely outshone by how perfect this game is in almost every way.

    I don't understand why this game gets so many negative reviews. It's not a game for everyone, but if you like turn based, strategic, old-school RPGs in a post-apocalyptic setting, it doesn't get any better than Wasteland 2. Fallout 1 and 2 have finally been surpassed: well done Brian Fargo and the inXile team.    … Expand
  32. drago888
    Sep 30, 2014
    8
    I played many hours on this game at the hardest difficulty and it's possible to win the battles that is of your level.

    However, you will encounter shortage of supplies issue, thus recommendation is not to play at such hard difficulty. Since I had spent so many hours, I feel stupid if I gave score lesser than 8. However, I quit the game quite early in the story. I just can't get    I played many hours on this game at the hardest difficulty and it's possible to win the battles that is of your level.

    However, you will encounter shortage of supplies issue, thus recommendation is not to play at such hard difficulty.

    Since I had spent so many hours, I feel stupid if I gave score lesser than 8.

    However, I quit the game quite early in the story.
    I just can't get over been forced to be part of Desert Ranger. I know that Fallout Tactics also force you to be in the Brotherhood of Steel but I have no issue with that as BOS seems competent.

    However, in the very beginning of the game, the Desert Ranger are hit with 2 crisis at almost the same time. Yet they only have the resource to send to tend to 1 crisis. This give me the feeling that the Desert Ranger is at a decline, without capability to deal with more than 1 crisis even though they are veterans with 15 years of experience reacting to the crisis of the wasteland, If the wasteland is as harsh as what I'm been told, I personally believe that handling more than 1 crisis at the same time is quite common for the Desert Ranger when it's not at a decline.

    Someone told me that the Desert Ranger is stretched too thin.
    In Fallout New Vegas, the NCR is also stretched too thin and I always did not choose the NCR ending as I did not have faith in them.

    But this game forced to be in a team that I don't want to be in (for a game).
    Thus the more I played, the more frustrated I get.    … Expand
  33. Szlomka
    Sep 30, 2014
    0
    Steer clear! Severely unoptimised game, gfx card heats up as if the visuals were something exceptional which they certainly are not. Crashes to desktop every once in a while. When it works, it feels as if someone went and butchered a fallout game by throwing away all the fun fluff and left you a single threaded storyline , slaughtered 1 character into four mock ups which should probablySteer clear! Severely unoptimised game, gfx card heats up as if the visuals were something exceptional which they certainly are not. Crashes to desktop every once in a while. When it works, it feels as if someone went and butchered a fallout game by throwing away all the fun fluff and left you a single threaded storyline , slaughtered 1 character into four mock ups which should probably bear the names of skills they will be using. The rpg element might be there if someone has an imagination that will cover up the bland sadness delivered here. Tactics are completely missing, nothing to consider, nothing to plan on, no synergy between skills, weapons, no influence from environments, no real cover mechanics to speak of. Unintuitive UI that feels a deliberate time sink. Invest Your pleasure time and money elsewhere.… Expand
  34. bortengineer
    Sep 30, 2014
    7
    Don't get me wrong, Wasteland 2 is not a bad game. The problem is that it's not a good game either. At the beginning It definitely gives you that sweet feeling of an old style RPG, but as you go deeper into the game, you start to realise that it's just the surface and Wasteland 2 is pretty dull at the inside. It's not about some major issues, the problem is that there are huge number ofDon't get me wrong, Wasteland 2 is not a bad game. The problem is that it's not a good game either. At the beginning It definitely gives you that sweet feeling of an old style RPG, but as you go deeper into the game, you start to realise that it's just the surface and Wasteland 2 is pretty dull at the inside. It's not about some major issues, the problem is that there are huge number of small ones.

    1) Game mechanics is not transparent. Do you know that high combat initiative allows you have more than one move in a turn? Do you know how luck affects drop rates? How charisma works, is it party-based or character-based? Do you know that formula for action points is (STR+INT+SPD)/4+CRD/2. Sure, you can dig forums and find answers to most of your questions, but you can't find them in game.

    2) Boring levels. Maps are quite big and full of hidden crates and containers. There are no shortage of mobs as well. It makes progression tedious and dull.

    3) Most skills are poorly designed. Computer science, demolitions, lockpicking, safecracking, toaster repair - in 95% of the situations you use them to get access to some loot. And you really need that loot and those skills, because ammo is sparse. I found that Mechanical Repair and Animal Whisperer to be enjoyable, just because they are not used routinely.

    4) There are dosens of crates, safes, and blah-blah on the map. Almost all of them contains some junk, a little bit of ammo and tiny amount of money. It makes the gameplay grindy and tedious. Instead it would be much better to remove 90% of the crates and fill remaining 10% with cool items, and give the player feeling of the accomplishment.

    5) The storyline is not engaging and full of cliches. It really fits theme of original Wasteland, but what was good back in 80s is boring and repetitive now. It reminds me of Fallout Tactics, which is not cool. To be fair, there are good things about the story as well: i really like emphasis on hard decisions and "you can't save em all" attitude.

    6) There are times when game really breaks the immersion. First time you see a honey badger - it's really funny. Second time, it's ok. But when you see a whole valley full of them, you just facepalm. There are no day/night cycle (fallout 1/2, arcanum, hell - even Ultima 7 had that). And yeah - dosens of crates full of staff in what was supposed to be a wasteland.

    7) And list goes on and on.

    Note, that none of these issues are gamebreaking or something. They just take away some satisfaction of the game. So if your are a fun of post-apocalypse theme and turn based combat - by all means get it, but wait for the sale. Otherwise - avoid.    … Expand
  35. curvul
    Sep 30, 2014
    10
    Excellent game. Is it perfect - no. But it delivers such an atmosphere - the story, the characters. It is very involving. I like the tactical combat as well. The choices and consequences are the cherry on the top. No matter what you do, your actions are going to hurt or displease someone. And you will have to pay the price. Graphics are decent and I am a sucker for isometric video games.Excellent game. Is it perfect - no. But it delivers such an atmosphere - the story, the characters. It is very involving. I like the tactical combat as well. The choices and consequences are the cherry on the top. No matter what you do, your actions are going to hurt or displease someone. And you will have to pay the price. Graphics are decent and I am a sucker for isometric video games.
    I am sure the technical bugs will be fixed via patches and the game will become a true masterpiece.
    All in all it is 9/10, but because of the many nay sayers that slander it, I'll give it 10.    … Expand
  36. Timberwolf
    Sep 30, 2014
    9
    Combat is fun and engaging, the skill system is interesting and works well. The game is exceptionally well written and doesn't belittle its audience, as most games these days tend to. Only down side is that the graphics aren't the best when compared to other titles.

    Overall, Excellent game!
  37. dp77777
    Sep 30, 2014
    0
    This game is really poor, even for what it attempts to be. It feels like you're playing a rough early beta version of the game, weird bugs constantly occur, like missing quests, containers that can't be accessed, weird lighting effects, map won't move, etc. I used to play this type of game all the time, think fallout 2, diablo, etc. Those games, well over a decade older, play and workThis game is really poor, even for what it attempts to be. It feels like you're playing a rough early beta version of the game, weird bugs constantly occur, like missing quests, containers that can't be accessed, weird lighting effects, map won't move, etc. I used to play this type of game all the time, think fallout 2, diablo, etc. Those games, well over a decade older, play and work much better than this game. The graphics and lighting are very badly done to the point where it is difficult to play because everything blurs together. The gameplay itself is pretty tedious and drawn out for no purpose. It is just frustrating on every level to play and not at all enjoyable and I'm someone who really loves RPGs and this type of game. The only positive is that the game has some well timed humor but that is hardly a saving grace for the mess that it is.… Expand
  38. biszop
    Sep 29, 2014
    9
    The feel of the game is insane. It's similar to Fallout, but quite different. In Fallout was more like an apocalyptic wasteland you are imagining, in Wasteland it's more like wilderness, isolated desert, maybe a little more flourishing, yet much more harsh and depressing. It's like apocalyptic world we are familiar with, but with own unique flavor.
    The combat are just brilliant. It's so    The feel of the game is insane. It's similar to Fallout, but quite different. In Fallout was more like an apocalyptic wasteland you are imagining, in Wasteland it's more like wilderness, isolated desert, maybe a little more flourishing, yet much more harsh and depressing. It's like apocalyptic world we are familiar with, but with own unique flavor.
    The combat are just brilliant. It's so much enjoyable to win a battle, and tactics and positioning plays a great role in fights. All types of weapons are useful, and brings different style of play.
    Now about graphic. Environment is OK, may be more diverse and more detailed, but in general it's great. On the other hand, models of characters, it's textures and animations are just ugly :) But who the **** cares ;) One thing that is disappointing is that armor doesn't change appearance of your characters.
    Summing up, the game is great and has that something that force you to play non stop, and doesn't allow you to sleep at nights.    … Expand
  39. Ahzeem
    Sep 29, 2014
    6
    If you take off your rose-tinted glasses for a moment and look at Wasteland 2 with a reasonable amount of objectivity, it very quickly becomes clear that the game is not without flaws. Performance issues, clunky and sometimes unreliable game play, and confusing aesthetics ground Wasteland 2 firmly in the Indie / Unpolished category of games these days. It delivers exactly what it promised,If you take off your rose-tinted glasses for a moment and look at Wasteland 2 with a reasonable amount of objectivity, it very quickly becomes clear that the game is not without flaws. Performance issues, clunky and sometimes unreliable game play, and confusing aesthetics ground Wasteland 2 firmly in the Indie / Unpolished category of games these days. It delivers exactly what it promised, but it does so in a rather poorly constructed package. The game is far from bad, but it's frustrating to play a game that you know in your heart of hearts is an absolute masterpiece hidden behind underdeveloped game play, not-so-spectacular aesthetics, and an underwhelming role-playing aspect.

    If you can look past its flaws and enjoy it for what it is, Wasteland 2 is perfectly enjoyable. Amazing story-telling, incredibly immersive hooks, and absolutely outstanding character writing will give you a truly wonderful RPG experience. But don't be surprised when you find yourself feeling that the game is lacking that special something that would put it over the top.    … Expand
  40. Slate
    Sep 29, 2014
    10
    Excellent game all of the way through, great ui, sound, graphics, and most important..storyline. Wasteland 2's game mechanics are amazing, there is so much content in this game its unbelievable.
  41. lepronoc
    Sep 29, 2014
    10
    This game is a wonderful experience, true Post Apocalyptic journey, where in the first place - free of will and numerous choices with hard ass consequence. You have a goal, a gun and Desert Ranger star, what else?
  42. JohnWitten
    Sep 29, 2014
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overall Premise: Return to the apocalypse ala Fallout, but closer to the original Wasteland mixed with modern elements than anything else.

    Graphics and Sound: The environments are truly impressive even if the overall graphics aren’t by any standards today. The sound work is superb to say the least.

    Playability and Entertainment: The gameplay is heavily tactics-based and enjoyable nonetheless. There’s definitely strategy involved but the adventure isn’t an impossible one. The story and journey as a whole is definitely ingrained with wit and darkness in equal portions here and there.

    Replay Value: High

    Overall Score: 8.25/10.0    … Expand
  43. Watchman11
    Sep 29, 2014
    3
    I was a backer of the Kickstarter campaign and a fan of old school RPGs, but this game is just not very good... And it pains me to give it such a low score, because you can clearly see the effort and the love put into it. The story is interesting, it finally captures the feel of old games were you had to make big choices and where the gameworld was shaped by your actions.
    So what is wrong    I was a backer of the Kickstarter campaign and a fan of old school RPGs, but this game is just not very good... And it pains me to give it such a low score, because you can clearly see the effort and the love put into it. The story is interesting, it finally captures the feel of old games were you had to make big choices and where the gameworld was shaped by your actions.
    So what is wrong with it? The gameplay... it is just terribly broken beyond hope. Combat is dull with very little tactics involved and worst of all far too repetitive. It completely lacks the depth of Baldur's Gate or Icewind dale, and since it is turn based it is also slow. Is the game hard? YES! But it is not the fun kind of hard like Divinity Original Sin.
    All in all I do not recommend buying this. There are far too many fun RPGs to play with.Give it a few months, maybe the devs will fix things, Shadowrun Returns started out bad, but after a year and 2 major patches it is now miles better than this pure excuse of a sequel.    … Expand
  44. grimloki
    Sep 29, 2014
    10
    So good... 25 years later, I'm back in the Wasteland. This game is good enough to stand on its own merits, but its especially great, considering it's one of the longest awaited sequels in game history, if you've played the original back in all its 4 color pixellated text adventure goodness.

    Whiners need not apply. The Wasteland isn't a forgiving place. There's not a simple 'I win'    So good... 25 years later, I'm back in the Wasteland. This game is good enough to stand on its own merits, but its especially great, considering it's one of the longest awaited sequels in game history, if you've played the original back in all its 4 color pixellated text adventure goodness.

    Whiners need not apply. The Wasteland isn't a forgiving place. There's not a simple 'I win' button. Save early and often.    … Expand
  45. bilbo1973
    Sep 28, 2014
    10
    Been playing video games since 1986...
    Been working in the industry for 10+ years...
    Been a reviewer (print press) for 5 years...

    Been waiting for the true Fallout 3, since Fallout 2...

    I am happy I finally get to play it today at my 40 years... Wish my kid was a bit older to enjoy it together ;-)

    /respect
    /bow
    /gj guys
  46. Mike_M
    Sep 28, 2014
    1
    game is emptily designed
    UI is bad and slow
    bugs galore in full release version

    each of these flaws is bad enough for a red score- add them together and what have you got?
  47. Sadlyborn
    Sep 28, 2014
    9
    So far I am really enjoying Wasteland 2. This is a nostalgic CRPG which can be compared by titles as the first Fallout series, Baldur´s Gate and Divinity Original Sin. The post-apocalyptic setting is atmospheric which is strengthen by nicely done story telling, voice acting and music. Also there is some criticism to mention. The User Interface is very cumbersome. It is often necessary toSo far I am really enjoying Wasteland 2. This is a nostalgic CRPG which can be compared by titles as the first Fallout series, Baldur´s Gate and Divinity Original Sin. The post-apocalyptic setting is atmospheric which is strengthen by nicely done story telling, voice acting and music. Also there is some criticism to mention. The User Interface is very cumbersome. It is often necessary to move an item to a character with a particular skill and then again to switch back that item. Sometimes equipped items are not longer equipped, which signifies a bug. It is annoying equip the item again on the character. Skills like Demolition, Alarm Disarming are a risk to use and will require a lot of save-load sequences in order to handle the situation well. Those loading screens takes a long time compared to other games of this generation. However the shortcomings does not outweigh the pleasure that this game has to offer. Must buy for the CRPG fans!… Expand
  48. RoccoSalvetti
    Sep 28, 2014
    8
    The AI cheats and the quests often are bugged, eventually you will get stuck but I can't stop playing it. Rebalance the combat system with a better AI and I will give it an 8 or a 9. I would allow the camera to go higher, sometimes it is very annoying to find your way around.
  49. mackdaddy
    Sep 28, 2014
    9
    Graphics aren't pretty, combat could be deeper and there's a few bugs. That's the bad out of the way. The combat is actually fun in my opinion, the only thing it lacks from Fallout 1/2 is aimed shots, but it makes up for this with the cover system and ambushing. The writing is great, and the voice acting is usually decent (there's some dodgy examples). The story starts off a bit slow butGraphics aren't pretty, combat could be deeper and there's a few bugs. That's the bad out of the way. The combat is actually fun in my opinion, the only thing it lacks from Fallout 1/2 is aimed shots, but it makes up for this with the cover system and ambushing. The writing is great, and the voice acting is usually decent (there's some dodgy examples). The story starts off a bit slow but by half way is really quite engaging. There's some very memorable characters, and your followers often have interesting things to say about the environment and your decisions.

    Yeah, the game is a bit divisive - I think some people expected Xcom, and others Fallout 1/2, all games with much higher budgets than this. Even Divinity: Original Sin had a budget of around 10-12 million USD (the Kickstarter was for a product to show investors) unlike Wasteland 2's 6 million (including Early Access sales). But a lot of love went into the game.

    The skill system is a bit much at first, and some skills could probably be rolled together to streamline, but it's cool having a bunch of different specialists in your team. The attributes could also probably have more of an effect on your skills, but the current system allows for more open roleplaying (e.g. a guy with no charisma still being a kiss ass, it's possible).

    Overall, it's a great CRPG in the vein of WL1 and the original Fallouts. It probably still needs a bit of work patch-wise, and some design decisions may not appeal to everyone, but I think if you're into the older CRPGs you're in for a great time.    … Expand
  50. bhhsieh
    Sep 28, 2014
    10
    8/10 for RPG lovers, 10/10 for fallout 1 and 2 lovers. The graphics may not be top-notch, but the missions, the atmosphere, the tactical combats are all great.
  51. inmyth
    Sep 27, 2014
    8
    If I were to score this game in words then it would be "dodged a bullet". It managed to dodge a 7 and got an 8. Whereas I expected a real Fallout 3, the truth is this game feels like turn based Dungeon Siege. Strategy-wise, combat is pretty light with a few options like "headshot" or "ambush" that keep it short of being a total Dungeon Siege. Wasteland 2 however, manages to establish aIf I were to score this game in words then it would be "dodged a bullet". It managed to dodge a 7 and got an 8. Whereas I expected a real Fallout 3, the truth is this game feels like turn based Dungeon Siege. Strategy-wise, combat is pretty light with a few options like "headshot" or "ambush" that keep it short of being a total Dungeon Siege. Wasteland 2 however, manages to establish a setting which is believably well...post-apocalyptic. And more importantly it manages to detach itself from Fallout cliches.

    Cons:
    - Minimum combat. Tactics are often nothing more than moving your characters away and closer to enemies. There are few hiding spots and even so they get overrun with melee units in the first turn. This is not to say that combat is not fun. It still is but it's not deep.
    - Probability nightmare. Everything in this game works on probabilities, in and out combats. And these probabilities don't always feel like they should be. A weapon that has 4% of jam jams like it was 20%. I often faced multiple consecutive jams in a fight. Also, spending a lot of time loading the game just to successfully unlock a chest isn't really fun
    - Dungeon Siege/Diablo-esque progression. Things are more difficult to do simply because you encounter them later. In Diablo, monsters you face in later levels are the same ones you faced before, but with more HP and different name and color. It's the same here except they don't have different name or color. Sometimes it feels anachronistic. Why can't I unlock this chest when yesterday I disarmed a nuclear missile ?

    PROS
    - Excellent writing, at least in the fist half of the game. Witty narrative and character interaction, dark humor, it's all there. However that the longer you play the more you will feel the game was rushed. The second half of the game is like a copy of the first. You fought barbarians, religious fanatics, and robots in Arizona. Well you fight barbarians, religious fanatics and robots in LA too. The finale is the weakest of all.
    - Excellent voice acting. This is something that Fargo games excel in. I particularly like the radio chatters which play when I walk around the wasteland. They even hired a church choir to sing radio commercial of a demented church gang.
    - Bold story branching. If you have played RPGs from Bioware or BlackIsle, you must have seen the "third option" option in dialogues or other interactions that requires a lot of points in speech or other particular attribute. When you pick it, you will pacify two conflicting sides or save everyone in a distress. In Wasteland if you pull this off, you would kill everyone. Wasteland is grim and bleak world and even if you think you have given it the best, you will still screw it.

    So is it a good game ? It is, in the way that Dungeon Siege was not a bad game either. Maybe it is not Jagged Alliance or Xcom as some of you expected but it is still fun and satisfying. Still, I can't help but feel that Fargo will have more difficulty convincing his backers of future projects, Torment Numenera comes to mind.    … Expand
  52. DeusXCom
    Sep 27, 2014
    10
    Fallout's old uncle came back to show the modern games how it's done. This is how you create high quality RPG experience. It certainly has some flaws, bugs and shortcomings, but they mean nothing compared to the 100 hours long immersive experience that nails you from the start and won't let you go until you're finished. For a week I completely forgot about reality and I was living in theFallout's old uncle came back to show the modern games how it's done. This is how you create high quality RPG experience. It certainly has some flaws, bugs and shortcomings, but they mean nothing compared to the 100 hours long immersive experience that nails you from the start and won't let you go until you're finished. For a week I completely forgot about reality and I was living in the Wasteland, exploring the post-apo world, breathing the radioactive atmosphere. As expected - excellent writing full of interesting characters, various factions, dark sense of humour and tons of quests to do, no stupid quest markers or handholding, but actually good old figuring things out for yourself. Many important choices and moral decisions you have to make. Customizable party of 4 desert rangers plus 3 more companions and even more additional followers that follow you around lets you create unique set of specialists that support one another with their various skills and equipment. I spent 2 hours just creating my party, by that time, some of the newer games would be already over. Tactical turn-based combat ala X-COM with all it's features such as cover system or height advantages is a fun playground for many challenging battles. And the last, but not least - Fantastic audio! Music by Mark Morgan continues in his masterpiece ambient legacy that started in Fallout and sound design is full of beautiful textures and distortions, especially radio messages and broadcasts are a nice touch. I was pleasantly surprised to see the sound credit for Alexander "Deus Ex" Brandon in the opening credits, so basically 2 of my all-time favourite game composers working together on this dream project and it shows, because audio creates atmosphere here even more strongly than visuals, which brings me to the negative part of the review.

    In a good RPG, graphics never mattered, hell, Fallout was ugly even back in 1997, but at least it had style and it didn't stop it from being a classic. Nevertheless, there is no way around it - Wasteland 2 is an ugly, badly optimized 3D mess. I blame the Unity engine, this is the 3rd unity engine game I played and they all shared the same problems - ugly visuals, tons of glitches and terrible optimization. What is even worse however is the camera controls and view angles. IF you must go 3D, at least do it properly like Dragon Age for example, where you can rotate the camera the way you want, not just horizontally, and even switch to 3rd person mode that helps you immerse in the world and navigate around the environment that way more smoothly. Here, you are stuck with predefined camera angles that are all wrong, when you zoom in, it's the right angle, but you don't see anything around you as it's to close up, so you zoom out to see more, but it automatically switches to a terrible bird view where you again don't see anything. Navigation is hell in this game and exploration is pain because of that. Unlocking the vertical camera angle movement and disabling that terrible default view would fix it, so hopefully in some future patch. This is not a cosmetic problem it's a critical game design flaw that negatively affects the gameplay and will prevent many new players to enjoy this gem. There are also tons of bugs, quest problems and missing features, such as no option to navigate in local world map. Every other RPG including all the old classics had this, just open the map, click on the other side of the current world and bam, you're there. You cannot do this here, you must manually scroll like an idiot through chaotic environment. Also the fact that the world is totally spammed with countless chests and safeboxes that are trapped with bombs, alarms and locks, forcing you to spend an eternity unlocking them with your skills that take too much time to process only to pick up some useless junk doesn't help the flow of the game either.

    But even despite these faults, Wasteland 2 is still the game of the year for me so far and one of the best RPG experiences in recent years, cannot wait for the Red Boots DLC only for 49.99$! 10/10    … Expand
  53. janki
    Sep 27, 2014
    9
    The Fallout 3 I always wanted. The game is a solid classic cRPG where content counts not shinny crap. The only thing that I don't like is the quite hard not user friendly interface.
  54. Satanykk
    Sep 27, 2014
    9
    Excellent RPG, tons of side quests, tons of characters and lot of exploration. Quite different than Fallout though. I don't understand why people make reference about Fallout and this game ... unless they refer to Brotherhood of Steel ... otherwise I enjoy this game as much as I did with the Fallout series.

    The only downside ... **** load of bugs even after the first patch. Still,    Excellent RPG, tons of side quests, tons of characters and lot of exploration. Quite different than Fallout though. I don't understand why people make reference about Fallout and this game ... unless they refer to Brotherhood of Steel ... otherwise I enjoy this game as much as I did with the Fallout series.

    The only downside ... **** load of bugs even after the first patch.

    Still, two thumbs up.    … Expand
  55. Sp00k
    Sep 27, 2014
    4
    I really gave the game several tries. Most rpg games get me hooked over night, I was literally forcing myself to keep playing this game. It just doesn't feel right.
    - Unreadable messy graphics. You can see that they've spent a lot of time modelling each small detailed object, but overall look of the world is a total pixel mess. Fallout 1 was delivering better picture.
    -Weird game    I really gave the game several tries. Most rpg games get me hooked over night, I was literally forcing myself to keep playing this game. It just doesn't feel right.
    - Unreadable messy graphics. You can see that they've spent a lot of time modelling each small detailed object, but overall look of the world is a total pixel mess. Fallout 1 was delivering better picture.

    -Weird game design. There is indeed tons of dialogues in game but most of them are so boring and nonsense to read. Quests are boring "fed ex boy" running style.

    -Combat system is a complete disaster. Enemy can run up close to a sniper which have started the fight from the maximum 30-40 meters. Sniper can get a dynamite thrown at him in a same 1st turn of the battle.
    No ways to spend more AP for better aid like (Jagged Alliance), no ways to aim to specific parts.
    Yes they've added a head shot feature which turned out completely useless.

    P.S. the most pity fact of all this situation that developers will continue to cry that it is impossible to develop such games due to the lack of support and interest from gamers.
    While other non casual indies with Prison Architect and Minecraft make millions $.    … Expand
  56. MRGamer
    Sep 27, 2014
    6
    This game is a commendable effort to bring back the feel of old school CRPGs. It creates a gritty environment, presents fairly interesting characters and story, and is at times clever and darkly humorous. However, as a tactical experience it is mediocre at best and obviously broken at times. Combat mechanics are shallow and shortcuts have been taken to make up for the lack of adequateThis game is a commendable effort to bring back the feel of old school CRPGs. It creates a gritty environment, presents fairly interesting characters and story, and is at times clever and darkly humorous. However, as a tactical experience it is mediocre at best and obviously broken at times. Combat mechanics are shallow and shortcuts have been taken to make up for the lack of adequate tactical AI. A real game breaker for those who seek a satisfying tactical combat challenge.… Expand
  57. 0hope
    Sep 27, 2014
    8
    The spiritual successor of fallout indeed and game is more of fallout then that Bethesda version will ever be. But cant say that game is without any flaws and definitely not a 10 game.

    The good: -main plot is interesting enough -there is plenty of side stuff to distract you -tactical combat -the ability to solve stuff on different ways and your choices actually do matter(well on    The spiritual successor of fallout indeed and game is more of fallout then that Bethesda version will ever be. But cant say that game is without any flaws and definitely not a 10 game.

    The good: -main plot is interesting enough
    -there is plenty of side stuff to distract you
    -tactical combat
    -the ability to solve stuff on different ways and your choices actually do matter(well on occasion at least)

    The bad: -textures are really bad at times and probably the worst thing is that you actually see your char zoomed up close on char creation makes it just even more obvious

    -some balance issue simply to say some weapons are far better then other, now this have more to do with fact that range wins all most of time especially if you play on harder difficulty as you want to kill anything before it comes to you

    -certain skills are useful only on few occasion sometimes you will wonder why i wasn't able to do this or that

    -save scumming is the thing that you actually want to exploit as it eliminates not that fun RNG which usually wont do much except make you grind for few hours random encounters so you can buy stuff that you actually want

    Now what i noticed is that ppl expected from this game fallout clone and this is not one. Brian Fargo stated that in start. Mostly there is no perk system and there isn't even need for one as there is lot of different skills which are only useful if you specialize in them and you don't even get that many skill points per level so your one char can't be good in everything. And there is no need for it either as you control squad (4 rangers) and not single char + 3 other npc that can join your party.

    Over all game is still worth its money and its 8/10 for sure. Now it was delayed once already but i get feeling that they should have extended that with more time it could easily be 9/10.    … Expand
  58. Aniketos
    Sep 27, 2014
    10
    If you love fallout 1 and 2 this is a game for you! It has all the things you loved from those games, Brian Fargo once again made a gem to remember. I hope there will be another sequel to this game!
  59. architekt
    Sep 26, 2014
    5
    I'm not feeling this game. I've played Fallout 1 and 2 a million times every possible way. I've even played the original Wasteland. But something about this game just doesn't grab me. It feels very tedious. The combat is annoying (and each of my guys is spec'd into just 1 weapon type, not spread out): even with jam rates of like 2% I'll have the same guy jam up a bunch of times in a fight.I'm not feeling this game. I've played Fallout 1 and 2 a million times every possible way. I've even played the original Wasteland. But something about this game just doesn't grab me. It feels very tedious. The combat is annoying (and each of my guys is spec'd into just 1 weapon type, not spread out): even with jam rates of like 2% I'll have the same guy jam up a bunch of times in a fight. Normally I wouldn't care but the AP cost to unjam is ridiculous. Plus it drives me crazy that all enemy types seem to be able to close any distance on you in a turn. So my sniper guy who I always position as far away as possible just gets melee'd so I wound up having to take the brawl skill. Spent about 8 hours clearing the first area, the AG Center, which was boring and a tedious slog. I'm not gripped by the story yet unlike Fallout 1 (maybe it gets better?). I'm also not looking forward to a massive party size. You start with 4 which is manageable, it goes up to 7. I didn't mind 4-6 person parties in D&D type games because each of them felt very unique (sorcerer vs. rogue vs. cleric etc), but in this, it's just like "Oh this dude is good with this gun type" and then happens to have some support skill like doc or medic. Which is helpful, but really it's just firing a different gun type. The camera also really annoys me. I just don't like the angle and way things look. I feel like I'm constantly having to adjust the zoom and rotation all the time.

    As for the comments about being geared for people who played the original or "must have an affinity to old-school game mechanics" that's not really the case. I don't mind reading walls of text if it's interesting (Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc), but so far, not very exciting. The combat mechanics are just boring esp. compared to like Baldur's Gate. Hell even Fallout 1 which had similar mechanics just felt more fun what with the perks and stuff, added variety.

    I don't know. The music is great. The visuals are pretty good, I dig the atmosphere. But it just feels like a tedious party based tactics game and so far, 13 hours in, I'm not being grabbed by the story. It does have some humorous writing though.    … Expand
  60. BCeagle08
    Sep 26, 2014
    5
    As someone who still regularly plays Fallout 2, I was very much looking forward to Wasteland 2. I expected a solid mix of Fallout 2 rpg elements and Fallout tactics combat. Instead, I found a game that did could not match up to either game respectively.

    First, the graphics are atrocious. There is no excuse for character models that look this terrible in 2014. While it's fun to read the    As someone who still regularly plays Fallout 2, I was very much looking forward to Wasteland 2. I expected a solid mix of Fallout 2 rpg elements and Fallout tactics combat. Instead, I found a game that did could not match up to either game respectively.

    First, the graphics are atrocious. There is no excuse for character models that look this terrible in 2014. While it's fun to read the immersive descriptions of everything in the game, I would have enjoyed more immersion through graphics as well. Hope you picked your character models wisely at the beginning of the game, because you'll be staring at that pixelated junk for the rest of the game.

    Second, the combat is unimaginative and seems more like a chore than fun. You are constantly forced to melee to preserve ammo. The cover system is horribly underutilized, and there are very few tactical choices to make during combat.

    Third, the game has that feeling of a 1990s RPG. The UI is clunky and accomplishing tasks takes more clicks than it should. Nothing like having to pick a lock 5 times before you either succeed or critically fail. Why can't the game just do the roll and figure out if I failed or succeed? Inventory management is a pain, and comparing items to your secondary weapon is tedious.

    Overall, I had high hopes for this game but left extremely disappointed. Just because you model a game after a 1990s classic doesn't mean you have to retain all the junk that plagued 1990s games. We have made great advancements in gaming since Fallout 1 and 2 - use them.    … Expand
  61. Sawt00th
    Sep 26, 2014
    4
    I am dumfounded at those that take the cataclysmic failures of this game in stride. Creating a game for a 'target audience' isn't a precursor for releasing unfinished dross. Immersion ZERO. It's an exercise in map hoping, little more. The skills and attributes are bust. Useless in all honesty. No tangible progression. There is no logical reason what so ever for there to be that many lootI am dumfounded at those that take the cataclysmic failures of this game in stride. Creating a game for a 'target audience' isn't a precursor for releasing unfinished dross. Immersion ZERO. It's an exercise in map hoping, little more. The skills and attributes are bust. Useless in all honesty. No tangible progression. There is no logical reason what so ever for there to be that many loot crates around and who rigs them with TNT? It's utterly ridiculous. Managing one characters inventory is enough, but this dispersed over four characters is just a pain in your hoop. On my second run-through I named my characters after their function in my team, as you can bust the game but just going one path with each character. If you have four leads, you need 4x the complexity of game to balance the advantages you have. Disappointed to say the least. Finally, what is with their forearms that are longer than their legs.......… Expand
  62. onetime40
    Sep 25, 2014
    0
    I revised my score from a 4 to a 1 (after digging through the game-code)

    1. Attribute system is a joke. Take for example charisma, there is no difference from a charisma 1 player to a charisma 10 player (this does not affect dialogue options or anything else you would expect). All it does is change the radius of your "leadership" skill (which you need to spec into) and how much XP you    I revised my score from a 4 to a 1 (after digging through the game-code)

    1. Attribute system is a joke. Take for example charisma, there is no difference from a charisma 1 player to a charisma 10 player (this does not affect dialogue options or anything else you would expect). All it does is change the radius of your "leadership" skill (which you need to spec into) and how much XP you gain. Other attributes are plagued with the same problem. They are "dump" stats, the only one you need to focus on is intelligence as it affects your Action Points and Skill Points, and then coordination if you want to use guns or strength if you want to melee, everything else can be set at 1, because they don't actually do anything substantial (unlike fallout)

    2. Mechanics are broken, things like "initiative" don't actually do anything.

    3. Combat is broken, the enemies are programmed to rush your characters. When one is alerted, everyone near him will then run all the way across the map and stand next to you to attack (every single time and on their first turn, it's how they were coded)

    4. Random events are broken. You will get attacked when wondering the map, except it is always the same fight !! you will be fighting the same 3 enemies on the same map in each random event. At higher levels, you will get a "feral dog" added to the fight. They will have the same items on them which only changes with your level.

    5. Skill system is horrendous. You are juggling back and forth between characters for simple progression. The perception skill for example is not passive (or tied with an attribute), you need to spec into it as a skill. Then you need to activate that skill on a character and use them to search an area, that's when you change over to someone who can disarm traps and then unlock gates or safe crack etc. You are doing this all the time, especially if you didnt max intelligence as you just wont have the skill points to invest in skills.

    Those are some of the major problems with combat and technical skills, then you have the conversional skills, there are 3 of them and they all do the same thing (just with different words). The outcome of each conversational option is coded the same. There are no "dialogue trees", your options dont change how the conversion will play out. You simply click the "next" button to get the next piece of information, and if you have a conversational skill, you could get some extra loot / text to read or avoid combat. Remember the attribute system is a joke? You can have a charisma 1 player who is the smoothest sweet talker in the wasteland because they maxed sweet talking (with all those skills points they got from intelligence), while a charisma 10 player will have no skills to invest in anything and as such, cant pass any conversional checks. It's the complete opposite to Fallout.

    6. Graphics. I can go back and play Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. They look good and are well animated. Wasteland's graphics are cheap and most importantly, poorly animated (look half finished) Things such as armor don't even change. What you create at the start is how you will look.

    7. In Fallout, your actions changed events in the game. Your dialogue options changed things. In this game, you are just reading a novel in each city and then have some badly programmed combat sequences, rinse and repeat.

    8. Dead-lifeless world. In fallout (baldurs gate etc) you felt like you were in a world. You had interesting NPCs that could join you, there were amazing cities to explore etc. In this game, you are one person (spread out across 4 different people) and you simply go from map to map, read the novel provided and then complete the combat sequence. There is no life or character to the cities or people in them. I can still remember lines and characters from fallout etc, because they had life in them. This game is DEAD and hollow inside. There is some "radio banter" as you travel the wasteland which livens things up, but that stops after about 30 minutes on the map, and then it is just silence. Read the novel, do the combat sequence.

    This game is smoke and mirrors. That's how it was coded. It's like one of those cheap Chinese "warcraft" clones that you see from time to time.    … Expand
  63. reronin
    Sep 25, 2014
    5
    This game flaws are covered by NOSTALGIA all over it by reviewer's .

    At first I played the game and found it interesting. But than i realized I played game like this and it was much better experience. Fallout 2 !! Graphics : Many people here say Wastelands 2 isn't about the graphics . Fine . The graphics are one thing. You can make a game that has low tech graphics but still has    This game flaws are covered by NOSTALGIA all over it by reviewer's .

    At first I played the game and found it interesting. But than i realized I played game like this and it was much better experience. Fallout 2 !!

    Graphics : Many people here say Wastelands 2 isn't about the graphics . Fine . The graphics are one thing. You can make a game that has low tech graphics but still has ArtStyle that adds great Vibe to the game. Again Fallout 2. This game has problems in artstyle direction it has no direction . The World looks empty , unfinished , nothing like America from that time period I felt more like in Ukraine not USA. Some places just slap generic textures on models that look horrible. Sometimes you see nice post apocaliptic scenery after two steps you look at horrible buildings from PS1 era. There is noo Cool Armour (still can't see it after you wear it), Characters lack any cool detail and their creation is just very basic . Guns are your standard arsenal except for the special guns that better versions are found in . Yep . Fallout 2.

    And Google Map Looks better than the world map in this game !!!

    Enemies : Another thing that got me bored were the Enemies . Your standard . Generic Giant bugs , people , robots . Nothing Cool in design to fight Like in Ehem ehem Fallout 2 Badass soldiers in first cutscene ;) . There are not a single Cool Boss fight . The Ending is very generic I won't spoil it for you.

    Strategy and AI - It's very basic . I started on Hard and I never felt like the enemy will do something different than rush at me. Like I said maps are empty and most of the time Narrow and limited. You won't find cover in the buildings. The only strategy you use is too position your troops soo you wont hit your friend . After that it's just numbers game and hope your gun wont jam . Most of the times I lost a team mate because of just Bad luck . Missed when I had 92% and second shot jammed my gun in the same turn . CoD has more strategy than this game. Seriously after playing hours I found my self bored. AI is very basic . And Random Encounters on World map are a joke. Maps are very small and repeat over and over. Again in Fallout 2 you had randomly generated maps and you could find something interesting in them aside from enemies.

    Skills - These are your standard stuff in rpg , guns , rifles , agility , charisma etc. I didnt like that almost every Door , Chest had to have a Trap . And you got diffrent skill to lockpick different skill for safe and hacking, 3 skills to talk Those were just BUSY work and most of the time you had to switch characters too use them. There is too many traps . I just started to save my game all the time and reload because in early game you will die often because of those traps. And there are some quests that you will fail if your % of fixing will fail .50% deactivating an alarm . Failed ? Reload . This system it stupid . It dsnt require no skill only luck. In Deus Ex you had to play some minigame to open lock's it required your focus. Here just Luck

    Story and Quests - Story is a mixbag . You will have to read . A lot to get something o value . This game has a lot of text. It describes everything and it could be a textgame because it's says most minor details. It makes the mistake : Tells but never shows . Game is voice acted sometimes , sometimes it's not . The Idea was a mix of MadMax and Texas Ranger . Voice acting is great , storytelling was good but it moved sooo god damn slow.
    The main problem was I never felt like doing anything Epic . Aside from shooting my life is more interesting than this. Fix this Fix that . Kill Bug's , Bring that , Fix that . Again In Fallout 2 from the start you know your on Epic Journey and you meet soo many interesting NPC in game. In this I never felt . Wow this is a great Hero or NPC I like. They are all bland. Cities are bland also Quests are very dull and stupid .

    I want too be fair this game had some good things thats why i gave it 5 . I focused on bad things because its like no reviewer EVER mentioned those before . Basicly this game is like a Slot Machine. If you have bad luck no skill will save you. If you Never played Fallout 1,2,3 , or XCom you can get all those games that are far better for the price of this game.    … Expand
  64. J4MESOX4D
    Sep 25, 2014
    9
    Wasteland 2 proves that a kickstarter title, with an experienced and dedicated development team, can be a resounding success. It is a classic RPG with unique modern hallmarks that make for an engrossing and in-depth experience.

    The game sees you building and developing a squad and taking them into the barren, post-apocalyptic wilderness of the US as part of the Ranger Squad. Your role    Wasteland 2 proves that a kickstarter title, with an experienced and dedicated development team, can be a resounding success. It is a classic RPG with unique modern hallmarks that make for an engrossing and in-depth experience.

    The game sees you building and developing a squad and taking them into the barren, post-apocalyptic wilderness of the US as part of the Ranger Squad. Your role is to investigate a fellow Desert Ranger's death whilst attempting to restore public order after a Nuclear Fallout destroys and destablises the east coast. You complete missions, travel the vast world map, improve your squad in typical role-play fashion, meet an array of intriguing characters in your fight to bring peace to the chaos. The game is exceptionally detailed and deep in terms of character customisation with a whole host of skills to be upgraded in a clever tactical fashion. You can have players who are combat skilled and have others more in-tune with the technical and scientific skills. A well-balanced squad can go a long way to determining your success.

    The story itself is very engrossing with plenty of missions built into the overall premise of saving humanity. Choices you make and sides you take can have a major impact on the story and how others perceive you. The detail and options in how you face situations is extremely impressive when compared to linear games we see today in the genre. The developers experience is really demonstrated in this aspect of the game when compared to modern day counterparts.

    Wasteland 2 is not flawless by any means; it isn't the most visually impressive title of this nature. Some textures and locations look rather shabby. Loot drops aren't always the most useful and the combat side of the game is often unpredictable and messy. Turn-based battles rely on stats, luck and the enemy. The AI is largely ropey and unpredictable and the cover elements are conveniant and occasionally useless. These fights aren't very satisfying and often lead to frustration, weapons jamming and ammo being obliterated. If you can overlook this; it's not going to dampen the experience.

    Overall, Wasteland 2 has been a long time coming and has certainly been worth the wait. The level of depth in the story and characters makes for a long and captivating game. Aside from rough graphics and poor, unpredictable combat; the game is worth experiencing if you are a fan of the genre or looking for a long and absorbing title.    … Expand
  65. jack67
    Sep 25, 2014
    9
    The full-on comparison of Wasteland 2 and Fallout is going to produce a little disappointment. It's a sequel to Wasteland -- and i think they did a damn good job with that. I'm a Kickstarter backer and a geezer old enough to have played Wasteland when it first came out.The production of Wasteland 2 isn't up to AAA games of 2014, but then it wasn't supposed to be.

    Little things about    The full-on comparison of Wasteland 2 and Fallout is going to produce a little disappointment. It's a sequel to Wasteland -- and i think they did a damn good job with that. I'm a Kickstarter backer and a geezer old enough to have played Wasteland when it first came out.The production of Wasteland 2 isn't up to AAA games of 2014, but then it wasn't supposed to be.

    Little things about combat annoy me, like I can't pause to get a lay of the land before combat actually starts -- and the spacebar to turn group movement on and off. I don't know why the latter keeps causing problems, but I keep forgetting to hit it to move a single character. Maybe group movement shouldn't be default? I don't know. I think that's my own shortcoming, rather than the design.

    I love the immediately branching story. Backers wanted a CRPG with choices and that's what they got. The tactical combat is part of it, but it isn't a tactics-first game -- so, it's a bit weaker there. That's fine with me, although it's very easy to wander into a frustratingly difficult battle. But that's life in the wasteland.

    As a backer, they provided exactly what I expected. I adore this game.    … Expand
  66. duvde
    Sep 25, 2014
    10
    Amazing game. Very deep, very funny to play. As a fan of crpg I'm fully satisfied. For all the fan of the genre this is a must. For all the critics about graphics- grow up....
  67. Sjalka
    Sep 25, 2014
    8
    8/10 from me

    The game offers a vast and detailed storyline, it is packed choke full with events and offers quite some re-playability. It is not as polished as i had wished though. While the game offers mature and well written content ( and it is surprisingly hard to find good mature games these days ) Personally i just wish the visual fidelity would match the content in terms of    8/10 from me

    The game offers a vast and detailed storyline, it is packed choke full with events and offers quite some re-playability. It is not as polished as i had wished though.

    While the game offers mature and well written content ( and it is surprisingly hard to find good mature games these days ) Personally i just wish the visual fidelity would match the content in terms of quality. modelling and general visuals are fairly poor for a title of that size.    … Expand
  68. Easy123
    Sep 25, 2014
    10
    A great game overall, would give it a 8.5, but am giving it a 10 to balance out some of the uninformed reveiws out there.

    Decent graphics, some great humour a bit grindy at times, but the writing gives this game an 8.5. A buy recommendation from me.
  69. Weilard
    Sep 25, 2014
    4
    First of all - I did not expect from Wasteland 2 that game be continuer of deeds of Fallout game series. But I expect from inXile Entertainment and Brian Fargo with team of great developers of the past as minimum attention to game, to details. And if this game include itself a term - tactical game, I assume that game must be tactical.

    What type of things can be named as tactical in game    First of all - I did not expect from Wasteland 2 that game be continuer of deeds of Fallout game series. But I expect from inXile Entertainment and Brian Fargo with team of great developers of the past as minimum attention to game, to details. And if this game include itself a term - tactical game, I assume that game must be tactical.

    What type of things can be named as tactical in game if:
    Almost all enemies can cross the battlefield in one turn?
    If starting tactical positions does not matter, because... (see first question)
    If each battle just a "rumble" where very rare types of enemies start a distant fight?
    Where AI of enemies binary - "0" is patrol, "1" is run to enemies and hit.
    No ambush, no tactical retreats, no flank operations, no distant fights.

    What's the tactics, where best weapon is "wrench" or "tube". In one interview Brian Fargo say that Wasteland 2, in principle are Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel with more freedom and free world. Absolutely not. FT:BOS is more tactical game than Wasteland in each piece of game. You can do it ambushes, you can shot in the prone position. You can use relief. You can make distant fight. And more-more-more over this opportunities.

    I do not want to tell about bugs, because on the starting of sales, games usual have a lot of bugs. I want tell about style of game. I mean art style. You know that Brian Fargo invited Andrée Wallin "to help craft the world of Wasteland". But you can't find hand of this talented artist nowhere except production art and few detailed portraits. All other stuff looks horrible. Just horrible. Or poor. And the justification of this fact is the voting which was earlier. Where players - choose "We want more large world and game" than "we want graphics as in Crisis."

    I think that this is incredible manipulation from the side of developers. Because no one thinking gamer never choose the graphics before game and gameplay. Does that mean that if the players choose the Game, the developers can do nothing with the Art and the Style of the Game? Not. Normal developer take care of your player. And gives him two things. Give the gamer all things. And the game. And the style. And the beauty. There are no stupid polls to know "what really want gamer?". You know answer mr. Fargo. Gamer always want all. And first of all - game. Game included all components. You cannot drop one, because somebody say - is not important.

    So... here I can see "Tactic" game without real Tactic, and game without Style (Art-Style and attention to details). This monolog can leak long time. But I stop my claims. Because lot of news resources give to this pile - highest ratings and gamers too give this pile highest rate. So... I think that games of this type - thats is what we all deserve. If we silent, if we blind - we receive only thinks like this.
    I'm not told that game is bad. I say - this is not a tactical game, and this is not beauty game. My personal rate is, roughly speaking 4 of 10, or 35-40 or 100. But not as doing mass media. "Legend! Great style! If you love Fallout this game for you! Pearl of Kickstarter". Stop making this. You sing the songs for person of Brian Fargo, not for the game. If this game did not Brian Fargo - you would not notice this game at all.

    What you say, gamers? "Amazing combat system?", "Ideal Style?", "Beautiful artwork?", "Charming graphics?". Even raw demo of Van Buren of 2003th, which was produced almost 11 years ago looks more beauty and stylish. Brian Fargo in his twitter write about disappointment about review of Joystiq news source, and about low ratings of this review. He really thinks that Wasteland 2 deserve all of this high ratings? All of this world thinks that this... is masterpiece?

    Where is the next stop? I have to get off the train.

    Only few people in world of news make a real reviews. Make a real rate for this game. And I want say - Thank You. Thank you that you rate games, regardless person who create this game. Thank you Joystiq and VideoGamer. Thank you Earnest Cavalli and Jamie Trinca.    … Expand
  70. AregAr
    Sep 24, 2014
    8
    Good game, mature, with its own style. The big minus is graphical design. It's outdated, is not cool, they must do something with it. If someone would ask me to recommend a post apocalyptic game it would be Fallout, not Wasteland 2, at least not in this shape.
  71. Bel61
    Sep 24, 2014
    10
    Отличная "олдскульлная РПГ". Радует что такие ещё выходят. А то многие "монстры" рынка решили, что лучше выпускать карточные развлекалки на полчасика.
  72. khaipur
    Sep 24, 2014
    9
    This is exactly what fans of the genre have been asking for since black isles was dissolved. On the whole a solid entry into the old crpg category. While it does not add much new it has a solid story, interesting characters and slightly generic but expected location and most important it does not mess anything up trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience at the cost of fans byThis is exactly what fans of the genre have been asking for since black isles was dissolved. On the whole a solid entry into the old crpg category. While it does not add much new it has a solid story, interesting characters and slightly generic but expected location and most important it does not mess anything up trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience at the cost of fans by turning it into a shooter.

    Needs more random encounter variance rather then an endless stream of raiders/wild animals. And some minor tweaks to some of the mission instructions.    … Expand
  73. Llaerrick
    Sep 24, 2014
    8
    fans of old-school turn-based CRPGs will love this game. while it isn't exactly pretty in the graphics department, it makes up for that with robust and fun game play. a lot of the bad user reviews revolve around the bad graphics. to each his/her own and if you are the sort that are hugely concerned about playing a pretty game, then perhaps this is not the game for you. however, if you canfans of old-school turn-based CRPGs will love this game. while it isn't exactly pretty in the graphics department, it makes up for that with robust and fun game play. a lot of the bad user reviews revolve around the bad graphics. to each his/her own and if you are the sort that are hugely concerned about playing a pretty game, then perhaps this is not the game for you. however, if you can look past the graphics, this can be a pretty fun and fulfilling game.

    like all good RPGs, a well-rounded party is a must and you have the choice of using pre-built characters or creating 4 entirely new and unique characters. while it doesn't really change inherent game play, the choice to add a 'biography' for your created characters is both interesting and really helps the immersion and role-play value (if such is your thing).

    the game play mechanics and skill trees are simple but interesting. the cover-and-shoot mechanic in this turn-based game makes for slightly more strategic game play requiring characters to take cover as well as flank and provide suppressing/cover fire (not a must on lower difficulties - but it makes the game more fun and is pretty much a must on the harder difficulties).

    the game can be unforgiving. there isn't a whole lot of hand-holding (some of the tool-tips and help/hints could probably be clearer). while it is somewhat linear in terms of where you should be going, you are allowed to wander about within a certain tolerance/variance. entirely possible to enter into encounters and maps with enemies that are whoppingly higher levels than you resulting and your entire party being wiped. the concept of perma-death for your characters also raise the stakes and forces you to play more strategically or thoughtfully than you might normally do so.

    overall, i found this to be a very fun game with high replayability and highly recommend it especially to the older gamers who had many hours of fun on text-heavy (oh some of the dry/dark humour in the game is hilarious) old-school CRPGs.    … Expand
  74. MasterZeroFlash
    Sep 24, 2014
    3
    This game was very promising, especially considering the people working on it and the fact that they raised 3,000,000$ from the Kickstarter. When i actually got to play it though... Generic delivery-boy quests and kill this and that all over, a game that runs extremely choppy and a fanboy community even more blind than some religious cults. Buy if you have the money to spare, otherwise buyThis game was very promising, especially considering the people working on it and the fact that they raised 3,000,000$ from the Kickstarter. When i actually got to play it though... Generic delivery-boy quests and kill this and that all over, a game that runs extremely choppy and a fanboy community even more blind than some religious cults. Buy if you have the money to spare, otherwise buy Fallout 1&2 (if you haven't already) or at least wait until WL2 goes on sale. And there is nothing special about the "deluxe version" either, you get some wallpapers, a couple of novellas and an updated version of the original Wasteland (with added sound and slightly better graphics, which is quite nice, though the original "original" is more than enough already).

    -4 for the game being very choppy.
    -1 for the horrible community.
    -2 for not putting out something better than they have, considering the budget and how they themselves have presented the game.
    +3 For it not being a total -waste- of time, and actually a pretty fun (and effective) way to spend ones free time.    … Expand
  75. windpeoples
    Sep 24, 2014
    9
    While not perfect (there is no such thing as a perfect game), it is a worthy sequel to the original Wasteland. There is a hidden depth in character creation and game mechanics that many overlook, but I found refreshing. Not a game for everyone probably, but more than satisfied to have backed the project on Kickstarter.
  76. kafkaz
    Sep 24, 2014
    5
    As backer, I expected a lot from Wasteland 2. But to my dismay, it did not deliver.

    First off, graphics is poor. Not only it is not artistically pleasing, it is most of the time bland, uninspired, and without trace of atmosphere. Colors don´t work together. Animations are akward, slow, characters flow weightlessly. Quality of 3D objects wildly varies, as of textures. All in all, I    As backer, I expected a lot from Wasteland 2. But to my dismay, it did not deliver.

    First off, graphics is poor. Not only it is not artistically pleasing, it is most of the time bland, uninspired, and without trace of atmosphere. Colors don´t work together. Animations are akward, slow, characters flow weightlessly. Quality of 3D objects wildly varies, as of textures. All in all, I really don´t feel visuals deliver the story and overall setting correctly.

    Level design is pretty bad, outdated, and without attention to detail. For example, there are literally hundreds of chests everywhere, most of them trapped, like what the hell? Who left them there? In the middle of nowhere? Why? Does this make any sense? No, it doesn´t, the world is unbelievable and feels fabricated. On top of that, you´ve got to rotate camera all the time to not miss important stuff. In these regards, even Fallout 1 is way better.

    I´ve just completed first of the bigger quests and I really wonder whether I should play on, and hope for the better. Because so far, its a drag. Boring NPCs, boring quests, all wrapped in bad visuals.

    Combat seems kinda ok, although monsters are nothing to write home about. Random generated encounters are really terrible, as there are like two different maps they happen upon. It gets repetetive really quickly. You don´t expect mindless grind in single-player, but, boy, you will get it here.

    If I compare W2 with recently published Divinity: OS ($1mil.), Wasteland 2 looks like very indie, borderline amateurish, attempt. This is not $3 mil. game by any stretch of an imagination. I really hope Torment will be two leagues above production quality of W2. Otherwise I will question whether Fargo is able to make good games like he used to.    … Expand
  77. blade01
    Sep 24, 2014
    5
    Sooooo, Wasteland 2 is out!Nice!Or not?Let me explain why my score for Wasteland 2.Ill go into my technical troubles first, than i review the game itself.

    Technical trouble:I got an old PC.Thats not a problem, most games run just fine(im talking about assasins creed black flag and such titles).Im glad when a game like WL2 comes around cause it suits my PC better.Thats what i thought.I    Sooooo, Wasteland 2 is out!Nice!Or not?Let me explain why my score for Wasteland 2.Ill go into my technical troubles first, than i review the game itself.

    Technical trouble:I got an old PC.Thats not a problem, most games run just fine(im talking about assasins creed black flag and such titles).Im glad when a game like WL2 comes around cause it suits my PC better.Thats what i thought.I had issues in the EA-version of the game with the "Write to location 00000000 caused an access violation" problem.If you got a 32 bit system youll probally know about it.In short, the game uses up too much ressources while doing things.For some, even open the questlog will cause a crash.For me, it cashes when im entering the railroads nomads camp.Gamestopping i think.There is a workarround for some people but that shouldnt be necessary and its not always working.Sorry, the game looks like crap, sounds like crap and even Skyrim runs just fine on my PC.But WL2 got issues?Bad optimization, sorry guys.For that, ill substract 2 points from my score.

    Ok, into detail:

    Visuals:The game looks like crap, in every setting.While this is ok for some things, thats just to much.Everything looks like you are standing in a puddle of mud.Charactermodels are pretty bad.Visual effects?Nonexsistent!Even explosives are not great.You can say its an indiegame or its costs just XX, i dont care.Even much older games look better and the games artdesign is not that great.Look at Fallout 1 or 2.You can play it today, it looks oks cause it aged well.Wasteland 2 looks not just outdated.

    Sound:There is not much voiceacting, but when there is a voiceover its is great!!!Good quality, great cast.
    The music is ok, it fits the setting.But there is not much variety.Weaponsounds are cheap.The FAMAs for example sounds better than most weapons, why?

    Gameplay:There are some flaws in the general design.For example when you talk to someone and you want or have to use one of the speechskills(like kissass).Youll have to select the character for this action.While on its own this isnt so tragic, there are many little things like that and they sum up over the time.At some point i was really annoyed(like the regular callin for promotion aka leveling up).What the developer have done well is the deversity of skills you can use.Often, there is more than one way.I like that.The combat is a problem i think.You cant do that much, even taking cover is ruined by the fact that many enemy groups are made up of a mix of enemytypes.They will try to storm you position like hell(and will get kiled far too easy).That ruins the only real option you got, take cover.So, youll often just standing arround and shoot, especially when you fight animals.For 2014 thats not enough, sorry.And there is another problem with the random encountersystem.The groups youll encounter are badly scaled.There are small groups of 3 enemys with 15 HP or less that are too weak for you, even when you start.And than there are overpowered(when syou start they are really overpowered) groups with 80-145 HP and good armor, in the starting area.Thats badly designed, sorry.

    All in all this game is no masterpiece.It still got bugs, many bugs.Gamestoppingbugs.Search on google, youll see.After such an extensive EA-phase thats a no go!!!A solid 7 if you got a 64-bit OS and enough RAM.If you got a 32-bit OS its pure luck if the game runs like it should.Ive got a 32-bit OS and troubles, for me the game is a 5 at best.    … Expand
  78. spyganza
    Sep 24, 2014
    10
    재미는 있는데 보팔래빗 드립칠려고 넣은 농업센터 토끼 몬스터 개 좆같음 농업센터 가지말고 마을로 가세요 물만 있으면 종자연구가 대수 입니까 물은생명의 어머니!

    아 근데 영어 실력이 필수라 한패나오기 전에는 까막눈은 ^^ 잘 고려해서 사시길
  79. 00wolf
    Sep 24, 2014
    8
    Wasteland 2 has that classic Black Isle feel. If you loved the CRPGs of the 90s and like post-apocalyptic setting, then you will absolutely love this game.
  80. Bennrama
    Sep 24, 2014
    9
    Sophisticated storyline - which is rare in modern games - and an engaging fantasy world. Wasteland 2 is intelligently written, includes characters that seem real, and has depth to its gameplay and RPG elements that the modern fps and dungeon loot-fest clones can only dream about.

    This is a game for the thinkers, the appreciators of a great storyline, and the strategists. Those who    Sophisticated storyline - which is rare in modern games - and an engaging fantasy world. Wasteland 2 is intelligently written, includes characters that seem real, and has depth to its gameplay and RPG elements that the modern fps and dungeon loot-fest clones can only dream about.

    This is a game for the thinkers, the appreciators of a great storyline, and the strategists. Those who aren't afraid of difficult fights, and the permanence of loss. The graphics aren't special, and a lot of the character script is not voice acted, but the cost cutting in these cosmetic departments has allowed for more resources to be spent in making this game a long lasting adventure with great depth, role playing potential, and strategic options.

    No wonder Ken Levine praised this game. Thanks InExile! Worth every penny and more!    … Expand
  81. GM_Ninja
    Sep 24, 2014
    10
    After playing this title extensively and digesting the content of the game, I can confidently state that this is a well thought out title with many labyrinths of choice to choose from. The controls are simple and adhere to a classic CRPG title (much like Fallout) setup. Combat looks like XCOM on the outside but is, in reality more of a dice roll like RPG. The game has a lot of detail toAfter playing this title extensively and digesting the content of the game, I can confidently state that this is a well thought out title with many labyrinths of choice to choose from. The controls are simple and adhere to a classic CRPG title (much like Fallout) setup. Combat looks like XCOM on the outside but is, in reality more of a dice roll like RPG. The game has a lot of detail to the environments, the characters, and the various scenarios that play out as you progress in the game. Some situations or pretty raw, and others are reminiscent of experiences in older RPG titles. The graphics are pretty, though I feel the detailing on the people could be better. Overall this title delivered exactly what it promised. A revitalization of a dead genre. People will probably complain about the combat system, but that's only natural when you get bad dice rolls. This game has a lot of play time and a trove of maps.

    Graphics: 7.5/10
    Gameplay: 9/10
    Audio quality: 8/10
    UI/Control: 8.5/10
    Content:10/10    … Expand
  82. tomasdee
    Sep 23, 2014
    8
    great game - strong story, very immersive and lots to tinker with. I had a part run thru which i threw out to re-create a better group comp.
    Skill points are hard to come by so the game really makes you tune each characters specialty (you can't do everything). This works well as your party needs to work together.
    The combat is good though it would be nice if you could assign formations    great game - strong story, very immersive and lots to tinker with. I had a part run thru which i threw out to re-create a better group comp.
    Skill points are hard to come by so the game really makes you tune each characters specialty (you can't do everything). This works well as your party needs to work together.
    The combat is good though it would be nice if you could assign formations to your group, generally they enter combat all bunched up risking friendly fire. (unless you pre position the party before hand - this is a bit tedious)
    I like the travel/water system, though hopefully travel might become faster later on?
    Unfortunately there is lots of > save game - try something - reload game and retry.
    No stealth option in the game seems a bit lacking
    All encounters seem pre-set so not quite sure on the replayability. (random encounters during travel tho)
    Worth a go if you like the genre.    … Expand
  83. Erlioth
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    To me, this game is way better than Divinity: OS. People are complaining about the graphics in the negative reviews, what a joke. Keep playing your AAA games that suck, this game is great
  84. wowzaa1
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    I like this more than Wasteland and even Falllout. Fallout is one of my favorite games ever made, and I honestly think this blows it out of the water. Take it from a true fan
  85. Omika_pearl
    Sep 23, 2014
    3
    It's my own fault for reading only positive reviews and being seduced by the constant references to Fallout by users and major review sites. That combined with the general air of positivity at the game's release caused me to by the game on impulse, since I absolutely loved Fallout 1 & 2.

    That mistake is on me. I'm not denying that. But people, please, PLEASE stop comparing this    It's my own fault for reading only positive reviews and being seduced by the constant references to Fallout by users and major review sites. That combined with the general air of positivity at the game's release caused me to by the game on impulse, since I absolutely loved Fallout 1 & 2.

    That mistake is on me. I'm not denying that.

    But people, please, PLEASE stop comparing this game to Fallout 1 & 2. Please stop saying things like it's "the true Fallout 3."

    It's not. It's not even close. It lacks any and all of Fallout's whimsical charm, it forces you to create a squad at the beginning instead of striking out on a lonely, eerie struggle.

    Moreover, the game feels like it's high on its own supply. Overhyped, oversold, generally just not ideal for someone who wants an original Fallout experience. There's a big difference between this super serious, staid setting and the wacky retro-future of Fallout.

    Honestly, this is like a better verison of Fallout: Tactics at the end of the day. I'm not saying this is a bad game, it's just extremely misleading to compare it to the original Fallout titles. It is NOT like them. No traits, no perks, no color or humor. Not enough attribute and skill points at the beginning for an individual character, since you're supposed to make four. There's no room for character development or finding your own identity. The very first conversation, I'm pushed into saying "sir" constantly and being a military recruit. Maybe I don't WANT to join the rangers.

    Maybe I want to just run out into the wilderness or find a city hub and just make my own path - like I did in Fallout.

    I realize everyone is different. But part of the reason I loved Fallout was that my companions had their own minds and I didn't have to micromanage them constantly. It ended up creating hilarious (and sometimes awful) situations in which my companions surprised me in combat. Overall, it was more immersive (to me) because I was focused entirely on my own character, instead of mysteriously mind-controlling a group.

    Overall, it's hard to say whether or not I recommend the game. I know some people will love it. But I can't get over the vast disappointment after I was lead to believe, from literally everyone, that this is like Fallout. It's not. Fallout, in my opinion, is way more fun. Mechanically, aesthetically, and otherwise.

    Just one woman's point of view. Take it or leave it.    … Expand
  86. Nightshade780
    Sep 23, 2014
    9
    Pure Awesomeness!! So I was very hesitant at first to get into this, and like most of you searched every where and read reviews and watched game play videos well let me not waste your time. If you liked x-com enemy unknown then you will love this. I am giving it a 9 because there are no jet packs or hooks to be able to place your snipers on high ground. So far at the time of writing thisPure Awesomeness!! So I was very hesitant at first to get into this, and like most of you searched every where and read reviews and watched game play videos well let me not waste your time. If you liked x-com enemy unknown then you will love this. I am giving it a 9 because there are no jet packs or hooks to be able to place your snipers on high ground. So far at the time of writing this review I have logged in 13.8 hours. (in past 2 days) like wow I am hooked.

    Game has lots of things for you to find and discover(Easter eggs) etc. and don't forget to Save, Save, Save LOL....    … Expand
  87. Ignatius_Reilly
    Sep 23, 2014
    8
    Great game. I backed it at the 50 dollar level and I feel I've gotten my money's worth. The amount of content here is pretty killer. Lots of quests/side-areas/items/people to talk to/little secrets to discover, etc. etc.. Tons of opportunity for skill usage. I feel like they did very well with this. Everything from Toaster fixing to Perception has a major affect on your game play (believeGreat game. I backed it at the 50 dollar level and I feel I've gotten my money's worth. The amount of content here is pretty killer. Lots of quests/side-areas/items/people to talk to/little secrets to discover, etc. etc.. Tons of opportunity for skill usage. I feel like they did very well with this. Everything from Toaster fixing to Perception has a major affect on your game play (believe me, I've rerolled 3 times now). There is a good amount of role play, or perhaps we'll call C&C. Not New Vegas level, but it's there.

    It's definitely nailed down the CRPG feel that they promised. You know, that type of game they don't make anymore? Well, this is basically it. I feel it's a solid 8, held back by terrible graphical optimization. It's not that I need the game to be gorgeous, but damn does the frame rate clunk even on an i5 4690 processor, which handles New Vegas/Diablo 3 very easily. But it's a great start, and a solid sequel. And I can't stop playing.

    The writing is quite good also. Tons of characters and they all received solid characterization, very little cardboard here, folks. (Find my [Sweet Roll] in the cave! You found my [Sweet Roll]! [Thanks] to you [Hero]!)

    Combat: It's getting some flak for that. I'm one of those who loved FO: Tactics, so I think it depends on your tastes. I get pleasure out of taking advantage of cover/ambushes/using terrain, but beyond that, it is somewhat limited, if you're the type who wants more nuance. But for tactical squad shooty combat, it's a solid foundation.

    I've already put in about 100 hours (from re-rolling, what? I'm a bit OCD!) and still thoroughly enjoying myself. Haven't even gotten to California yet! Hopefully this is first of many more great CRPGs to come.    … Expand
  88. joelofdeath
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    This game is amazing. Great return to form for inXile and so happy that this style of game is being made again. Mood, atmosphere and music are spot on. Turn based combat at it's finest.

    Absolute must play for any isometric fan.
  89. Neekto
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    After much time without proper cRPGs, veterans from inXile has brought us a classical cRPG. Financed by backers, we have a game which is truly made for fans of the genre. We have a rich character creation system which offers us many possible builds. (After showing my friend the creation screen I heard an awe and surprise in his voice ). The number of skills is big, bigger than in anyAfter much time without proper cRPGs, veterans from inXile has brought us a classical cRPG. Financed by backers, we have a game which is truly made for fans of the genre. We have a rich character creation system which offers us many possible builds. (After showing my friend the creation screen I heard an awe and surprise in his voice ). The number of skills is big, bigger than in any recent AAA title. Fiddling with it brings quite a satisfaction. Combat is turn based and offers enough challenge, certainly more than any recent big title. Game world is vast and interesting, but first few maps feel too much linear. But after that we have some nice ,non linear places to visit. Writing is good in that intelligent , not quite mature but for adults sense:) We have some fun scenarios like a dialogue with one leader of a bandit's group called Red Scorpion Militia, who says that they prefer to be called RSM because their surveys told them this name gives them better reputation among denizens of Wasteland, thus they use it for PR purposes :) Wasteland 2 features more than half a million words and it feels. We have soundtrack of Fallout, and Planescape Torment veteran Mark Morgan, whose tracks are like always amazing and really bring a good atmosphere to the game. After completing first part of the game, which takes place in Arizona, players move to California which offers different experience. It helps to make the game feel fresh to the end, especially that the second part is better than the the first. We have many nice instances of choices and consequences and many different solutions to quests. Player can do whatever he wants if he has enough strength for that. Wanna kill somebody? Go ahead, nobody is immortal, but face the resistance! Graphics are ok, especially awesome handmade portraits. (if one is cynical enough he can say it is the best looking cRPG to date, depends what we consider an cRPG :P ). I think most cRPG players will have fun with Wasteland 2. Maybe it's not a game which is excellent at some front, but it manages to have every aspect of role playing game at least good, often very good. Which is rare as most of it's genre tend to be a flawed gems, extraordinary strong in one or few departments, weak in others.Wasteland offer good around experience. Although not as great as Fallout it's a great game on it's own, certainly will be remembered by future cRPGs players as the game which resurrected the genre and brought about an incline.… Expand
  90. daroczi
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    THIS GAME ROCKS. If Fallout 3 didn't give birth to New Vegas, I would say this should've been Fallout 3. I imagine most of the nay-sayers are those who believe The Elder Scross are true RPGs but have never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. If you appreciate the challenge, depth, grit, variety, and actual exploration (which doesn't exist anymore. chasing a treasure chest icon on a mapTHIS GAME ROCKS. If Fallout 3 didn't give birth to New Vegas, I would say this should've been Fallout 3. I imagine most of the nay-sayers are those who believe The Elder Scross are true RPGs but have never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. If you appreciate the challenge, depth, grit, variety, and actual exploration (which doesn't exist anymore. chasing a treasure chest icon on a map isnt exploring) of the pc classics, then you need this game asap! As always, support the developer and buy it. I recommend GOG.com… Expand
  91. Garfoodle
    Sep 23, 2014
    6
    Not the best TBS game on the market,not the worst, It plays well and all,but for some reason,it just seems to be missing something. Maybe it's the lack of surprise, the whole "I've been there, done that" feeling that comes with playing this game. Maybe it's the heavy $40 price of admission to get into the show,per say. Maybe it's just the very overdone setting.But,none thE less,it's stillNot the best TBS game on the market,not the worst, It plays well and all,but for some reason,it just seems to be missing something. Maybe it's the lack of surprise, the whole "I've been there, done that" feeling that comes with playing this game. Maybe it's the heavy $40 price of admission to get into the show,per say. Maybe it's just the very overdone setting.But,none thE less,it's still a fun,decent length romp through nostalgia that is worth getting for the soon to be $20 steam sale.… Expand
  92. Khadgrim
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    A fantastic game true to its heritage.

    Dark humor, great plot and well tailored characters.

    If you liked the now classic, fallout 1,2 and tactics and Divinity: Original sin then you will enjoy this.
  93. Kronos362
    Sep 23, 2014
    10
    Great game am really getting into it. You need a little patience but the writing and humour come together when you get the hang of the game.

    A real treat.
  94. IGNsus
    Sep 22, 2014
    8
    "PS. It's ridiculous to see a 50$ DLC on day one. I've NEVER seen a 50$ DLC in any game.."

    That's a blatant lie. This game has no DLC content. The DLC thing is a gag. And if this reviewer had spent more than 5 seconds playing the game, he would realize that.
  95. Booeyww
    Sep 22, 2014
    6
    Wasteland 2 has the potential to be a great game. The character design has depth and the idea of team building and skill management is excellent. I only wish that the game is more polished. From the awkward camera angles to a lack of quest aid the player the game is quite frustrating to play especially for newer players.
  96. Zenhorst
    Sep 22, 2014
    10
    Fallout t 1, Fallout 2, Wasteland 2.
    Holly Trinity
    That's all.
    /you need 150 chars for review. OK. It's not graphic or sound make cRPG. It's gameplay. And Wasteland 2 done it right.
  97. MatthewAMEL
    Sep 22, 2014
    8
    I was wary due to other experiences with Kickstarted projects, but they did a phenomenal job with Wasteland 2.

    I have never been a fan of the classic RPG, but have always been a sucker for the post-atomic setting.

    This is a very well written, clever, engaging game.
  98. Onholyservicebo
    Sep 22, 2014
    10
    The negative reviews in this game should not be taken seriously under any circumstances. Most are written by butthurt rage-quitters who didn't like the fact that you can lose in this game. The difficulty is greatly exaggerated, unless you are mentally challenged you will have no issue with it, even with a sub-optimal party.

    Compared to a game like D:OS this game shines in all aspects    The negative reviews in this game should not be taken seriously under any circumstances. Most are written by butthurt rage-quitters who didn't like the fact that you can lose in this game. The difficulty is greatly exaggerated, unless you are mentally challenged you will have no issue with it, even with a sub-optimal party.

    Compared to a game like D:OS this game shines in all aspects relating to role-playing, c&c, and writing. Basically, google the graphics, if you can tolerate them, and have an IQ above 90, you'll probably enjoy this game. Since all of the negativity can be summed up by: Bad graphics, too hard.    … Expand
  99. ChiefdruidRVnge
    Sep 22, 2014
    0
    Worst looking Sci-fi repeat of a game type since Rome 2. Have you seen the graphics? $40 of this POS junk? Cmon surely you have something better to spend your money on like Endless Legends? I'll wait for the $4.99 bargain bin price soon to come after this junk releases. You'd do well to do the same. Even the moderators and developers of the game are deleting threads and posts already ofWorst looking Sci-fi repeat of a game type since Rome 2. Have you seen the graphics? $40 of this POS junk? Cmon surely you have something better to spend your money on like Endless Legends? I'll wait for the $4.99 bargain bin price soon to come after this junk releases. You'd do well to do the same. Even the moderators and developers of the game are deleting threads and posts already of some things negative said about the game. If they are deleting threads and posts this early then something must be seriously wrong with the game they don't won't us knowing about.

    Now Wasteland I was/is a wonderful game and story but this POS doesn't look or feel anything like the first one. It looks and feels more like a Diablo III clone and you know how bad that one turned out.    … Expand
  100. Antart
    Sep 22, 2014
    10
    All in this game is focused to put us in the post-nuclear situation and the game itself is incredibly complex, all what you see at the detailed character tab is reflected in the entire game so you need to choose a carefully balanced group, but even with 4 characters you can't have all at the same time so each bullet will and the final sensation will be an unforgettable experience.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 65 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 65
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 65
  3. Negative: 0 out of 65
  1. DarkStation
    Nov 25, 2014
    80
    Wasteland 2, for the most part, provides everything that its Kickstarter backers and fans of the genre are looking for.
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  2. RPGamer
    Nov 13, 2014
    60
    If you're a fan of this style of game and have played the best recent releases, look behind you. Because that's where Wasteland 2 is going to be.
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  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Nov 12, 2014
    100
    The epitome of old-school that doesn't reek of decay. There are a few bumps along the road, but oh, is it a road worth taking. [Issue#246]
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