Wasteland 3

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7.7

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  1. Zipfer
    Sep 4, 2020
    1
    - Incredibly long save loading for that kind of the game. 30 Hours of your game will be load screens, each small location load about 1-2 min on SSD nvme.
    - The explanation of game mechanics is awful.
    - The game doesn't even explain how to kill a robot at the start of the game. - Bugs, bugs, bugs... + Amazing quests + Big location to explore + A lot of secret places + Loot and items    - Incredibly long save loading for that kind of the game. 30 Hours of your game will be load screens, each small location load about 1-2 min on SSD nvme.
    - The explanation of game mechanics is awful.
    - The game doesn't even explain how to kill a robot at the start of the game.
    - Bugs, bugs, bugs...
    + Amazing quests
    + Big location to explore
    + A lot of secret places
    + Loot and items useful and interesting to investigate
    The result - you can't enjoy the game wrong step of stupid AI can destroy themselves. If you left some screens mission can be failed and there is no warning about it. Wanna replay? Welcome to another 10 hours because of LONG LONG load screens. These aspects just kill the game.
    Also, there are no patches, developers just forgot about the game. And the price, it's definitely doesn't worse the money they want for this buggy game    … Expand
  2. adrian_becker1
    Aug 30, 2020
    2
    -game engine logic flaws: step out of a room and the whole room is fog of war. move one meter forward into the room and the whole room becomes visible.
    -dumb down combat: enemies do not fight each other. I lured radioactive frog monsters into a mercenery group and they ignored each other and both attacked me.
    -game breaking bug: shelf one of your mains and he loses progress without skill    -game engine logic flaws: step out of a room and the whole room is fog of war. move one meter forward into the room and the whole room becomes visible.
    -dumb down combat: enemies do not fight each other. I lured radioactive frog monsters into a mercenery group and they ignored each other and both attacked me.
    -game breaking bug: shelf one of your mains and he loses progress without skill point refund    … Expand
  3. FarkyJTV
    Aug 30, 2020
    4
    horrible buggy mess.wait for 1-2 months to be this game patched out and finnished.under these problems is a nice game but not like this,.
  4. Askkosh
    Aug 30, 2020
    1
    Pro : nice game, graphic and gameplay are ok.
    Con : this is not Wasteland !
    - graphics are cartonish and above wasteland 2 ! - voice acting is a job : why did you do that ? - gameplay are ok : unless you use mouse and keyboard - wasteland 2 had some jokes and a bunch of serious moments : wasteland 3 is a constant joke ! - repetitive gameplay - no personal inventory. just a one    Pro : nice game, graphic and gameplay are ok.
    Con : this is not Wasteland !
    - graphics are cartonish and above wasteland 2 !
    - voice acting is a job : why did you do that ?
    - gameplay are ok : unless you use mouse and keyboard
    - wasteland 2 had some jokes and a bunch of serious moments : wasteland 3 is a constant joke !
    - repetitive gameplay
    - no personal inventory. just a one shared bag for the team : we are not psXbox players !
    - for the second time in his long life this old man had asked for a refund !    … Expand
  5. AllNewSuperfake
    Sep 4, 2020
    4
    Too much of the plot, the worldbuilding and even the basic design seem uninspired and linear. Unfortunately the overall mediocracy of "Wasteland 3" is undermined by technical issues beyond the stuff that can be patched; the voiceacting is often cringeworthy, the UI is unintuitive, the Ai - in and out of combat - is easily confused, and the roundbased combat has been dumbed down.

    But    Too much of the plot, the worldbuilding and even the basic design seem uninspired and linear. Unfortunately the overall mediocracy of "Wasteland 3" is undermined by technical issues beyond the stuff that can be patched; the voiceacting is often cringeworthy, the UI is unintuitive, the Ai - in and out of combat - is easily confused, and the roundbased combat has been dumbed down.

    But what really bothers me is how unnecessary the whole game feels. If this was a TV series, this would be one of those filler episodes that you could just forget about and skip in a rerun. It's cobbled together from every post-apocalyptic franchise out there, but what could be - should be!- an all-you-can-eat-buffet feels like those three day old leftovers you find in the fridge.

    Unfortunately InXile also seems to have confused me with a beta tester. So if you are in the mood for stale, by-the-book gameplay, at least wait for the worst bugs to be fixed.    … Expand
  6. RMDsilva
    Dec 9, 2020
    4
    Although I like the dev team and recognize this is a product made with love... it's still not a good game.
    The story has always been basic, but this was pretty bad. Most characters and factions don't make any sense and it's hard to sympathise with any of them. Secondary and main characters have zero depth and personality.
    Combat system is too much of a mess. Somehow my sniper does as    Although I like the dev team and recognize this is a product made with love... it's still not a good game.
    The story has always been basic, but this was pretty bad. Most characters and factions don't make any sense and it's hard to sympathise with any of them. Secondary and main characters have zero depth and personality.

    Combat system is too much of a mess. Somehow my sniper does as much damage as my revolver user, and I just have to rely on crits to survive, while even with top armor, most opponents can one-shot me. Not particularly strategic or fun.

    The more you get into specifics, the worst it gets. Some skills are super important, others have zero relevance.... all depending on what items you find. Zero strategy, again, my team essentially all did the same but with the same weapons. Ah, and somehow assault rifles and "big guns" are the worst weapons?
    AI is crap, followers always get stuck in your way.
    Lots of tiny bugs everywhere...

    I almost quit several times, but I made it to the end, just because I like finishing things. But solving the final fight with a couple of persuasion checks... really? After so many generic fights that I was forced to do for no reason?    … Expand
  7. Satanski666
    Jun 14, 2021
    2
    The game is a shadow of it's predecessors with main problems being dumbed down gameplay, and excess of cringeworthy humor, only adolescent nerds could possibly find funny. Big, big letdown.
  8. jorje_mamasitas
    Aug 30, 2020
    4
    The wasteland 2 had many jokes inbetween the serious moments, but here? The entire game feels like one, it relies heavily on the "haha eggplant big" or "haha parrot say bad word", it honestly feels like it was written by an epic redditor seriously thinking that the humour is quirky in some way, because calling someone "simp" is funny, even if it makes no sense.

    And what about the    The wasteland 2 had many jokes inbetween the serious moments, but here? The entire game feels like one, it relies heavily on the "haha eggplant big" or "haha parrot say bad word", it honestly feels like it was written by an epic redditor seriously thinking that the humour is quirky in some way, because calling someone "simp" is funny, even if it makes no sense.

    And what about the goddamn time quests that expire before you even take them? Is that supposed to be funny too?    … Expand
  9. Hexen-Slayer
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    QUIT USING YOUR CUSTOMERS AS BUG TESTERS!
    Wasteland 3 has more issues than Fallout 76! Fallout 76 got ripped a new one, while Wasteland 3 gets almost universal praise. In this current state the game is unfinished and virtually unplayable - hence a 0. Crashes, crashes and more crashes - to add salt to injury the loading times are inexplicably long: this is not a state of the art game that    QUIT USING YOUR CUSTOMERS AS BUG TESTERS!
    Wasteland 3 has more issues than Fallout 76! Fallout 76 got ripped a new one, while Wasteland 3 gets almost universal praise. In this current state the game is unfinished and virtually unplayable - hence a 0. Crashes, crashes and more crashes - to add salt to injury the loading times are inexplicably long: this is not a state of the art game that would justify such loading times!
    Seeing this game, I can't but wonder, what took the devs so long to make this? Quality testing? Hell no! Stunning visuals/ cutscenes? Nope, still the same as in Wasteland 2! Seriously, InXile, what the ef did you do in those years??? It feels more like a Wasteland 2.5 . Groundbreaking new game mechanics? You wish!
    It even does not have that much tactical depth to it: there are no factions! Two different enemies (mutants & raiders) don't fight each other, but both attack my group. Hell, even classic DOOM had monster in-fighting!
    The camera has issues as well and don't get me started on the botched stealth system. Graphics look badly outdated, I personally did not care for the cartoonish style.
    If you have Wasteland 2 - stick with that one and avoid Wasteland 3 like the plague.
    Re-fkin-funded!    … Expand
  10. Patol
    Sep 19, 2020
    4
    I tried to convince myself to this game, unfortunately the game is so ugly that more than 20 minutes per session is impossible to bear. Even the old fallout 2 with its sprite animations seems much more aesthetic than this.
  11. LoisPrice
    Mar 6, 2021
    0
    Much like The Outer Worlds, another game by an RPG studio recently bought by Microsoft, this is a game that should be more ambitious given the resources of the publisher behind it. Instead its just like Wasteland 2 with snow. This disappointed me because trailers I'd seen of the game had showcased conversations with full facial animations, this is something that only happens during someMuch like The Outer Worlds, another game by an RPG studio recently bought by Microsoft, this is a game that should be more ambitious given the resources of the publisher behind it. Instead its just like Wasteland 2 with snow. This disappointed me because trailers I'd seen of the game had showcased conversations with full facial animations, this is something that only happens during some interactions though. Maybe InXile got the Microsoft cash too late in development to really make this game stand apart from its predecessor, either way it didn't hold my interest like other CRPG's such as Pillars of Eternity 2 InXile's most recent The Bards Tale entry.… Expand
  12. mariolawielicka
    Dec 15, 2020
    1
    Terrible and unplayable disaster with writing of an edgy 11 years old. Not recommended to anyone.
  13. HoundFromHell
    Jul 30, 2021
    0
    when stupid an Dummy makes a game you get this.
    they obviously know nothing of weapons. I mean how does a shotgun at point blank range miss? that is the whole point of a shotgun. it sprays so it has a high chance of hitting the target.
    not to mention the missions arent interesting, and the characters arent interesting. so much more but if you decided to play you will see what i mean.
  14. NicoAK777
    Aug 6, 2021
    0
    This game should be an RPG. As that genre it fails miserably.
    Look I can forgive buggy gameplay, I can forgive unbalanced game technicities. I can forgive poor music or even poor design.
    What I cannot forgive is a bad story and a railroad storytelling in what's supposed to be an RPG. The game is so railroaded that's ridiculous and it impacts the storytelling making it seem bland,    This game should be an RPG. As that genre it fails miserably.
    Look I can forgive buggy gameplay, I can forgive unbalanced game technicities. I can forgive poor music or even poor design.

    What I cannot forgive is a bad story and a railroad storytelling in what's supposed to be an RPG.

    The game is so railroaded that's ridiculous and it impacts the storytelling making it seem bland, silly and unrelatable. Spoilers Ahead.
    For example

    In the first part of the game, you are facing the Dorseys who attacked the Convoy, I try to follow along his psychopath act and extract info from them , then the ''badass'' ranger who was bleeding to death decided to step in and kill them before I could get any valuable info from these guys. Way to go genius ! Couldn't you just die quietly in your corner ?
    Another good example is the child robot. it's obviously infantile and confused, but there is no way to negotiate with him, you can either kill a literal child uploaded in a robot's brain ( btw there is no in game way to know that this is an actual child rather than just an android ), or you can let it go, with no way of convincing him to stop killing humans. It's ridiculous.

    And that's just the tip of the Iceberg NEVER before I have found an RPG that punishes for your actions in a way you cannot complete the story, or you loose gaming mechanics for it.

    In one of the primary missions, PRIMARY, you have to find staff for your base, one of the required staff members is a mechanic.

    The ONLY way to get said mechanic, is by being an vainglorious good guy and choose a dumb side of helping refugees.
    The situation is that the city is facing short supplies and they cannot support all the refugees , so, instead of making everyone starve , I decided to help the last batch to reach the city, and then take down the ones who helped smuggle them.
    Turns out the game is so hellbent on making you choose something that the developer team consider ''morally right'', that they punish you for choosing the sensible middle ground, not all refugees, but a few of them, help the ones you can. Whelp, turns out that makes it impossible to complete one of the primary missions in the game, and locks you out of ever having a mechanic to mod your primary mean of transport and accessing radioactive sites. Good job !.
    They even give you a joke political advisor instead of the mechanic, who is basically going to cry and not advise anything the moment you suggest something he doesn't like, just like the game creators !.

    The game is so railroaded that you cannot even refuse rewards. I'm serious. When you have to choose between siding with Brygo and the Marshalls, if you choose Brygo and tell him you don't want his reward for being ''reasonable'', aka a team of criminals that will sell you guns, he puts his life in the line to tell you that you either accept or join the Marshalls.
    How ? Why ? We literally reach an agreement in which I let you go , you tried to stop your underling from helping traitors, you were an ally of the old ranger team, I wanted a bloodless solution to all this, and I don't like the corrupt Marshalls, why are you risking your life in a gun fight because I rejected your reward ????

    As a last note, the game is overly political in a wrong sense and punishes those who don't follow the game creators moral compass.
    I'm a immigrant, I don't need anyone to tell me how hard is to immigrate to a better country, I know that well enough, but are you saying that the reality that you cannot help all immigrant in the world is ''evil'' ? No country can solve the entire world's poverty and war refugees. That's a reality you have to deal with. But in this game there is no place for negotiations, you cannot tell them to go to another place, you cannot help the ones there and make sure the next waves goes to somewhere else, you cannot even help them build a better place.
    You are either ''evil'' or ''good''.
    And that's the entirety of the game, you can choose being ''evil'' and be punished by the game, or be ''good'' and follow a very poor storytelling.
    Also, as sidenote, for being so overly political, they sure have no quarrels in doing harmful stereotypes, like the inbred hillbilly rednecks who are hyper aggressive and pick up a fight with you for the lols. Ah but we all know stereotyping one side of the political spectrum is good so long is ''that'' side right ? right.

    The entire game follows a poor and bad railroaded story. The game is terrible for that, it's like I made a strategy game, and instead of strategy I make it a first person action shooter. This is not how RPGs work.    … Expand
  15. Trypsinogen
    Sep 12, 2020
    0
    Even if this game weren't a buggy, unworkable pile of trash it would still be bad. The mechanics, story, and gameplay all fall flat and are not entertaining. You compare it to a similar game like Divinity Original Sin 2 and you easily see this game delivers far below par. Add on top of this that this game is a buggy mess littered with game-breaking bugs and terribly long load times (evenEven if this game weren't a buggy, unworkable pile of trash it would still be bad. The mechanics, story, and gameplay all fall flat and are not entertaining. You compare it to a similar game like Divinity Original Sin 2 and you easily see this game delivers far below par. Add on top of this that this game is a buggy mess littered with game-breaking bugs and terribly long load times (even on SSD) all over the place and this is the easiest 0 rating I've ever given in my life.… Expand
  16. nurii29
    Sep 29, 2020
    0
    its just so boring i spend 6 hours with this crap its full of bugs,freze at every chance loading screens are so damn long all dialogs are **** all voice acting is **** quests are boring characters are boring all the game desing is boring even it doesnt even worth a dollar
  17. Zer0TheHer0
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    Can't change the camera movement keys. This is something unacceptable in 2020.
  18. metacritic12121
    Aug 29, 2020
    2
    Pros: Detailed world, the scope and the graphics. The game looks quite nice.
    Cons: Boring/repetitive game play. The trailer looked great, and the first few hours of real game play were all right, but from there it quickly becomes a chore
  19. Baschtimat
    Sep 25, 2020
    0
    The say its got a coop. i want to play that. i cant. so, its an unfinished not playable game. 1 month after release , the patch says "We’ve made over a dozen individual changes aimed at improving performance and stability, especially on consoles." fu*k consoles. pc master race, dont give a **** about consoles.
  20. Bellizz
    Sep 6, 2020
    0
    Riddled with game breaking bugs, completely unfinished in its current state, yet they were sure to include a AAA price tag. The amount of manual saves I have to do while playing co-op is mind numbing, takes me completely out of the games immersion, and still does little to nothing to alleviate the massive issues this game has. We have lost several hours of progress on numerous occasionsRiddled with game breaking bugs, completely unfinished in its current state, yet they were sure to include a AAA price tag. The amount of manual saves I have to do while playing co-op is mind numbing, takes me completely out of the games immersion, and still does little to nothing to alleviate the massive issues this game has. We have lost several hours of progress on numerous occasions and have finally given up. This game is unplayable. Until its patched and fixed to a massive degree we're done. Sloppy. Buggy. Unfinished. Mess. How disappointing.… Expand
  21. Lifwerne
    Sep 13, 2020
    4
    It amazes me that game companies after all these years still don't understand that you cannot release an unfinished game. Now what could have been a great game, will get a low rating.

    The game is not finished. The bugs are game-breaking. For example my teammates with the status loyal leaving my team after like 60 hours after a fight with raiders, doesn't matter what I do. Mistake    It amazes me that game companies after all these years still don't understand that you cannot release an unfinished game. Now what could have been a great game, will get a low rating.

    The game is not finished. The bugs are game-breaking. For example my teammates with the status loyal leaving my team after like 60 hours after a fight with raiders, doesn't matter what I do. Mistake enemies for allies. Or the constant incredible lag that starts in fights every 2 fights. Or combat music playing together with music on the radio in a massive mess. Quest chains not completing, or things happening against your choices. etc. Did they even play through this game before releasing it?

    The players need an excuse for this game, especially at full price. It's sad because it has a lot of things going for it.

    Pros:
    *A lot of gear and weapons
    *Pretty fun combat when it works
    *A lot of humor (never chuckled this much at a videogame before)
    *Doesn't shun from the grittyness of the wasteland
    *Good dialog options and choices
    *A sense of acomplishment
    *Level system
    *Good difficulty level and you actually have to use money and upgrade to finish encounters.
    *Music/Ambient is very good overall

    Cons

    *Really bad story, basically attacked and kill those who did it. But some funny none-player characters.
    *Incredible amount of bugs and lags
    *Shallow main characters, really lacking the deep characters present in other similar RPG:s like Divinity or Pillars of Eternity.
    *No fast travel and extremely long loading times. What where they thinking? It's one thing having no fast travel in the vechicle map, which is fine. But within cities with the huge loading times just to turn in a quest and a dialog for 3 min then ruining and loading for 10. Incredible..
    *Clunky performance in combat, feels slow.
    *The inventory is terrible. No sorting, not working proprly. Terrible comparing. Statusboxes very unclear.
    *Cliché and mediocre enemies. Everyone is a crazy cult. Normal people doesn't seem to exist. Few gray lines. Full crazies.
    *Graphics are old and outdated and stiill the game runs like ****
    *No group healing (again what where they thinking?). It's not fun. Just pure annoyance having to manually heal each person after every fight. There is a reason other RPG:s have "rest" or "bedroll".
    *Useless anticlimax ending

    Anyway, this game without all bugs deserve a 6 maybe a 7 for sure. It has many funny moments and addicting combat. But in this state I think a 5 is more than the game deserves.    … Expand
  22. quake2th
    Sep 3, 2020
    4
    Long gone are the days when a game would be released in a state that could be actually played.

    Just wait 2-3 years for the game to be fixed, this is maybe an alpha version. Far too many game breaking bugs, right now I can't progress because I have companions randomly leaving the team. However, as long as we keep buying this crap, companies will release it. The only way to stop this    Long gone are the days when a game would be released in a state that could be actually played.

    Just wait 2-3 years for the game to be fixed, this is maybe an alpha version. Far too many game breaking bugs, right now I can't progress because I have companions randomly leaving the team.

    However, as long as we keep buying this crap, companies will release it. The only way to stop this is to stop pre-ordering games (I did not preorder this, but many did of course, so they could be the first to stream).

    In the end it's your (our) fault for keep on buying games on pre-prder instead of waiting. Gaming companies just care about pre-order and first month sales, they know that's all that matter.    … Expand
  23. Fessaer
    Aug 29, 2020
    3
    While game has it's charm, seems like it didn't have proper QA testing. If you want to play co-op with a friend - don't buy it until massive bug-fixing patch or you'll be pretty disappointed in first couple of hours - amount of game-breaking bugs in multiplayer is huge, including full game-progress wipe at random location transfers.
  24. SuperLambda
    Sep 8, 2020
    0
    Just what the F**k is this f**king piece of sh*t? (I am just imitating the tone of the character in the game.)

    I thought wasteland 3 must be better than wasteland 2, I mean, it must be, isn't it? Well, it isn't. It turns out to be a scrap. Pro: 1. Sorry but there is no pro. The only pro seems to be it's light effect. But, light effect means nothing to it's visual effect, and the    Just what the F**k is this f**king piece of sh*t? (I am just imitating the tone of the character in the game.)

    I thought wasteland 3 must be better than wasteland 2, I mean, it must be, isn't it?
    Well, it isn't. It turns out to be a scrap.

    Pro:
    1. Sorry but there is no pro. The only pro seems to be it's light effect. But, light effect means nothing to it's visual effect, and the game's graphics is just bad. Although you may think the bad graphics is still acceptable, but it will be unacceptable when this bad graphic is burning down your GPU and making the load time incredibly long at the same time.

    Con:
    1. Too many bugs. Buggy and broken. The more you play the game, the game becomes slower. Make a random weird move, boom, the game is totally broken and sorry but you have to load your save.

    2. Incredibly long loading time. If you want to go to an inner room from the world map, you need to load about 3~5 times, (for example world -> downtown -> bar -> basement.) with each load about 3 to 5 minutes (and I'm even using an NVM-Express SSD, not an HDD). Basically over half of your playing time will be spent on loading.

    3. Boring story. What is this f**king story? An RPG without a good story is just garbage. The story of this game is so boring, I won't spoil it but I'm sure you won't like it. The story of this game is just like the stories in those boring Chinese MMO games. Upgrade your team, defeat the boss, boom, f**king game's over.

    4. The repetitive missions. This is not a MMO game, isn't it? It's an RPG game! The creators of this game surely believe this game should be a MMO game, so they make their game-play like this: Go fight some enemies and get reward. Go deliver some item and get reward. Go save some people and get reward. So repetitive, so boring, and so stupid.

    5. Bad gaming experience. A good game should have a very fluent and comfortable gaming experience, which apparently cannot be found in this game. For example, there is no item sorting in this game, which means if you want to find a proper weapon or item, you have to find it yourself in hundreds of garbage items, not to mention there is even a so-called "junk" item category in this game, WTF... For another example, you can only sell things by right-clicking the item and selecting "Sell" option. But what if I have hundreds of junk items in my bag and I want to sell them all by only one click? Sorry, you can't. Sell them one by one, and don't forget to right click!

    6. The super weird environment in the game. Every NPC, every character, even robots and animals, are so damn crazy, they just can't talk normally. Every npc in this game is just like those lunatics in Mad Max when they talk. I know this is a post-apocalyptic world, but should every living thing, even animals, be crazy? You might believe that animals will not be so crazy, not until you meet a little parrot who only yells the most vicious sentence to you. By the way the first line of this review is only me imitating the way those in-game characters speak.

    7. There is no freedom of choice in this game. The best thing of C-RPG games is that you can make different choices in different situations. Letting this guy live, letting that guy die, every choice should matter in C-RPG games. Well, not in this game. In this game, you can make some choices indeed, but whatever you choose, if you are not choosing to be a good guy, boom, the game is over. In other words, you can only choose what the game want you to choose, choosing other options means the game is over. And I'm not joking, I'm serious. In the very beginning of the game, you will face an important NPC, but if you choose not to corporate with him, boom, game is over. Yeah it's real, the game is really over. You probably think other games may also have a game-over beginning, but this is not only in the beginning. Any time later in the game, if you don't choose what the game want you to choose, game is over.

    Conclusion:
    It's not I don't like C-RPG games. On the contrary, I love C-RPG games. Divinity Original Sin 2 is the best game I have ever played in recent years. But this Wasteland 3? I was hoping this would be a good game, at least I hope this game can be equal to its predecessor. However, it's such a disappointment, this game is just garbage. Wasteland 2 is even far better than this, although I don't like wasteland 2 either.    … Expand
  25. Arkane7
    Sep 3, 2021
    1
    The previous Wasteland was a pretty good tactical rpg. It was a bit like playing the classic Fallout games again. Wasteland 3 however is a very poor example of how to make a sequel to a good game. Terrible starting character and very poor writing make this one for the bargain bin. The graphics are decent and the sound is fine but the numerous bugs and bland story just make this aThe previous Wasteland was a pretty good tactical rpg. It was a bit like playing the classic Fallout games again. Wasteland 3 however is a very poor example of how to make a sequel to a good game. Terrible starting character and very poor writing make this one for the bargain bin. The graphics are decent and the sound is fine but the numerous bugs and bland story just make this a frustrating experience.… Expand
  26. XAMCTPO
    Aug 31, 2020
    1
    2020 year. Seriously? It is not possible to look at it. The graphics are worse than Fallout Tactics. The animation is terrible. Perhaps there are gorgeous quests, but I'm not ready to look at it.
  27. SRKNZ
    Sep 14, 2020
    2
    Unlike other turn based games like XCom, for example, there is no graduated difficulty, with the game being, I feel, unreasonably difficult from the get go. The result is either you will persist or become frustrated, as I did and walk away.

    I don't mind a challenge but i do expect to be given at least a little time to get comfortable before the game becomes tougher. All in all I think    Unlike other turn based games like XCom, for example, there is no graduated difficulty, with the game being, I feel, unreasonably difficult from the get go. The result is either you will persist or become frustrated, as I did and walk away.

    I don't mind a challenge but i do expect to be given at least a little time to get comfortable before the game becomes tougher. All in all I think this was a poor decision by the designers which will see this game appeal to die hard turn based fans only.    … Expand
  28. Lordgrey
    Sep 7, 2020
    1
    Game is full of bugs, perfomance issues, lack of balance, storytelling is a fully absurdish, the game feels cheap and non-atmospheric. After a good second part its a big step back and I'm completely disappointed. And russian localization stupid and amateurish. The game is not worth the money.
  29. Steyraus
    Aug 31, 2020
    3
    I had more Bugs Performance issues and glitches with this game than Fall out 76, yeah that bad. I really thing this Game Pass Idea i promoting lazy games design, just look at the human character , just look at them , they are hideous. Game being review boosted by certain sites in the ever honest games media, no sure the reason though.
    Not 50 seconds into this game and you are treated to    I had more Bugs Performance issues and glitches with this game than Fall out 76, yeah that bad. I really thing this Game Pass Idea i promoting lazy games design, just look at the human character , just look at them , they are hideous. Game being review boosted by certain sites in the ever honest games media, no sure the reason though.
    Not 50 seconds into this game and you are treated to the extreme low budget effort and a complete half arsed effort. After like 15 minutes of loading you get to the character select screen and your eyes melt. Almost all the character look like either Burn Victims or Been String Victims. They are offensive to look at. These are not humans, even this early in the game and the game is clearly made my armatures.
    I played a good 2 hours of it and it the same old affair, ive played heaps of this game and it does nothing new, Only original aspect is the fact it was released full of bugs and glitches, I am not going to list any, because I would be here all day. Was waiting month for this on Game Pass, I have downloaded it like a dozen times and its still buggy at launch,    … Expand
  30. Fermia
    Sep 7, 2020
    2
    broken and busted. Sure the game is fun but the bugs are game breaking. Losing quest stuck on map ypou name it.
    the coop is even worse were you will lose quest progres get stuck nad so on. avoid for and wait for patches..if they fix it
  31. thingamajiggly
    Sep 12, 2020
    2
    Dude, this game is unplayable. I get to the kodiac, and the game crashes. Every. Single. Time. Every time. I just spent the last 30 minutes restarting and reloading and reloading from old saves... Every time. I was wondering why it said that only 80% of players got the "Fixer Upper" achievement. This is why.

    Why was a game released that has this kind of bug in it? I'm not a game tester.    Dude, this game is unplayable. I get to the kodiac, and the game crashes. Every. Single. Time. Every time. I just spent the last 30 minutes restarting and reloading and reloading from old saves... Every time. I was wondering why it said that only 80% of players got the "Fixer Upper" achievement. This is why.

    Why was a game released that has this kind of bug in it? I'm not a game tester. You want me to be though? Fine. Pay me for it. Stop charging us full price for a game that's a glitchy mess.    … Expand
  32. Dam
    May 7, 2021
    4
    8 month old game feels like it's in beta.
    Saw on reddit and in patch notes that a lot of the bugs had been fixed, but it is still far from enough.
    30 minutes into my second session, the game made my PS4 crash, and it took several tries to boot it back up. Apart from a hard crash, I have only a few hours in already encountered several bugs: Tutorials not showing up when they should.    8 month old game feels like it's in beta.
    Saw on reddit and in patch notes that a lot of the bugs had been fixed, but it is still far from enough.
    30 minutes into my second session, the game made my PS4 crash, and it took several tries to boot it back up.
    Apart from a hard crash, I have only a few hours in already encountered several bugs:
    Tutorials not showing up when they should.
    Gamma setting showng up between sessions.
    Audio settings are not saved betweens sessions.
    Squad members turning onto the same character model.

    Some of my favorite games are the XCOM and Divinity: Original Sin games, so I was pretty excited to try out the Wasteland franchise. But even looking at the finished parts of the game is also disappointing. (Subjective opinions):
    The UI is ugly.
    Ingame character models look like PS3 graphics.

    It is clear that there is a good game buried somewhere in this mess. Maybe give it a year or two, or wait for a remaster/new gen version.    … Expand
  33. veyron2222
    May 26, 2021
    4
    the game is out for almost a year now and it is still the most broken game i have ever played, every 10 minutes the game have a different bug and the only way to fix it is to close/reload the game, one time the game stops responding mid conversation or suddenly the game just won't let you move your character around.
  34. VcNuggets
    Nov 7, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have only played coop so my experience is only with it. This game is a disaster. What happened to the initiative? Stealth? It's been out for months and we're still crashing and coming across bugs constantly. What a horrible, horrible waste of a great title. Wasteland 2 was fun, but 3 is crippled mess.… Expand
  35. kaczan3
    Feb 19, 2022
    0
    One of the first characters you meet is a female leader of your military unit. She's bestest at everything and everyone loves her, and the only reason she looses is because 1-dimensional male villains who lick knives while talking to you jumped her with overwhelming numbers and superior weapons, and she still managed to kill like half of them.

    The first male leader you meet is called    One of the first characters you meet is a female leader of your military unit. She's bestest at everything and everyone loves her, and the only reason she looses is because 1-dimensional male villains who lick knives while talking to you jumped her with overwhelming numbers and superior weapons, and she still managed to kill like half of them.

    The first male leader you meet is called The Patriarch. He of course turns out to be a loser with big ego who needs to be taken down and substituted with a woman. That's basically the theme of the game. Men are patheric loser and whiners who only get ahead by doing evil things, while women are the bestest, and if they fail at something, it's because they were put in an impossible situation.    … Expand
  36. mariobisneto
    Nov 29, 2020
    4
    Very high production value (awesome music, solid sound design and NPCs' voice acting, beautiful graphics and cinematics) doesn't make up for extremely poor performance, caricate, nonsensical and unrelatable characters, factions and worldbuilding, huge amount of bugs, inconsistant ruleset (combat starting, abilities usage, status effects, environmental interaction etc) and poor main storyVery high production value (awesome music, solid sound design and NPCs' voice acting, beautiful graphics and cinematics) doesn't make up for extremely poor performance, caricate, nonsensical and unrelatable characters, factions and worldbuilding, huge amount of bugs, inconsistant ruleset (combat starting, abilities usage, status effects, environmental interaction etc) and poor main story with completely unrelatable and unemergencial plot driver ala Fallout 4.

    Wasteland 3 tries to go deeper into the tactical aspect (like XCOM) and sacrifices the roleplaying aspect of the game to do it, expecting that its more cinematic-ish presentation will make up for it. It doesn't. The game doesn't really appeal neither to tactical nor to CRPG fans. The inconsistent mechanical ruleset is sometimes sacrificed for the sake of the cinematic presentation (such as combat initiation extreme unpredictability due to the completely random trigger distance for scripted events such as dialogue and cinematics) and sometimes just plagued by what seem to be bugs (but we can't really be sure of it, such as AoE abilities' randomness on uneveven terrain).

    The RPG aspect get sacrificed because the worldbuilding is incredibly poor. Don't get me wrong, the game looks and sounds amazing, but the only believable and relatable NPC is the game's real protagonist, the Patriarch, and probablly his daughter. Every other single character is unidimensional or dull or too caricate or every option of these. This includes your non-ranger companions. The de facto rangers are completely disposable blank slates that you spec and use solely for mechanical reasons. The factions are extremely hard to swallow, too. Not because they're over the top (which they are), but because their actions make little to no sense.

    The thing that amazes me the most is that Wasteland 3 pulled a Fallout 4 on us. The game's main plot is the following (don't worry, no spoilers, everything is given to you at the very beggining of the game): you are in a convoy of desert rangers sent to Colorado to secure a deal with a local strongman, the Patriarch. Your orders are to act in Colorado to secure this deal that will allow the survival of your organization back home. You play the whole game in Colorado, you recruit people from Colorado, you don't play the game back in Arizona (your supposed headquarters), you have almost no contact with Arizona or people in or from Arizona during gameplay, everyone you meet and everything you mess with is in Colorado and regarding Colorado.

    You, as a player, have zero reasons to care for the desert rangers' headquarters in Arizona, just as you have zero reasons to find your character's son Shaun in Fallout 4. As a player, there is absolutely no urgency, drive or simple plain reason to care for or even follow the plot's objective of saving the desert rangers' headquarters. You don't care for it. it gets to the point that it's annoying, even, And that can be overlooked in a tactical game, maybe in an 'immersive sim' or one of Bethesda's games, but not in a CRPG.

    The drive to cinematicisim omnipresent in the game's design and final presentation result in the dominance of heavily scripted scenes. There's next to zero systemic design in this game, it's kind of the polar opposite of Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2. Almost nothing is really interactable, there are few interactable environmental effects and objects, and, IMO to the detriment of the gameplay, everytime you try to be creative and resolve situations in a way that the devs didn't intend to, the game either doesn't allow you to or simply breaks. Both mechanically and narratively. It's a shame.    … Expand
  37. Vasot
    Jan 27, 2022
    4
    Weak story based on "humor" (which is not funny) and forgettable characters after 8 hours of playing i just got bored and can't persuade myself to continue playing. Gameplay is OK but gets repetitive fast as for stealth there is none you just have to avoid getting close to enemies in some room or else the combat starts. The main problem is that the game feels so stupid and most charactersWeak story based on "humor" (which is not funny) and forgettable characters after 8 hours of playing i just got bored and can't persuade myself to continue playing. Gameplay is OK but gets repetitive fast as for stealth there is none you just have to avoid getting close to enemies in some room or else the combat starts. The main problem is that the game feels so stupid and most characters talk like idiots or mentally disturbed feels like watching a silly comedy show. Also from the technical perspective has many bugs which is inexcusable for a $60 game tile. I am so disappointred Fallout series were way better that this… Expand
  38. Oxcelot
    Feb 2, 2021
    3
    I cannot recommend this game to anyone, it is a broken pile of garbage. The game has an average story and good gameplay, but all is buried deep within a pile of broken **** that always crashes. It crashes so much I can't even enjoy the ending because it froze the subtitles and stopped playing the music. I think I'll never play anything from InXile ever again. Stop buying games that are notI cannot recommend this game to anyone, it is a broken pile of garbage. The game has an average story and good gameplay, but all is buried deep within a pile of broken **** that always crashes. It crashes so much I can't even enjoy the ending because it froze the subtitles and stopped playing the music. I think I'll never play anything from InXile ever again. Stop buying games that are not finished, stop supporting crap game companies.… Expand
  39. niebieskook
    Sep 13, 2020
    3
    This game has so many issues/errors that it shouldnt be released ... for sure its not worth its price ,wai till its patched and around 5 euro

    PROS: -postapo RPG -soundtrack CONS: -many issues,errors and not working elements -good soundtrack - but annoying if u hear the same song in the loop over and over during long combat -poor combat mechanics from Amiga era (level already set    This game has so many issues/errors that it shouldnt be released ... for sure its not worth its price ,wai till its patched and around 5 euro

    PROS:
    -postapo RPG
    -soundtrack

    CONS:
    -many issues,errors and not working elements
    -good soundtrack - but annoying if u hear the same song in the loop over and over during long combat
    -poor combat mechanics from Amiga era (level already set by xcom or divinity 2 shall be minimum for novaday games)
    -poor graphics
    -boring long combats missing a lot of tactical elements and issues like shooting through walls and so
    -boring stories youve already experienced too many times in other titles    … Expand
  40. V3smic
    Oct 27, 2020
    0
    So many bugs it's actually amazing this studio has ever made a game before. Just not worth money and likely not worth the time to play it on gamepass.
  41. KarakACG
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    Another unfinished and buggy game from a newly Microsoft owned studio. Wait another half year if they fix the numerous bugs and glitches.
  42. uberwabawaba
    Oct 18, 2020
    4
    I have to disagree with a lot of what I see other reviews saying. The first thing I noticed in this new release was how bad the graphics are, they are just outright FUZZY even at max graphical settings. I constantly feel like my eyes are out of focus.

    Character creation and skills are great, I like having lots of choices to really tailor my characters and this game does give you that.    I have to disagree with a lot of what I see other reviews saying. The first thing I noticed in this new release was how bad the graphics are, they are just outright FUZZY even at max graphical settings. I constantly feel like my eyes are out of focus.

    Character creation and skills are great, I like having lots of choices to really tailor my characters and this game does give you that.

    For some reason the devs decided they wanted this game to be more like Borderlands (not kidding) with so much cartoonish, over-the-top weaponry, etc. I always enjoyed the more 'serious' tone of wasteland as that suited the overall atmosphere of the game. They have also introduced ridiculous weaponry into the game, nothing wrong with being creative but a 'frozen ferret launcher' just detracts from the immersion for me and really should be sent back to games like Borderlands.

    Character dialogue interactions are actually really good, thats one part of the game I really enjoy. They npc personalities are varied and the choices you make, as is standard in wasteland, have a big impact on which way the plot develops.

    The bugs. OMG the bugs. From characters sometimes having no animations when moving , they just glide across the ground to the bizarre 'frozen' game state (example, finished my actions in a fight and all my chars showed 0 AP left but game would not end the round nor would it allow me to click the end round button; after that long fight all I could do is quit.

    I am very, very glad I tried this game with gamepass and didnt spend the 50+ dollars.....imo its maybe a decent purchase at half the price at best.    … Expand
  43. F1_is_WWE
    Mar 15, 2022
    3
    The only good thing about this game is that it makes you appreciate how good XCOM is. Wasteland literally copy pastes XCOM but it doesn't work - why? Because in XCOM your goal is not only to win the mission, your goal is to keep all your soldiers alive. But in Wasteland you don't care about that because all units come back to life at the end of the battle. So whereas in XCOM you can sitThe only good thing about this game is that it makes you appreciate how good XCOM is. Wasteland literally copy pastes XCOM but it doesn't work - why? Because in XCOM your goal is not only to win the mission, your goal is to keep all your soldiers alive. But in Wasteland you don't care about that because all units come back to life at the end of the battle. So whereas in XCOM you can sit there for 5 minutes debating whether or not to run that overwatch, in Wasteland you don't give a damn.

    And without all that tension, the game isn't fun. Do yourself a favour and just play Long War again.    … Expand
  44. zezima
    Jun 21, 2022
    4
    Great graphics, characters, sound, enemy variation, story.

    Go into the game knowing you have to basically have beaten it already/ use exploits to progress through it's god-awful early game balancing issues

Awards & Rankings

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#23 Best PC Game of 2020
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#25 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
  1. CD-Action
    Nov 16, 2020
    90
    Wasteland 3 should actually be called Fallout 3, as it has much more in common with two legendary Interplay/Black Isle Studios games than any later entry to the Fallout series. If that’s not a sufficient recommendation, let me put it plainly: Wasteland 3 is the best turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG in many, many years. Yes, at the time of writing this review there were many gameplay and technical issues that needed to be addressed as soon as possible, but the fun this game offered made it very easy to look past them. [11/2020, p.46]
  2. Vgames
    Oct 26, 2020
    95
    Wasteland 3 is one of the best RPG's of 2020. Your choices matter, your build matters, everything you do matters. You don't just play this game, you live in it.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 21, 2020
    79
    Clichés and predictability don’t make the playthrough of Wasteland 3 any less enjoyable. After all, good post-apocalyptic RPGs are always in short supply. [Issue#248, p.36]
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