Wasteland 3

 PlayStation 4
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6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 174 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 31 out of 174
  3. Negative: 40 out of 174
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  1. GriffinG223
    Sep 3, 2020
    3
    I have Played 3 hours, and I am at the Garden of the God's as of writing this review and may not get much further. -This game is **** terrible, it goes backwards on the combat and survival, which are the core gameplay mechanics that make games like this fun.
    - They focused on too much on presentation and voice acting for a game that was so poorly written and graphically it looks worse off    I have Played 3 hours, and I am at the Garden of the God's as of writing this review and may not get much further. -This game is **** terrible, it goes backwards on the combat and survival, which are the core gameplay mechanics that make games like this fun.
    - They focused on too much on presentation and voice acting for a game that was so poorly written and graphically it looks worse off then most of the competition, let alone waseland 2
    - The game isn't finished and is a bugfy nightmare. -This should not be advertised as worth buying and it feels like anyone giving this game a 10 is a stupid human being whonlikes to waste their time with inferior and broken products -Feelss as if the devs conned a lot of people out money so they could have a job not prodcing anythong.    … Expand
  2. anasazi830
    Sep 13, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I would seriously rate this game higher if not for the horrible bugs. I played almost to the end (returning to Yuma speedway) and it is now frozen in the return cut scene. All the bugs to this point were usually fixed with a reload, on top of the constant crashing bugs, and I could overlook them because the game is that old school RPG, with the fallout humor. This is unacceptable for a full price release to not only have this many bugs at launch, but still gamebreaking bugs this long after launch. Maybe they will patch this 8 more times any it will be playable, but even if they did, I couldn't recommend spending money on this game. If anything, buy it used to prevent the company from banking on this QC atrocity that inXile found acceptable to launch in this state. IF you can get past the infinite glitches and bugs, there is a great CRPG to play through, with extreme replay value (if you can finish it). Unfortunately if you end up where I am (and many others find themselves), then you can't finish it once, let alone want to go through all these headaches of countless bugs just to see the alternate story arcs.… Expand
  3. SpartaCook
    Aug 30, 2020
    3
    Not only it's full of crapload amount of bugs and poorly optimized performance, this game is also full of outdated stupid game design choices. What a piece of garbage.
  4. tomsam66
    Sep 6, 2020
    0
    Cannot recommend this game at this time due to crashes and gamebreaking bugs. It’s a disgrace that it was released at all and the devs and publisher should be ashamed.
  5. Poumney
    Aug 29, 2020
    1
    Do not buy this game at least for 6 weeks if you want to play with your friend. The amount of bugs is just funny, looks like they didn't test it. Not sure about single mode. Final dot for me was selling garbage, selling icon just never disappear funny thing if you save game and load it, the icon never disappear and this is for every shop so we can't use shops now XD
  6. Irul
    Sep 8, 2020
    0
    This game is full of bugs. Keeps crashing and now can no longer progress the story. This is after installing their 2nd patch on PS4 which made it worst. To make matters even crappier, I bought it on PS online store and there it cannot be refunded,

    This is the first time I have a game that has this much bugs on PS4 and I have over 50 games including Wasteland 2 which works great. Do    This game is full of bugs. Keeps crashing and now can no longer progress the story. This is after installing their 2nd patch on PS4 which made it worst. To make matters even crappier, I bought it on PS online store and there it cannot be refunded,

    This is the first time I have a game that has this much bugs on PS4 and I have over 50 games including Wasteland 2 which works great.

    Do not buy before next year, it is not even close to be ready.    … Expand
  7. Hyzen
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    i thought it would be better and thought that they improved the combat system but no! the gameplay is slow! the effects make u feel you are playing a ps2 game, the battles overall are boring and slow and won't make you feel like ypu want more!
  8. MamkinDominator
    Sep 5, 2020
    2
    This game highly differs from actual game-play we've seen previously. Actual game is like a 10 times downgrade in graphics, physics to gameplay demonstrated. The overall impression I faced like it was made by a single person within a month, really, you might check a video when a folk creates a simple Diablo-clone in a week...with better graphics that Wasteland 3 has. Why so? I guaranteeThis game highly differs from actual game-play we've seen previously. Actual game is like a 10 times downgrade in graphics, physics to gameplay demonstrated. The overall impression I faced like it was made by a single person within a month, really, you might check a video when a folk creates a simple Diablo-clone in a week...with better graphics that Wasteland 3 has. Why so? I guarantee the reason is in Unity, like the game was ported from Unreal Engine in 10 days in order not to face problems on mobile platforms. Really, the game looks like it was mainly designed to work on smart-phones, not consoles or PCs. The overall graphics, shaders, physics looks like a disaster, a strange circle of light surrounds selected hero, changing reflections in a small radius, some trees were not rendered properly, and I didn't find a way to change camera view. I'm highlighting these aspects that much because of price 50USD for pre-order in steam or 60USD on PS4, hence I assume the game positioned as an AAA contains high-quality sounds, face-animations, in-game footage, but nothing like that. Sounds seems creepy as if they were recorded on an airsoft polygon. I didn't expect 3 face animations and cheap dialogue menu when paid my 60USD. Also inventory, enemies look so cheap as the were borrowed from a free-to-play game. There is no such atmosphere we met in Wasteland 2, In-game gamma of the doesn't really represents wasteland's atmosphere, it's like borrowed from on of teenagers free-to-play shooters. And finally it looks like developers made their game without passion, attitude and attention to details, like I previously mentioned made by a single person in a month. There is no way we can avoid comparison with other games of same genre. I had experience with Mutant Year Zero, and XCOM2 and in comparison to them Wasteland 3 looks so weird and unprofessional as if it came to us from previous century in combat, physics, atmosphere, enemy variation, content amount. Hereby I don't recommend owning this game, better spend your time and money on a more valuable product, e.g. one of those I mentioned above.… Expand
  9. BlesSDaGameR
    Sep 1, 2020
    3
    I got the game and almost unplayable its crashes all the time, bugs everywhere and cant do the last mission after liberty. If you like the wasteland series buy after they got some patches
  10. alkhana
    Sep 21, 2021
    1
    WARNING: This game fully broke my ps4's file system, to the point where I had to system restore it and lost all my data.

    I wish I could give this game a 10. I really do. The writing is great, the gameplay is fun when it works. The problem is, it rarely does. Never have I played a game so plagued by bugs and crashes. Not even extreme edge cases either, you can tell their QA either    WARNING: This game fully broke my ps4's file system, to the point where I had to system restore it and lost all my data.

    I wish I could give this game a 10. I really do. The writing is great, the gameplay is fun when it works.
    The problem is, it rarely does.

    Never have I played a game so plagued by bugs and crashes. Not even extreme edge cases either, you can tell their QA either doesn't exist or should be fired.

    Among MANY others:
    - Party members that randomly leave you for nonsense reasons: I had 2 party members leave me because there was "too much human blood on my hands"...After I fought a pack of wolves;
    - You see a trap and tell your explosives expert to disarm it? He may randomly just feel like walking over the trap and killing himself. Controlling him alleviates this a bit but it still does happen;
    - You order your dude to attack, he spends the energy and...Nothing happens. No miss, no bullet spent, just nothing. This happens often;
    - You'd better be ready to quick save every 30 seconds because your game is going to crash every couple of minutes;
    - If by some miracle your game ran for a couple of hours without a crash you're going to need to restart it, because while it's terribly optimized to begin with(expect no more than 25ish fps on a ps4 pro) it'll leak itself into a 5 fps slugfest;
    - make copies of your save often, and good luck: I often ran into situations where I had to load the same save 5 times before it actually loaded without a crash;
    - As I stated at the start, one of those saves that corrupted itself during a crash somehow managed to break my entire file system and error boot-loop my ps4. I had to initialize it and lost all the saves to all my games. I am never playing a game from this company again if I see even a slim mention of a single bug.

    On the plus side, the writing's great, the story is entertaining and the concept is fun. If only it worked. Never before have I seen a game that paired such great writers up with such awful developers.

    Embarassing.    … Expand
  11. THUnder222
    Feb 23, 2021
    0
    Wasteland 3 is a tragic affair.

    Let me ask you a question first: What is the most important aspect of a game? Being able to play it of course. But hey, credit is when it is due, so let's talk about this game's strong points. In terms of rpg experience Wasteland 3 is simply brilliant. Rpg elements, skill checks etc are seamlessly combined with a very fun combat system. With many    Wasteland 3 is a tragic affair.

    Let me ask you a question first: What is the most important aspect of a game? Being able to play it of course.

    But hey, credit is when it is due, so let's talk about this game's strong points. In terms of rpg experience Wasteland 3 is simply brilliant. Rpg elements, skill checks etc are seamlessly combined with a very fun combat system. With many different weapons, items, special abilities, and a non-linear gameplay, Wasteland 3 will offer you many, many different ways to have fun.

    ...if you can ACTUALLY PLAY IT.

    From a technical standpoint, Wasteland 3 is an utter and complete disaster. Just like PS4 version of previous game, Wasteland 3 will continuously test your patience as you slog through the game's numerous glitches, bugs and of course, crashes. Your initial enjoyment from this game will turn into first, frustration later hair pulling anger and finally nail-biting terror. You will struggle to not to throw the controller to floor as you wonder why the your ai controlled companions disappear without warning. Your curses will be heard from the space as you try to move your character who simply refuses to budge or shot at the enemy despite being in range and having a fully loaded weapon. Your pulse will rise as you wait in horror, wondering when the game will crash and cost you your hard earned victory, which you just spent 10 minutes to win.

    Oh, did i mention crashes? Oh yes. This game crashes ALL THE TIME. In every 30 or 40 minutes game crashes during the area transitions, forcing you to restart your game.

    As of the time of this review, Wasteland 3 is six months old and they couldn't fix this. In fact, they couldn't fix anything at all. Every time developers release a patch, they fix something but end up breaking something else. It appears that developers, despite the criticism of Wasteland 2's terrible launch and subsequent technical problems, especially on PS4, have learned nothing. Was it too much to hire programmers that are actually competent and program games that are, you know, actually playable?

    At this state, i cannot recommend Wasteland 3 which is in a broken state despite being 6 months old. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most unstable game i have ever played on my PS4. ...well, besides Wasteland 2 of course.

    You simply cannot release a broken, faulty product. You have responsibility to your costumers and long-term fans to do an at least, a game that doesn't break down every half an hour.

    If your game is less stable than Alpha Protocol, it is time to consider a career change.    … Expand
  12. needtohavefun
    Sep 23, 2020
    0
    As of 9/23/20 and the latest patch the game continues to crash 3 times an hour. It's frustrating and the publisher/developers should be embarrassed to have released such a buggy product. Save every 5 minutes if you do not want to lose your file.
  13. 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.
  14. Chengue21
    Sep 6, 2020
    2
    The game is totally broken when you play co-op. After a thousand uploads, a thousand bugs, and about 30 hours of play, the missions disappear ... This has already been the final straw. A game of € 60 and with such good scores (they have the balls to put a 9 or more, I find it very funny). To wait for the umpteenth patch and pray that the game works. With how good the game is, it seemsThe game is totally broken when you play co-op. After a thousand uploads, a thousand bugs, and about 30 hours of play, the missions disappear ... This has already been the final straw. A game of € 60 and with such good scores (they have the balls to put a 9 or more, I find it very funny). To wait for the umpteenth patch and pray that the game works. With how good the game is, it seems painful to me.… Expand
  15. pan0
    Nov 18, 2020
    1
    Don't buy this game! I've waited 3 months before leaving a review, 3 months! The fact is that after 3 months this game is still very far from being finished and playable! Bugs everywhere, nothing is polished, combats lacks of tacticals aspect, ...
    A shame! I can't understand how a studio dare to release such a mess and to let it like this.
    They did exactly the same with Wasteland 2, to    Don't buy this game! I've waited 3 months before leaving a review, 3 months! The fact is that after 3 months this game is still very far from being finished and playable! Bugs everywhere, nothing is polished, combats lacks of tacticals aspect, ...
    A shame! I can't understand how a studio dare to release such a mess and to let it like this.
    They did exactly the same with Wasteland 2, to this day you can't finish it on PS4, don't be like me, don't be an idiot; don't think Inxile will do better this time    … Expand
  16. GioRC
    Aug 31, 2020
    0
    Don’t even waste your time with this buggy mess until they fix it. How can they let a game come out in this state...infuriating. Constantly crashes, loading areas are over abundant and take way too long, UI is horrible, cant even change brightness or display settings after you start a game, I can go and on. I’ve spent equal amounts of time playing and waiting on lading screens and crashDon’t even waste your time with this buggy mess until they fix it. How can they let a game come out in this state...infuriating. Constantly crashes, loading areas are over abundant and take way too long, UI is horrible, cant even change brightness or display settings after you start a game, I can go and on. I’ve spent equal amounts of time playing and waiting on lading screens and crash restarts. Ridiculous.… Expand
  17. Steyraus
    Aug 31, 2020
    3
    What is with these GAME PASS Releases? They are all Buggy, Badly made and Ugly. Please Xbox Keep these, Brock Ass games on you own platforms.
    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    What is with these GAME PASS Releases? They are all Buggy, Badly made and Ugly. Please Xbox Keep these, Brock Ass games on you own platforms.
    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
  18. xeis
    Sep 2, 2020
    4
    Xbox version, crashes every 20 to 30 minutes and has old school dead man walking on major plots, just fought for 3 hours (9 crashes) back to back combats to find I was dead man walking. So much potential with faster load times, zero crashes and some system to prevent you wasting your time while dead man walking this game has the potential to be great. But not now.
  19. DrN4STY
    Oct 23, 2020
    0
    As an OG Fallout fan I really wanted to like this game. It seems like they nailed the combat system and the role-playing aspects seem fantastic. Unfortunately the experience is mired by design issues that really have nothing to do with the gameplay. First of all the loading screens are horrendously long ( longer than anything I've encountered in recent memory ), and doesn't seem to getAs an OG Fallout fan I really wanted to like this game. It seems like they nailed the combat system and the role-playing aspects seem fantastic. Unfortunately the experience is mired by design issues that really have nothing to do with the gameplay. First of all the loading screens are horrendously long ( longer than anything I've encountered in recent memory ), and doesn't seem to get any better even when entering a small room etc. I would normally be willing to look past it, but the long loading screens are coupled with some serious design issues. At every turn the game forces you to wait through multiple loading screens for no real reason at all. Often you will need to simply enter an area to either activate/turn in a quest, for which you will be forced to sit through a minimum of two loading screens. I noted to myself a point near the beginning of the game where you actually sit through it 7 times without having actually progressed in any way. Then there is the crashing, which happens often ( I'm writing this after the first patch that supposedly addressed this ), and seems to predominantly occur during, guess what - loading screens. When this happens, you have to wait on the game to start up again, then you have to wait on a loading screen to get back to where you were before the game crashed, then you get to immediately wait a third time where it crashed in first place. This has happened multiple times in a row on occasion. The game actually crashed from the main menu one time when I pressed "New Game". I've finally given up on actually trying to play it at this point, and I really tried to give it a chance because I liked the gameplay so much. If they make an earnest attempt to fix these issues then I would consider it in the future, but it is completely unacceptable to release a full priced game in such an unplayable state.… Expand
  20. nurii29
    Mar 17, 2021
    0
    this is awful its full of bugs
    even on ultra settings it looks ugly af
    characters are boring and you wanna shot everyone you see (which i did)
    story is boring
    game thinks its ok to push you around and bully you they think you are their ****

    well guess what deleted and refunded
  21. 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
  22. Namethief
    Sep 27, 2020
    2
    I know the games been out for a while so it was $10 off so I decided to get it.

    Pop it in and start playing. Watch The cinematic customize some characters go through the tutorial the tutorial has a bit of jank but it is a top down so I expected it. After finishing the tutorial the FPS drops to two and I cannot open a menu or move so I close out the game delete the save and restart. Then,    I know the games been out for a while so it was $10 off so I decided to get it.

    Pop it in and start playing. Watch The cinematic customize some characters go through the tutorial the tutorial has a bit of jank but it is a top down so I expected it.

    After finishing the tutorial the FPS drops to two and I cannot open a menu or move so I close out the game delete the save and restart. Then, get through the tutorial go to the HQ do some stuff around the base look around that kind of thing etc, then I go out to do my first quest in the open world. I decide to do a caravan instead of homestead I can't spoil anything because when I take caravan I was going to sneak up to the enemies I got pulled away in real life to do something I came back to a game I thought I had paused to find out that the game does not pause and two out of my four teammates are on deaths door and one of them is dead I pick that character up with my one standing character that has half health.

    I move the tank up get all my characters behind cover have a guy peel off armor and then I have my tank shoot that guy does only half health and the tank is the most powerful character on my team. Next turn of mine I have to pick someone else up because they got hit down to zero HP again have two of my standing human character shoot at the half health guy and they do one damage per hit and he's standing out in the open because he has so much armor and this is the first quest you do **** this game, **** the developers, this is fallout 76 level of bad design.    … Expand
  23. FALLmei3
    Oct 2, 2020
    0
    This game is unplayable trash. I have had over 15 crashes and entire quests broken. Combat is horribly designed with the winner being whoever can shoot first. To put it bluntly this Is a middle schooler learning programming tier beta game where you will be the unplayed tester.
  24. techboy
    Dec 18, 2020
    4
    Welcome to Wasteland... waste of human lifetime!

    Yeah, I played round about 30 hours with that game... on a brand new XBX with NVMe... There have been said enough about bugs of that game... And yes, I can still confirm that, there are still bugs and bad implementations in the game. Well, its the customers fault, that they buy unfinished games... Even after the recently released    Welcome to Wasteland... waste of human lifetime!

    Yeah, I played round about 30 hours with that game... on a brand new XBX with NVMe...

    There have been said enough about bugs of that game... And yes, I can still confirm that, there are still bugs and bad implementations in the game. Well, its the customers fault, that they buy unfinished games...

    Even after the recently released patch, that really improved the loading times (~60% I have read), the loading times still killed the game for me! It is incredible, that the game still needs up to 30 seconds to load a new sector! We are not talking about huge maps and sectors, come on!

    Do not get fooled! This game wastes a lot of my lifetime for just loading game contents...

    No one can tell me, that they could not preload game contents, when the player is going to a particular exit point! Other games also do preloading of game contents. It can't no so hard to be implemented.

    The game sectors or maps are just ridiculous small, I do not know why the game needs to load each time I am entering another part of a city! LOL?!

    By the way, I have seen a lot of video games. This game does just copying previous games and does not show much new stuff. Do not understand high people can rate that game about 80%!

    It's just fooling us! Even Fallout 1,2 and Tactics or XCOM 1&2 did better job here!

    Wake up, it's 2020 and we play games that are released not finished and are also boring and time wasting!

    Thanks MS I did not have to buy that game! Thanks to the Game Pass!

    No wonder it is in the game pass...

    I am getting loosing respect for game development, if I see such crap going release since years now!

    It's okay to copy ideas, but even worse making things even worse!!!

    The game is playable, that's why I give a 4/10!

    But it really burns my lifetime... You have to walk a lot in that game to get things done and then, even if its not enough, they also burn my time with those loading times each time I move from one part of the game to another... ROFL

    And this is the third part of that game... LOL again.
    What will Wasteland 4 look like? Another copy of Wasteland 2/3???    … Expand
  25. kruci
    Dec 12, 2020
    4
    Wypuszczanie gry w takim stanie technicznym to skandal. Spokojnie moge powiedzieć że przez minutowe czasy ładowania a że to gra taktyczna to wczytuję sie często. Spokojnie straciłem 5h z 25h na ekranach ładowania. Sama gra uproszczona krótka i liniowa. Nie warto
  26. Jameson-K
    Sep 19, 2021
    0
    What a teaming pile of garbage. I HONESTLY cannot understand how this game received some high scores. I love turn based strategy etc, but this game is a complete pile of steaming donkey **** From the terrible character creation to being suddenly dropped into your first combat with absolutely NO clue as to what you are doing - not even some on screen prompts to tell you key assignments,What a teaming pile of garbage. I HONESTLY cannot understand how this game received some high scores. I love turn based strategy etc, but this game is a complete pile of steaming donkey **** From the terrible character creation to being suddenly dropped into your first combat with absolutely NO clue as to what you are doing - not even some on screen prompts to tell you key assignments, objectives - NOTHING.

    Life's too short for garbage games.    … Expand
  27. SplitMind
    Jun 12, 2021
    4
    Wasteland is a game that has masses of potential but really needs barriers removed for a great experience. After a few hours I had to give up as I could see these barriers were going to be omnipresent and very noticeable. I have almost identical gripes with Divinity Original Sin and its sequel.

    The graphic are quite decent. Being able to zoom in and out is a nice touch, however the    Wasteland is a game that has masses of potential but really needs barriers removed for a great experience. After a few hours I had to give up as I could see these barriers were going to be omnipresent and very noticeable. I have almost identical gripes with Divinity Original Sin and its sequel.

    The graphic are quite decent. Being able to zoom in and out is a nice touch, however the camera angle itself makes it very difficult to see where you are going properly. This is quite a problem in a game that explains a mechanic whereby you should strategically place your soldiers before battle, but that's a bit hard to when you can't see the layout of the field or your enemies properly.

    The map of the game is also horrendous, as well as the overall UI. It's messy and overly complicated, introducing you to far too much too early into the game. Unless you have a lot of hours and patience, this is overwhelming. Granted RPGs are time-consuming by definition, but this is an avoidable issue.

    The gameplay is where more issues arise. I really liked the RPG mechanics of levelling up and increasing attributes, but again this is cumbersome in the early hours as you are thrown into the deep end of tutorials and RPG mechanics, some not very well explained. For example, lockpicking and other skills are largely seen as one option out of many, however I was meeting locked doors that were key to solving missions, meaning if you don't level up a character in this then you're going to get stuck and frustrated a few hours later like I was.

    In addition to this, weapon modding seems to be locked behind a skill tree also, which doesn't make sense when you have a vast array of skills needing your attention. I put the difficulty on easy as I foresaw issues with the game, so modding wasn't needed but this could be a major problem otherwise.

    Another major gripe I have is with the layout, the maps and mission structures. The guidance is absolutely lacking and minimal. I'm not sure if this is intended ala Divinity Original Sin but I think it's a terribly lazy game mechanic. To even access the map you have to open the menu and cycle through about five tabs to get there. This is very cumbersome and the mini-map is pretty much useless. There are no map markers to show your destination - usually you are given place names but this involves arduously searching through the map, which is also not user-friendly at all.

    In general, the gameplay is not user-friendly and nowhere near as fluid as it could be and should be. Then there are bugs, such as when I press X to exit and area and nothing happens, meaning I need to repeat and repeat until it temperamentally works.

    The story is where Wasteland 3 shines regardless of the abundance of issues. The characters are diverse and show some personality whilst also allowing you dialog trees that influence mission progression. The downside for me was that characters are thrown at you thick and fast, so it's hard to get to know your teammates, never mind your accomplices and enemies. Unfortunately I did not progress far enough to benefit from this promising story.

    Overall, Wasteland 3 makes me dread the state of the games that came before it. What is most frustrating really is that none of the issues are particularly complex or difficult to resolve. There is clearly a blueprint of an excellent game that I can see, however I simply cannot get past the arduous menu navigating and incomplete mission structures.    … Expand
  28. Shemhazaj
    Oct 20, 2020
    4
    The game would be great if not for the constant bugs and crashes. Interface is not great either but could be forgiven if the game ran smoothly, now it just adds insult to injury.
  29. PlayCCB
    Feb 5, 2023
    0
    Nonstop bugs, slow, boring combat, terrible writing and humor, an unworkable UI, and repetitive "go fight this and get an item" game play all highlight how much of a mistake this game is.

    The impossibly bad AI means the game is extraordinarily easy on any difficulty, as enemies will never adapt to anything you do, or even attempt to avoid hazards. This applies to any friendly allies    Nonstop bugs, slow, boring combat, terrible writing and humor, an unworkable UI, and repetitive "go fight this and get an item" game play all highlight how much of a mistake this game is.

    The impossibly bad AI means the game is extraordinarily easy on any difficulty, as enemies will never adapt to anything you do, or even attempt to avoid hazards. This applies to any friendly allies you have as well. This adds considerably to how boring the game is. You will quickly come to dread combat as any encounter is a slow slog as enemies quickly become heavily armored bullet sponges as a stand in for actual difficulty.

    I bought this game for under ten dollars on sale, and regret it. I should have purchased a nice sandwich instead. Do not buy this trash.    … Expand

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#66 Best PS4 Game of 2020
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#40 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2020

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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. LaPS4
    Nov 10, 2020
    83
    A classic role-playing experience that leaves great feelings and unforgettable memories in its wake.
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  2. XGN
    Oct 20, 2020
    85
    Wasteland 3 is an excellent RPG by keeping the spirit of the original, while also borrowing from Xcom. While the load times get in the way sometimes, there is no denying that you need to play this game if you love a great story with an edge.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Oct 8, 2020
    85
    Wasteland 3 is a technically and visually flawed work of art. It is a true successor to the cult cRPG franchise, both masterfully written and designed, where the player is presented with a true impactfulness and meaning to their choices and decisions.
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