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. Molec_man
    Sep 3, 2020
    7
    I'd like to give this game a higher score, but there are too many BUTs...

    1) The bugs are innumerable... from lost pets to a buggy squad management interface to hourly crashes 2) The graphics are dated... It looks like Wasteland 2 with an new story 3) The music is cool at times, but sound/music seems lacking outside of that What pulls this game up: 1) It's Wasteland (AKA Old    I'd like to give this game a higher score, but there are too many BUTs...

    1) The bugs are innumerable... from lost pets to a buggy squad management interface to hourly crashes
    2) The graphics are dated... It looks like Wasteland 2 with an new story
    3) The music is cool at times, but sound/music seems lacking outside of that

    What pulls this game up:
    1) It's Wasteland (AKA Old school Fallout)
    2) The story is flexible... decisions matter
    3) The character generation and individuality
    4) The replayability... if you can stomach the bugs

    Verdict... It should be much better after patches, but the graphics and sound will still not pull it above an 8. With that in mind I'll give it a 7 even though in its current state it is a 5 or 6.    … Expand
  2. BudgetFreak
    Aug 31, 2020
    5
    The game is a masterpiece on how to build an RPG. On the other hand, the console release is full of bugs, glitches and crushes. The game is poorly optimized and has a bad memory allocation. This concludes in many crashes (27 on my run). Furthermore, I had three quest glitches, four game freezes and one instance, in which only the analogs were giving orders. The graphics are also subThe game is a masterpiece on how to build an RPG. On the other hand, the console release is full of bugs, glitches and crushes. The game is poorly optimized and has a bad memory allocation. This concludes in many crashes (27 on my run). Furthermore, I had three quest glitches, four game freezes and one instance, in which only the analogs were giving orders. The graphics are also sub optimal with a low level of detail. Wait a couple of months or rent..… Expand
  3. Egis511
    Sep 9, 2020
    6
    Story 10, graphics 6, technical state 2. Game keeps crashing (a lot), some bugs do not allow you to continue with the quests (even main quests are affected by this). It seems there was no quality control at all. If you wait, for half a year or a year you might have an amazing experience, but at this point - really, really frustrating.
  4. mbkr
    Dec 12, 2020
    7
    great lore and atmosphere, if you like the genre you should definitely play, although you need to have enough patience for constant crashes and bugs.
  5. Jfecteau1
    Sep 6, 2020
    7
    Very blurry textures on a PS4 pro.
    Game crashes a lot, which would be annoying if I could see what the textures well enough to really get into the themes of the game. Still, for the hour or so that I can play before it crashes, and if I look past what looks like a thick layer of vaselane on the game camera, there is a dynamic tactical RPG. Playing it feels like divinity, xcom, and the    Very blurry textures on a PS4 pro.
    Game crashes a lot, which would be annoying if I could see what the textures well enough to really get into the themes of the game. Still, for the hour or so that I can play before it crashes, and if I look past what looks like a thick layer of vaselane on the game camera, there is a dynamic tactical RPG. Playing it feels like divinity, xcom, and the original fallout games are in a thriving throuple. Tactical, wacky, and built for fun. There are lots of awesome features, items, and flavors in this world. Load times are long, but if I could see what that new peice of Armor actually looked like after equipping it I wouldn’t mind. Unfortunately it looks like a muddled mess of blurry pixels seemingly no different from what he was using before. I can see the game i’ve been waiting to play in here, I just can’t get to it right now in the PS4 version. I want to give this a 9 and highly recommend it based on the game underneath these issues. Unfortunately until they fix the blur, I would recommend holding off buying it, just as I will be holding off from playing it more. Developers have said they are actively working on all the crashes, lets hope the blur is up next.    … Expand
  6. Odal
    Jan 18, 2022
    5
    Wasteland has great combat and style - lots of humor and edge in a good way, but it suffered from gamebreaking bugs when I played it, horrible performance and such. Running through a city with long loading-times several times just to return a quest gets super obnoxious as well.

    The story has it's points, but the most dissapointing ending i've seen in a game. All of the enemies in the    Wasteland has great combat and style - lots of humor and edge in a good way, but it suffered from gamebreaking bugs when I played it, horrible performance and such. Running through a city with long loading-times several times just to return a quest gets super obnoxious as well.

    The story has it's points, but the most dissapointing ending i've seen in a game. All of the enemies in the wasteland are crazy cults as well. There are no gray zones. Everyone is crazy. I found that to be really weak writing - everything just repeats itself with another crazy cult.

    As mentioned though the combat is addicting as hell, and deserves an 8-9 for sure, same with the humor and style. But overall this game would have needed more time in development to make it a great game, which is sad. Because I think it could have been really good if they worked more on the quests, the ending and released a game without major bugs.

    +
    Dialog options
    Combat
    World and style
    Humor
    Grittyness
    Music, though it gets extremely repetitious

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    Gamebreaking bugs
    Lags and performance
    Story
    Ending
    UI, no way of sorting items in a smart way etc    … Expand
  7. Flat_Shovel
    Sep 1, 2020
    6
    UPDATE: Even after the recent patch the game still freezes frequently. Lowered the score as a result.

    As a huge fan of Wasteland 2 i can really see how they improved with the sequel. The visuals are a huge step up, with characters being more detailed and even having close up shots of certain characters during important conversations. There's more variety of clothing and armour designs    UPDATE: Even after the recent patch the game still freezes frequently. Lowered the score as a result.

    As a huge fan of Wasteland 2 i can really see how they improved with the sequel. The visuals are a huge step up, with characters being more detailed and even having close up shots of certain characters during important conversations. There's more variety of clothing and armour designs too, as well as more choice of thumbnails for your characters. The setting is a lot more detailed, with a variety of cities, bases and a creepy desolate snowy wasteland to explore. A huge difference when exploring the wasteland is that you actually drive a vehicle this time, as opposed to moving an icon on the world map like with the previous game. The vehicle also acts as a playable character that fights alongside you and you can find various upgrades to turn it into a real death machine!
    With Wasteland 3 they have condensed various skills. So instead of shotguns, pistols and smg's being individual skills, they're now folded into the small guns skill. Laser guns no longer have their own skill bar. Instead they're folded into 'small', 'automatic' and 'big guns' skill bars. This means that when you level up one weapon skill bar you'll become efficient with a much bigger variety of weapons. There is no longer permanent death either. If a character enters the 'bleeding out' stage, you can revive them using AP and if they actually die, you can revive them with a specific item. This is a welcome change! There's also a lot more items to be used in and out of combat. You can set up auto machine gun turrets, laser turrets, robots, healing turrets etc and use some new healing items like med darts that you fire at injured teammates. There's also a new branch of weapons which fall under the new 'weird stuff' skill. These include things like shrink grenades, ferret launchers and mind control guns! You also now have 'strike attacks' which combines precision strikes with a super move. Basically it makes precision strikes more useful by having you charge them up and then unleash the shot as a guaranteed hit that cripples specific body parts.
    As with Wasteland 2 there is a huge amount of dialogue, now with a lot more voice acting! You also have unique dialogue options based on your stats and there's still a ton of choices to make that affect how conversations and quests play out. The story is a blast and there's many paths you can take, factions to encounter and decisions to make. This provides much replay value.
    Also as a side note, i feel like they improved the tutorials in this game a lot. They have non-intrusive tips that give you a lot more helpful info than the previous game. This will help new players dive into the game without too much trouble.
    Overall the only thing holding the game back is the performance issues, which is in the process of being patched. Apart from that we have a game which improves upon the previous games in a lot of aspects. Highly recommend checking this out!    … Expand
  8. BarisB
    Sep 10, 2020
    5
    Final Edit (10/Sept/2020) - I am going to bump the score up to 5 now as the game has improved a bit after the 3rd update. Still too little too late. I genuinely do not understand the high scores by gaming media... and 10/10 scores by gamers who are admitting that game is really buggy and full of glitches; you guys are no better than the Zero horde.
    Edit (7/9/2020) - I came back to    Final Edit (10/Sept/2020) - I am going to bump the score up to 5 now as the game has improved a bit after the 3rd update. Still too little too late. I genuinely do not understand the high scores by gaming media... and 10/10 scores by gamers who are admitting that game is really buggy and full of glitches; you guys are no better than the Zero horde.
    Edit (7/9/2020) - I came back to change my score from 8 to 3. Sadly the game became more and more unstable as I continued to progress. So many bugs and glitches everywhere, frequent crashes in most inconvenient times... enough is enough !!! I have also encountered a bug which halts game progress altogether, the mission where you need to fight with Fishslap is bugged and the game freezes or stays indefinitely in "enemy turn". I have no idea how a game in this condition can be released, shame on you really. I am so frustrated of paying full price to this game.
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    I am playing the game on PS4 Pro and I have played around 20 hours. So far the game has crashed on me only once. Though I haven't opened half of the map yet, obviously the crash frequency might increase eventually but It is not an issue for me yet. That said, I haven't seen so many glitches and minor bugs on a final release since a really long time. Some of them are really annoying too but nothing game-breaking so far. It is just a bit ridiculous and kills the fun up to an extend.
    Otherwise this such an amazing game... The writing, the RPG structure, attention to details.,.. these are all at the top, way ahead of current industry standards.
    For me, this would have been a 9/10 game if there were no bugs and glitches. Currently, it is at 6 or 7 due to technical issues - That said these are all going to get patched soon and I feel this game and the developer deserve some love - so it is an 8.    … Expand
  9. Xcommander
    Sep 10, 2020
    5
    Very good game in every way but full of bugs every 2 hour going to crash(update 1.0.7)some quest doesn't work properly.some times in combat screen keep freezing and doesn't respond you have to restart the game and alot more if you want to buy this game wait a t least 2 month to properly patched(i hope so)if it wasn't for the crashing and bugs i gave it 9/10
  10. qqry
    Oct 20, 2020
    7
    Normally would give around 8+, either 8 or 9.

    Game is really good, has interesting characters, plot, relatively long gameplay, many weapons/armor etc. and extremely climatic music. I had a great time playing it. Only thing I've maybe missed is a bit more deep in the relations with your companions, and related quests. Few more hours of gameplay and few more locations would made this game    Normally would give around 8+, either 8 or 9.

    Game is really good, has interesting characters, plot, relatively long gameplay, many weapons/armor etc. and extremely climatic music. I had a great time playing it. Only thing I've maybe missed is a bit more deep in the relations with your companions, and related quests. Few more hours of gameplay and few more locations would made this game almost perfect for me.

    However, during my gameplay I have experienced, besides some smaller bugs like equipment fully disappearing on one of my characters, like dozen of crashes. Majority happened during loadings (only one in the middle of a map), and Wastelands has quite ok autosave. So instead of hours you just lose several minutes each time. Nonetheless, it just prove that this game had very low quality assurance testing and was sold as full product even with that major bugs. For this, I cannot give more than 7.    … Expand
  11. Zeltiko2018
    Sep 28, 2020
    7
    I think that this is a very depth and good Game, but the Game is devaluated by a horrible mix of Bugs and crashes that make It unplayable. I'm sorry but this is The crude reality.
  12. Drakilliam
    Sep 21, 2020
    6
    Great story and would be great but the glitches and bugs in this game just makes it unplayable and you spend most of your time in loading screens.
  13. useless-trash28
    Oct 26, 2020
    5
    This is one of the buggiest games I have ever played. This has crashed more times than I can count, and I have to constantly reload previous saves to get around frequent game breaking glitches. However, this is an extremely fun game when it works properly, and is deserving of a 8 or 9 out of 10, but in its current state the highest review I can give it is a 5. I do not recommend buyingThis is one of the buggiest games I have ever played. This has crashed more times than I can count, and I have to constantly reload previous saves to get around frequent game breaking glitches. However, this is an extremely fun game when it works properly, and is deserving of a 8 or 9 out of 10, but in its current state the highest review I can give it is a 5. I do not recommend buying this game in its current state, and it is extremely frustrating to try to play the game because of its terrible technical performance. I recommend waiting at least 6 months before you buy this, and get it at a heavily discounted price, when hopefully most of the game breaking bugs have been worked out.… Expand
  14. PePSchaepp
    Sep 10, 2020
    6
    Have not played a CRPG in a long while.
    Short review!
    The good:
    The story, the voice acting, the world, the characters...AMAZING and COMPELLING!

    The mehhh:
    Super slow paced
    Loading takes too long! Everything is connected by looong loading screens.

    The bad:
    So many bugs! Game crashes so many times!
  15. Rodolfo1660
    Oct 4, 2020
    6
    Good game but it crashes too often, to the point i couldn't watch the ending (it frozed, so i ended up having to watch it on youtube). the bugs really wreck the experience. i played it on an old PS4 system, maybe with a pro or an xbox the game wouldnt have crash all the time. still, i dont recomend playing the game now, on a console at least, maybe in a couple of months when te developersGood game but it crashes too often, to the point i couldn't watch the ending (it frozed, so i ended up having to watch it on youtube). the bugs really wreck the experience. i played it on an old PS4 system, maybe with a pro or an xbox the game wouldnt have crash all the time. still, i dont recomend playing the game now, on a console at least, maybe in a couple of months when te developers take out a patch that fixes all the glitches, or ar least the more annoying ones.… Expand
  16. Icewave
    Jan 13, 2021
    7
    The story and the RPG elements carry this game. Never played any of the Wasteland games before so I didn't know what to expect from this, but I am overall impressed with what I got. Could've been a 9/10 game if it wasn't for the minuses I listed below.

    Overall: + Good writing, proper RPG elements, plenty of options for customising characters, good art style, good voice acting, balanced    The story and the RPG elements carry this game. Never played any of the Wasteland games before so I didn't know what to expect from this, but I am overall impressed with what I got. Could've been a 9/10 game if it wasn't for the minuses I listed below.

    Overall:
    + Good writing, proper RPG elements, plenty of options for customising characters, good art style, good voice acting, balanced difficulty levels, good combat mechanics, decent AI
    －Dated graphics with blurry textures (PS4 Pro version), poorly optimised, long loading times, some glitches and bugs, sub-par audio mixing

    Verdict: Very refreshing, definitely worth buying it if you can find it on sale.

    Notes:
    • If you're new to the genre, the amount of options you have for building characters can be overwhelming. The game does explain each stat and option, but it doesn't hold your hand when it comes to builds and team synergy
    • I didn't try the CO-OP yet    … Expand
  17. twgwNew
    Jul 1, 2022
    7
    The game is alright but too many bugs and glitches. It is not polished enough
  18. Nyxblade
    Sep 8, 2023
    7
    It's a cookie-cutter game whose dark atmosphere drew me in. I think that it is a game that is not tiring and difficult, which I think will get positive feedback from people who have never met turn-based games in the process of getting used to this genre. The story was also very satisfying.

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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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