I will always love Kickstarter for seemingly, single handedly, reviving the isometric rpg. First we got Shadowrun Returns and Divinity, which were great, and now we have a sequel to the original post apocalyptic isometric rpg and the daddy of Fallout, Wasteland. The original is one of the few games of this type that I haven't played and I came into Wasteland 2 expecting old school Fallout, which is exactly what it is. Skills, attributes, inventories, turn based combat, moral dilemmas and resource management. It's geek-tastic. I spent the first hour creating a group of cowboys (A wyatt Earp, a Jayne from firefly, a sweet talking hussie, and a beardy old doctor) and have spent most of this weekend killing Mad Max like bandits and saving the day. You can really go to town on the characters - Jayne is a badass who can intimidate people in conversation, smash down doors and stuff that gets in the way, and generally beat the crap out of people with blunt weapons (not sharp mind, that's a different skill!). There's lock picking, safe cracking, computer hacking, bomb disarming, about 10 different types of weapon proficiencies! You can be a smart ass, a weapon smith, a field medic, a surgeon (they're not the same thing!) charm animals, and a toaster repair man. There's 3 different types of conversion skills! And a whole bunch more I can't remember. I genuinely love all this stuff and it's been something sorely missed from our video games for the best part of two decades. If I have to gripe, the visuals are functional and there's been the odd glitch, but so far (a day or so in) it's been brilliant. I'll finish by quoting some guy on metacritic who sums it up better:
'I like very mach fallout 1, 2, tactics. I played Fallout 3 - one run I had, no more than one hour. My best wish is TBS+RPG+post nuclear world. Finally I got it. Wasteland 2 had come. Now I play this game slowly, to realize happiness.'
'I like very mach fallout 1, 2, tactics. I played Fallout 3 - one run I had, no more than one hour. My best wish is TBS+RPG+post nuclear world. Finally I got it. Wasteland 2 had come. Now I play this game slowly, to realize happiness.'
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