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Summary: The best game(s) of all time!!
Review: Not just the best RPG's of all time but the best of all games.Fallout 1 & 2 are unique and innovative RPG games that don't consist on the old and tired formula of running in dungeons and fighting dragons. Instead, they are both set in the post-nuclear world of the future where everything is a chaos and nowhere is safe. Well, almost nowhere. There are these huge underground "Vaults" which were built before the nuclear war and that's where Fallout's main character known as the "Vault Dweller" lives. Or *used to* live. He is forced to leave the vault to look for a water purification chip when the one in the vault breaks down. He has never been out of the vault and now he just has to go to a highly dangerous and lengthy quest totally unprepared. Sound like fun? Well, it should because it certainly is. That's the premise of the first Fallout. Fallout 2 is set a few decades later. Both games are a totally unique playing experience and if you like either adventure games or RPG's, you'll surely love the Fallout series. Fallout 3 should be in the making when I'm writing this although it hasn't been announced yet. It's going to be made completely in 3D but the same 3rd person perspective the first 2 games.
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Summary: Survive, If You Can....
Review: Fallout and Fallout 2 are, hands down, some of the best RPG games in the history of PC gaming. If you're into RPG's, and you don't already have a copy of either one of these, I SERIOUSLY recommend picking both of them up. Fallout takes you to post-apocalyptic California, where you have survived as a third generation child of an underground bunker called Vault 13. Your elder comes to you to tell you that the water purification system has malfunctioned, and you need to find a replacement chip to fix it. From there, all hell breaks loose as you battle raiders, monsters, and a slew of mutated creatures, all changed by the severe radiation poisoning the world has been left with. Pick up weapons, develop your skills, and explore the landscape for answers to your people's salvation. Fallout 2 takes you some 80 years after the first title. You are a decendent of the hero of the first Fallout game, and need to help your village survive a horrid drought by finding a Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK). This item will help your people to grow new crops, and bring a new era of civilization to the tribals. After that, you're left to find answers to where the sacred Vault 13 is, and whether or not you can get a GECK to save your people with. You'll battle similar enemies from the first title, plus an assortment of new baddies. You'll get some different weapons, and the command interface is a little more user friendly. The best part of these games is the freedom elements. Don't want to complete that mission? Then don't! Many of the quests are optional, so you can choose which ones you want to complete. You can attack just about anyone (provided you can fight off their friends), steal from people, or be a helpful vigilante and bring justice to the wastelands. This game should only be viewed by mature audiences because of sexual situations and coarse dialogue. So, if you're 17 or older and want a game that you'll play again and again, pick up Fallout and Fallout 2.
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Summary: Hours and Hours of Re-Play Fun
Review: These two games are great. They are very similar so if you've played one and didn't like it stay away from both.
The game is old, so people who enjoy flashy game play may not like this as much, but to those who enjoy games with re-play and multiple options will enjoy this game.
The plot line itself is linear, and won't really change depending on what you do, but you can do so many things with you character that its worth re-playing for that simple fact.
Fallout 1 is relatively easy. An average player (like myself) could easily beat it within a week or serious game play. Fallout 2 though is much more difficult, but has more options and is more fun. I still have yet to beat Fallout 2 despite many hours of playing, but then I suck and video games.
To very hardcore players the games may be too easy, and a lack of multiplayer may send away a lot of new players. But for those of us with crappy internet still and too much free time, this is incredibly action/rpg/turn-based video game.
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Summary: Grab these two
Review: I just finished both games, and I highly recommend this bundle set to anyone who likes (1) RPG games, (2) Post-apocalyptic themed anythings, (3) games that don't make you do anything or (4) science fiction in general. The basic premise of both games, as recounted by numerous previous reviews, is that you have to make it in a world defined by the typical nuclear fallout (ahem) disaster. However, there are so many ways to make it, and they're all such fun, that these games should appeal to most people. Fallout 1 is a shorter game but in many ways is more elegant; if you play it conscientiously you'll have a feeling of satisfaction at the end for having seen and done most of it. Fallout 2 is much larger in scope and in time commitment, and unfortunately suffers a bit from it.. there are more bugs, more 'dead' items and quests that were intended to have some purpose in the game but never did, and so on. Some could argue this, in fact, merely adds to the gritty reality of a game where everything doesn't end up in a neat little package at the end, and there aren't answers to all the questions. Or maybe the programming staff was just overworked. In any event, the games are addictive and reward curiosity. High points: 1) Emphasis on character development. A karma counter keeps track of your overall good/badness, and as you progress you are offered various 'Perks' that enhance or define your character, such as Salesman or Demolition Expert or Kama Sutra Master. Others you earn through gameplay itself. Multiple avenues of play exist for any type of character..while your first character in both games is probably going to emphasize gunplay and high Agility, later on you can try a diplomatic or manipulative or pure thieving character as you see fit, and play what amounts to an almost completely different game. 2) So many explosions. These games have lots of fighting, on a turn-based system allowing for micromanagement of both yourself and your 'friendly' NPCs. Use burst fire to take out packs of charging wolves, aim your scoped hunting rifle at someone's leg to keep them from chasing you, send a rocket down a corridor into a pack of unsuspecting guards. It's all there..and the death animations are not for the faint of heart. A few negatives: 1) As is typical in RPGs, making 'bad' or 'evil' decisions or dialogue choices tends to screw you. If you want, just pretend your evil character secretly enjoys the hypocrisy of agreeing to rescue someone's orphaned kitten with a boo-boo on its paw; it would be nice someday if RPGs rewarded evil characters for doing evil things. 2) Armor. Basically the goal of both games is to get your first suit of Power Armor. This transforms both games from a grueling, constantly-reloading ordeal of random accidental deaths and burst-fire horrors to a breeze. This, of course, makes perfect sense...once you're a walking tank, most things bounce off. However (although Fallout 2 handles this a bit better) there is very little middle ground..even with Combat Armor II (the next step down) you get mauled a lot. 3) Uncontrolled NPCs. Sure, by definition you shouldn't be able to control an NPC, but it can get truly annoying when one of your NPCs blasts something, and then moves 1 space directly in front of your other NPC for no reason, and then that second NPC, naturally, fires a machine gun directly into his head. It makes you wonder if 'friendly fire accidents' are really accidents. Depending on your party size, you can spend a lot of time watching your allies gun each other down like post apocalyptic three stooges. Those aside, the games are very detailed and can be played as quickly or as slowly as one wishes, with numerous subplots branching off the main plot. The first game does have a timer for the completion of the main task, but that can be extended during the game, and in fact the game goes on (sans timer) once that task is completed. Fallout 2 does away with that completely, allowing you effectively all the time you want to explore. So if you always wondered if how Mad Max would have done if he'd had more ammo for his shotgun and access to the occasional flamethrower, pick them up.
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Summary: This Is Simply The Best Two Games Ever
Review: You are not an official gamer until you puchase this bundle-pack. Fallout 1 and 2 are getting very rare to find, but low and behold, some genious goes and puts them together! (...) I have played almost every single major game on the market, Deus Ex, Quake 3, Baldur's Gate 2, Starcraft, Half-Life, Max Payne; but none of them compare to Fallout 1 and 2. If you want action, gore, humor, chainguns, flamethrowers, giant evil mutants, drugs, it is all here! Simply put, buy these games. If you don't have the money, then get a job. Unless you live under a rock or in a hole, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: if you only buy one game this year, buy this
Review: Fallout has to be played to be believed. And then, you may not discover its true depth until you ' ve finished it a few times, are playing it a few more and have emersed yourself into all fansites you can find. It is a computer rpg of enormous depth of atmosphere and setting. You can create *any* character type you can imagine, you can interact socially in a very detailed level, there are almost infinite subplots that will have you exploring the wierdest places... and all this in a post-apocalyptic world of radiation, mutants, guns and lost knowledge. Get this bundle (I mean, look at the price! 9.99 for 2 games?) and head off into the fallout universe. I am a dedicated rpg player, both computer and tabletop, and I have not seen such a game before...
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Summary: In The Pantheon of Great Games
Review: Ahh, Fallout, next to Chrono Trigger probably the best 2 RPG's ever to be created. Fallout is unique in what it uses; ..., violence, retro humor, and the constant movie referance. Set in the post apocolyptic future, Fallout 1 and 2 take place in mid-northern California and span 80 years between the 2. You have to keep alive in the wasteland against radscorpions, raiders, gangsters, and dont forget the occaisional run-in with a laser-gatling-gun toting super-mutant. It uses also a totally different game engine than most rpg players will be used to, it uses action points to control the amount of actions a character can perform, which are controlled in turn based combat. It is realistic in deaths, a gun shot will simply drop someone, whereas a bursted machine gun will tear the body apart like a rag doll. A critical hit with a laser will either char the person to dust or melt them slowly, and let's not forget the unarmed skill level of your character evolving from hammer punch to jab to piercing strike. Fallout has THE best replay value of any game I have ever played, and any player will replay it over and over to see what will happen if he chooses instead to mouth off to the crime lords, or attempt an attack on the raider camp. Your gender changes the way of the game; rather than paying for information as a man, you can -pump- information out of an enemy as a women. The list goes on and on, GET THIS GAME. The save times are even an improvement from the sold seperately cartons. And tell Big Jesus Mordino that Chris sent you.
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Summary: You'd be stupid to pass this up!
Review: Only**** for 2 excellent games. Fallout won Role-Playing game of the year back in 1997. With fantastic graphics, a good story, and good game play, this was very enjoyable to play. In this game, you learn about the Vaults that were built when nuclear war became imminent. Years after the war, you are sent out as many others were to find a water chip as your supply depleting. You have a time limit to find the water chip, but when that task is done, the game is not. There is much to do in the Fallout world where you will find friends to help you out and will have many weapons at your disposal. Fallout2 take place 80 years after the first. You are the Chosen one. A descendent of the original character from the first game, you are sent on a mission to find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit which will restore the land in your village. This is a very large game. More area to cover, more missions to accomplish, more weapons, and more enemies to thrash. The gameplay and graphics are slightly better than the first, but this is also a very enjoyable game. Both games are turn based when fighting and you can create your own character. There is lotsa blood and very graphic when killing an enemy and there is plenty of adult themes and adult language, but you can tone it down with the adjuster. Overall, you will not find a better value and will be hard pressed to find games that are much better than these.
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Summary: One of the Best RPGs ever made!
Review: This game really *IS* one of the best RPGs ever made! The game has rich character develepment system, lots of skills, a long range of weapons, many places to visit (and beat up) and a huge re-playability value! A must-have for an RPG fan!
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Summary: Two incredible games for ten dollars
Review: I had the good fortune of stumbling into Fallout when I had ten dollars burning a hole in my pocket about a year and a half ago. It turned out to be some of the best money I've ever spent on a video game. It has everything - humor, drama, crazy firepower, and one very freaky final boss. I've played through several times already, and every time I manage to find a new way to make a character. The same goes for Fallout 2, only with the sequel, all of the original's features and perks are magnified about ten times. Yep, that's right, more weapons, more drama, more humor... Who doesn't laugh when you try to kick out the spazzy science geek in your party, only to have him beg and plead for you not to leave him? Nobody that I know. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to play through Fallout 2 yet, but fortunately the dual jewel case version is the debugged version (evidently before there were some major problems with the car.) In any case, I just have to say this: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? BUY THIS GAME!!! Ten dollars for two classic games = a no-brainer purchase.
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