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Summary: Cross between Wasteland and Operation Overkill
Review: I waited a long time to get Fallout and I am not disappointed. I even got Fallout 2 with this deal. Fallout is a very good RPG.
If you ever played and liked the old school games Wasteland or the BBS classic Operation Overkill you will like Fallout. Fallout adds the modern graphics and sound to the post-appocalypse scenarios of those old classics. By exploring the radioactive wasteland above ground, you maintain supplies and the needs of your comrades in an underground survival vault. It is a skill based game, where you get a better at fighting, healing, etc., as you get experience. The interface is a little unusual, but it suited me just fine, and seemed logical enough. I was also pleased to find that the game plays well (not just hobbles along) on my system even though it is much below the stated minimuum system requirements. Many of the ActiveX based games are full of bugs, in my opinion, but Fallout has not crashed or did anything quirky on my computer even one time. I think reviewers do not spend enough time on faulty programming-- I don't care how pretty a game is on the box, if it don't work right it is no fun for me. Fallout works just great.
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Summary: It's been said already, but let me chime in
Review: Speaking as an avid RPG gamer, let me just add briefly that these are the best role playing games that have been created to date. You can be any kind of person you want; you can do almost anything you want, and the games give you the freedom to "live" inside the scummy world that these guys have created. These games are fun over, and over, and over again; this could be the best money you ever spend!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I only have Fallout 1 but I plan on buying fallout 2 when I beat it. Fallout is awesome and addictive like crazy. One of the best rpgs out there.
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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: The greatest PC RPG since FF7
Review: REALLY COOL GAME!! The funnest game I've in a long time. The part is when you find some strong guns and destroy everyone!
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Summary: Fallout Falls Down
Review: This game had a great opening, but came with no instructions (a serious downside) and a steep learning curve. Once I got going, it became painfully aparent that the game was tediously slow. Unless you want to spend the better part of your life playing an outdated game, pass on this one.
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Summary: A great deal for two classics
Review: The first two Fallout games, taking place in a post-apocalyptic southwestern United States, are fun, time-consuming RPGs. They are very open-ended, allowing you several solutions, good or evil, to problems throughout the wasteland. There are a variety of skills to choose from (such as small guns, gambling, first aid, doctor, repair, etc.), making it possible to play the games in dozens of different ways. Based on your talents, you can even become a porn star, prizefighter, or member of a crime family. You're given an opportunity to truly play your character in the way you want. At the end of each game, the results of your actions in each town are explained, making all your efforts worth the time. The humor, often dark or explicit, is quite good, but parents should think twice about buying this for a young child; there is also sexual content (nothing shown, but your character may end up knocking boots a bit, even becoming a porn star or visiting a whorehouse in the 2nd game) and gore. By now, nearly all of the bugs (which had been the game's only real achilles heel) can be solved with downloadable patches, making this an even greater deal. If you liked the Baldur's Gate series, or any games which don't confine you to what the designer wants you to do, you should definitely pick this up.
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Summary: Almost the best ever
Review: Well first of all I don't usually give games good reviews. For the most part while graphics have been getting better over the years, gameplay has generally been neglected. Most games are pretty formulaic and bore me to tears. I'd heard good things about Fallout, and despite great disappointments at the hands of CRPGs, I decided to give it a go. In short I would have to say Fallout is the best RPG game I ever played. But before I tell you why I liked it so much, I'd better tell you what Fallout is NOT. First off, the graphics suck. It looks like a Super Nintendo game. The fact that everything and everyone looks the same does not contribute very much to the immersion factor. Second, it is not a real action packed game. The combat system is turn-based, and is pretty good but not great. From reading reviews I got the impression somehow that I would be sitting in a window sniping people, or be pinned down by automatic gunfire in epic gun fights in the city streets. Well it is not like that. For the most part battles are fought at close range out in the open with gunfire taking off a portion of your hitpoints. It's not very realistic and doesn't really get the blood flowing. At first I was disappointed, but comparing it to other RPGs, it is pretty good. There are a lot of weapons you can use and specialize in, and you can aim for specific parts of the body which is cool. Finally, this is not a power gamers' game. It's way too easy, and you don't really need to level up. At about level 3, you are in good shape. It can conceivably be beaten in a hard-core weekend. I want to emphasize that this is not the perfect game and in fact has many major flaws. So, you might be asking, what is GOOD about Fallout? Well basically it has the best world in an RPG ever. You see, the problem with CRPGs is that they have to fit the entire game world on your hard drive. So basically, the game can either be broad in the sense that you can do whatever you want but nothing matters (Baldur's Gate), or you can have a game that is really detailed and thick but you don't have any free will (Final Fantasy). Fallout takes a completely different route in that you have a staggering amount of free will that actually affects the outcome of the game. In Baldur's Gate you could make a lot of choices at the beginning regarding your character and later which pointless side quest you wanted to do, but for the most part these choices were superficial. Character class determined in what manner you were going to kill everyone in a dungeon, and statistics determined the difficulty. Your actions are pooled into a "Reputation" modifier which helps determine whether people like you or not. Your race and gender makes no difference. Well, in Fallout character creation is a blast. What's so special about it is the ability to really create a unique character that's taylor made to how you want to play the game. NPCs will react to you in all different manners depending on what you've done and what you've said. Basically what you get that no other game gives you is a chance to truly role-play and make decisions about how you want to handle a situation besides just walking around killing bad guys. Fallout is also quite a funny game at times without making fun of itself which is something you almost never see in RPGs. In short it's the closest to being 'in' a game that I've ever been. But my favorite thing about Fallout is, whatever path you take, it plays like a good movie. There are all sorts of epic battles and confrontations, good atmosphere and cool characters, and even a bit of a morality theme in there. The best stories of any medium are the ones that illicit an emotional response, where you learn something about life and yourself. Fallout gives you a bit of that. So while it may look like crap and even play like crap sometimes compared to the Diablos, Baldur's Gates, and Final Fantasies, it is just a far better RPG. Fallout 2 is your classic sequel, introduction to ending. It's the same ideas, but bigger, harder, funnier, everything makes a little less sense, more guns and more explosions. It is better game than the original in that you can do so much more and is more fun, but well, to it bluntly, the end is crap. There's no getting around it. It has Christmas deadline written all over it. Right before the final level of the game I would have flat out told you it was the best game ever made. But the best I can say now is, it's a good game but not great. And that is just a darn shame. I really can't ever emphasize that enough. In a nutshell the game lacks the cohesiveness of the original, the "movie" feel, that a good ending could have brought, and that the rest of the game seemed to promise. That said, Fallout is still the king of CRPGs. Highly recommended.
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Summary: You have ...bucks for this, trust me.
Review: You will receive more from the ...dollars you spend on this bundle than any other ... dollars you have to spend on Amazon.com. Two excellent RPGs for a low price, dozens upon dozens of hours of exploration and entertainment. Fans of Planescape:Torment, Thief, System Shock 2, Deus Ex and other "thinking" action/RPG games will love the Fallout series. So, what were you going to spend your ten dollars on, some DVD you'll never watch? Feh. Do yourself a favor, hang with the mutants, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Good but Overrated
Review: These were the first rpgs I ever played. Regarding Fallout, Pros: -- Great character creation system -- big world to explore -- combat system took some getting used to but was fun. -- Mostly decent voice acting. Cons: -- Truly cheesy writing, and the ultimate plot's pretty lame. RPG fans love the amount of free will you have in the Fallout series, but I find that sort of thing dull. I don't enjoy playing "bad" characters or doing whatever I want. If you like that sort of thing, up this review a notch or two, because you have a great deal of freedom to play in varying styles. (Although you can conceivably do "whatever you want" in Fallout, in practice, though, there's a basic path the designers want you to follow. Some encounters are meant to happen early, some late.) The writing here is overrated. It wouldn't past muster in a bad HBO original movie. Fallout 2 was more of the same, but harder. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much, and didn't finish it, in fact. A good introduction to rpgs, but I hope there are better efforts out there.
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