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Summary: Best RPG game to date.
Review: First off, some background. I am not a nice guy. I do not say nice things about games just to avoid hurting people's feelings. If you don't believe me check out reviews of some of the games I've trashed, like Might and Magic 8. So when I tell you that this game is by FAR the best RPG I've ever seen, believe me. Some of the things I liked about it:A GENUINELY NON-LINEAR STORY LINE: Starting with character developement, you can take radically different paths through the game. Most of the situations in the game can be resolves in several different ways, all of which lead to different outcomes with different effects on the world and the NPC's. You can also choose which side to support in several different political fights. THE BEST NPC SYSTEM EVER: The NPC's in the game are extremely well written, and seem to have lives and goals of their own. Their dialogue is well written, and gives each one a unique voice. And some of the political maneuvering that they are involved in is really quite complicated! They seemed more like the characters in a novel than the cardboard cut outs I usually see in RPG's. The game's conversation system is one of the nicest features. Basically, your character's intelligence determines how many things he can think of to say in any given situation. This means that a smooth talking smart character will have a different set of options than a dim witted combat machine. It's a nice system that works very well. THE GAME WORLD IS TOTALLY AWESOME. It's gloomy, post-apocolyptic, but totally cool. The game designers really put some time in on coming up with interesting settings. I rarely use the phrase "sense of wonder" in conjunction with a computer game, but time and again I came across situations and settings that really blew me away. Also, the game world reflects a more adult understanding of human nature than any other game out there. The amount of thought they put into the political situations, social structures, and personal rivalries is really quite impressive. INTERESTING FIGHTS: Unlike most RPG's which have thousands of fights against a huge number of unintelligent opponents, Fallout 2 tends to have fewer, more interesting fights. (Or at least it can. A real blood and guts player who charges into every situation with guns blazing could still generate a lot of carnage.) A particularly nice feature is the "Outdoorsman" skill, which lets you spot random encounters in the badlands and avoid them if you want. This means that players who want to get in a rumble can do so, while those who just want to get on with the story can save the time. REAL CHOICE IN CHARACTER GENERATION: Simply put, you can't have a character that can do it all, even with huge amounts of experience. Hence, you've gotta make some hard choices, and play those out. The game is very different depending on whether you choose to play a smooth talker, a stealthy type, or a combat machine. A CLEAN, QUICK COMBAT ENGINE: The combat system is flexible enough to generate some very interesting tactical situations, but clean enough to run pretty quickly. Given the lethality of the weapons involved, most fights end in less than five rounds, so every move is critical. It's a nice break from some of the thirty round slug fests that go on in games like Might and Magic 7.
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Summary: Fallout 2
Review: Good bloody and raunchy fun! I don't know too many PC RPGs out there that lets you become
a famous/infamous porno star, or lets you get down and dirty
with some of the local hookers. Or get your way by fooling
around with a slave trader. If you happen to not be overly interested in anything like that
the blood and guts make for some entertainment. But if gore
isn't quite your cup of tea, you can always turn it down. But
I do suggest that you pick "Bloody Mess" as a trait--regardless
of if you like gore or not. On top of that, you've got a wide variety of different skills,
traits, and all sorts of things you can play with in the game,
not only giving it a really good replay value, but making it
one of the best games I've ever played. Oh, and get the kama sutra skill...
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Summary: Fallout 2
Review: hi my name is nawaf,(pro game tester for interplay and much more). 5 years ago i test what would be a best seller Fallout. the game was a great hit with me and the other testers. I came back for 2 it got much much better it started a new ago of r.p.gs. The game gives you the freedom to do what ever you what with multi endings a main job, and sub jobs to keep you in the game. Even after you finish you will still have hours to play. I give this game 5 STARS , this is a must get game if you dont get it now, when 3 comes out and i have tested it you will be lost. and for the lucky ones who got 1 :) you have many more fallout to come. This is the next final fantasy. Dont get lost get it NOW
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Summary: The GOD of rpg
Review: I am a RPG fan (also enjoyed great titles in action like half-life). Fallout2 is by far the greatest game I have even seen. I have at least played this game 10 times. And I am still going to play it again. RPG is all about story-line and character development. Fallout2 has the most complex story so far. The design of sub-quests makes a lot of sense. In my opinion, it is much better than the Baulder Gate, which is so repetitive with all these Fedex quests. The game is overall difficult, but not overly difficult. The garphic is neat enough that you will not regret the fact that there are no eye candies. What a relief! Games nowadays likes to have 3D high-tech cookies only for the sake of high-tech. Actually I played fallout2 before the original fallout. How could I not buy fallout after I played fallout 2 :). The original fallout is way too short, but still better than 99% of the PRGs on the market. My recommendation is that fallout2 is a must have for any rpg player. Me? I cannot wait for the release of the new game "Arcanum", which is produced by the three gurus in fallout group.
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Summary: The reason I am now addicted to RPGs
Review: I can't say much that hasn't been said already. If you likeRPGs or think you might buy this game and play it. In my opinion youcan find no better example of a computer RPG done right. I liked this better than Balder's Gate. One of my Favorite combat sequences: I kill a baddie with one well placed head shot with a gauss rifle and his head explodes into ... . (You can turn off the Gore factor if you want, but why?)
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Summary: Aptly named Fallout2, because there's NOTHING new
Review: I enjoyed Fallout, but I was disappointed in FO2. Sadly, it is so full of recycled material that the "creative" elements are completely overshadowed. Visually, it is identical to Fallout. Many of the building exteriors and interiors are straight out of the original game. Certainly the character animations are indentical to Fallout. The interface and engine are directly pulled from the old game, with the resulting graphics appearing fairly dated. Many of the same problems from the original game remain. Dropped items can be difficult to find, especially if dropped behind another object (like the car.) Many are so small as to be only a few pixels in the screen, and even when you can see them, they are difficult to pick up. Even the few new elements in the game make no difference to gameplay. Interface with NPCs has been upgraded, so you can supposedly change their combat performance. However, tweaking the various settings makes so little difference in their performance that one wonders why they bothered. After the first few levels, the NPCs are not much more than beasts of burden for the twenty shotguns that you can't sell because the shopkeepers have no money to buy your surplus. The box promises the ability to get married and...well...you can read the box. There are two people in the whole game your character can marry, and they are both in the same building. Furthermore, getting married makes no difference in the overall game except for a minute amount of comic relief. It certainly isn't worth giving it space on the box. The patch is essential, or you will end up with half of your car (the trunk) following you around, and will have frequent game crashes. Another patch is due, and it would be nice if some of the quests were completed, too. One of th first NPCs you are likely to encounter in the game joins you on the premise of finding his sister who was captured by slavers, but this quest was never completed. There's no further mention of it in the game. As for the lack of originality, I would not be surprised to find that Black Isle Games is either paying royalties to a number of franchises, or will soon be faced with lawsuits. There are elements from Monty Python, Star Trek, Douglas Adams, and numerous other sources that pop up at various points. Fans of the game probably consider these to be "tributes", but they strike me as copyright infringements. Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of the three sources I cited, but I'd prefer the writers to have some of their own ideas. Finally, though, the game is incredibly violent. The language is foul, and the sex-n-drugs content is through the roof. Besides being offensive to many people, it offers an insight into what the gamemaker think of human nature. The people in this game are uniformly despicable: drug dealers, pimps, porn stars, drug addicts, and various other purveyors of evil. There was some virtue in Fallout, but somehow, it was extinguished in the sequel. Overall, a very disappointing game. It might make a decent, if violent and gritty expansion module for the original game, but as a "new" game, it was clearly thrown together with leftover software and ideas. Very disappointing. If you want a better RPG (from the same publisher) you're better off with Planescape:Torment.
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Summary: Best RPG ever
Review: I have played many other RPG's such as Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment which are some of the best of the genre but Fallout2 is the best of all by far. The story is intersting and the game is in dpth with different stat layer and lot's of side quests that affect the outcome of the main plot. It makes for many hours, days, weeks, months of gaming fun. I first got this game in 98 or 99 and it is still my favorite and Fallout 1 is really awesome too, just to short. This is a must buy for RPG enthusiasts. It may be to complex for some mainstream gamers but has been on the best seller list, top 20 for a long time, 2 years until a couple of months ago. so buy this game, maybe not from Amazon but elsewhere. PS I don't work here or for the production company. Watch for Fallout 3 and Fallout: Tactics
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Summary: Fallout Forever
Review: I love Fallout, exspecially Fallout 2. I bought Fallout 2 because I play Fallout and loved it. If you've played Fallout before Fallout 2 you'll find that Fallout 2 is a lot more discouraging. It's a lot harder to develop a new character. You'll never reach a point where you're immortal (eg. you can kill anything with ease). But anyway Fallout 2 is still great. I let my friend play Fallout 2 and he had a sleepover at my house just so he could play Fallout 2. Everyone I know loves Fallout 2.
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Summary: Awesome role-playing for a PC
Review: I love this game. From start to finish, I have played this three times. The option to keep playing after the game "ends" is a great improvement over the first "Fallout" game. It can be brutal, so keep your companions alive as long as they are usefull (everyone who sucks up another attack is one less for you). On the down side, this game is addictive. The variations can cause a different tack to be taken every time. The blood level can cause the squemish to shy away, but players can use the options to reduce it a little. On the other hand you can totally annihilate an opponent in a very gruesome manner (ever see a ganster turned to slag, or blown to bits?) and still take time out for the ladies. Character interactions with the NPCs are a vital part of the game, for good or bad, and are just as important as the combat side of things. All in all, brutal, bloody, and fascinating. Great game!
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Summary: Great RPG; blood, guts, more guts and blood and even RPGing
Review: I remember the first FALLOUT game sat on my shelf for a long time b/c a friend, who had lent it to me, told me it was a post nuclear holocast world. Personally, it sounded too grim so I didn't check it out for months. Well, when I finally loaded it in, I was in for a big surprise. Shortly thereafter, I rushed out to get FALLOUT2. THE GOOD PARTS ABOUT THIS GAME (1) Unlike most RPGs you get to roleplay with a variety of educated replies. If you pick the right ones, you get more information. And, if you screw up, too bad. You don't get to ask the other questions for the most part. I always hate in the RPGs where you tick off a person and then ask them another question and they act like you're their friend. Even better, if you have a high intelligence or good speech skills, you're rewarded with more dialogue options. (2) great graphics; great noises; all the weapons and noises of dying people, if that's your thing, are fairly believable. You can even click BLOODY MESS as a perk to see some really gruesome visuals. (3) you can have more allies; you can outfit them with better armor and weapons; all have different personalities which means they may or may not be good in combat; may leave you if you tick them off; (4) opponents are tougher; you get away with less mistakes; positioning is much more important; (5) the storyline is multilayered; the game lasts about three times as long as the original fallout; much more to do; (6) as it is longer, you effect more of the world at the end of the story; (7) new and better weapons to penetrate power armor; a problem in the first FALLOUT; (8) less linear; there is a time limit of sorts but only for about 10% of the game; thereafter, you can meander all you like w/o running out of time; (9) more perks and such to make yourself toughter; look for THE SLAYER!; (10) less bugs; be sure to go their website and get the PATCH update if not included; (11) get to use a car in this game to drive around and move quickly; (12) usual opponents from FALLOUT are turned on their head; the enemy isn't always the enemy; (13) chance to meet more women in the game if that's your thing; (14) much tougher wandering encounters; happens more often, too; (15) bandits are much tougher; watch it! (16) the game rewards you if you choose to go down the dark path or the path of light THINGS NOT SO GOOD (1) You need a lot of time to play this game; like 50 hrs I would say or more; (2) If you're big on logic or environmental issues, there are too many monsters and no creatures to prey on except a small number of humans. I walk around fighting things left and right and then find some safe peddler out in the middle of nowhere. Geesh. If you can overlook that though, not a big deal. Overall, a great game with lots of RPGing. Five stars and more. You will love.
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