Fallout 2

I enjoy the Fallout series a lot, and it is one of the best games in the series of the Interplay/Black Isle Fallout series. I've been playing this game for a bit, on GOG mind you, and I love it. The bad about it is that you have to get over the cavalier oblique projection that the game use and the combat. The combat is great once you learn how to work its greasy gears. I have only got to Vic, so not very far at all. I know the ending since it is talking about in the Lore. I do consider New Vegas a successor to the first two Fallout games. The game is great, it's worth the 10 bucks and it's even better if you get it on a sale. Be Seeing You.

This review is from someone who played over a hundred hours of Fallout: New Vegas and 3 and loved both. I also just finished Fallout 1 before this game and wrote a mixed review on it. From the beginning I could tell this game was special in a way Fallout 1 wasn't. The story, characters, side quests, and companions were so much more interesting and nearly every town had cool stuff to do. The UI is improved (thankfully I can see my action points a bit better now), the animations are a little better and the game seems to run a bit smoother. But, as I was having a blast I also had lots of things holding me back from having as good an experience as I wanted to. Just like Fallout 1, this was a wiki game for me. I was frequently checking it to see: who do I talk to about this, where can I find this item, is it possible to open this locker if I have less than 20% in lockpick? I did this because I just don't have fun wandering around for hours looking for what I'm supposed to do next to solve a quest or find an important location. I still had to backtrack like crazy, encounter glitches, and get bombarded by far too many random encounters. One general problem I had was that there are just too many NPCs across the board. In combat, instead of fighting three or four enemies like FO1, I'm fighting ten or twelve. And even with max combat speed there's way too much downtime for a single player RPG while I watch each individual enemy move and attack. Then when it is my turn maybe I miss, maybe I hit, but it's unlikely I one-shot an enemy. So combat takes forever. Also, in towns there are so many NPCs to talk to and they all look the same so it can be hard trying to find the important ones. Some characters you can talk to have nothing interesting to say or just repeat the same stuff over and over. The game takes just as long to get going as FO1, but I recommend you play that first because this game builds on it. These games are old, but they sure are fascinating.

Fallout 2 is a great game with some minor flaws. It's not quite as good as the original Fallout, the humor in this game hurts it more than helps (where the original Fallout found the perfect balance). Still, this is an outstanding Fallout experience in almost every way!

If you're having issues where the game gets stuck on the intro video then just restart. That fixed it for me. Also Windows 7 compatability mode fixed my audio crackling. I'm on Windows 11. I think the issue has to do with Sfall.

one of my all time favorite games of all time