Fallout 2

I've recently re-played Fallout 1 and decided to give Fallout 2 another spin as well. F1 replay blew me away with tons of content that I previously didn't see, interesting in-game situations and a very deep, imaginative setting. F2 frustrated and eventually bored me. - You start with absolutely no resources and are expected to grind boring fetch quests and low-level enemies. This is just bad design. - The original imaginative setting was "augmented" with lots of nonsense. 1930-style mobsters. Several kinds of aliens. Talking deathclaws. Previously secret remnants of US government that have better technology than Brotherhood of Steel. It's way less coherent than the fist game. - Almost every aspect of F1 was somehow diluted. A lot of lazily designed quests. A lot of lazily designed locations. A lot of encounters that are either absolutely deadly or just boring cleanup depending on whether you're over some level threshold. There are many new weapons, but most of them are only marginally different from one another. Mk II leather and metal armor make upgrades feel less impactful. - F1 had a lot of cross-location interactions. This isn't much of a thing in F2. Locations here feel like isolated theme parks. - There is not enough space here to describe more complex differences in design approach, but the overall philosophy of design is very different between F2 and F1. It's mind-boggling that a low of people don't see that the two games are very different in many fundamental ways. The only aspect of the game that was clearly improved is companion handling. Companions now can level up, wear armor and some of them can help you with non-combat skills. If you want to avoid grinding boring content, you probably want to read about all perks, skills and attribute effects in advance and level up according to some plan. You can't afford to waste anything in the beginning of the game. Overall, for people who liked Fallout 1 and want "more" I suggest to get New Vegas.

this game is awesome but its also abandonware lol

good and bad game good immersive story interesting npcs bad no crafting and in one area the vault 13 area there is crashing that does not allow you to complete that area its part of the main story and a quest line so you are not able to continue with the game this crash i was able to exit the game with a control alt delete and get it back to windows with out turning the compute off and on recommendations fix vault 13 area and buy the game

every where on line points here for the fact i can run this with a mac so i got it and i can't run it :(

Before we start I still got the interplay copy of this game. if you own a mac you can still get the same mac version (using wineskin) on portingkit. For more information just look at my review of Fallout 1 here I will write some difference: - Finally you can trade with your teammates without stealing from them, and you can give them weapons and armors. - This game is huge compared to Fallout 1... the real problem is that the story is the same of the first game, without the time limit (so it is a boring main story)... But the secondary quests are awesome. - The "Hokuto no Ken" world is like the 2 season of that anime... Much less post-atomic, much more joke. There are a bunch of really funny easter eggs. - On this game you can use a car! Woah! - You can now move NPC and your companions. Like you can see there are many good things in Fallout 2 (many bad technical things of Fallout 1 are fixed) but the main bad story is something for me. Still, if you like the first fallout, buy and play this one, you will not regret it. Italiano Se possedete un mac potete avere la versione wineskin da portingkit (era la versione che c'era su gog prima che interplay perdesse i diritti). Per più informazioni leggetevi prima la mia recensione di fallout 1 qui elencherò solo le differenze: - si possono finalmente scambiare beni, armi e armature con i propri compagni senza rubare. - Il gioco rispetto a fallout 1 è gigantesco... Ma sfortunatamente la storia principale è la stessa del primo senza tempo limite. Però le quest secondarie sono stupende. - il mondo post-apocalittico non è più una landa desolata alla "Hokuto no Ken"... è diventata una landa piena di easter egg e di scherzi. Si è persa l'atmosfera originale... ma ci sono anche delle battute divertenti. - C'è una macchina LOL. - Se il vostro personaggio rimane bloccato potete chiedere ai vostri compagni e agli npc di muoversi dai coglioni. Su oldgamesitalia trovate la patch amatoriale per tradurre interamente il gioco in italiano.