Fallout 2

Fallout is a question, and the answer is yes! The game does require you to jump through some hoops to play it, and even more to enjoy it. Most hoops come from technical difficulties, the other is moral, should you give effing Bethesda money for Fallout 2? Once you pass those hoops however, you've got one hell of a classic that you can sink hours upon hours into, with freedom you can find nowhere else these days. We are talking of a time before the ridiculous "nobody plays the evil route" statistic. So if you want to be the worst basterd in the entire Wasteland, seduce a young woman, get literally shotgun married by her father, find the slavers and sell your wife, shooting one of those damn pickpocketing kids on your way out, you can. Of course you can decide to be a lot less edgy than this, but it is a depth of choice that exists. The game will let you do things and in many cases will react to those choices. The game is excellent and a classic for a reason, Fallout 1 might be superior but require even more hoops for you to jump through. If you have never played this game, get ready for a rough introduction to the world of retro gaming, but the prize is worth the game.

I recently sat down and blew through the first two Fallout games over the course of about 3 months, and I am so happy that I finally played these games. Fallout 2 easily being the more content-rich game, I loved every minute of it, (well, maybe not every minute) My only regret is that I wish I had taken more time to slow down and appreciate it before it was over.

The generation grew up on this title. Maybe there were better stories or mechanics before - like it's predecessor Wasteland, or something from absolutely different areas like TLo Zelda, System Shock or The Elder Scrolls... maybe not tough. Fallout 2 however helped many of us to notice the most important pop-culture figures of that time (all times?) like The Monty Pyton, Sergio Leone, Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott and many others. Playing the game using other language than ENG (preferably ver. US 1.02e ;) ) is very unfriendly to notice many of such contexts. Every time I'm thinking how F2 impacted my youth and shaped my current perception of film and gaming fan I feel incoming tears of nostalgia at very bottom of my throat...

Made way back when letting a person with the mind of a 12 year old write the story and dialogue was unacceptable, Fallout offers you great gameplay; endless character customisation options; and a masterfully written, highly detailed story line set in a deeply immersive world. A world where choices actually have consequences outside of their immediate plot. Fallout 1 and 2 may very well be _the best_ CRPGs made in the recent 30 years. You will experience an open world filled with detail, story lines, characters and secrets that will have you yearning for more when you are finished. You will let the experience sink in for a week or two, and then you will get an itch so bad that you will rush to start a new game with a different character so that you can explore all the options you did not select in your previous play through. This will happen over and over again, like it did for me - being in my thirties, with dozens of play throughs in my past, I still reinstall it when I get a spare minute and start another adventure. With the numerous patches and fixes that have been released since Fo2 saw daylight - restoration patch being cheif among them - this game is a gift that keeps on giving! There is a catch though - playing the original Fallouts will lead you to be disappointed in every single game claiming to be an RPG released since. Especially the ones bearing its name. Really, a small price to pay for the experience. Enjoy.

This is my favorite game, you have an incredible amount of freedom to do whatever you please too