Posted on: October 11, 2020
kanamor392
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 60
Disappointing, more becomes less
Ran without problems on my Win10, Intel HD machine in late 2020, but I still lost a spade in an inventory bug. Wasteland 2 in a nutshell: There are three separate speech skills, featured prominently in your very first conversation: Smart Ass, Hard Ass and Kiss Ass (actual names). All of them have several levels and are upgraded separately at the cost of a few skill points per level. Your character usually won't be able to pay for a new skill level with just the points he'll get when advancing one character level, however. More skill insanity: Machine Repair and Toaster Repair, Field Medic and Surgeon, Lockpicking and Safecracking, Brute Force (for kicking down doors -you didn't think just being strong was enough, did you?). All these are actual skills. Combat isn't tactical, at all. There's cover but doesn't make a lot of difference. I wish it was like XCOM for XBox -not even close. The one thing I liked is everyone has their turn individually, not as a group. Camera control is unwieldly and room design doesn't help. Something that bugged me a lot: if you create a custom character you select his 2D portrait from a small, detailed premade gallery but then have to customize his 3D avatar separately instead of having a premade 3D avatar somewhat matching the portrait. If you don't fix it the immersion is totally ruined, as the UI relies on portraits a lot. And you'll want to make your own characters to avoid the insane skill system. I gave it two stars instead of one because they tried, but this is a case of more is less. The UI is great considering the underlying mess, but still has issues. Wasteland 2 was supposed to be great by doing the squad turn-based combat FallOut 3+ dropped. And I personally thought it could surpass XCOM by adding an immersive world with CRPG elements. Well, nope. I might give it a last chance by creating a squad of very similar soldier types who don't talk a lot, but the game itself warns you'll probably run into ammo problems.
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