Wasteland Remastered

Although I am a fan of post nuclear holocaust type games, and have played all the Fallout series, until I played this I didn't realize how much every game that came after owes to this. Fantastic story, fun gameplay, and I relished every moment playing it, and was a bit sorry when I was done. Played this, played all the fallouts, played wasteland 2 . . . guess I'll haver to buy wasteland 3 to satify the monkey on my back! No idea why it is getting bad reviews, I guess some don't realize how revolutionary this was for it's time. I'll be playing it again, I can tell you that.

I enjoyed the original game a lot, so my review is biased in favor of not changing the game mechanics too much. So it didn't bother me that the game is easier played with a keyboard instead of a controller. The good: Updated graphics and sound effects/music look and sound great. New artwork and narration for key encounters adds to the immersion. Combat now includes new sounds and simple animations. The new "camp" command saves finger fatigue: it allows you to heal in the desert or wait for random encounters(how else are you going to accumulate the experience needed to take on the Guardian Citadel?). Also, being able to camp in buildings (albeit for less time) is nice if you don't want to keep walking outside. Before you had to walk back and forth using the arrow keys to do this. Things that need work: It's a little buggy, every once in a while I have to close the game and restart because of a freeze. During character creation, it would be nice to be able to save one die roll and try for another better roll: like Baldur's Gate character creation. It would be nice to have more than two character portraits and to be able to choose them during character creation for when they displayed during combat. When a character levels up, that fun sound effect that used to play is missing. It would be nice to be able to zoom in and out a little bit, to see the character up close and to see more of the map. It needs a save function. Although it automatically saves the game when you enter or leave a building, it would be nice to be able to just hit "S" or something. Also I'm pretty sure it needs a way to quit the game without using CTRL+ALT+DEL, if there is one I couldn't figure it out. Overall I'm having a good time making my way through the wastes again. It's a faithful remastering of the original and definitely worth $15!

I tryied to play in French I even didn't succeed to create a new character. Eventually I decided to switch to English and the character creation worked! But still the very poor UI is very painful. And between mouse or keyboard to do some choices many bugs still occured. IMHO that """remastered""" version doesn't worth 15€ at all.....I've asked a refound...

I bought this game back in the 80s when it first came out and spent a lot of time with my friends sitting around a Commodore 128 working our way through the various storylines. For those who have played this before, you will understand when I say that we spent a lot of time on the Scorpitron. I hope younger players might be willing to give this a chance. It demands a lot of patience, and at first the game can be unforgiving; but the learning curve is pretty steep, so if you stick with it, I think you'll appreciate the rigor of this game. In fact, I remember when Fallout came out, I thought it was a sequel to this--in a way it is, kind of (in my mind anyway). Enjoy.

I don't understand why this game has averaged 2.7 stars out of 5. I played this on my commodore 64 in 1990 and this is exactly the same game but with improved graphics. Some of the other reviewers criticise the terrible UI and they're absolutely right. The UI is terrible but the game itself is still awesome. In my playthrough 35 years after my c64 playthrough, I found it necessary to look up some hints in a couple of spots but I almost finished this in 1990, that's pre-internet, with zero hints. So it is doable. My first playthrough in 1990 was a pirated copy that crashed halfway through base Cochise.