Fallout

Between 1997 and about 2003, there was quite a lot of innovation in PC games. This time period was pretty much the high water mark for video games published traditionally on physical media. It was a transitory time between where video game development was a soft artistic discipline for hobbyists and video game development became a hard business for consumers. The premise is that you lived your whole life in a Vault. There is an issue with your society's water supply, and you are sent out into the harsh wasteland to go solve this crisis. You are given a general idea of where to go and who to speak with, but it's mostly up to you how you go about this. This general lack of direction and focus of the main plot is something that was taken for granted at the time, but now is now rare. Also a rarity by today's standards is how the game trusts character creation upon you. Nowadays, you are not expected to read any sort of manual. You mostly get RPG builds off of assorted forums posts and Youtube videos. The Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is a very amusing work of art unto its own, and gives excellent guidance on how to approach the game. Different skills peak at different stages of the game, and it's mostly all outlined in the guidebook. Check it out. Your combat style changes the difficulty of the game. The skills you choose to focus in developing also effect the difficulty. Dialog can play out differently and can absolutely be failed if you're not paying attention. Thievery is completely viable. The game's reactivity is only truly apparent until multiple playthroughs. The story is one of the all time greats. The main issue of the game is inventory management. The graphics haven't aged the best either, but I think they're iconic. Of note for newer fans is that the 1950's Retro-Futurism is rather muted. Fallout is also actually Post-Post-Apocalyptic, in that people have rebuilt. These details have gotten lost in future installments. All in all, 5/5. Amazing.

Incredible Game! If dated graphics aren't a problem for you, play this game! Good amount of cool weapons, items and armor. Looking forward to playing the next ones!

Just get it. It's one of the greatest CRPGS of all time you really shouldn't need me or anyone else to tell you to play it.

Despite this apparently being the censored version, I thoroughly enjoyed going through the story. While there are aspects of it that are quite rough and unpolished, the story is engaging and amazing. The atmosphere is phenomenal, mostly due to the way the world is composed and the music. I quite like how the dialogue is written as well, especially in comparison to later Fallout titles. Overall its a game worth going through at least once.

Fallout 1-2 and Tactics are - in my opinion - the very best RPG-s of the post-apocalyptic genre. On the technical side this version runs perfectly fine and without any problems on modern PC-s. On the story side I think Fallout 2 is the perfect version of BI's concept about a p.a. game. The relationship of the two is kinda similar to Diablo 1 and 2, except that on the side of game mechanics F 1-2 are not that different. All in all I highly recommend this, but also you should approach it with an open mind and let the atmosphere suck you in.