Fallout 2

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 :(

Nostalgia glasses plagues this game. It's definitely not worth the 5 star ratings it is getting. After playing Fallout 1, this one is a huge let down. Everything is just a lot more tedious in this one. For example fights take forever, and speeding up the enemy turns in the options barely does anything, traversing the map has you staring at your screen doing nothing for a good 5 minutes. Seriously. It's basically a 5 hour game stretched out into a 20 hour one. That's the state of Fallout 2. Doing a lot of things over and over and over because of how unbalanced things are. I really wanted to like this game, it's one of those games I wanted to play since childhood, but it has some seriously bad problems that make it unplayable.

I'll just cut right to it. Writing is top teir, I've never been so enthralled with the lore and characters and quests than I have in any other game. My gripe is the pain the gameplay entails. From the repetitive skill checks to the convaluted loot and inventory system, to the overall layout of the sprites i.e. having to look pixel by pixel to pick things off the ground for quests and overall decent loot (by which I only knew they were there by looking online) and finally the combat mechanics. The fact that to progress decently in this game, you would have needed to play it before to know where to go, what to say, how to build you character. I just found it pointlessly time consuming with having to restart time after time till I got it right (yet I still found myself compelled to give it another shot). I loved the journey, but by the end I was just wishing it put a bullet in my head and I have a strong feeling I will not be revisiting this broken masterpiece in the foreseeable future.

How do I download to mac? it only has availability for windows even though everyone has said its compatible