For someone like myself that grew up with games like Arcanum, Baldur's Gate and the other often-brutal CRPGs of yesteryear, this game is near-perfection. The developers had some design choices that some do not care for, and not everyone likes a game that sometimes is as brutal and unfair to the unwary as the actual Wasteland might do. One major fault that most pepople, myself included, have with the game is the unbalanced nature of the weapons system. Heavy MGs are essentially useless, seeing as theyre unmoddable and jam frequently, and early game can chew through ammo. SMGs are good early, get weak later, which is frustrating to someone devoting a character to an SMG build. There's little reason to use Snipers, because modded assault rifles had nearly the same range and power. And shotguns are only useful for getting up close and having a tickle fight. HOWEVER: There is an absolutely brilliant weapon mod on the inXile forums (their mod site lacks organization, its buried at the end of a long post about the original mod, some guy posted a link to the DC version of the mod at the end of the post) that solves that infuriating issue. All weapons now have their uses, and none, including the once ALL powerful Assault rifles, are perfect for every situation. Better yet, MGs are moddable, and fill an amazing support role, particularly if you play on Supreme Jerk difficulty. Everything else about this game that you'd wanna know has been covered in other reviews here. My only reason for docking this game before was the crap weapon system, and so upon finding this obscure mod I decided to reboot and give it another whirl. Most of the bugs and quest breakers have been patched, I havent came across any on my last 3 runs. You'll still come across 2 year old posts about having to talk to people in a certain order or a quest breaks, and that is no longer the case. There are some minor annoyances, such as your team having the same choice of "Titan? Who or What is Titan?" to every single denizen of a town, that just seems a bit lazy. You should only havce the option to ask about a subject once or twice, not of every single human beingh in the godforsaken wasteland. True bugs and such seem to be mostly eradicated. Anyway, if the only thing holding you back from trying this out is the lack of a good weapon system, DL that mod and you've got an amazing, dense, hilarious, extremely open and unforgiving Wasteland to explore
