Make a mistake when setting up your squad and you'll end up suffering every combat situation without being able to pull through because you miss 90% shots and punches while the enemy kills your rangers one by one, and you just get stuck. "Great" balancing and totally non-engaging plot
So from some dragon search-and-defeat quest, this one went into some strange direction, first beginning as some Asian criminal detective and turning into a fight with unchained evil spirits from unearthly domain. Graphics got improved while everything else turned into a mess of tons a lines of monologue and dialogue, crowd of inconsistent characters and weird plot. I think that's what happens when an indie (not really indie anymore since it costs muhney) game tries to be somewhat pretentious but doesn't live up be such. Well, for those who like to engage into a story, motives and thoughts of the game characters, it might be a different experience.
Since it's based on a book I didn't read, no complaining about the plot which is quite interesting. Liked the humour in the game, all those subtle details and nuances about the in-game world, people etc. Well, I'm not a hardcore player, so I had to switch difficulty to easy, because combat is really hard - you get killed in no time if don't have those sharp fighting reflexes, and I was too lazy to tough it through. This is quite an old game, but on max settings it might fry your calculator-tier PC. However, even with low settings the game looks beautiful and doesn't seem to lose much on the image quality. Definitely worth playing at least once
Pretty decent in terms of turn-based combat (although making a wrong action sometimes leads to having to restart a whole sequence), graphics (lol), and plot. Saving system where you can't manual-save where you want is a not the best decision. After having played through the whole trilogy, this one seems to be the best one to me.
It was my first Fallout game (yeah, don't judge me), and I still think it's better and more Fallouty then the New Vegas (what's that - postapocalyptic western with stupid securitrons?) and Fallout4 (which only good sides being decent NON-FALLOUTY plot and improved combat). It was the first 1st person Fallout attempt, which few fans expected, and the reuse of the Gamebryo engine, outdated even by the standards of late 2000s, also did little good for the game reception. But you just have to install it and dive into the game to see how good it is. After finishing the game, mod the hell out of it (Wanderer's Edition FWE mod highly recommended!) and play it again for twice (maybe even thrice?) the time you'd spend on the 1st vanilla playthough. On a side note, the full price for a 2008 game is ridiculous (that's Bethesda for you).
With almost all issues fixed and fleshed out, it's almost as good as DXHR in both gameplay and atmosphere. System reqs are too high, if not crazy even for today's standards, considering that the graphics wasn't that much improved and the game mechanics basically remained unchanged since the previous game. The most disappointing point is, of course, the ending, but it was like that in DXHR as well, right? Microtransactions... well, noone cares.
