Overall I enjoyed the game. It has many flaws though and is an inferior game to the Fallout series. I didn't play Wasteland 1. The good: - Most of the quests are fun to do and flow along nicely. It didn't feel like you were quest hunting and instead just playing the game and having the quest wrap themselves up along the way. - Fun combat (most of the time) that rewards the patient and puts a lot of focus on placement and movement. Reminds me a bit of Fallout Tactics. - Many different interesting NPC factions. The radio chatter you pick up is awesome. - Real choices were given with lasting effect. The wasteland is a dark sad place. The bad: - Too much grey and brown. There just isn't enough life in the world and makes it boring to look at. - Portraits and the models of NPCs would never match up and frequently show the wrong gender. - No directions! A NPC will often say "Meet me at *place*" and expect you to know where that is. How would I know that as a completely new person to the city? It leads to a lot of backtracking and camera spinning to just find the locations. - The camera is both buggy and horrible to manage. The angle barely allows you to see anything in front of you and it got stuck frequently not letting me move it. - Creating a good team is a trial and error process. You might be screwed if you choose the wrong skills. (Tips. Leadership is not worth it. Mechanical repair is barely used). - A lot of unexplained random events. Perhaps it was for the Wasteland veterans? The ugly: - Bugs that broke dialogue and quest lines. These same bugs also made it so that the choices I made during the game were not actually saved and in the ending it showed me doing something completely different. - Horrible scripted encounters that involves zero tactics and is just a meat grind. They are few but they are horrible. - A lot of quest were very skill dependent. If you didn't have the right one a lot of the options were locked out.
