I'm not going to lie, I wasn't expecting much when I saw that indie game was in the actual title. That kind of thing normaly sends me in the other direction. But this is better than any of the last few Fallout games. This game had me sold the moment I saw that it takes place in the distant future of 2005 and I fully plan on losing myself in it during my upcoming family reunion... I mean over the summer.
They did some nice things with the story and quests. There was clearly a point where they released it without balancing the character creation and so some aspects of the character build make little sense. I ended up save scumming a lot after building a character that just wasn't functional until I did a lot of grinding. I just wanted it to end after a while.
This game could have been a real gem if only the developers had hired a professional story teller and implemented a reasonable gameplay.
The basics are all there - an interesting character development system, nice graphics, interesting maps and backgrounds.
Once you are going through your first missions however things start to get frustrating pretty soon.
Not only are you struggling through endless ridiculous and nondescript dialogs.
What is far worse is that the gameplay is completely unbalanced.
The skill and crafts system is pretty useless and simply a waste of time and effort.
Especially in the beginning you need to collect even the smallest piece of trash to get some money to be able to buy the most basic equipment.
Practically all encounters, random ones in particular are a certain death ride especially in the beginning.
While you are happy to have found an advanced knife to improve your chances in a fight, enemies you enocunter are already wearing balistic armor and are armed to the teeth with assault rifles, shotguns, grenades and other high level weapons that let them blow you out in a second and from a kilometer away. Your skills to go out of their way are of course not good enough.
Did I mention that they are always comming in superior numbers ?
Even during later stages of the game challenges are often overwhelming. You never have a feeling of developing your character into a more competent adventurer.
The story line itself starts in a rather intriguing way only to drop down into a completely ridiculous joke towards the end ...
Any potential successor needs serious improvments ...
