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Wasteland 2 is a wonderful post-apocalyptic classic RPG romp through the radioactive dunes of Arizona and California. The game is unabashedly old school with its lack of hand-holding and harsh...
An old school RPG that you can really sink your teeth into. There are hours of combat and questing to be had, and with a little more presentational polish, Wasteland 2 could've been something really...
Developer: InXile Entertainment Publisher: InXile Entertainment Platform: PC We were supposed to have a review of The Evil Within this week. But once again I wasn't given a review code prior to release, because games PR is a domain of strange rituals...
Wasteland 2 Kickstarter backers will get what they paid for plus a few glitches they didn’t. The game doesn’t live up to its ambitions in a number of places, most notably the dialogue system. Graphics and gameplay are outdated and the combat system makes for slow progression as it did in the entire genre before Fallout 3.
Great top-down style role-playing games are becoming quite scarce in the gaming world, and ones that deal with the post-apocalyptic future aren't as numerous either. We all know what kind of a hold the Fallout series has had on that genre since the...
Seems like a lot of the games that I've been given to review lately, have had their origins in crowd funding. Whether through Indiegogo or Kickstarter, developers of smaller games are heading to the people to gather funds for their ideas. Wasteland 2 by...
"You vaguely remember a child's rhyme... something about a flag and a nation. Childish notions indeed."I don't exactly remember which part of Wasteland 2 that quote is from, but it, more than anything else, highlights what the game is about. Fiction...
It took Brian Fargo 26 years to get to revisit the world of the Desert Rangers. It took a $3 million Kickstarter campaign to fund inXile’s initial development. And it took a welcome resurgence in complex computer role-playing games to make it all possible.
Wasteland 2 is exactly the sort of game the industry should be making. It's a clear labor of love featuring clever mechanics, novel design ideas and lovely, if sparse aesthetic design.
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