A remaster of Wasteland
Originally released in 1988, Wasteland brought the post-apocalypse to video games and inspired a genre. Play one of history's defining RPGs with completely overhauled graphics, sound, and expanded musical score. The year is 2087, nearly a century after an all-out nuclear war turned vast swaths of the Earth into a radioactive hellscape. You are a Desert Ranger, a band of stalwart lawmen who are the only hope left in what was once the American southwest, and good people's last defense against hunger, sickness, ravaging raiders, and mutants. Now something more secretive and sinister is menacing humanity, and it's your job to investigate. Recruit help and follow leads - the choices you make will shape the world around you. Choose wisely, your life and the lives of those you're sworn to protect depend on it.
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Just not for me at all.
The rooftop window leveling exploit still works by the way.
This review contains spoilers
It was given a facelift and everything has been faithfully recreated – sadly, this includes the numerous dead ends you'll find because you didn't have a specific skill or lost a key item.
How anyone is supposed to know what skills to bring into the mind maze, know how essential disposable rockets would be, have the necessary IQ for cyborg tech, get by without knowing the window experience trick, or be fortunate enough to carry a plasma coupler on the final floor of the final dungeon is simply beyond me.
This wasn't made to help Wasteland reach new audiences, it's just there for the people who already liked it... and that begs the question of why this remaster exists at all.
Combat is neither fun or engaging
No matter what I typed when talking to Bobby, he wouldn't understand so that put me off.
The UI is very poor
I would avoid this game, but at least it is another game off my backlog