So much that is still fun, so much that aged poorly - yet nothing about this game feels like a balancing act of extremes. It feels like an uncompromisingly, consistently pleasurable experience even though its sense of world and its times has diminished since its predecessor, and has not quite transitioned into the post-post apocalypse of New Vegas, a game in which you can feel the time that has elapsed between it and 1. Fallout 2 is more of an expansion then, and though it is not quite innovative and its humor is alarmingly hit or miss, it counts itself among the rarest breed of games: an iterative sequel that doesn't feel like a scam.