play Fallout 1/2 (for a better story and atmosphere) or play XCOM (for a better combat system). A boring game, with few original ideas and with a mediocre execution in every single thing it tries to do, not even the comedy of the game escapes from mediocrity.

I would detail much more, but I've wasted enough time on this game. Of the 60-70 hours it took me to complete the game, easily 20-30 could have been skipped. Between so much travel, repetitive exposure dialogues with cliché characters, combats that although passable are not a big deal (especially spoiled by an ineptitude of level design) in the end you end up not caring anything, you enter a mood in which even when there is something really interesting you don't end up caring about it.

I'm far from being a classic computer RPG player, but I've played a few. And this game is just the opposite side of what I find interesting about those games. Ending up in a game plagued by the evils of the past (nolstalgia they call it) but not being brave enough to bring back the mechanics, that although harder, made these games more interesting experiences. Or well, the will to want to innovate in something.

To sum up: playing Wasteland 2 you will realize that you will have played some other game that does the same thing, before and better.

Even so I'll play W3? YES

Reviewed on Jun 09, 2022


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