Wasteland

The year is 1987. Some games are getting better than ever as the developers explore with the RPG genre, and big dogs of the time Interplay and Electronic Arts are constantly producing breakthroughs. Wasteland is cool, from the character creation to the battles, hands-down an awesome pick and possibly the most influential game of all time. Youre some army rangers who, after a nuclear war, decide to go look for neat stuff in the scary, scary wasteland. Youll pass through Las Vegas as well as some other ghost towns in your quest for survivors and loot. Theres been many games almost identical, but none of them are the real...

Gameplay: 9/10
Its a solid in my book. You control four characters with individual attributes such as perception, rifle skill, lockpicking, etc. This already sounds familiar. You start the game at some army outpost, and its pretty much you and your buddies from here on out. Youre gonna walk them through the wasteland, exploring areas, looking for stuff, and probably dying many times as you learn where to go and where not to go. Eventually you get the hang of it and get into some battles where you can perform, start getting nifty loot, and create some pretty boss dudes. The battles are pretty cool, Ive run into groups of 10 or so, and even though its all happening in text, I get the hoard feeling. -1 point for the seemingly endless unconscious loop I got stuck in. The enemies kept attacking the party, knocking a couple of them out, and on the next turn one would be awake again, only to get knocked out by an enemy, so on and so on.

Graphics: 9/10
So its really old. In the wasteland, youre basically a stationary image roaming around on a tiled map. Its neat and theres lots of colors, so Im not hating on it. Theres a text scroller at the bottom of the screen that tells you details, like "Its getting warm" or "glowing desert tarantulas scatter away at your footsteps". Oddly poetic in its ways. I like the profiles of the enemies youre facing, gives some insight as to whats going on. Other than that, there isnt really any animation going on, not even when the opponent becomes wounded, so -1 point.

Sound: 0?/10
I really dont remember hearing any sound. Theres probably nothing going on in this category.

Overall: 8/10
Its great. Its long and deep. Easy to see the Fallout series being inspired by this, and a lot of games follow in the wake Wasteland created. Lots of fun to dabble in this game even for just a little bit, youll be surprised at some of the similarities between it and Fallout 3. Actually, check out this wiki and youll see what I mean. So go ahead, give this game a shot, the link below has what you want.
http://hotud.org/component/content/article/39-rpg/22114

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