Wasteland 2 - Post-Apocalyptic RPG Game for PC | Adventure, Strategy & Survival | Perfect for Sci-Fi Fans & Gamers

A decent game, and if you're a fan you'll probably play it through twice. Maybe three times. It lacks much of the "always something new to find" aspect of Fallout 1&2, which came after the original Wasteland and had a lot more humor and well done, voice-acted NPC's. I was expecting the exploration, humor, inside jokes, and story level to be as good or even better then Fallout 1&2, with the backdrop of the original Wasteland, but even with the original creator behind it, the magic just isn't there. Don't get me wrong, it's a GOOD turn based, squad level, game, at a time when those are a very rare commodity. There are some good story elements and some great battles. But it's just not the "99 out of 100" fantastic game of it's predecessors. I played those through multiple times over the last couple decades, and still love the Monty Python bits, the well done voice acting by multiple, professional actors that have since been on TV, Cable, and in movies, and the very diverse, fleshed out characters and situations. The quality, depth, and detail of those first three games was so singular, I guess I was expecting too much. Additionally, the "Directors Cut" version, in my opinion, is superior to the original.Wasteland was the game of games when I had an old 286 with a 5 or 10 MB hard drive. Wasteland 2 is great. I find it has some f the old game in it but vastly improved. I love the game and though it took two of us to work through the many puzzles. This on has puzzles it seems without answers. There are more than one way to get past these little hold-ups. Frustrating is communicating with many NPCs. Some you can talk with but it is as the old game. You are very limited on what you can say and when. The game gives you the things you can say (Hopefully) If you put the needed points into your talking skills (all three). Beware of the order you use these or you may get cut off very fast with attitude. It has so many things that add so much fun that it was worth waiting all these years. I warn you oh so much that it can only be partly installed and always played through what calls their selves STEAM They have no support and lie to your face all day. The green stripe upper right states "Includes Wasteland 1" and a Wasteland 1 activation code card is in the box. Steam will not acknowledge any of this making you buy the game on the side. I went over there heads and contacted one of the creators for how to download the game using my key card.I played the original Wasteland and loved the Fallout series that came later. I like this game, but there are two problems that result in the 2 star review.First, it doesn't hold up to comparison with Fallout. Fallout is simply a better game overall. I'd say this is about 75% of what Fallout is. Overall item variety seems less abundant in Wasteland 2. While I'm only part of the way into the game I still would have seen more selection in Fallout. I could forgive this, even though you'd expect improvement over the past.. however...Second, the game is buggy. Very buggy. It crashes to the desktop a lot (and actually got worse after the second patch in mid Oct '14). Once in a while your characters will decide they do not want to move unless you specifically click on something you can interact with in some manner. I've had the game not respond to saves and I finally had to close the game down entirely and reload it for saving to start working again. Now, I'm on the lower side of computer specs, but I'm still well within the requirements (I'm not simply at the minimum). So I can understand there sometimes being a heavy load on my computers capabilities, but not to the extent that justifies it crashing as often as it does.So, is it good? If you liked Fallout I think you'll enjoy this game, but they have some issues to work out still before you'll be able to avoid a decent amount of reloading frustrations.I'm giving this one star not because of the game but because the disk does not have the actual game on it. You know, I got a newsflash for these developers/publishers - not all of us are on unlimited internet. Why don't you go over to verizon and get a clue as to what some of us pay and deal with and then get a clue as to why we would buy a disk over just downloading the game in the first place!I have a 10 gb transfer limit. I went to install the game and left and came back and realized it had actually downloaded the game instead of installing from disk which caused me to go WAY over my limit. I then had to upgrade my package which costs me another 30 dollars. I then figured out that the reason was because this genius publisher decided to have a disk with just the steam client on it. Unbelievable!I got one thing to say to Deep Silver or whoever is responsible for this. You guys are real jerks to sell a game disk with no game on it! On top of this, it didn't even come with a decent manual. The game bills itself as old school but goes ahead and takes the new school approach of giving you the standard one sheet of paper inside with a code on it.An excellent and fun game, but confusing as it installs the original and Director's Cut edition. I accidentally completed the original with no way to import my characters in to the DC version, negating the replay value for me. I tried several hacks for this with one success, but the game was then corrupted halfway through (I half-expected this) so gave up.I wanted to like this game so much because I am a huge fan of the developers and the original fallout series. While the game wasnt bad it lacked the ability to draw me into it like the old rpg games. Overall a solid game but it was just missing something. Navigating the 3D terrain was often very confusing as well.This is not a disc for Wasteland 2. It only has the Steam client on it. You still have to download the whole 9.3 GB game from Steam. I'm not disappointed in the game but I feel that the product is misrepresented here. What is the point of the disc if you still have to download everything.Fantastic turn base "old" game, following the original wasteland game date way back...Long hours ahead to complete, until the release of Wasteland IIIThanks,great graphics,price normal for this type of game(RPG).Totally different from the first,but also included with game,the original game.very well done if you are into RPG games.?Inxile stated in three different emails that the final hard copy would be drm and steam free. it was neither. Also the seller here on amazon did not clearly state all system requirements such as internet connection and steam account. Do not buy into hype of steam and drm does nothing to prevent piracy that being mentioned i will be enjoying the game soon providing sufficient speeds are available.