Wasteland 2 is the sequel to 1988’s Wasteland, developed by inXile and funded by the fans.
The game is set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998 in relation to an impact event involving a cluster of meteors that sparked a global nuclear war. On the day of the cataclysm, a company of U.S. Army Engineers were in the desolate southwestern desert constructing bridges in an area with a number of small survivalist communities and a newly constructed federal death row prison with light industrial facilities. The soldiers sought shelter in the prison, expelled the inmates and invited nearby survivalists to join them shortly thereafter. Years later, together they formed "the Desert Rangers, in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona Rangers", to help other survivors in the desert and beyond it.
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ | Intel Core i5-655K 3.2GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 900e |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB | 4 GB |
| OS | Win 7 32 | Win 8 64 |
| Graphics Card | AMD Radeon HD 4650 | nVidia GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB |
| Direct X | DX 9 | DX 11 |
| SOUND CARD | Yes | Yes |
| HDD Space | 30 GB | 20 GB |
| Game Analysis | Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by inXile Entertainment for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. It will be the sequel to Wasteland (1988) and is considered to be a spiritual successor of the original Fallout games published by Interplay. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 10 | |
God, this game is good. When I backed this at kickstarter I was doubtful if they can deliver on a promise of an old-school-ish RPG in a setting everybody loves (if you didn’t play Wasteland, you must’ve played at least some of the Fallouts!) in this age. And yet they delivered fully.
This game to my taste played exactly like fallout 1 or 2 with maybe a little more fighting focus then I’d want, but that’s ok. The setting, while being so familiar at the same time is all-new. The “factions” are ridiculous but actually make a lot of sense =) Mad monks worshipping a nuclear warhead? Religious people worshipping some ridiculous over_the_top_insane person based on some videocassete? A society of MANNERED people? π I mean this all sounds bogus but it actually works very well for the story-telling purposes. The atmosphere is amazing.
RPG-systems again, while seeming pretty close to what we expect to see in a fallout game are not quite the same. They are neat, understandable and functional though. No problems with them.
This game has incredible amount of well-written dialogue and text. It’s immense really. Very fair share of my 70-80 hours of walkthrough were spent reading. And I love it =)
Overall course of story is enjoyable and while it’s nothing new (you’re rangers, you save the world, duh) it still has some interesting twists and bits to it that were pretty good.
The gameplay holds up, the variety of ways to accomplish things are there and you can totally skip like 30-40 hours of content if you wish to do so (I didn’t and my walkthrough was as close to full as I could possibly imagine, though I still guess I missed some things).
The music and sound design are very fitting to the atmosphere and are impeccable.
I have some problems with some particular systems like weapon-salvaging or the randomness of loot in chests, or too many chests too loot (which can become tiresome for a loot-hoarder like myself), but those are most likely just my own problems really, more than the problem with the game =)
Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend this game, thank Inxile for not failing me and waiting for Wasteland3 (Yes, I’ve seen the IBM AT and I ‘shiver with anticipation’! :D)
Also the title song is incredible.