Wasteland 2
8.0
Platforms
- PCSep 19, 20148.0playscore8.036 Critics8.06.03K Players
36 critic reviews · 2 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Wasteland 2 won’t be for everyone. It’s a challenging game that only rewards those willing to sink real time into it. If you like your tactical battles with simple presentation and old-school RPG design, you won’t like this game. ... But for the gamer who wants to settle in for a really long ride with a well-written, lovingly crafted, difficult game set in a solid post-apocalyptic world, Wasteland 2 is great.
Joey Davidson · Oct 16, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Graphics and gameplay are outdated and the combat system makes for slow progression as it did in the entire genre before Fallout 3. A throwback game that a mass audience will enjoy needs to be smooth and pretty, but Wasteland 2 is too often crude. ...Wasteland 2 belongs to its community who I’m sure will be discussing it, playing it, replaying it, searching out every last little secret and modding it for years to come.
Sean Hannley · Oct 16, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - These minor complaints aside, Wasteland 2 is a deep and addictive experience that will grab and hold you hard for its duration. Is it for everyone? Probably not. It has a decidedly old-school foundations that could be a put-off for new and younger gamers raised on modern day Fallouts and Skyrims. That said, for its target audience and for gamers looking for a deep and lengthy role-playing experience that steps well outside the current norm....
Stew Shearer · Oct 01, 2014 Reviewed on PC - It’s not a bad game, and it’s worth playing for the plot and setting alone. But it’s not a great RPG, and that’s a problem, because it’s an RPG. Somehow, it amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
Jamie Trinca · Sep 24, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - In many ways, though, Wasteland 2 represents everything about classic computer role-playing games that the modern iterations of Fallout aren't. ...And where Fallout masterfully uses comedy to lambast the ludicrous tone of paranoia surrounding Cold War America, Wasteland 2 attacks the natural arrogance of the individual. It forces us to confront the painful truth of our own blind self-righteousness, and shows us how childish our own grand plans truly are.
Daniel Starkey · Sep 23, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Wasteland 2 is an expansive game that demands to be replayed again and again to get the best out of it. While a lot of the detailed mechanics feel somewhat archaic, they're not going to hold back dedicated players who want to micromanage and really role play their group of characters. It has all of the familiar elements and even if some aspects of its presentation are not quite up to modern standards, its design and gameplay are timeless and welcome.
Alasdair Duncan · Sep 23, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Wasteland 2 might not be the prettiest CRPG to hit digital shelves this year, but it captures the harsh hypothetical realities of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest with excellent writing, decisions with terrifying consequences, and background voice work that reinforce the human suffering that results from them. It's a game about the power of choices, and the few remaining glitches and issues with its combat do little to diminish its power.
Leif Johnson · Sep 23, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - There’s a lot worth seeing in Wasteland 2, but there are also plenty of menial chores to be done. Yet these gripes feel minor in a game that offers so much. After all the time we’ve spent traveling the wastes, there’s still more we have yet see. Wasteland 2 may not be the best looking game nor does it play in any sort of revelatory fashion, but it can still pull you in and refuse to let go.
Ben Moore · Sep 23, 2014 Reviewed on PC - Wasteland 2 has everything a deep role-playing game should: a large open world, multiple decision paths, and a satisfying mix of serious themes and dark comedy. It can be a long journey, and one where the end is nowhere in sight, but it's an experience that's easy to get lost in.
Steven Wong · Sep 22, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review - These are issues, but they’re surmountable. In my 50 hours in Wasteland 2, I mostly found myself merely annoyed by them, and almost never felt the bugs were in the way. ...Wasteland 2 lives up to its legacy. It’s a game that has come full circle—from inspiration for Interplay’s Fallout, to spiritual successor for that franchise’s roots. This wasteland is deep and dark and dangerous, and a great place to get lost in.
Cory Banks · Sep 19, 2014 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
Join the over 70,000 Kickstarter backers and interact with the development team to help shape the ending of an already historic post-apocalyptic story. The Wasteland's hellish landscape has been waiting for you to make your mark… or die trying. Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to 1988’s Wasteland, the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG and the inspiration behind the Fallout series. Until Wasteland, no other CRPG had ever allowed players to control and command individual party members for tactical purposes or given them the chance to make moral choices that would directly affect the world around them.
Developer: InXile Entertainment