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Post-apocalyptic dark gothic role-playing with dark humor.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Set in the years following nuclear armageddon, you are one of the lucky few who made it to the safety of huge, underground vaults. Unfortunately, the water purification chip that you rely on to provide clean drinking water is failing, and you must venture into the strange new world to find a replacement. Mutants, murder, and mayhem come all too quickly. Can you find the chip for your home without losing your humanity, or succumbing to the radiation of the desert wastes? A most refreshing departure from the legions of elves and goblins, swords and sorcery commonly lumped into the RPG genre. Weapons include pistols, shotguns, flamethrowers, and the mighty laser gatling gun! Immersive play, and a plot that keeps you twisting! Buy it! Do it Now!

THE GREATEST!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game ROCKS! That is all there is to it. This game when it was released was the best, no one could beat it. The music, the atmosphere. This game will always be one I will have, CHECK IT OUT!

Amazing post-apocolyptic RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Fallout is an AMAZING game with rich atmospheres and a DEEP plot. Very alike Blizzard's "Diablo" except Fallout has a more fair Turn-Based combat, which saves those who have slow computers from being Radscorpian food. The only thing missing is a multiplayer enviroment, but the storyline keeps you occupied for a while- I havn't slept in days, thanks to this game.

A genre true post-apolalyptic story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the best of the best. The story in this CRPG is so good that you'll be glued to the screen for months to come. You'll the role as the wanderer the sets out to save the Vault you have grown up in. The 3rd World War has just ended and nothing is like it was before. Looking for the Water Chip takes you to a lot of different places and you meet a lot a people.

This is a good as a Post Apolalyptic CPRG gets.

addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've never really played many RPGs, but a friend gave me this after he had spent many hours playing. It sat around awhile, then one day I was exceedingly bored so I gave it a try. It was amazing! It was complex, but not obnoxiously. Very playable, interesting to go through and play several times, with different characters and different choices. I've been trying to find an RPG this cool and the only one is Fallout 2! Soooo cool.

It revitalised the RPG Industry, but it still has problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 23 / 30
Date: February 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For me, the two true greatest RPGs of all time will always be Ultima VII (it came in two parts). The problem was that we didn't really seeany RPGs after this until Fallout. There were many failed ones that not many people played, they were all busy playing Wolfenstein and Commander Keen (both great games).
Fallout, I think, captured the public eye again because it was simple. The character creation is simple, but it is actually quite complex in the way it affects the game. The story was somewhat complex, though not overly, and the game itself was fun to play, from the dialogue to the fighting.
In 2077 World War III occured, fought over the few resources left to humanity. The world was almost entirely depopulated. A few managed to hide out in underground bunkers known as Vaults.
You play as a person from Vault 13, whose people haven't emerged for eighty years. The chip that purifies the water from the Vault is broken, and you must find a new one or your people will die. So you, an inexperienced person from a technology based peaceful community, are sent out onto the surface of a wasteland were the people from other Vaults that opened earlier than your own struggle to surface among mutants and radiation.
The game has a killer intro, and is a clever mixture of '40s polish over the futuristic harshness. Probably the best part of the game is the character progression, which is well managed and even fun.
The things that drag the game down are few, but significant. Firstly, the game is far too short. It can easily be played in a non-linear fashion, but there are just too few locations and quests to warrant this. Second, the fighting is well managed, except for 'sequencing'. For some reason, the designers wanted something to decide whose turn it was in combat, rather than just go around the circle in order. This means that sometimes your enemy can get to goes and taking you out before you even draw your weapon.
Thirdly and finally, the game is somewhat disorganised. Of course, I'm using Ultima VII as my benchmark, but the sidequests often don't feel right, and I wasn't sure whether I'd finished them or not. Basically, the quest interface was a little crude.
Fallout's shortcomings are the reasons why Fallout 2 is so much longer, so much more open ended, and so much more complex. I get the feeling that Fallout was really just a test for Fallout 2. But those of you who are thinking 'Great, I'll jump straight to number 2' don't, the story of Fallout 1 isn't something you want to miss out on.

Best RPG since Wasteland

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game combines the best tmosphere with an excelent storyline. a MUST of the die hard RPG gamer, and Fallout 2 is even better!

its a classic...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its really quite simple, if you like Roleplaying games or post atomic warfare type games or storylines, then you should just stop reading the reviews here and just buy this game, trust me you'll be happy you spent the money

Out of the dungeons!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'd seen Fallout on the shelves ages ago, but at that time I was still pretty entrenched in the sword-wielding, dragon-slaying, quasi-Medieval fantasies that abound in this genre and the post-apocalyptic concept didn't intrigue me. I only play RPGs and refuse to pay megabucks for brand new titles, so years later my search for something to fill the gap left by solving Baldur's Gate/TSC finally led me the bargain table at my local games store, where in desperation I picked up the nicely priced Fallout 2, boxed as a "Gamer's Collection". Knowing that sequels also usually stand alone, and fascinated by the blurb on the box, I handed over my bucks. On navigating through the double layer of shrink wrap, I found "Gamer's Collection" meant I had also purchased the original Fallout. So now Fallout 2 is waiting patiently for my character to find the water chip; I'm addicted.

When World War III broke out 80 years previously, your family sought refuge in the the nuclear fallout shelter known as Vault 13. Eventually the chip used to produce fresh water fails, leaving only 150 days' supply. Your character draws the short straw and, with extremely limited resources and experience, is sent out into the radiation-soaked, mutant infested world to find a replacement.

Although Fallout is far from perfect, most flaws are compensated for by the great gameplay. However, the game looses a star from me in that you have very little control over NPCs in your party. Why give us party members if we can't control them? Ian and Tycho are great for carrying things (they seem to have endless capacities - great for trading), and in the early part, Ian saves your butt since he's more skilled than your character, but in battle they seem to do nothing but get in your way. You spend far too many APs just getting out of their way or positioning yourself so that your submachine gun's burst doesn't take them (and Dogmeat) out, too. Save often so you can restore after you've accidently killed your party. You cannot get them to wear better armour, and their idea of their "best weapon" may not match yours. (I understand this has been changed in Fallout 2.)

Half a star is gained back for the excellent spiral bound "Vault Dweller's Survival Guide". I've broken the backs of other manuals, because the damned things won't stay open, but the spiral binding solves that problem. I haven't tried any of the survival recipes, though.

The other half star is gained back for the excellent 50's "Reds under the bed" style of the interface and the manual, the wonderful introduction movie and the voice cast. This is the first RPG where I have actually heard of some of the actors credited in the voice cast (Richard Dean Anderson, Tony Shalub, Ron Perlman, Richard Moll, Ken Mars). It's quite strange hearing McGyver's voice in Junktown!

Anyway, stop reading this right now, buy Fallout and start playing immediately.

A realistic look into our future

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game and I always will. The plot was great, and the reason: because It can happen. I also liked the rule setup and the turn based stragety. The enemys are well made; mutants, humans, dogs, giant scorpions, ect. The weapons kick serious ... too; shotguns, flamethrowers, pistols, rifles, ect. The music was done well too, It sets a creepy mood for this barren world. I recomend this game to all Post Apocaliptic freaks out there.

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