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A Must Have

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the greatest RPG game of all time! It never gets old. You can continue to play it over and over again! I highly recomend this great game!

Role Playing Bliss!

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

What can I say that hasn't been said already? Other that some minor bugs that you can patch in a matter of minutes, the game is awe inspiring. Improvment upon the first game includes many more hours of gameplay plus a way to judge just how evil (if this is your perfered path) your character really is. Streamlined menus for NPC interaction in combat a major plus and the addition of new perks is very nice.

You want a game that has great replay value and that you'll enjoy from begining to end? This is it, the last stop.

Totally Immersive, incredible depth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although the graphics are showing their age these days, this game is still as incredible as ever. You will never play a more atmospheric and immersive game. The post apocalyptic world just sucks you in and never lets you go.
One of the key elements to the Fallout series is the fantastic character creator. You are givemn a massive amount of freedom to create the kind of character you want and yoru choice has a massive bearing on the way you can complee certain tasks. Any given task will have several possible solutions, some better suited to diplomatic characters, some to combat characters and some to stealthy characters. Or you could just go for an all rounder. The game is totally non linear with your character's ability (you constantly gain experience) being the only real limitation.
The numer of things crammed into this game is just insane. There is a ridiculous number of weapons. There are so many side quests as well and it's simply impossible to complete all of them in a single sitting. I think I covered just about everything after playing through it about four times. The amount of text is breathtaking and some of the characters really come to life through the dialogue.
The game is not without it's problems. I remember the unpatched version of this being incredibly buggy so the patch is a must. The NPC control system is also pretty woeful.
Still, I can't allow any of these things to detract from the score because this is quite simpl one of the finest games ever made.

Don't buy for newer computers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this software and played it on a computer with xp pro and cannot get out of travel mode. I tried emulating previous operating systems to no avail. I love the game, just unable to play it and can't find any fixes online.

the best rpg made by man

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Do you like ultraviolence, guns, sex & drugs? If so, FALLOUT 2 is the adrenaline kick you have bean vaiting for. Fallout 2 is the work of som genius minds at Interplay. The storry of the gameis: The village is dying and you need to save it . Easy hu? personly I 'we killed over 50 presons for each villanger i have saved from starvation and grate evils.

A nice sequel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is the sequel to the first fallout released in 97'. This game connects the 2 storys together great. The post-apocalyptic storyline after wwIII is great along with the character creation and all the NPCs in the game make it a sure hit. I also love the invintory in the game with the nice picture as well as the description. I also love the fact that some of the weapons in the game are real. Such as the FN-FAL, Desert eagle, Thompson M1 tommy gun, FMJ ammo and much more. The level up system is also great. This is an excellent sequel to the first and a great game for RPG fans. Even if your not into RPG games you be sure to like this one. And for the price now its very much worth it.

Aptly named Fallout2, because there's NOTHING new

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 24
Date: July 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed Fallout, but I was disappointed in FO2. Sadly, it is so full of recycled material that the "creative" elements are completely overshadowed.

Visually, it is identical to Fallout. Many of the building exteriors and interiors are straight out of the original game. Certainly the character animations are indentical to Fallout. The interface and engine are directly pulled from the old game, with the resulting graphics appearing fairly dated.

Many of the same problems from the original game remain. Dropped items can be difficult to find, especially if dropped behind another object (like the car.) Many are so small as to be only a few pixels in the screen, and even when you can see them, they are difficult to pick up.

Even the few new elements in the game make no difference to gameplay. Interface with NPCs has been upgraded, so you can supposedly change their combat performance. However, tweaking the various settings makes so little difference in their performance that one wonders why they bothered. After the first few levels, the NPCs are not much more than beasts of burden for the twenty shotguns that you can't sell because the shopkeepers have no money to buy your surplus. The box promises the ability to get married and...well...you can read the box. There are two people in the whole game your character can marry, and they are both in the same building. Furthermore, getting married makes no difference in the overall game except for a minute amount of comic relief. It certainly isn't worth giving it space on the box.

The patch is essential, or you will end up with half of your car (the trunk) following you around, and will have frequent game crashes. Another patch is due, and it would be nice if some of the quests were completed, too. One of th first NPCs you are likely to encounter in the game joins you on the premise of finding his sister who was captured by slavers, but this quest was never completed. There's no further mention of it in the game.

As for the lack of originality, I would not be surprised to find that Black Isle Games is either paying royalties to a number of franchises, or will soon be faced with lawsuits. There are elements from Monty Python, Star Trek, Douglas Adams, and numerous other sources that pop up at various points. Fans of the game probably consider these to be "tributes", but they strike me as copyright infringements. Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of the three sources I cited, but I'd prefer the writers to have some of their own ideas.

Finally, though, the game is incredibly violent. The language is foul, and the sex-n-drugs content is through the roof. Besides being offensive to many people, it offers an insight into what the gamemaker think of human nature. The people in this game are uniformly despicable: drug dealers, pimps, porn stars, drug addicts, and various other purveyors of evil. There was some virtue in Fallout, but somehow, it was extinguished in the sequel.

Overall, a very disappointing game. It might make a decent, if violent and gritty expansion module for the original game, but as a "new" game, it was clearly thrown together with leftover software and ideas. Very disappointing.

If you want a better RPG (from the same publisher) you're better off with Planescape:Torment.

If you liked Fallout, then the sequel is worth playing.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Set in the same world as the original, Fallout 2 places you as a descendent of the vault dweller from Fallout 1. Your village is dying, and you are sent into the world to find a Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Your quest takes you all over the ruined Midwest and West coast. The only downside is that it's just like fallout, with only small improvements to the character interaction modules. A great game? No, but a good one, and worth the money if you really liked the original.

Good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yes, Fallout 2 is one of the best RPG games out there, especially considering the fact that there are no futuristic RPG's in the current market. However, this game requires way to much search and talk. It gets very old very quickly, and you will find yourself with the best equipment on the planet by simply waiting for two different parties to kill each other. I had a flamethrower within one hour of playing that made me nearly invincible. I mean, come on. Unless you are going to play this game without accepting help from NPC's, this really proves no challenge and damages the fun factor. At least the price is right.

follout

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: April 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i wood like too see more games like follout and baldur's gate what im thring too say is i wood like too see more games bye black isle

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