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Waste Not, Want Not: ýFalloutý a complete gaming experience

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Produced by Brian Fargo and driven by lead programmer Tim Cain, "Fallout" is a gem in Interplay's already prestigious game crown. More than another role-playing game, "Fallout" is a return to the roots of this company. It is the descendent in spirit and theme to Fargo's own 1988 Commodore/Apple classic "Wasteland". In that game, powered by Fargo's "Bard's Tale", players explored a post-nuclear world, trying to bring order and hope to the chaos.

In revisiting one of Interplay's earliest and most famous successes, Fargo and Cain pull out all the stops, inventing an interface and graphics engine that would serve as a basis for Interplay's biggest game yet to come: "Baldur's Gate". The story of "Fallout", as is the standard with most RPG's, starts small with the protagonist leaving his Vault, an advanced long-term fallout shelter, in search of technology needed to sustain the facility. From there, he or she is drawn into a world ravaged by holocaust, where not all hope has died but neither are all dangers past.

Completing the game experience is the richness of this future, from the smallest details in the buildings, to books and documents that paint the stories of this time, to well-written NPC's who are, in many cases, voiced by first-rate talent. Most appealing is a retro-sensibility to both the look and feel of the world, a slick move that gives the game a contemporary spin on the 20th Century's nuclear politics. The production value shows through in every aspect of the game. For either the casual or hardcore gamer, this game, now available bundled with its equally impressive sequel "Fallout 2", is well worth investing your time and money in. From "Wasteland" to "Fallout", Fargo proves that you can go home again.

The best game(s) of all time!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Not just the best RPG's of all time but the best of all games.

Fallout 1 & 2 are unique and innovative RPG games that don't consist on the old and tired formula of running in dungeons and fighting dragons. Instead, they are both set in the post-nuclear world of the future where everything is a chaos and nowhere is safe.

Well, almost nowhere. There are these huge underground "Vaults" which were built before the nuclear war and that's where Fallout's main character known as the "Vault Dweller" lives. Or *used to* live. He is forced to leave the vault to look for a water purification chip when the one in the vault breaks down. He has never been out of the vault and now he just has to go to a highly dangerous and lengthy quest totally unprepared. Sound like fun? Well, it should because it certainly is.

That's the premise of the first Fallout. Fallout 2 is set a few decades later. Both games are a totally unique playing experience and if you like either adventure games or RPG's, you'll surely love the Fallout series.

Fallout 3 should be in the making when I'm writing this although it hasn't been announced yet. It's going to be made completely in 3D but the same 3rd person perspective the first 2 games.

Best PC classic EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of classic games, then you MUST have heard of fallout 2. A game where the word "limited" is not in your vocabulary. Do WHATEVER you want. steel, kill, help, save, marry, marry again, become addicted to drugs, become a sex star, this mature rated game has it all. Oh, and it has a great story too. One of the best RPGs period, and its sooooo cheap!

Booyah!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This package deal is a very good one. The price is absolutely excellent for two awesome games. These are among the most fun games I have ever played. Fallout 1 is a good, fun, exciting RPG that takes you into the depths of a post nuclear holocaust in southern California. Fallout 2 takes place 70 years after the original, and the main character is a decendant of the original character from #1. It's mostly in northern CA, but there are many of the same characters, and a few of the same places. It's by far more graphic when it comes to sexual content and violence, but all in all, still an excellent game.

Terrific and Addictive Gameplay Packs an Awesome Punch

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Fallout and Fallout II are both wonderfully addictive games that shouldn't let you down in any way. The stories are fun and exciting, the characters are interesting and you truly have the capabilities of developing a character based on your own preferences.

The top-down, slightly askew view is perfect for navigating around, the control layout is easily learned, (it does take a teeny bit of tinkering around to fully get the gist of it, but what game doesn't?), the cinematic dialogue scenes are well generated and the Role-Playing factor is creatively designed, yet easy to manage.

Those looking for fast-playing action games need to go somewhere else. The gameplay is great, but it's turn-based once the fighting begins, which means your reflexes need not apply. (Believe me, it's still a blast, even if you're not "fragging people.")

I played the two games in order, (which I recommend you do), and I must say that Fallout II definitely has more beef to it in every count, plus the developers managed to solve a few minor bugs that hassled us in the first game. That's not to say that the 1st Fallout isn't equally as fun. If nothing else, Fallout is a perfect way to train yourself for Fallout II. (Do you like watching the sequel to a movie before seeing the original itself? I didn't think so.)

One of the best things about these games is that there are a lot of randomly activated occurances in them. Weapons you find, people you bump into, places to explore. Yet they manage to keep things linear just enough so that you're not wandering around TOO much and not accomplishing anything.

I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic themes. I don't why, but I always find them exciting and adventurous, (and yes dark and gloomy in a certain way!) Fallout and Fallout II are hands-down the best PC games to conquer this realm. It'll be interesting to see what Fallout Tactics is like!...

In The Pantheon of Great Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ahh, Fallout, next to Chrono Trigger probably the best 2 RPG's ever to be created. Fallout is unique in what it uses; ..., violence, retro humor, and the constant movie referance.

Set in the post apocolyptic future, Fallout 1 and 2 take place in mid-northern California and span 80 years between the 2. You have to keep alive in the wasteland against radscorpions, raiders, gangsters, and dont forget the occaisional run-in with a laser-gatling-gun toting super-mutant.

It uses also a totally different game engine than most rpg players will be used to, it uses action points to control the amount of actions a character can perform, which are controlled in turn based combat. It is realistic in deaths, a gun shot will simply drop someone, whereas a bursted machine gun will tear the body apart like a rag doll. A critical hit with a laser will either char the person to dust or melt them slowly, and let's not forget the unarmed skill level of your character evolving from hammer punch to jab to piercing strike.

Fallout has THE best replay value of any game I have ever played, and any player will replay it over and over to see what will happen if he chooses instead to mouth off to the crime lords, or attempt an attack on the raider camp. Your gender changes the way of the game; rather than paying for information as a man, you can -pump- information out of an enemy as a women.

The list goes on and on, GET THIS GAME. The save times are even an improvement from the sold seperately cartons.

And tell Big Jesus Mordino that Chris sent you.

Wow what a game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I finally decided to play Fallout 4+ years after it's original release and couldn't be more happy with the game as a whole.

Considering the age of the game there's no need to go into detail about it, the original Fallout is clever, gritty, non-linear, and gives you quite a bit of freedom in character building and quest completions.

The Bioware engine is still as charming as ever, with great cut scenes, voice acting, style and polish. And that's not mentioning the fantastic combat system.

Fallout 1&2 are true classics, and are a ton of fun. For this price, I don't know that there is a better gaming value than getting both of these excellent games together. PCGamer rated it in their top 5 of all-time 50 greatest PC games in 2001 as well.

I couldn't recommend a series more highly than Fallout 1&2.

The Fallout series is the greates RPG series ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It's a shame that all of a sudden prices have risen to nearly $80. More people should be able to experience these games, but I don't recommend buying them from here. I got my copy of Fo1 from a neighbor, and Fo2 from a good friend. At the time I was maybe 12, and even before that, watching my neighbor/friend (who was older than me) play the first, it was enthralling.
These are two of the last, somewhat modern games, I think, to have a rich story line and an involving plot. You start out thinking that it will be very linear (looking in your first city for the water chip, hah), but soon you begin to realize that the game was designed to let you call the shots. Instead of immediately being immersed in homogenous villains defending a larger version of themselves, who in turn is coveting, for some reason, the last water chip on the face of... Californea... you start out doing a little sleuthing, a small side mission here, and then you become entirely involved.
I enjoyed the second game in the series as well. It follows the same principle, and is pretty much an extension of the first one, but thats not really a bad aspect. I feel that if these games had been made using more modern tools, they would be the most popular games ever.
That said, you should get this if your pockets are brimming with cash and you dont know how to spend it. I wouldn't consider them to be rare, and the company is dying. Get it whatever way you can think of (ahem ahem... time to be hitting the ol' dusty trail).

Best series I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

With #3 apparently back in development, you'd better get started playing the best 2 role-playing games ever made. Absolutely engrossing, enjoyable game with a dark sense of humor and a very extensive range of options and weapons to choose from. None of that boring, annoying magic to bog down gameplay. You're in the post-apocalyptic world, do whatever you want.

A classic that still manages to entertain

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I picked up the bundled jewel case as a cheap diversion for a weekend away from home visiting relatives. Rather than be taken hostage on a shopping trip that never ends, I snuck off to the store, found this little gem of a game, hid away with my laptop an opened a wickedly funny universe.

Both of these games are a blast. Many might find the graphics a bit dated, but the open-endedness is unfathomable. You really can do all those stupid things you always want to do in other CRPGs - steal cars, be bad, be good, be both. The campy humor kept me going into the wee hours of the night. I haven't played a game that kept me laughing this long in nearly a decade. The content is a tad on the mature side, particularly in Fallout 2, parents you were warned. It is a small wonder that this game developed a cult following, it is a place all its own. It will stick with you long after you abandon it.

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