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The revival of the RPG genre.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fallout is well known as the rival of the RPG genre on the PC, and some people believe, the RPG genre period.

Fun, unique, and dark, the Fallout series is a unique experiance that any true gamer must try. If you like RPGs, you will love this product.

Fallout 1+2 are the best "real world" rpgs I've seen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

These 2 games compliment each other perfectly. With Fallout1 you get one of the most involving storylines and excellent gameplay, yet since it is easier in a sense than the sequel it provides a unique stepping stone to the much more vast Fallout2 which expands the fallout world even more (weapons,more things to do, new perks, different jobs, even a means of transport). The hours and hours of gameplay you will get from one of these games is beyond belief and with both its almost endless especially when you can just experiment with different characters,dialog and actions. My only critism is if you buy the UK version the children have been cut out which means that some of the quests are not possible to be completed properly (see any net solution)
And you will get invisible people talking in mid air which will get on your nerves. However through this, are excellent very varied games that even though are now a little dated, are 2 of the best games I have ever played. Sheer Fun, with the right amount of seriousness. (Great stress reliever when your character is nearly invincible)

Game that started me on RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While I am by no means an expert on games or gaming I would like any one just starting to know this: Fallout was far ahead of it's time when released and remains a fun and balanced game with many twists and turns (and few bugs). While I didn't like Fallout 2 as much it did have a larger world and more interaction.

if you only buy one game this year, buy this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Fallout has to be played to be believed. And then, you may not discover its true depth until you ' ve finished it a few times, are playing it a few more and have emersed yourself into all fansites you can find.

It is a computer rpg of enormous depth of atmosphere and setting. You can create *any* character type you can imagine, you can interact socially in a very detailed level, there are almost infinite subplots that will have you exploring the wierdest places... and all this in a post-apocalyptic world of radiation, mutants, guns and lost knowledge.

Get this bundle (I mean, look at the price! 9.99 for 2 games?) and head off into the fallout universe. I am a dedicated rpg player, both computer and tabletop, and I have not seen such a game before...

Great price for one classic game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Can you get a better deal than a dual-jewel game? You get two games which are probably very good (or they wouldnýt have been around for this long) real cheap. If you have not yet played the Fallout series, then get out there and get your hands on them quick, before you can no longer buy them at all.

Fallout I is a futuristic ýhack-and-slashý role-playing game. It has a great turn-based combat system, based upon action points. I enjoyed the combat in this game thoroughly. It is a nice reprieve from the endless frustration that you get from lots of the other games out there. I have had enough of real-time combat RPGýs.

This is not to say that Fallout it easy. Fallout is still a VERY challenging game. You have a few huge quests, instead of a lot of small ones. The entire map is open to you very early on, and there is little direction to direct you to what to explore first. This makes the game very hard at first, since you canýt survive half of the areas at low levels.

The game has a lot of nice features. Most dialog only has text, but the major characters have animated conversations that are nicely voice-acted. The richly animated faces of these characters is a nice surprise. The aging graphics and sound of this game will not affect your enjoyment of it at all. There are a lot of weapons to choose from and the gore effects are a real treat, if you like that stuff (your enemies melt, split in half, and explode when you hit them right). It also has a lot of amusing dark humor that parodies 1950ýs television and the nuclear war scares of that era.

The cons? The inventory system could have been better. The inventory screen is small, so you have to scroll down the screen when you have a lot of items. When you are loaded up with items, this takes a long time. The skill and attribute system lacks balance. The game is very combat-oriented, so non-combat skills arenýt very useful.

Fallout II was a big disappointment. I quit playing early on for a few reasons. For one, the plot is lousy. You are the ýchosen oneý charged with finding a religious artifact. Blech. The story was just too dumb to be enjoyable. The game is filled with ghosts and weird little beasties, and other nonsense that wasnýt in Fallout I. The science fiction genre is totally spoiled. And, for some strange reason, Fallout II is filled to the brim with excess profanity. This sequel adds nothing of value to the original.

In summary, the Fallout I/II dual-jewel gives you one great, classic RPG, and one coaster. Itýs cheap, and itýs a great deal.

Buy this game... N-O-W!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't played Fallout, then you are missing on perhaps the best RPG you can ever imagine... Sure the graphics are horrible by today's standards... But after 1 or 2 hours of playing... The game will suck you in and twist your 512MB-VidCard Spoiled little mind to the point that it will stop caring about the graphics... COMPLETELY! I MEAN IT!

I'm not going to go into detail as to what makes this game so unimaginable great... Many other reviewers have done it already, AND the game has a perfect 5-star rating, so you shouldn't even be wondering! Friggin' buy it already!

Don't believe me yet? I got this game for $9.99 at Best Buy when the "Value Software Section" still existed... Today, unless you're a really lucky individual, the game goes for $30 up... I am positive that its value will continue to appreciate until it becomes a rare jewel. So GET IT WHILE IT IS STILL REACHABLE!

I hope that by now you are about to click the "buy now" button or are headed over to other websites to get a copy.

Two things I do tell you...

ONE, AND MOST IMPORTANT: Play the games IN ORDER!

TWO, AND YOU WILL REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU GET INTO THE GAME: Don't trust your party members with Big-n-Heavy Automatic Weapons...

The Best CPRG Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Leave your swords and your spells at home, and welcome to the apocalypse.

Good news, you survived. By hiding in a vault deep below the earth you and an unknown number of others have survived a Cold War nuclear exchanged driven as China and America go to war over dimenishing oil supplies. So you're underground and living large, waiting for the time the Vault overseer lets you go up.

Bad news- the water chip is busted, and with chip busted the vault is running out of water. The Overseer thinks you are the man (or woman) best suited for finding a replacement. Where? Well there's a big world out there where a waterchip might be found. But watch out for the man eating lizards, the giant skorpions, the ghouls, the radiation, the very nasty survivors and, oh yes, those big ugly brutes, the mutants.

Fallout offers you a big world to explore (Southern California) to find your chip. Visit Necropolis, the Boneyard, Junktown. Make new friends, fight new enemies. Acquire new skills and get a reputation (for good or evil- you choose).

It's all about your choices and that is what makes Fallout 1 the great game it is. You choose your character, you make the traits, you choose the kills. Are you a gunfighter, a hand-to-hand master, a thief, a diplomat, a scientist or a mix of these? Will you strive to do good, or will you wander the evil path? The non-linear form allows you to take this story about where you want it to go.

So it's about choice? Well, that and the vision. This is a throwback to 1950s pulp when our nightmares of atomic warfare gave birth to a pop culture of giant radiated ants (Them) and civil collapse (Panic in the Year Zero). You've seen bits of this world in more recent films- (A Boy and his Dog, Mad Max Trilogy, Blood of Heroes). Now you get to be in it.

And when you are done tracing the adventures of the original Vault Dweller, in Fallout 2 you get to see what happens to his ancestors. As a descendent of the original vault dweller you are once again called to service to save your community from its annihiliation. Back into the post-apocalyptic world which has now evolved into something else. New locations, new enemies, new places, new adventures. It's longer than the original, even if it misses some of what made the original the best. Still fans agree, Fallout 2 is a delight.

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Why waste your money on [...] when you can enjoy art? If you enjoy CRPG and have not played Fallout, you are missing one of the greatest games ever.

Best RPG for PC since it was published

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 24
Date: March 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just completed Fallout one. It is great game, although some skills are useless.

I began w perception 8 and intelligence 7 and I lacked action points. I lacked ONE point of strength to use large energy weapons and carry enough (or two? check FAQs), and I had to get power armor early in order to get +3 strength bonus.

I got small guns up to 100 and lockpick around 70 near beginning. It is good to have repair 70 too, but that you can build later.

Energy weapons are essential, esp when you find Alien Blaster, and it is good to have it at 125 percent, esp before Military base.

Don't put skill points in melee weapons or fistfight, you will not use it at all.

There are much ways to finish Fallout 1, but (minor spoiler) you can take out Military base firs (forget field disabling, there is bug in game), get robe there, get in cathedral and: go up and find key OR have lockpick skill at 150, which is usefull later and go to basement.

NEVER THROW LOCKPICKS AWAY! Some stuff , like dynamite and plastic explosives were useless as far as I went thru game. It is good to have small and micro fusion cells. Always collect stimpacks and, in battle, go to inventory and click them and use them by highlighting open hand, that's the way u can use em as many as u want.

The best weapons are: Desert Eagle, Sub Machine gun, SNIPER!, plasma rifle, laser rifle (for range), gatling lasers and alien blaster if ure lucky.

End is unexpected ...

Fallout 2

is sequel to Fallout 1 and not so cool since solutions were more logical in Fallout 1. Here you CAN use muscular guy with spear and all skills can have use if you combine them. You also must have computers and lockpick around 70 percent, as far as I remember. Sniper rifle is cool and you get REAL weapons after you complete 20 percent of game...you can use small guns only, there is rifle that packs mean punch although its not laser or big gun class...end is satirical...

Fallout 2 is more like extension of fallout 1 with more to do, than a game of its own but...its good and its second best old school RPG on PC as far as I know

BUY! It's cheap and I beat Fallout 1 on WIN XP.

And one more thing: you can adjust difficulty level, although normal is ok, and you can TURN OFF BLOOD, SWEARING, AND VIOLENT ANIMATIONS(=DYING SCENES A LA MORTAL KOMBAT IN BATTLES).

Why didn't I rate this game five star? Well, because of Final Fantasy VII, FF IX, Playstation's Persona and older games that started it all=Bard's Tale that appeared on Commodore 64 and PC and Eye of Beholder for lamented Amiga and old PCs.

Fun, but a little misleading

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Great game, involving and detailed. I found myself up at the wee hours of the night playing this game. Even had quite an itch to kill annoying innocents.

Fallout 2 is great.

Fallout 1....I don't know. I haven't played it. I bought this game because of the price and the compatibility with Windows 2000 advertised. But make no mistake, Fallout 1 is NOT supported by Windows 2000. So I guess that's 5 bucks down the drain.

Still, 10 bucks for even just Fallout 2 is a great deal.

You have ...bucks for this, trust me.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You will receive more from the ...dollars you spend on this bundle than any other ... dollars you have to spend on Amazon.com. Two excellent RPGs for a low price, dozens upon dozens of hours of exploration and entertainment. Fans of Planescape:Torment, Thief, System Shock 2, Deus Ex and other "thinking" action/RPG games will love the Fallout series. So, what were you going to spend your ten dollars on, some DVD you'll never watch? Feh. Do yourself a favor, hang with the mutants, you'll be glad you did.

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