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Fallout Blindness

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 28
Date: June 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the worst game I ever started to play. I felt my way through total darkness in vault 13 killing all the rats and hoping things would get better. I then felt my way through Shady Sands killing all the scorpions ( in total darkness) hoping things would get better. I then felt my way around in vault 15 ( in total darkness) trying to find the elevator and decided this game was not for me. Spending hours feeling my way around in the dark trying to find places and things while fighting rats and scorpions is not my idea of fun.

Fallout Falls Down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: August 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game had a great opening, but came with no instructions (a serious downside) and a steep learning curve. Once I got going, it became painfully aparent that the game was tediously slow. Unless you want to spend the better part of your life playing an outdated game, pass on this one.

Maybe I'm spoiled, but ...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Fallout is a turn-based game, and I prefer real-time games like Diablo II and Baldur's Gate far better. Fallout just seems too slow.

Good but Overrated

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

These were the first rpgs I ever played. Regarding Fallout,

Pros:

-- Great character creation system

-- big world to explore

-- combat system took some getting used to but was fun.

-- Mostly decent voice acting.

Cons:

-- Truly cheesy writing, and the ultimate plot's pretty lame.

RPG fans love the amount of free will you have in the Fallout series, but I find that sort of thing dull. I don't enjoy playing "bad" characters or doing whatever I want. If you like that sort of thing, up this review a notch or two, because you have a great deal of freedom to play in varying styles.

(Although you can conceivably do "whatever you want" in Fallout, in practice, though, there's a basic path the designers want you to follow. Some encounters are meant to happen early, some late.)

The writing here is overrated. It wouldn't past muster in a bad HBO original movie.

Fallout 2 was more of the same, but harder. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much, and didn't finish it, in fact.

A good introduction to rpgs, but I hope there are better efforts out there.

Not that great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: July 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun to play but has gliches, such as characters that block your exit of a room. Great game that needs a little fine tuning.

Good Game, but not great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: June 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Both of these games are adictive at first, but lack much substance. the constant one way aproach and short length of the game makes it a little dull after a while. Peronaly I think the ripped off the RIFTS RPG series. RIFTS is also post nuclear apocolyptic, and the Enclave and Brotherhood of Steel resemble the RIFTS' Coalition. At first the game is so adictive that you cant stop playing and after you beat it you put it up and never play it again. Good game, but not great

Came around too late...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As in "I" came around too late. I played Fallout Tactics and really liked it so I thought I would give the original Fallout a try. I am sure that at the time, or maybe after giving the game enough time, it might be a good game, but I am afraid I am just spoiled by the newest crop of rpg's and other games. I still love the story and idea of it all, I just couldn't get into it. Tactics was what got me started and I am afraid thats where I stopped as well.

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.

Classic games, but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

While these games are extremely fun and set in an interesting and rich "Mad Max" type world, I am new to the RPG scene and the lack of a manual with this bundle and the inherent complexity of a Role Playing Game had me confused on everything from understanding and choosing the characteristics of my character to comprehending the interface. I eventually coped and have learned a little from websites of fans of the series, but I can't help but think that I am missing something from the game that would have been enhanced with a manual. However, these are great games and have landed on most "Top 10 Games of All Time" lists from experts in the computer gaming business. You can't go wrong for 10 bucks. If you don't own these already, buy them.

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.

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