This is one of the best RPGs ever made, and one that every true PC RPG fan should play. It has so many good features and the combined product is a perfect example of the sum being greater than its individual parts. This was the first game that was collectively produced by the people who later founded Troika Games (Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and Jason Anderson), and it showcases the things that made their games great. Troika is sadly gone now, and while some of their games were controversial, all of their games had one thing that featured prominently. Atmosphere. Fallout has great atmosphere. It really did a fantastic job of making you feel like you were a survivor of a nuclear cataclysm. The characters in the game were sometimes wonderful and really made you care about them (Dogmeat, I love you! sniff...). For a 2D game with an isometric perspective, this is a significant achievement. The turn-based combat was very well suited to the game, and allowed tactical, twitch-free control of life-and-death situations that were challenging and fun. This being said, Fallout was not a perfect game. Giving automatic weapons to your companions is suicidal, since they have a nasty tendency to ignore your presence in their line of fire. Despite its minor flaws, the great story, character-development system, tactical combat, immersive gameworld, and wonderful flexibility in gameplay make this a game that true aficionados will play for years to come. It still stands as an example of what a good role-playing game should be. For those of us who played and enjoyed Wasteland, Fallout was everything that a spiritual successor should be, and more.
I know that by todays standards people would rather be playing Neverwinter Nights or some "newer" RPG game but Fallout does everything perfectly. The game is limitless trust me on that I've been playing since release and... Read Full Review
This is one of my all-time favorite games. It is a very unique game with a story similar only to the game "Wasteland". At first I was a little skeptical on how this game would be, the graphics (nowadays) ar... Read Full Review
