4 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 237.1 hrs on record (189.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: Oct 3, 2016 @ 3:33pm
Updated: Jun 20, 2021 @ 4:26pm

CONSIDER DOING GOG INSTEAD: Steam has edited this game recently to remove any sexual content. There used to be options to, for example use sex to get information/items/money from people.

Tags: Isometric RPG - Topdown RPG

Note: This game does not allow zoom with mousewheel. Playing at higher resolutions than 720P will severely shrink the user interface, fonts, and generally make the entire game much more distant and affect immersivity. Would even recommend you try the lowest resolutions that match your screen dimension for even additional immersion and authenticity.

On July 15, 2016 a Bethesda backed translation of a Czech mod for Fallout 2 called Fallout 1.5 has surfaced on the internet. I hear from articles in the news that it is the same size as fallout 1, feature the grittier tone of fallout 1, but has a ton of quests in it. We need to somehow petition steam to put this on the store as a steam mod for Fallout 2!!!

No mutants allowed has a fair amount of downloadable locations for fallout 2 - and some mods aggregate a ton of other mods and some bugfixes into them. I am not sure how much of this has been made redundant with the remastered editions of the fallout trilogy to work on older systems but it is definitely worth checking out before you start a playthrough. You can get more locations, more quests, and some new items.

Otherwise this is the same awesome kind of content as fallout 1, the main difference being that you can no longer fail the main arc by making the wrong choice or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around too long anymore. A feature that used to be present if heavily relaxed in v1.0 but that was just taken out altogether through patching. There are a ton more pop culture references and jokes here and some people might miss the grittier fallout 1 style of handling things. The brand new campaign is longer, NPC control has been improved, skills have been slightly reworked, and the level cap pushed all the way to 99. Individually those differences dont seem like much but they add a lot of longevity to the title, and I end up spending a lot more times in fallout 2 just cruising around the wasteland fighting enemies. If you intend to take this game very slow and max out your characters and have a semi-permanent game going then I suggest you download a mod that allows you to change the game over message timer. Indeed, because of a coding limitation back when the game was made, there is a definite amount of time you can spend in game before it abruptly ends on you and tells you the game is over, you will in essence, have reached the very last calendar day allowed by coding, which in game time is 13 years. Modders have found a way around this however and you can make this message appear straight as you leave arroyo or 50 years later in game time, meaning you could in theory roleplay the entire life of a character from age 19 to 60. Which is kind of awesome. At some point all you will have left to do is grind the wasteland so I suggest if you go for that route that you leave yourself some main quests going, no mutant allowed total mods can really help here by adding quests.

Anyways enough rambling

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