7/27/2023 0 Comments Wasteland 3 reviewThe key point that jumps out is that it’s possible to play (and keep the progression going) in just about any style and the game will react and compensate for it. Customising characters and creating everything from scratch is pretty much a staple, and Wasteland 3 does feel more thorough right from the first moment, but it’s not often the systems underpinning that build are used to such great effect across the whole game, and in nearly every scripted interaction too. It might not be apparent until a few hours in, but the amount of choice available is impressive. Or is it? In Wasteland 3 there is always more than one way a situation can play out.īackground laid out and basic mechanics explained through the tutorial level, it’s time to get to grips with what’s on offer, aside from a deep story with multiple antagonists, hidden motivations, surprising solutions and various probable endings. With The Patriarch providing manpower and space, it’s time to rebuild the Desert Rangers, bring them up to strength and save the people from invasion. It’s here that the story begins in earnest with two survivors making it out of the hot zone and into the safety of the Colorado Springs settlement. It’s a great plan to secure the future of the group… right up until the convoy is ambushed out on a frozen lake and most of the contingent are massacred by local militia. He needs help putting down an insurrection by his offspring Liberty, Victory and Valor and has offered to make the Rangers lives much easier if they send some soldiers into the frozen mountains. Fortunately help is at hand with an offer from The Patriarch in charge of the Colorado region in this bleak future. Resources are dwindling, bandits are more vicious, and they’re having to move further and further from home to find supplies. The Desert Rangers are back! Picking up some years after the battle to destroy the AI Cochise in the last game, they’ve found it’s getting harder to survive in the barren lands. Can it continue to offer something different to Zenimax’s behemoth, or will it forever be known as “ that one that’s like Fallout… but isn’t“? Filling that desolate and dangerous void is Wasteland 3, the follow up to 2014’s crowdfunded success. Noted as being the inspiration of the original Fallout series, and whose rights and trademark have at various points been in dispute, Wasteland might languish in the history of the long gone Interplay Entertainment, but with post-apocalyptic RPGs failing to hit the mark in recent years there’s definitely been a gap in the market. Fallout is one of those that made the transition, not always for the better, but its legacy lives on through inXile Entertainment’s recent Wasteland series. Whether it’s the combat focused Narcos: Rise of the Cartels, the trial-and-error approach of Desperados III, or even the time-puzzle based shenanigans of Peaky Blinders: Mastermind, there’s a lure to them that doesn’t seem to go out of fashion, even if many of the genre founders have moved on to fully realised 3D worlds. If there’s one thing that’s a given at the moment in gaming, it’s that the isometric turn-based genre is not dead.
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