Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

Set 80 years after the first Fallout, the game casts you as the Chosen One, a villager from Arroyo sent to find a GECK and help save your community. You travel through a post-nuclear wasteland of settlements, factions, and dangerous encounters.

Explore towns, speak with their residents, and take on quests that can often be approached in several ways. Your character’s attributes, skills, and traits shape how you interact with people and problems, allowing for paths that rely on conversation, stealth, theft, or force.

Combat is turn-based, with weapons, skills, and companions contributing to encounters. You can recruit companions, develop your character as you gain experience, and affect local reputations and quest outcomes through your choices; a car can also help with journeys across the wasteland.

Players in the supplied reviews frequently enjoy the freedom to shape their character and solve quests in different ways, along with the abundance of locations, side stories, memorable characters, and wasteland atmosphere. Some also value its humor and replayability, though opinions on the humor vary. Reviews also describe an adjustment period with the older controls and systems, and mention bugs, unclear directions, and punishing early combat as frustrations.