Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

If you play fallout 1 and this back to back you WILL burn out. also in both my playthroughs the game started to fall apart at around reaching shady sands even with all the bug fixes, my money would randomly fluctuate between 900 and 13000 every time i loaded the game or entered a new area and it retroactively affected my old save files and it kept voiding every single quest item so i had to cheat them back in again. aside from all the combat bugs the most insulting one by far was seeing all my perfect end slides i worked so hard on, just for the game to claim i MURDERED an entire settlement "proving genocide is always a viable option". aside from the engine falling apart as you progress this is still my second (maybe third) favorite fallout after the first. very worth it

what is there to say its fallout 2. A very good RPG with odd oldschool controls and amazing story and voice acting.

Great real role playing game. If your struggling your probably stupid and impatient.

A very great old game, you either already know it or will see it out as a newer person. This version on Steam comes with a high res patch and sfall patch that are awesome on today's resolutions and 16:9. However I could never get it work well on Win 11 even with some workarounds. However it works perfectly on the same computer on Linux using Proton 9. I highly recommend this game and the patches it comes with but if you have a newer computer and windows it might not be a perfect experience.

this is one of the basis of all fallout games and marks one of the starts of the best types of games in gaming history

Good game on it's own, kinda a weird contrast to Fallout 1 tone-wise, however. But it's still pretty solid, and I can see why people like it.

ALSO AN IMMEDIATE FUCKING 10/10 BECAUSE OF FRANK HORRIGAN I FUCKING LOVE THIS MAN SO FUCKING MUCH ANJHBSDJHBASDHBUWADHBUAWUDHWAUHDUDWDUADUWDWDHWAUDJHB

yeah if you grew up playing the FPS ones its hard to get in to but its amazing story. so play it dummy.

I'll probably edit this later because, quite honestly, 3 hours weren't enough to get much out of this game so far. Not necessarily because it has a lot of content - I don't know that - but because combat just drags on for so long... Takes me 1 hour to kill off, like, 7 scorpions because my attacks always miss. Still, this is more about luck than the game's fault, and other than that it's been a fine experience so far. Not great, not bad, fine... I just really wanted to complain about how long combat takes in this review.

Not gonna lie, I use to LOVE this game. But, after playing so many newer games, Fallout 2 is almost unplayable. I don't know what's going on anymore in this game. Still, it's a classic, but at $15 there's no way I would buy this again.

Incredible game one of the best written games I've ever played. Highly recommend the game to anyone

The BEST instalment out of the entire Fallout series. Yeah, the old 90s graphics are dated, but this game has the best writing, plot, and missions. The music/atmosphere is perfectly suited to ever location. The world of characters contrast an enormous range of personalities and individual desires, with top notch voice acting for those who are applicable. The range of weapons and armour available to the character allow for you to tailor your play style. And the character creator, though detailed, allows for a wide range of builds. Also, be sure to install the Fallout 2 Restoration Project in order to play originally cut content and less bugs. By far the greatest post nuclear RPG on the market!

Amazing classic Fallout experience. all the crazy scary wasteland you want, and constantly dieing because its old school difficult. keep notes, you will need them. dont take risks. save often.

Okay as a zoomer you can play this is pretty simple in mechanics.My one complain is the sheer amount of references/4th wall meta jokes(really compared to 1 this is basically why we have fallout wacky humor) that get tiresome and how towns dont feel connected at all.That aside great game,brutal sometimes but keep a lot of saves and remember high ag/int is a must.

sold my body for 200 bucks. killed the bartender and his hooker. opened an orphanage. joined a cult and fixed a nuclear reactor

fallout 2 is my favorite game of all time. can not recommend it highly enough to anyone. played it many times since childhood.

straight up the best isometric crpg ever. incredibly open ended and with a ridiculous amount of content for having been developed in just one year. it starts out slow but give it some time and you won't be able to stop playing. we need 100 more games like fallout 2.

Very similar to the first Fallout, but with much more content and still has a crazy modding scene to it, even to this day.

no idea why but after loading into a save the world map stops working after you enter a new town as the game locks its self and becomes unplayable

The most beautiful thing about this game is knowing that none of the brainrotted normies coming from Todd "the Bod" Howard and Amazon's cashgrab slopshow will even get past the Temple of Trials. There's no need to gatekeep when the game already does it by default.

***SPOILERS*** - If you haven't played the game, buy it, and don't read this review until you've beaten it.

Fallout 2 is such an odd bag. Let me start this by saying it's a 10/10 game. It fixes most of the technical issues Fallout 1 had; quest or game breaking bugs are far less common, companions can be pushed out of the way, companions feel stronger than in 1 and are no longer a liability. All weapon classes feel more viable, even if some are not (throwing).

I do think think the game takes a step back from Fallout 1 in certain ways. Length was obviously a concern when developing this game; where 1 can be beat in 15 hours, 2 takes 50. There are more points of grinding - encounters are frequent, and often have many enemies and places to explore with ultimately no reward other than the exp from the monsters you kill. The humor in this game is a little less mature than 1, and less funny than in the Bethesda/Obsidian games. Levels can be a bit long. While it can be speedrun fairly quickly, it just feels like a less compact and tight package than 1.

On the flip side of this, I do wish this game was followed more closely by Bethesda in theme and continuity. Fallout 2 rarely feels like a post apocalyptic game. While there are slavers and raiders and monsters, there are also settlements and governments and life. This may be the only fallout game with towns that have notably new construction. Vehicles visibly work and are operable. Often, towns' and cities' main problems are not that of survival, but of politics and economics. While carrying a cynical attitude to contemporary life, there is something about recreating it after devastation that feels inherently optimistic.

Bethesda can only wish they could make something as good as the originals, they'd sacrifice even their firstborns if only they could achieve even an ounce of what made the originals great.

Fallout 2 is my personal favorite fallout game and in my top 3 games of all time (fallout 2, GTA V, farcry 5).
Fallout 2 has the best writing of any game that iv'e ever played, it's the 2nd funniest game iv'e ever played. If you don't want to play Fallout 2 because you don't like the game mechanics of Fallout 1, don't worry Fallout 2 has greatly improved the game play and it has so many quality of life improvements.

Gritty, Thoughtful, Deep, Expansive, Immersive, Funny, Taboo, Dark, Depressing, Psychedelic, Provocative, Frustrating and Satisfying all in one. Ultimate fallout. I wont lie tho the old school mechanics make it a bit painful to play. Especially the relentless hit percentages ;-;

Best game to drive around, fight mutants, star in p0rn films, and save the world

Tons of content, still havent experienced all of it

Just Finished it. The game doesn't hold your hand but google does.

This is my fourth Fallout game so far, and it's up there with New Vegas in my top 2. This expands so much upon the scope of Fallout 1. As an NCR fan, I was happy to see some of the early days of that faction and to help it to gain much of the strength that allowed it to expand westward into New Vegas. I also think the Enclave in this game compared to 3 is much more menacing and makes more sense. Speaking with the President was chilling. While the ending of the game was probably among the easiest so far, the overall difficulty of the game was probably the highest. The game is not very forgiving, and it definitely wants you to keep optimizing your and your companions' weapons and armor as you go. While this can be annoying in the moment, I think it's much more rewarding of a system than was present in Fallout 1. I also really enjoyed many of the cities in this game compared to 1 (and some other games), with New Reno being a favorite that I barely scratched the surface of due to the character I was playing, but would definitely spend a lot more time in during future playthroughs.

great game, but not as good as fallout 1.

the pros of fallout 2:

• good gameplay improvements over fallout 1, such as taking stimpacks from your inventory when you use them, instead of having you open up your inventory and put another stimpack in.

• the side quests were intriguing and most of the time very worth it

• generally more content overall

• figuring out pieces of the main story were just as fun as in fallout 1

the cons of fallout 2:

• the leveling at the final part of the game is just brutal, and there isn't enough content for you to be leveled enough for the final area, having you grind late game enemies to get enough XP

• the main story, especially at the end of the game, wasn't as intriguing as the main story in fallout 1

• some of the quests were a little frustrating to figure out, and i had to look up tutorials for some of them

overall, fallout 2 is good and i suggest playing it if you loved fallout 1, but don't expect a better experience

It may be hard to run on new systems and it often crashes but at least it works badly and you won't play without 1000 patches

Game doesn't hold your hand and provides only minimal tutorial, but compare to modern games, it's more comfortable. Once you leave starting village, you can travel to any location other than final main quest area. Underleveled and poorly equipped? You die, reload save and THINK! Turn-based combat lets to play in more relax manner and there are several "smart" and "technical" options, but don't invest too much into non-combat skills - violence is universal and frequently unavoidable solution.

Fun but very clunky compared to the later games, especially the very user-unfriendly way of using skills. An improvement on the first though!

Games really cool, would love to play it.

So, I'm running this game on a Lenovo ideapad, not top of the range but I was told it was decent for what i needed, I know old games sometimes act weird on newer machines but I'm honestly baffled.

I haven't gotten past the first area, the furthest I got was just over the bridge from Arroyo village (the first area) because every few minutes the game would lock into movement mode but not let me move, the screen also seemed to pick a direction at random and scroll to the maximum it could on that axis, this persists between saves but stops for a short while if I fully relaunch the game. I read online that some other people have had an issue similar to this, but the only solution offered was to close discord. I did this and it kept happening. In fact, the time it happened that made me stop playing all together the menu buttons on my PC stopped responding to clicks. They'd light up to show they'd been clicked and then do nothing. Not just the menu buttons in the game ALL THE MENU BUTTONS ON MY PC, including task manager.

I had to restart my computer twice to get it back to normal and at this point I just consider the current build of Fallout 2 straight up unplayable. It locks you out of the game what feels like every 3-5 minutes or so. I've no idea what causes this, but until the problem is fixed, don't spend money on a game you can't play.

Would love to hear if there is a fix to this.

Sometimes a sequel is just the first thing again, but bigger. And this is an example of that truly working. Way more of a pain to get running properly for me than 1, or Tactics, but it is so very worth it. Best played directly after 1, so the references are fresh, and without looking at a guide for everything.

Best fallout for story and RPG other than New Vegas.

Fallout 2 is unbelievably fun, but clunky. The restoration patch is a necessity.

After i helped the gecko thing with vault city, i just didnt touch this game ever again. Still though, i really like the style in this game. And not to forget... FRANK HORRIGAN.

after 10 hours of playing i loved this game, its brutal as a start but as soon as you reach navarro your set, id recommend playing fallout 1 first as its a direct sequel

Great sequel to a great game. The controls and gameplay are a bit easier than the first one but it still takes some time to learn.

A timeless classic with attractive female characters that lets you kill children.

Compared to the first Fallout game, I personally enjoyed this one way more. And yes, I don't think it aged perfectly but it's still playable after many years. I know it sounds hypocritical when I said that the first game aged horribly, but I'd say the sequel makes easier to learn how to play.

So you play as the long descendant of the Vault Dweller, the same hero of the first game whowas kicked to the Wasteland after defeating the Master and saving Vault 13. You start in a tribe in Arroyo, in Northern California. Your mission? To find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K) to save Arroyo from radiation and to stop the evil Enclave, the remnants of the U.S.A goverment after the bombs dropped. I'd say it's more fun than the first game's plot as a personal opinion.

And here comes the most hated part: gameplay. As I said, it aged badly, since the game is from 1998 and it doesn't come with tutorial (and as a personal taste, I hate turn-based games), but I consider it more familiar for new players. You don't start already in a hard enviroment, but in a place that guides you with the mechanics to understand how to play.

Visually I can't say too much: the graphics are the same of the previous game with a decent style but creepy faces.

And the same for the voice acting, OST and sound effects.

I think 10€ might be a fair price since the game is way more long than the first Fallout, but if you want it for less price on sales it costs 2,5€.

So, I truly recommend Fallout 2 over Fallout 1, since if you want to start with the franchise and want to play the classic games (those before Bethesda bought the franchise and made Fallout 3) I find it easier to learn and enjoy

Tough, but also one of the all time greats

Fallout 2 is the second game released originally by Interplay and Black Isle Studio in what was once one of the greatest RPG franchises of all time, which would then be completely ruined storywise by the amateurs at Bethesda and Amazon.

The game is an isometric RPG with round based combat, and it is extremely difficult at times and can be very restrictive. It is nearly impossible to achieve everything with one character unless you play perfectly according to every best method practice out there. Instead, the game encourages players to create characters with very specific strengths and weaknesses. Are you the dumb, slow brute who punches everyone to death, the sneaky, agile, but ugly and weak sniper who takes his targets down from the distance, or the smooth talker who rather fights with words than weapons and prefers to solve conflcts in a diplomatic fashion? If you truly wish to play in a specific style and actually want to roleplay as a person, the possibilities here are limitless.
You can also find many companions in the multiple settlements, depending on your quest decisions and charisma level. They can help you in fights, carry stuff for you, and can also help you out at times if their skills in something are higher than yours.

Considering the games age, it naturally has very simple graphics and annoying gameplay and control features, but the story and atmosphere still hold up very easily today.
If you wish to go through the game carefree and without much of a fuss, but instead prefer to focus on the world and story more, there are safe editors out there which can help you easily become a god among men.

There is one must-have mod that is absolutely necessary to play this game properly on modern systems called SFALL which you can download here https://github.com/sfall-team/sfall
Here, you can also follow the links to the Restoration Project and Unofficial Patch, which are also extremely recommended for an enhanced gameplay experience. Fallout 2 Restoration Project includes all other mods presented here.

The game is not for everyone and takes some getting used to, but if you learn to enjoy it, you will have an incredible time.

NOTE: After installing SFALL or any mod including it, open the ddraw.ini file and set "ProcessorIdle" to 15 to prevent extreme CPU usage

No new Fallout game can reach this level of peak, if I could be engaged with the Chrysalis Highwayman I would.

A great RPG that gives weight to your choices and allows for a lot of replay value in terms of both gameplay and plot. Would recommend using a guide for your first playthrough as several of the intended solutions for quests can be convoluted.

Fantastic game, not for the common gamer the games difficulty is surface level if you know what you're doing and build your character sheet right its a breeze. This is the original dream of fallout and therefore a relic of something I hold dear to my heart

Fallout 2 is a fantastic game with occasionally genius writing and other times with a 14 year olds interpretation of what makes a game "mature" with which I don't feel I'm in the headspace to eloquently describe or explain.

Either way the main story is exceptional with fantastic characters, companions are expanded to being actual characters with quests of their own to partake in and an unfortunate amount of fourth wall breaking which honestly just made me roll my eyes. It feels like a game that constantly take one step forward and one step back resulting in an enjoyable but bloated experience. At least the music still rules, especially san franciscos theme.

Concluding this is a great game mired in some weird flaws and it's way too irritatingly difficult.

This game perfectly balances the humor and dark themes of the franchise making for a fun experience for any fallout fan. My favorite part about this game is the fun melee related missions. I love melee builds in these games and this one by far had the most fun melee build so far!

phenomenal, absolutely the best purchase I've made on Steam, I am an obsidian games dick-rider for life bc of this masterpiece

A lesson in rpg design and philosophy

Ship quest and last level are pure ass on par with pathfinder 1 ending

Experiencing "Fallout 2" after navigating the complexities of "Fallout: New Vegas" offers a unique perspective on the franchise's evolution. While the graphical fidelity of the former may present a stark contrast to modern standards, its robust role-playing mechanics and intricate narrative remain compelling. The sheer breadth of player agency, coupled with the often-absurd scenarios encountered, provides a distinct and engaging experience. Furthermore, the historical context afforded by "Fallout 2" enriches one's understanding of the factions and characters that populate the Mojave Wasteland, revealing their origins and providing a deeper appreciation for the series' lore.

Great Game! I can recommend playing it, especially to see where the modern Fallout games came from.
There are a bunch of gameplay improvements over Fallout 1 (being able to push NPCs blocking you away and marking friendly NPCs differently from enemies were some great changes). Some gameplay things are badly communicated sometimes, e.g., where/how you can use your skills/items is often not very clear, so you may need to look up solutions to certain problems.
Graphics obviously aged a lot, and it is a bit unstable on modern systems (but I guess so are modern games too), so maybe check if any mods can help you with the stability if you have issues.