Fallout: Maybe just a little more praise? (Fallout (GURPS) (PC))

Member Name: Smeep

Product:	Fallout (GURPS) (PC)
Date:	10/08/07 (93 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great Gamplay and very immersive

Disadvantages: A little confusing to new players at first

Ok ok, so you all know how great this game is right? Well there's nothing wrong with singing a little more praise about it. But I'll try to keep it short.

Quite simply, there was a war. A big one. With lots of nukes. Low and behold, radiation poisoning is a plenty.

Upper class society now live in what are called vaults, which are basically hollowed out mountains with a giant safe inside. Big enough to support a decent population, so long as there is a working water chip installed in it's water supply, to keep the water clean and safe to drink.

Wait a second? What's that? The chip? Oh no! Without that chip we'll all die in a matter of days! What now? Oh, I know, Let's kick that guy out in to the wilderness to get us a new chip.

This is where you come in.

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Your job is to get a new water chip for your vault. There are loads of other side quests, which included killing, decieving or even, shock horror, being honest. You get told where to go, but not always how to get there. And sometimes due to the majority off directions being given in text, you might find it a little hard to locate people.

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In this game, you can change your 'class' not by the usual default of literally just choosing from a list of pre built classes, but instead you pick the skills you think you will find most useful. You can be a silver tongue if you like, so that you can weasel both in to and out of situations. You can be a medical man so that you can heal your self better and you can, shock horror, be a big tough guy with massive guns. There are a lot more possibilities, but listing them here would take quite some time.

The controls are very simple. You just click where you want to walk, run, shoot or blow up. Sometimes you have to select an item first, for instance a lock pick to open that locked filing cabinet that happens to contain something you need. All very simple, easy to understand.

Combat is also simple. Instead of being able to free roam, you the whole thing is turn based. Each turn you will get a certain amount of action points with which to perform, well, actions. Things like moving (or running) shooting, getting something from your inventory, reloading or healing. There are 2 types of combat and no, they are not ranged and melee, though that does exist. What they are is click and kill, or precision aiming. In essentials, the more effort something would take to do, the more of your precious turn points it will use up.

For instance you can shoot a guy in the eyes, head, crotch etc. They are harder to hit but they hurt more if you land those bullets.

The graphics are simple yet incredibly satisfying, especially when you offload a round of machine gun bullets in to a guy just to watch him splatter to smithereens with a satisfying thud sound to each bullet.

The sound is well done, but by today's standards there could be much more sound overall. Some of the conversations are completely animated with sound, but most of them are just text at the bottom of the screen.

The only real problems with the game are all related to how old it is. It can be a paint to get it working on a windows XP machine and you'll have to invest some time in to it just to get it off the ground. Compatibility mode helps, but expect the odd crash to desktop and save often.

The game can be found in bargain bins across the land so the value for money is excellent. You are getting today's playability at prices that are probably around 10 years old.

Get this game, and get it now.


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Summary: Get this game!