![]() The utterly useless Combat Shooting skill returns for instance, and like with the original it does absolutely nothing in-game, but it does come with an achievement this time around, masterfully titled It Finally Does Something. With updated mechanics also come achievements to unlock, and the InXile crew has a firm eye here on pleasing long time fans. Although it's not exactly canon (Snake Vargas and Angela Deth fighting at Base Cochise is critical to the story in the sequel), you now have the ability to make your own ranger crew from scratch. Other big changes in the base gameplay can be found from beginning to end. That being said, this is really more of a full remake than a simple remaster, although it keeps many of the same keyboard-based UI mechanics for nostalgia purposes.įor starters, you don't need to reference a physical book to read the dialog and descriptions like with the original Wasteland! That's a huge plus, as the Wasteland re-release a few years back stuck with the old style and had players switching to separate text document. They still travel to places like the High Point, the Rail Nomad Camp, and so on before finally confronting the genocidal robots in Base Cochise. Wasteland Remastered Review: A Classic Experience for Modern Gamersįans of the original experience aren't left in the cold here - the story, locations, and characters all remain exactly the same. Hell Razor, Angela Deth, Snake Vargas, and Thrasher are still roaming the wasteland to solve problems. The end result is a new version of Wasteland absolutely worth returning to just to see where the genre started 10 years before the original Fallout was even a twinkle in Interplay's eye. ![]() ![]() The remastered edition handles those issues nicely while still maintaining the old school feel. Many of these classic titles like Wasteland and Bard's Tale hold a special place of nostalgia in the hearts of Millennial and Gen-X fans, but frankly, the old gameplay mechanics and extremely limited user interfaces just don't hold up anymore. After InXile released upgraded editions of the original Bard's Tale dungeon crawlers last year, giving the same treatment to the very first graphical post-apocalyptic role-playing game made a lot of sense. ![]()
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