It’s the morality play of these games that I love, the fact that choices have knock on effects and what might make sense in the heat of the moment, proves to be a bad choice later down the road when something pops up that would have played out differently if you had just let the person live, or gave shelter to those refugees rather than treating them like criminals. Wasteland 3 brings you in, then shakes you about and puts a blindfold on you, spins you around three times then asks you to figure out which direction you should really head in. It is here that a great RPG stands out from an average one, the story writing. Naturally you will be presented with many side quests along the way and some of those side quests will actually give you a lot more information about players in the main story, to the extent that they may make you lean towards taking different decisions than what you were going to originally.
Once you’ve cleared this “tutorial of fire” you have your meeting with the Patriarch and the main mission really starts to take off. You will be creating/selecting two players to get you started and you are presented with all the familiar options of strength, intelligence and so on… but then you will also have a chance to give your crew some more unique skills… Toaster repair anyone? Once you have your duo set, you are thrust into a firefight to get your first taste of how the game will play (and potentially your first instance of wishing you’d chosen a different skill to focus on to start with). You begin the game as you do with all great RPG’s, with the character creation screen and in a familiar manner you can go with preset characters or define your team yourself. Before he will send any help your way, he wants you to help round up his three rebellious children, each of whom has found their place in differing factions.
The core story here is that you are part of the Desert Rangers… however you’ve been sent into the chilly snow covered landscape of Colorado to make a deal with the Patriarch, the prosperous leader of Colorado Springs, for much needed supplies to be sent back home. So stepping into the world of Wasteland is both familiar and a little bit different but all of that is good!
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I’m late to the Wasteland world but am a long time fan of the series that is often thought of as it’s natural successor (which is odd given that Wasteland never died off), Fallout.
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