By giving the people you encounter such depth-which, admittedly, still can often descend into cartoonishly exaggerated moral extremes-it can be a genuine struggle to be cruel. Your group struggles alongside the people you encounter, and you can be assured that their lives are exactly as dour as they seem. Soon after the opening, your crew joins up with the Desert Rangers, one of the only semblances of civilization that has emerged from the chaos. And, as is so often the case, it's obvious that the end of civilization came in the nuclear flavor. While Wasteland 2 definitely offers up a decent chunk of narrative assistance for those who want to keep things simple, this is an adventure that pleads for you to give your all and is willing to reward the effort.Īs you might suspect, your squad's goal is to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. You don't have to, of course, but having a written paragraph or two, as well as hand-crafted motivations, Wasteland suggests, will help tie you to the world and your team of avatars. You can (and probably should) come up with your own backstories and use those to build out your squad. You are, from the start, invited to craft your own troop of folks with whom you will travel the wastes. For some, that might be a turn-off, but Wasteland 2 embraces it. While that sounds counterintuitive in a video game, it pays dividends in the actual role-playing: It gives you the ability to further refine your squad and encourage yourself to think a bit outside the box as you work around the traits. Perks and Quirks, for instance, give you the option to swap a boon for some persistent disadvantage. The bigger additions are the smoother graphical presentation as well as having more minutiae with which to customize your characters.
There are thousands of lines of added spoken dialogue, but the text still does most of the heavy lifting.
Wasteland 2 swifty upgrade#
The Director's Cut, an updated release that was a free upgrade for most console players, is the edition getting the Switch treatment. Several years after its release, it's coming to Switch, and even now it's among the best in the recent roleplaying crop. Taking lots of inspiration from tabletop RPGs, Wasteland 2 masterfully brings the best bits of open-ended roleplaying games to the digital realm, bringing the genre's hallmark nuanced scenarios, deep roleplaying, and rich, atmospheric description along. One of the most beautiful facets of Wasteland 2 is its wistful, austere writing.
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