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8.9
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Score Breakdown Based on 202 ratings
  1. 10 (107)
  2. 9 (60)
  3. 8 (15)
  4. 7 (8)
  5. 6 (2)
  6. 5 (5)
  7. 4 (0)
  8. 3 (1)
  9. 2 (0)
  10. 1 (4)

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  • Rating:9

    A new Fallout

    By nemesisu_zork | Review Date: Oct 15, 2014 | PC

    I never played Wasteland back in '87 but I did played Fallout. So, being a Fallout fan I wanted to taste the Wasteland 2 story / gameplay. It was like I was back in time, in the days when I tasted Fallout for the first... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.5

    A Sleeper Classic's Classic Game

    By deekayfry | Review Date: Jan 24, 2009 | C64

    Within the throes of the Cold War during the 1980's before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this game came about during a tense time in our world history. It depicts what life might be like after nuclear annihilation and it... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:9.5

    The Game that got me hooked to RPGs.

    By mackski | Review Date: Feb 05, 2008 | PC

    I can remember buying this game with my allowance when I was younger and bringing it home not quite knowing what I bought. Wow was I blown away. This game started my addiction to RPGs that I have yet to get over. Th... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:10

    The most inspiring post-apocalyptic game

    By fjorner | Review Date: Nov 21, 2007 | PC

    Rich storylines and writing, quirky game mechanics that just plain worked and a vast, deep and engrossing post-apocalyptic gaming experience. Never to be played just once. A stick-with-you-always classic. A storylin... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.8

    Probably still my favorite game of all time.

    By ThaSod | Review Date: Jun 08, 2007 | APL2

    This game was a classic. You may talk about Grand Theft Auto letting you do anything, roam around stealing and killing and hanging out with prostitutes, well Wasteland did it all before. The premise was this was after ... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.9

    The Grand-Daddy of Post-Apocalyptic RPGs.

    By mylolothian | Review Date: Jan 16, 2007 | PC

    What Bard's Tale did for Swords and Sorcery, WASTELAND did for the Post-Apoc genre. you lead a party of 4 PC's, ( can be less, depending on gameplay, can be more) and up to 3 npc's initially through the survivable area o... Read Full Review

    2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.8

    Astonishing for its time, the predecessor to Fallout shows some truly miraculous ideas in CRPG tactics.

    By Zootsuit | Review Date: Jul 16, 2006 | PC

    The thing I always think about when I'm playing Wasteland is the tactical combat. There's something to be said about breaking your party into several parts to catch some slavering cybernetic organism in a crossfire of as... Read Full Review

    5 of 5 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.6

    Wasteland is by far the best rpg of the time with only a few small shortcomings

    By Tinmancr | Review Date: Oct 10, 2005 | PC

    Wasteland has a nice and fairly ballanced default hero list, and has a good Charecter creation system allowing more charecters than most and duly so also in some ways more forgiving than some old rpgs one little mista... Read Full Review

    3 of 4 users found the following review helpful