Fallout 1 / Fallout 2 Bundle (Jewel Case)
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Video Game Reviews of Fallout 1 / Fallout 2 Bundle (Jewel Case)
Customer Review: Two incredible games for ten dollars
Summary: 5 Stars
I had the good fortune of stumbling into Fallout when I had ten dollars burning a hole in my pocket about a year and a half ago. It turned out to be some of the best money I've ever spent on a video game. It has everything - humor, drama, crazy firepower, and one very freaky final boss. I've played through several times already, and every time I manage to find a new way to make a character. The same goes for Fallout 2, only with the sequel, all of the original's features and perks are magnified about ten times. Yep, that's right, more weapons, more drama, more humor... Who doesn't laugh when you try to kick out the spazzy science geek in your party, only to have him beg and plead for you not to leave him? Nobody that I know. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to play through Fallout 2 yet, but fortunately the dual jewel case version is the debugged version (evidently before there were some major problems with the car.) In any case, I just have to say this: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? BUY THIS GAME!!! Ten dollars for two classic games = a no-brainer purchase.Customer Review: Amazing Deal
Summary: 5 Stars
Two games for the price of one-half... how can you beat this? Both are very deep RPGs that are incredibly fun and have a very dark but witty sense of humor. I recommend that you do not play the two games back to back, as they are based on the same basic game mechanics, but individually the two RPGs are tough to beat, and the price is definitely right.Customer Review: Great price for one classic game
Summary: 4 Stars
Can you get a better deal than a dual-jewel game? You get two games which are probably very good (or they wouldn?t have been around for this long) real cheap. If you have not yet played the Fallout series, then get out there and get your hands on them quick, before you can no longer buy them at all.Fallout I is a futuristic ?hack-and-slash? role-playing game. It has a great turn-based combat system, based upon action points. I enjoyed the combat in this game thoroughly. It is a nice reprieve from the endless frustration that you get from lots of the other games out there. I have had enough of real-time combat RPG?s.
This is not to say that Fallout it easy. Fallout is still a VERY challenging game. You have a few huge quests, instead of a lot of small ones. The entire map is open to you very early on, and there is little direction to direct you to what to explore first. This makes the game very hard at first, since you can?t survive half of the areas at low levels.
The game has a lot of nice features. Most dialog only has text, but the major characters have animated conversations that are nicely voice-acted. The richly animated faces of these characters is a nice surprise. The aging graphics and sound of this game will not affect your enjoyment of it at all. There are a lot of weapons to choose from and the gore effects are a real treat, if you like that stuff (your enemies melt, split in half, and explode when you hit them right). It also has a lot of amusing dark humor that parodies 1950?s television and the nuclear war scares of that era.
The cons? The inventory system could have been better. The inventory screen is small, so you have to scroll down the screen when you have a lot of items. When you are loaded up with items, this takes a long time. The skill and attribute system lacks balance. The game is very combat-oriented, so non-combat skills aren?t very useful.
Fallout II was a big disappointment. I quit playing early on for a few reasons. For one, the plot is lousy. You are the ?chosen one? charged with finding a religious artifact. Blech. The story was just too dumb to be enjoyable. The game is filled with ghosts and weird little beasties, and other nonsense that wasn?t in Fallout I. The science fiction genre is totally spoiled. And, for some strange reason, Fallout II is filled to the brim with excess profanity. This sequel adds nothing of value to the original.
In summary, the Fallout I/II dual-jewel gives you one great, classic RPG, and one coaster. It?s cheap, and it?s a great deal.
Customer Review: very entertaining, great value
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are interested in computer games that take more than a child's attention span then this game will entertain you hour after hour. There are so many subtleties in the plot, so many small details that you can choose to pay attention to or to overpass. Fallout 2 is defenitely better than Fallout 1 but the latter is still worth the play time. The price of this bundle is unbeatable.Customer Review: fantastic introduction
Summary: 4 Stars
this is the first rpg/adventure pc game i have ever played. i had been intimidated by talk of frame rates and graphic cards. this game played very well on my fast pentium 2 w/o fancy graphic cards and is an open/non-linear game w/ very tolerable graphics. it is a post nuclear holocaust venue where you wander the wastes in search of a water chip to save the people in your shelter(vault 13). your character has and can aquire a variety of skills. there are a number of mini-adventures you can take along the way. interaction with computer generated characters is surprisingly interesting even though the most productive dialogue stems from a multiple choice menu. i was surprised however that items could be aquired, even from within characters homes without any resistance. this aside, there is enough "realism" to keep the game interesting. a nice balance between shooter, rpg, and light strategy. a fantastic game to cut your teeth on.