A friend got me into the Fallout series long after it's release. Even after experiencing newer, more graphically intensive video games, this series fascinated me. First and foremost, everything you do in the game has an effect on your surroundings. Even in the inital character creation screen, you are made aware that the denizens of the world will react differently to you depending on your sex. This creates lots of replay value since the NPCs you have interacted with will behave differently every time you play. For example, I had one mission where I would always lie my way through a series of dialogue to complete it. The next time I played the game, that strategy wouldn't work since my character didn't have the requisite charisma to get away with that many lies. This made me rethink my strategy and I found a bunch of side missions I had never been able to access with my first character. I also like the fact that the decisions you make follow you around. If you massacre children, the whole town comes out to kill you. If you massacre the town, other people in other towns are wary of you and won't interact the same way. You can still win the game but you'll have to do it without the help of the people you chose to brutalize. I recommend this game to anybody who is tired of RPGs with a set storyline. You can really get imaginative with this one.

A worthy sequel to one of the most entertaining post-apocalyptic computer RPG's ever, even if there is a bit of graphics re-hash. Better AI control, and more flexible character creation.

Some advice before playing Fallout 2. First of all SAVE often especially when you think you're about to do something potentially stupid. Often enough events you trigger or set in motion will have effects on you later on. This RPG surpasses the original in many ways. The music is superb and the graphics fully fulfil the dark noir essence of the game. This is one of the very few ruly non-linear RPGs out there. Gaining levels is incredibly satisfying because you can actually gauge what kind of effect it will have on your character rather then it simply being a superfluos excercise of leveling up for the next boss. Addictive, fun and just generally brilliant just remember to THINK before you act as like life (which this game resembles better than most RPGs) whatever you do could have immeasurable effects on you.

Great to this day. But it on EBay for cheap, and enjoy.

This game is awesomely open-ended, but at the same time constricting. But in a good way. I love all the people taht can join your party and the interesting characters you meet along the way. The little classifaction you get (for example:"grave robber" or "mack daddy") are hilariously animated by the guy whom I've dubbed the fallout guy.

Same as the fisrt

this game is amaizing. a huge world to explore with tons of things to do, and a non linar story. the only problems are that the world traveling became extriemly annoying (way too many encounters), which lead to another problem, which is quests that force you to take LONG travels just to deliver a message and being sent back, which are fun but the travel makes them annoying. there are also long loadings, also, the combat system is f**ked up, cus your perception affects you too much, and you get to a point in which you have 100% small arms for exemple and you get 75% chance to hit. it' a bit hard to get mony in the early stage of the game, but if you overcome these obsticles it's a huge game that afterwards the first look so small and simple. at first i thought that the first one was better cus it lacked the problems of this one, but after i finished it i just couldn't go back, and i started a new game.

This is the greatest Rpg of all time with the level building, non-linear gameplay and the ability to make moral decisions making it really cool, by the way Azteck, what the hell is an RPG without turnbased combat?!?!?!?!

Great non-linear RPG. The background story is interesting but the turn-based gameplay suck. This game really miss a bit or real action. Also, this is not the kind of game that will morally educate the population.

along with the original fallout, this my all time favourite game. the highly original retro fifties/post apocalyptic setting, along with the balance of intelligent storyline with non-linear gameplay, cause it to stand head and shoulders above the majority of rpg's

Fallout was an awesome revolutionary game that started a new genre of gaming.