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I have been waiting for this one!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: February 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I had the chance to play this game at a gaming show in December. I have been waiting for it to come out ever since. The game has absolute stunning graphics. The morbid worlds are very realistic, not a detail is left out. This game pushes the envelope on maturity level too, I love it. I could only play a section of one level but that was enought to get me hooked. I highly recommend giving this game a chance.

Designers - More Like This One!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: February 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wish more game designers released games like this one. This one has an excellent mix of what every mature and experienced gamer is looking for: great graphics, incredible sound for atmosphere, detailed character development, a great mix of items and weapons, a REAL storyline!, and REAL strategy that rewards thinking and planning - not endless and mindless mouse clicks! Try the demo, and buy the game - its one of the best coming down the pike for 2001.

Join the Brotherhood of Steel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: March 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Join the Brotherhood of Steel, a technological revival group dedicated to restoring the world to its former prosperity through science and whatever means necessary. Take part in a quest to reawaken long-dormant technology in order to defeat a powerful enemy in the one of a kind Fallout Universe. Each mission involves various hostile obstacles that must be overcome using tactical skirmish warfare. The player controls up to six detailed characters in the single player mission-based campaign or they may use their chosen squad online in multiplayer battles. Squad-members improve with experience, increasing their skills and earning perks. Many varieties of weapons, from handguns to rocket launchers, allow the player to lay waste to his enemies. In addition, the fighting isn't limited to pedestrians, as squad-members may take the action to the streets with armed vehicles.

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STUNNING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This Game is absolutely awesome. I haven't encountered a game of this difficulty since the days of Nintendo. I love the fact that the designers made this for hardcore gamers, not the mainstream gamers who only like flash and flare. One of its more unique qualities is that it is a violent game that INVOLVES thinking. Not just an array of button-mashing. Hardcore Gamers and Mainstream gamers who want to think will greatly adore this masterpiece.

Beware...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: March 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Seems Interplay shipped this puppy bad files on some cd's so many people out there cannot play the game once it is installed. Graphic (inventory, backgounds) do not show up, makeing the game (ahem) somewhat unplayable. As usual with a new game, it is wise to wait a few monts/patches before purchasing unless you enjoy paying to work as a beta tester.

JUST GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am sure; if you liked Fallout or Fallout 2 you will love this game too (that is the case of me;) TO play this game you HAVE to think otherways you will just loose it

Fallout Tacticts - Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: March 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game three days ago and I haven't seen anything except the install screen about fifty bazillion times. I've tried everything I can to get it to run on two different computers. This thing is way to buggy to bother buying. Spend your money on something else!!!

And I thought Fallout 2 was a masterpiece!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing. The continous turn-based (CTB) system is pure genius. For those familiar with the fallout engine, movement is free, but shooting and stance changes cost action points. Action points regenerate in real time based upon agility. Battles are much more engaging without the long pauses while the enemy takes its turn. CTB makes vehicles absolutely awesome. Some of the vehicles have guns mounted on them so you can drive through groups of enemies and just mow them down. The vehicles can be targeted in battle to cripple them.

You can have zombies, super mutants, deathclaws and dogs join your squad. This game is 95% combat which is a different from the first two Fallout titles.

Interplay just posted an 80 megabyte patch that fixed all the problems referenced in another review. I pity those with 56k connnections.

Super Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Fallout Tactics game engine is very playable, well balanced. I previously prefered my strategy games turn based, but now prefer Inerplay's brilliant variant of realtime/turnbased. The enemy has the right blend of smarts. If you like "Close Combat" games you will most probably enjoy Fallout Tactics.

Loved Fallout 2, Sorry I wasted my money on this one.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I came to this game as a big fan of both Fallout 2 and squad based tactical games, so I was really expecting to love it. Unfortunately the game has some huge problems that make it a dull playing experience.

#1. The computer controlled oponents are absolutely moronic, to the extent that they can be defeated with little trouble once you get the hang of it. For example, in turn based mode oponents will not react to your presence unless they can see you ON THEIR TURN. This means that you can endlessly pop up from behind cover, shoot them, and pop back down, and they won't do a thing about it. They won't shoot back at you, they won't move to line up a shot on you, they won't take cover and make you come to them. They'll just stand there and take it. They also won't react to the fact that their comerades are being loudly butchered with shotguns just around the corner a few feet away. This means that every fight tends to be a slow process of advancing to a covered position, shooting up the enemy, and then repeating as necessary, all without exposing your units to any real danger. Given that there are already other squad based games out there with better AI's, (Shadow Watch is a good example), there's really no reason for this.

2. The world building just isn't that interesting this time around. Fallout 2 had a number of memorable locations and NPC's, and really inspired a certain sense of wonder in its players. This game inspires a sense of monotony. The missions all seem identical: move through a series of ruins, shooting up a variety of bad guys that look different but all act exactly the same. -- It's interesting to note that both human raiders and giant cockroaches have exactly the same behavior in this game.

3. Overall, a lot less thought seems to have been put into all the design elements of the game. Random encounters, for example, take place on such a huge grid that you sometimes can't even find the bad guys!

Like I said, I really wanted to like this game, but it's about as boring as watching grass grow. I would strongly recommend that anyone who is even considering buying this game first purchase Fallout 2, Shadow Watch, Fallout 1, and any of the X-COM games (they're all pretty similar), in that order. After that, try reading a book or something while you wait for a better software title to come out.

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