Wasteland 2 is coming to the Switch next month. The post-apocalyptic CRPG throwback originally came out on PC in 2014, and it’ll be arriving on Switch in the form of a director’s cut with new perks and quirks, a precision strike mechanic, and expanded voice acting.
Wasteland 2 on Nintendo Switch? Yes please. A tweet from InXile founder Brian Fargo suggests that it’s happening sooner rather than later.
Fresh off the success of Wasteland 2, developer inXile is making a direct sequel, announcing today plans to release Wasteland 3 for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, and Xbox One.
Here’s a fun little relic from the earliest days of game development: the original contract for the IBM port of Wasteland, made by Interplay, which cost EA just $28,000.
"Forsaken by his people, he strode into the wasteland," the narrator intones in the intro to Fallout 2. 16 years later, and creator Brian Fargo has delivered that promise anew in a very literal way: by making Wasteland 2, a spiritual successor to his Fallout games that's also a...sequel to their predecessor.
Want to get ready for Wasteland 2, or just enjoy perusing the numerous attributes? You can download the 99-page Wasteland 2 manual right here.
I played through Fallout 1 and 2 multiple times, but didn't like the squad based complexity of Fallout Tactics. So this latest trailer for Wasteland 2 is bad news for me. The trailer spends several minutes explaining the seemingly infinite options in designing a squad, only to then show how a poorly designed squad…
Wasteland 2 character portrait by Leonard Boyarsky.
Wasteland 2 will be coming out on September 19, according a tweet from creator/designer Brian Fargo. You can read an interview with Fargo right here.
There’s been plenty of gloom cast over Kickstarter recently, so let’s focus on the good things: like how crowdfunding ended Brian Fargo’s 20 year run of Wasteland 2 rejection.
Wasteland 2's Brian Fargo requested pics of customized ranger teams.
"There was this one moment in Fallout 3, when I came across a prisoner at some raider camp," I said. "She was still tied up, but all the raiders were gone. Maybe they were dead or something, I don't know. The game gave me a choice: I could take her supplies and leave her there, or set her free."
A common sight in 1980's Los Angeles—billboards of wannabe starlet Angelyne are included in the post-apocalyptic world of Wasteland 2.
Wasteland 2's general release creeps closer and closer. Here is the opening live-action movie introducing the game's heroic desert rangers:
In a world with horse armor DLC, things that game companies sell as additional content never surprises me—but it's probably a bad sign that I clicked this particular button half expecting the "Red Boots DLC" to be real, huh?
Above is the dialog screen the Wasteland 2 developers created. They sought feedback in the game forum, and a fan helped them vastly improve the design:
The latest Wasteland 2 update included new screenshots and and a promise of 50+ hours of gameplay:
The Los Angeles area of Wasteland 2 is looking lush.
