Wasteland 2 - Director's Cut Review Roundup

[Myrthos]

Here are some Wasteland 2 reviews for you to enjoy.

Gamezone

Wasteland 2 is an emblematic of the great things that can come from Crowdfunding and is a love letter to role-playing games of old. Even though it will soon be overshadowed by Bethesda’s upcoming behemoth, Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut is worth every role-playing fan’s time.

Gamesradar, 3/5

Proof that big thinking PC-based RPGs can totally work on pads, and how not to implement the weighty interfaces that come alongside them - but trudge through this and there's much to love.

Press A 2 Join, 9

Overall Wasteland 2: Directors Cut has all the staple elements of a great RPG, with a wide variety of skills and weapons available to the player as you earn XP and level up to become better, more powerful rangers, how you want to play is up to you. The missions are diverse and interesting and just like real life, you'll find that you can't save everyone. Although frustrating while you're learning the ropes, if you stick with it, it can be a very rewarding game which does a great job of immersing you in it's surroundings.

The following were spotted by Eye.

Playstation Lifestyle, 7.5

If you can get past the UI and control issues, then by all means, get Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut on PlayStation 4. It offers up hours of engrossing and strategic gameplay, and is probably worth the $39.99 if you’re a fan of old-school RPGs. However, if you have a decent PC, then I recommend getting it on there – it’ll be a better optimized experience.

This is Xbox, 85%

If you want a challenge and don’t like your hand being held, then give Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut a go – it demands you pay it attention and be confident managing your squad through a set of menus. The achievements are tough to earn – this is no mere waltz through the wasteland – and you won’t be earning GS just for completing missions. The strategic turn-based combat is superb and it more than makes up for an XCOM shaped hole missing from my Xbox One collection.

ZTGD, 9

Wasteland 2 is a sequel to Wasteland which I never played and that fact didn’t sour or ruin my experience whatsoever. The world crafted here is excellent and the vast amount of characters, story, and side content is enough to keep players busy for hours on end. It’s not the most user-friendly game at the start, especially for those having never played the genre before, but if given the time, will grow on players immensely.

PSU, 8.5

There's a certain something about the game that feels special. It may well be down to how unique it is in the realms of console games (at least until Divinity: Original Sin releases). Even with the adaptations for the PS4 it remains very much a PC game in design (and a delightfully old school one at that) and that contributes to the uniqueness of it. I found I could embrace Wasteland 2's quirks and flaws as part of its character, but there is absolutely no denying this won't be the case for others.

Examiner, 8.5

Wasteland 2 is gargantuan. The open world begs to be explored, while the story and scripting is fantastic. The whole experience is shot-through with dark humour (some of which is genuinely funny), as well as pop culture references, graphic violence, and foul language. It never feels gratuitous or immature, and there’s always something to do, somewhere to explore, or someone to kill. But it’s not easy going, and you can’t save in combat, meaning the occasional difficulty spikes might get you. It’s also not always easy to see what’s happening, as the screen so often feels cluttered with information.

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[Eye]

I spotted the first ones too.
Just didn't send them, since I didn't get any feedback after the ones I did send I presumed you were not interested in those reviews anymore.

With all of these and the ones mentioned earlier, I guess it is safe now to say I can exclude them from my search from now on.

 

[DArtagnan]

That Eurogamer review is for the original WL2, not the DC.

 

[Myrthos]

So it is. I just did a Twitter search and the Eurogamer review showed up with the DC text in the tweet. I don't read all of the reviews that well

 

[rjshae]

The Games Radar review is pretty harsh, but hopefully that mostly applies to the console version.

 

[Thrasher]

In general, I wouldn't believe any Games Radar spam.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

These reviews are pretty depressing in general. "I didn't play the original and the interface was too hard to understand, but it was still awesum and packed with awesum loot and it has kickass deep strategy gameplay!" It betrays such a poor lack of thought. The teeny boppers who were mindless console fanboys back in the days are now the reviewers on gaming sites, working for little or most of the times no pay. It's like the patients running the asylum.

Not to mention that Wasteland 2 certainly wasn't renowned for having deep strategic combat, it was criticized for having combat that was too simple and involved almost no strategy. These are the same people who think that the X-Com remake was a brilliant strategic gem with deep gameplay. The people who played the classics knew far better.

Anyhow, Wasteland 2 is still quite a good game. I don't think it's an excellent game, but I don't think that's what InXile was trying to do either. They were just trying to make a good, solid game that didn't take itself seriously and didn't really break any new ground, full of 80s pulps and the outlandish atmosphere of many PnP systems of the 80s.

I must disagree and found the writing too juvenile in many places. Like for instance you find "cow shit" as pickable items. I think it's probably young people who mostly wrote it and it shows.

 

[Archangel]

Cow shit has a purpose in the game. You return it to TNT and get money for it.

 

[Sacred_Path]

sounds great, now I'm just waiting for the obligatory round of patching.

 

[Zaphod]

Cow shit has a purpose in the game. You return it to TNT and get money for it.

It had a purpose historically as well, manure was a source of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) for gunpowder when other sources weren't readily available.