Wasteland 2 - Interview @ Red Bull

Red Bull has a new article style interview with Brain Fargo talking about the 25 year journey of Wasteland 2.

If you started gaming after 1988, you might not know just how much you owe to the original American, post-nuclear Wasteland. Gamers in their teens, twenties and even thirties will remember throwing dice on New Vegas' tumbledown Strip, pilfering munitions from Fallout 3's burned out White House, the jingling slot machines and distant gunshots of Fallout 2's New Reno - maybe even running with the caravan traders in Fallout's Hub.

But for all their adventures in world-saving and mutant-slaying, those players were born after the bombs fell. While the post-apocalypse has given us modern gems from Rage to The Last Of Us, it'd all be so much static without the quasi-text adventure that was Interplay's Wasteland.

A quarter century later, Wasteland 2 is finally nearing the end of its Beta test. Its post-nuclear American Southwest is no less full of raiders, murderers and cut-throat opportunists. Its deserts are no less barren, its mutants no less gruesome. Twenty-five years on, we're still grimly fascinated by what the world might look like scorched of humanity - and how we might carve out an existence in it.