Wasteland 2 - Review Roundup #5

Here is the fifith round of reviews for Wasteland 2. Once again the reviews are positive.

Cliqist - No Score Given

Although there wasn’t any doubt, I can now attest that inXile followed through with their Kickstarter promises.

ActionTrip - 6.7/10

Wasteland 2 has familiar trappings of past great games. It may be salvaged by future content and updates, albeit we fear that this may require the kind of budget and commitment inXile may not be able to follow-up on. In fact, it almost seems like the developer’s budget was pretty tight at the end, which is could be the reason why it’s clearly so unpolished.

Gamefront - 88/100

These minor complaints aside, Wasteland 2 is a deep and addictive experience that will grab and hold you hard for its duration. Is it for everyone? Probably not. It has a decidedly old-school foundations that could be a put-off for new and younger gamers raised on modern day Fallouts and Skyrims.

GodisaGeek - 8/10

Wasteland 2 is a warm return to the RPGs of yesteryear. To quests that take hours to complete, to traps in every corridor, to desperate item foraging in light of dwindling ammo supplies. It’s not a classic of its genre, but it is ultimately a beacon of hope for a certain style of RPG – the video game pen and paper style – that many thought had been lost in more recent years.

GamingTrend - 85/100

Awaited for well over a decade by now-ancient gamers, Wasteland 2 manages to live up to the spirit of the original while going beyond it in terms of depth and detail. While there are bugs to be fixed and the difficulty may be too challenging for some, any lover of turn-based RPGs should add this one to their Steam library as soon as they can.