Wasteland
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- Publication date
- 1988
Developed by
Interplay Productions, Inc.
Released
1988
Also For
Apple II, Commodore 64, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Published by
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Perspective
1st-person, Top-down
Pacing
Turn-based
Genre
Role-Playing (RPG)
Setting
Post-Apocalyptic
Visual
2D scrolling
Description
Wasteland takes place in the future after the nuclear holocaust of World War III. The player guides band of Desert Rangers from town to town, gradually uncovering a sinister plot that threatens what's left of mankind.
Much of the game is played like most other RPGs of its time: the player navigates the party through the top-down world, fights enemies (which appear randomly in hostile areas) in turn-based style on combat screens represented by enemy pictures, acquires information, equipment, and items from NPCs in towns, etc. The player can create a whole party of adventurers and/or recruit some of the characters that populate the game's world.
However, Wasteland also introduced an original skill system that has had a significant influence on the genre. The game makes use of the skill system in conjunction with traditional character attributes to achieve goals and get past obstacles. Beside helping the characters to fight more efficiently, main attributes sometimes have an impact on activities used outside of combat. For example, high strength can be applied to break a heavy object, charisma rating might influence the way NPCs interact with the main character, etc.
The skills work in a similar way: some of them improve the characters' proficiencies with different types of attacks and weapons, while others are needed to solve and/or by pass certain situations during interaction with the game's characters and objects. These skills are rather diverse, ranging from physical abilities such as swimming to more complex actions (medic, lock-picking), or even psychological states (confidence). Skill learning and progression depend on the main character's IQ rating.
From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
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- 2014-12-22 09:33:17
- Emulator
- dosbox
- Emulator_ext
- zip
- Emulator_start
- wastland/wl.exe
- Identifier
- msdos_Wasteland_1988
- Mobygames_also_for
- Apple II, Commodore 64, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
- Mobygames_developed_by
- Interplay Productions, Inc.
- Mobygames_genre
- Role-Playing (RPG)
- Mobygames_pacing
- Turn-based
- Mobygames_perspective
- 1st-person, Top-down
- Mobygames_published_by
- Electronic Arts, Inc.
- Mobygames_released
- 1988
- Mobygames_setting
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Mobygames_visual
- 2D scrolling
- Scanner
- Internet Archive Python library 0.7.5
- Year
- 1988
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Reviews
Subject: A classic that still plays well
@Theo Hunt493: You can access the inventories by first selecting one of your characters using their number key. On the stats screen, press Space and you will get to the inventory (pressing Space again will go to the skills screen). Resetting the game world has to be done with the installation floppies, it has an option to overwrite the installed world with the original data from the disks. So it's probably not possible using this pre-installed version, you'd have to use the original floppy images.
As for the review: this game is famously the indirect predecessor of the Fallout series, apart from being the direct one of the later Wasteland games, of course. It has an interesting tone, and feels quite Mad-Max-inspired to me. What surprised me is how well this game aged. The controls, the save system, the user interface, everything is amazingly easy and comfortable for an 80s game.Some qualilty work went into this game, and the DOS version is definitely the best to play today (on Apple II and C64, the save system was much more cumbersome since there was no hard disk installation option, and, speaking from experience, at least the Apple II version was very buggy, regularly bricking your savegame in subtle ways and forcing you to start all over). Note that you'll have to look for the Paragraphs booklet, too, otherwise you'll miss half of the story.
Subject: Questions
Subject: Now this is good
Super loot bag
Head to the acapulco club in needles, it should be a place where you need a password. When they ask you for the password, type ACAPULCO, and head inside. Have a character with gambling 1 or higher and with at least 500 dollars disband, and gamble until you win in the top chair DO NOT PICK UP YOUR WINNINGS. go gamble in the other chair, again, do not collect your items. Go to the first chair and get your loot, when it asks to play a hand say no, and drop an item before you move. head to the second chair, and press down then escape. move backwards and go to collect your loot, and press down arrow. There will be a SHIT TON of Sabot Rockets and all sorts of loot that does not exist like an item named "Female" or "Russian"
Subject: Update 5 years later!
Subject: 10/10, even for the old days.
i love the encounters as well.
10/10.
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