Wasteland was one of the first games featuring a persistent world, where changes to the game world were stored and kept. The prose appearing in the game's combat screens, such as phrases saying an enemy is 'reduced to a thin red paste' and 'explodes like a blood sausage', prompted an unofficial PG-13 sticker on the game packaging in the U.S. The game is noted for its high and unforgiving difficulty level. Unlike those of other computer RPGs of the time, these non-player characters (NPCs) might at times refuse to follow the player's commands, such as when the player orders the character to give up an item or perform an action. Through the course of the game the party can hold as many as seven characters by recruiting certain citizens and wasteland creatures. The player's party begins with four characters. The game generally lets players advance using a variety of tactics: to get through a locked gate, the characters could use their picklock skill, their climb skill, or their strength attribute or they could force the gate with a crowbar or a LAW rocket.

Experience is gained through battle and skill usage.

Characters in Wasteland have various statistics (strength, intelligence, luck, speed, agility, dexterity, and charisma) that allow the characters to use different skills and weapons. Wasteland 's game mechanics are based on those used in the tabletop role-playing games, such as Tunnels and Trolls and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes created by Wasteland designers Ken St. Wasteland Remastered was released on Februin honor of the original game's 30th anniversary.Ī screenshot of an encounter with mutated 'Drools' in the DOS version Game developer inXile Entertainment released a sequel, Wasteland 2, in 2014, and Wasteland 3 was released on August 28, 2020. The game's general setting and concept became the basis for Interplay's 1997 role-playing video game Fallout, which would extend into the Fallout series. It was re-released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2013 via Steam and GOG.com, and in 2014 via Desura.Ĭritically acclaimed and commercially successful, Wasteland was intended to be followed by two separate sequels, but Electronic Arts dropped claims of Fountain of Dreams being a sequel and Interplay's Meantime was cancelled. Developers originally made the game for the Apple II and it was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. The game is set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic America destroyed by nuclear holocaust generations before. Wasteland is a science fiction open world role-playing video game developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts at the beginning of 1988.

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