
General gameplay consists of traveling and interacting with local inhabitants and organizations to complete goals and aid or inhibit the NPCs. Injuries and poisons can reduce the number of action points available both in a single turn and semi-permanently, until combat ends and the player can be treated.Ĭombat and completion of jobs or quests reward the player with experience points with which they can level up their characters and apply beneficial perks to become more suited to the dangerous post-apocalyptic world. If the player survives unharmed, he or she has their action points restored.

When a player uses up all of their action points, they end their turn and enemies start theirs. Combat gives them a number of action points to move, fire, check their equipment, reload and the like. The player is free to move at will until they enter into combat. In terms of critical acclaim, the game was well-received as well as tremendously praised for its gameplay, storyline, and as a worthy successor to the original Fallout, while the frequent bugs and lack of improvement over the first game attracted mild criticism on behalf of several gamer groups and gaming magazines.Īn example of dialogue between characters in Fallout 2įallout 2 is a role-playing open-world video game. federal government, and must fight to save their people from enslavement and death. Upon completing the mission, however, The Chosen One discovers that their tribe has been conquered by the "Enclave", a group of marauders claiming to wield the authority of the former U.S. The plot tells the story of The Chosen One, the grandchild of the Vault Dweller and their quest to save their primitive, peaceful tribe from the small village of Arroyo, situated on the West Coast of the United States and founded by a wretched group of former residents from Vault 13 led by the Vault Dweller, from starvation by finding an ancient environmental restoration machine known as the Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK) in the ruins of the tribe's ancestral home. The game's story takes place in 2241, 80 years after the events of Fallout (the first and original installment of the Fallout series) and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland.

It was released on both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows platforms. While featuring a considerably larger game world and a far more extensive storyline, it mostly uses similar graphics and game mechanics to those of Fallout which was released one year earlier.

Fallout 2 is a 1998 role-playing game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Productions.
