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Wasteland Remastered
Originally released in 1988, Wasteland brought the post-apocalypse to video games and inspired a genre. Play one of history's defining RPGs with completely overhauled graphics, sound, and expanded musical score. The year is 2087, nearly a century after an all-out nuclear war turned vast swaths of the Earth into a radioactive hellscape. You are a D...
Details
- Released
- February 25, 2020
- Developer
- inXile Entertainment
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Platforms
- PC · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S
- Subscriptions
- Xbox Game Pass
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Wasteland Remastered Reviews
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At the end of the day, no matter how many glossy coats of paint you put on it, this is a game from another time. It feels old, outdated, outmoded. However, within this game is an amazing history lesson or two about game design and excellent storytelling, something that Brian Fargo and his inXile team have been offering up time and again for all of us to enjoy. Does war never change? Wasteland Remastered doesn’t use the trademarked phrase explicitly, but there is certainly something timeless about this game. It may only be valuable to hardcore Fallout fans or gaming history nerds like myself,…
About a decade before Diablo, Fallout, and Baldur’s Gate would reinvent the genre, western RPGs were dying. Lack of innovation from genre headliners, a torrent of similar feeling titles, and rising competition from the east was quickly leading to genre fatigue. Amid the doom and gloom however, a few devs were working ahead of their time. Interplay, the company that would later spawn Black Isle, Obsidian, and inXile, was one such team. Fresh off the success of their revolutionary The Bard’...
Major graphical overhauls and a massive change to the text create the best way to experience this classic post-apocalyptic title, although it's still mired in old-school mechanics.