The Wasteland 2 game successfully raised nearly $3 million in funding from the Kickstarter crowd funding website in April last year and now the development team have rolled out a PC beta release for backers to enjoy. Together with a gameplay video revealing what you can expect from the new game when it finally launches.
inXile entertainment is currently developing the new Wasteland 2 game which is a post-apocalyptic RPG and follows on from the popular 1988 RPG Wasteland game, which was a post-apocalyptic predecessor to the Fallout Series.
“Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to the first ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG. The original Wasteland was the inspiration for the FALLOUT series of games, and the first RPG to allow players to split parties for tactical considerations, to face players with moral choices, and to make them deal with the consequences of their actions. It was the first to provide far more than the one-key-for-one-lock style of puzzle solving. It was groundbreaking, which is why IGN named it one of the top 25 PC games of all time, Computer Gaming World named it the Adventure Game of the year in 1988, and it was short-listed for inclusion in the Smithsonian Institution’s current “Art of the Computer Game” exhibition.
Wasteland was set in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world in the American Southwest. Over the course of adventures rangers would receive promotions, acquire new skills and equipment, then face new challenges with outcomes that changed depending on the strategy used to defeat them. The game featured a strong storyline which required painful decisions by players; and a storyline that allowed for maximum re-playability. Wasteland 2, with your participation and insights, will recapture all that and provide more. It’ll finally be the game worthy to be a Wasteland sequel, as challenging and rewarding as the original, with all added capacity and dazzle of games today.”
For more information on the new Wasteland 2 game jump over to the inXile entertainment Kickstarter website for details
Source: Eurogamer
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