They released the first gameplay video today for this so its probably time this one got its own dedicated thread since I'm sure a bunch of us are following it closely.
Something for the NMA crowd to crown GOTY and for the rest of us to just enjoy because it looks pretty decent.
Sort of. Interplay made Wasteland back in the late 1980s, but back then they were just a developer and it was published by EA. So in the '90s when they started working on what became Fallout, they were at one point thinking about making it another Wasteland game. But EA wanted a ton of gold bars or something so they made Fallout instead, though the Fallout games contain references to Wasteland. A few years back Brian Fargo (part of the original Wasteland dev team and later the guy who ran Interplay) got EA to part with the rights and here we are. As for the setting, it's basically an 80s take on the post-apoc setting with a bunch of sci-fi elements thrown in and none of Fallout's 40s/50s retro vibe. The basic premise is that a bunch of Army Corps of Engineers guys took over a federal prison in the Arizona desert when the nukes flew and turned it into a fortress. They became the Desert Rangers and the first game took place 90 years or so after a 1998 nuclear war.
We need more turn-based squad-based tactical games, dammit! I'm getting too old for the real-time stuff the kids find exciting!
