WASTELAND REMASTERED TEST PC

With its dark, dystopian world, grim storytelling, and enthralling adventure, Wasteland would become a classic of its time, and was hugely influential in the development of Bethesda’s Fallout series, which would follow in Wasteland‘s irradiated footsteps almost a decade later. Players controlled a party of four through desolate North America – laid waste in the aftermath of global thermonuclear warfare – as they fought mutants, gathered supplies, and undertook missions on behalf of the land’s self-appointed military, The Desert Rangers. Originally released way back in 1988, Wasteland combined tabletop RPG elements with the technology of home computers to deliver a post-apocalyptic adventure like none other. Wasteland Remastered sees the developer team up with Krome Studios to rebuild the classic DOS adventure for a new generation of players.

WASTELAND REMASTERED TEST PC

We look forward to hearing more about Wasteland 3 when the Fig campaign launches in five days.InXile Entertainment has announced that it will be bringing a fully remastered edition of tactical adventure title Wasteland to PC and Xbox One next month. Here’s hoping Bethesda will allow Fallout to follow Wasteland’s lead again in future. Yes, that’s right: Wasteland 3 will have co-op. In addition to backer rewards, Fig tries to encourage investors to pile money into new projects in exchange for small equity shares, feeling more like a true investment in the future of the medium than consumers taking a punt on a product they like the look of.Īnd Wasteland 3 will no doubt do just fine on Fig. The game itself, though? We don’t know very much about Wasteland 3 in absolute, concrete detail, but studio head Brian Fargo did indicate to Polygon that there would be improved graphics, XCOM-style cinematic camera flourishes, and co-operative multiplayer. This means the number of active projects is positively spartan compared to the bigger names in crowdfunding, and that’s no bad thing.

Rather than simply acting as a vehicle for funding (like its peers) Fig has a curation team – their advisory board – that assesses projects, determines what will be allowed on the books, and actively invests Fig’s funds into games they believe show promise. Wasteland 3 will instead be coming to Fig, the video game-specific crowdfunding platform – because we all need one of those, right?įig is a little different, to be fair. Wary of issues around delivery and accountability, the funding of games on Kickstarter and Indiegogo has waned somewhat. Yet somehow here we are again, on the brink of a crowdfunding launch for Wasteland 3, even though it now falls firmly into the category of successful sequel.

Publishers were throwing money at first-person shooters and open world role-playing games, and Wasteland just looks a bit old hat in comparison.īut with Wasteland 2 et al, the developers behind these modern takes on a classic style have proved there is an appetite and people will buy it. Uncertainty in part because the developers themselves weren’t sure how much of an audience there would be for something so old school – though they had a hunch – but more importantly, because it would prove difficult to persuade a publisher to take a wild punt on their hunch. The rise of crowdfunding has hinged on uncertainty.

Yes, all of these games have been crowd-funded, and Wasteland 3 is going to be no different. Pillars of Eternity, Torment: Tides of Numenera, Wasteland 2 – you may be noticing a theme.

The Wasteland gene pool had been significantly watered down, changed almost beyond recognition, but player appetite for strategy role-playing games continues unabated on crowdfunding sites, at least. Wasteland had already given birth to Fallout, its spiritual successor in the post-nuclear strategy RPG archetype, and Fallout itself had turned into a first-person, open world adventure. Don’t misunderstand – we were delighted – but it seemed unlikely. The world was possibly a little surprised when the Kickstarter for Wasteland 2 appeared in March 2012. Wasteland is the granddaddy of the post-nuclear survival genre, and it’s about to have another generation of grandkids.

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