Skill checks are absolutely everywhere, so you feel rewarded for leveling your characters up and smartly distributing skills amongst your party. While these are just a few of the many skills you can invest in, these skills alone provide you with more opportunities than most other RPGs. Perception will uncover hidden traps, Hard Ass and Kiss Ass will let you talk your way out of situations, Nerd Stuff lets you access all sorts of data from terminals, and Lockpicking gets you inside places you’re not supposed to be. Wasteland 3 is a surprisingly charming game, and it helps it feel unique against a backdrop of the many other bleak post-apocalyptic worlds of gaming.Įxploring the world of Wasteland is also a joy, largely because of the many opportunities it presents you to make use of your characters’ skills. It’s still bleak, grim, and oppressive, but you can also throw yellow snowballs at people. At one moment you’ll be fighting clown-worshipping bandits who strap explosives to pigs and just minutes later you could be working out a solution to a complex refugee crisis. It’s too self-serious to have karaoke sequences, but there is still plenty of silly stuff. It’s up there with Yakuza in its ability to manage wildly different tones. It’s the only game I’ve ever played where you can ask a talking car if it believes in God. Wasteland 3 is equal parts ridiculous and thought-provoking. People are going to be unhappy, people are going to die, and people are going to hate your guts. While you can bend a lot of the game’s rules with skill checks and creativity, there are times where you can’t play every side at once, and this is where Wasteland 3 is at its best. Wasteland 3 is a game where you cannot convince everyone to get along, no matter how high your speech skills may be. Temporary alliances, uneasy compromises, and tense negotiations are frequent occurrences in the frozen wastes of Colorado. Walking the fine line of diplomacy with each group is the most compelling part of the game, and just when you think you’ve got everything figured out, another faction will come into play and throw a wrench into your plans. They can be pretty outlandish, like the Ronald Reagan worshipping Gippers, but each of them has their own unique ideas and beliefs about how Colorado should be run. Colorado feels like a living and breathing world, largely due to the factions that inhabit it. Wasteland 3 is already a massive game, but the ways in which its characters react to your actions make it feel even larger. Even something as simple as having the right companion in your party can drastically change significant portions of the game. “Should I bring this party member to this meeting?” “Will this person somehow find out I did this even though I think I’m in the clear?” These are questions you’ll ask yourself multiple times during your playthrough, and successfully talking your way out of situations or bypassing conflict entirely is immensely satisfying because there are so many factors to worry about.
You’re taught that your actions have consequences early on, and I became so paranoid about possible consequences that I was constantly second-guessing myself. Not every quest will radically alter the world or change the political landscape of Colorado, but even the smaller personal stories of the wasteland have weight. Offhand comments can affect your reputation with certain factions, and characters can and will bring up things you said or did in the past. Practically every conversation has at least one meaningful choice. The game consistently surprised me with how often it would react to my actions.
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