It also made it impossible to philosophically align myself with any of the warring parties, and while I knew I was making important decisions that would shape Colorado’s future, it didn’t have the gravitas one would expect.
It works fine in the context, but it makes the world feel like more a crazy diorama than a tangible place.
While I generally liked the overarching themes of control versus chaos, society through sacrifice and the concept of the benevolent dictator, some elements seem to exist just for the sake of weirdness or to exemplify how cruel and sadistic people can be for no reason. It’s got some fairly sharp writing and a hefty amount of fully voice-acted dialogue to help bring it to life, but some of its attempts at satire are a bit hit and miss (some of the forced excessive swearing could probably have been left on the cutting room floor for instance). Wasteland 3’s world is interesting and quirky, with tons of weird characters, crazy gangs and wild stories. While his task on the face of it seems simple, Colorado’s long bloody history means everyone’s got a menagerie of skeletons in the closet, and it’s quickly established that the road to the stability that Colorado appears to be enjoy may have been paved with more than a few of these skeletons. In true RPG style, you are given freedom to go about your business as you see fit, and just because the Patriarch wants you to abide by his rules while conducting yourself, doesn’t mean that you can’t have a little rebellion of your own. Initial worries that the game would force me to play as the good-guy American Ranger with a heart of gold turned out to be unfounded, and although the beginnings of the game certainly establish the Rangers in this sort of light, that doesn’t mean you have to play that role.
It’s up to you to hunt them down and bring them to justice, in order to bring stability back to the region torn apart by this filial war. His three children have all indulged themselves in a fair amount of bloody rebellion, finding themselves on the wrong side of their father, the law, and morality in general. In a twist of fate though, his greatest enemies turn out to be the fruit of his very own loins. The Patriarch – for better or for worse – rules Colorado with an iron fist, and therefore naturally has a few enemies. Turns out Arizona is struggling with securing supplies, and the powerful Patriarch has promised a steady stream of them in return for a rather large favour. Playing as a Ranger from Arizona, you begin the game with the simple task of helping out the Coloradan leader named the Patriarch.
Wasteland 3 review series#
Comparisons to the Fallout series are impossible to avoid, but the game has a distinctly different tone to that particular franchise, even if it does try and mimic some of its humour from time to time. Wasteland 3 takes place in a post-apocalyptic US, where a nuclear war has left only the remnants of humanity and society intact, and the survivors must scrap amongst the rubble and eke out an existence amongst the bleakness.
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