Fallout 2

Also known as FO2, Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game

1998 video game

Game data

Metacritic 86

Released: 1998-09-30
User rating: 4.34 / 5
Genres: RPG
Platforms: PC, macOS
ESRB: Mature

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89User score · 889 ratings

A turn-based tactical Western RPG in which the Chosen One is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to locate and retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit for their famine-stricken tribe, while coming into contact through branching dialogue trees with numerous tribes, factions and micro-civilizations, each with their own virtues, vices, socioeconomic situations and political agendas.

Released: 1998
Genres: Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG)
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
Game modes: Single player
Franchise: Fallout
Developer: Black Isle Studios
Publisher: Interplay Entertainment, MacPlay, Bethesda Softworks

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Key facts

Developer: Black Isle Studios
Publisher: Interplay Productions
Producers: Eric DeMilt Feargus Urquhart
Designers: Feargus Urquhart Matthew J. Norton
Programmer: Jesse Reynolds
Artists: Gary Platner Tramell Ray Isaac
Writer: Mark O'Green
Composers: Mark Morgan , Rick Jackson
Series: Fallout
Platforms: Windows Mac OS X
Release: Windows October 29, 1998 Mac OS X August 23, 2002
Genre: Role-playing
Mode: Single-player

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Official website: interplay.com/fallout2

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publication date: 1998-09-30
review score: 87%
title: Fallout 2

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Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1998 role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Productions. It is a sequel to Fallout (1997), featuring similar graphics and game mechanics. The game's story takes place in 2241, roughly 80 years after the events of Fallout and 164 years after the atomic war which reduced the vast majority of the world to a nuclear wasteland. The player assumes the role of the Chosen One, the grandchild of the first game's protagonist, and undertakes a quest to save their small village on the West Coast of the United States.

Fallout 2 was well received by critics, who praised its gameplay and storyline, and considered it a worthy successor to the original Fallout and one of the greatest games of all time. Its bugs and limited updates to the formula of the first game attracted criticism. In 2008, it was followed by a sequel, Fallout 3, developed by Bethesda Game Studios.