Fallout 2

Fallout 2 is a roleplay on PC developed by Black Isle Studios in 1998, which makes following the first opus, Fallout , left one year earlier.

Synopsis

What follows reveals the history of Fallout. After having completed its search with the service of the Shelter 13, the Living Shelter, the hero of Fallout , was driven out of its hearth by the leader, who saw in him a potential rival. Given up of all, he wandered in north, in the desert, before founding a village, Arroyo. Protected by its canyons from the outside world, the village lived during long years in peace. However, the heat wave prevails and the Famine started to watch for the small village following the dryness of 2041. A tribal legend claims that the Abri 13, from which the inhabitants go down from Stream, had in its center a Jardin of Eden in Kit. This marvellous instrument would make it possible to create the life starting from the desert and to rebuild civilization…

History

Gameplay

Preserving the gameplay Fallout , the play gives a greater liberty of action to the player. The management of the karma was largely improved; it is from now on possible to finish the play by maltreating the widow and the orphan, unlike the first opus where total management of the karma (and not by zones as in Fallout 2) quickly inspired with the whole of the characters play a hostile attitude with respect to the hero, and thus impossibility for this one of finishing its search.

The liberty of action it was also re-examined with the rise: all seems possible or almost: to marry (with a man or a woman, that one is man or woman), prostituer its soft and tender wife, to play in a film pornographic, to become hired killer, slave, champion of boxing, to take drugs (with particularly varied Drogue S, managing the Accoutumance of the player: Buffout, Jet, Mentats…), to enter a sect….

Many variations can be also visible according to whether the played character is a man or a woman. A woman will be able for example prostituer, to use her charms to have reductions with the merchants, etc, a man will be able to make a " contribution" to increase the genetic diversity of a city recluse on itself, to ensure a descent a gangster family…

This glaucous universe and resolutely adult made of Fallout 2 a play reserved for an informed public.

Improvements compared to the preceding episode

Many improvements were made to Fallout 2 :

a playing field much vaster to explore
Better control of the companions. It is now possible to choose their weapons, their behaviors, and to exchange objects. They are also more numerous.
Possibility of obtaining a car, which significantly reduces the duration of the voyages between two places.
Addition of a button " Tout" allowing to collect the whole of the objects resulting from an excavation (cases, cupboards, corpses). And overall, increase in the ergonomics of the interface.
Plus time limits to finish the principal search (in fact, if, but it is largely pushed back).

Winks and references

The programmers slipped into the play a crowd of references to the real-world, which they are films, other plays, or of the precedent opus.

References to works

At the time of a random meeting, it is possible to meet a man on a bridge crossing a chasm, which allows the passage to the hero only while answering three questions. It is about a reference to Monty Python: Crowned Graal! the first two questions of the guard of this bridge are the same ones besides as those of the old man of film.
At the time of a random meeting, the hero meets a man equipped with an armor rusted, which cannot move any more, unless to oil it correctly. It is about a reference to the robot of work the Magician of OZ .
At the time of a random meeting, the hero meets the Chevaliers of the Roundtable to the research of the Holy Grenade of Antioche; it is still a reference to Monty Python: Crowned Graal!
At the time of a random meeting, the hero finds the remainders of a cachalot exploded in full desert with, with dimensioned, the remainders of a pot of flower. It is about a reference to the galactic Guide, the first tome cheese of the famous series of science fiction of Douglas Adams.
At the time of the arrival of the hero in Shelter 8 (shelter of the City éponyme), one of the computers located in the office of the doctor posts “Which strange play, where to gain one should not play. ”. It is about a reference to WarGames .
After Myron joined the hero in his search with New Reno, this one known as “We are with 170 kilometers of Stream, we have a cell with charged microfusion, a half-package of Rad-Xy, it is midnight and I carry a combination of the Shelter 13 old woman 50 year old. Allons-y. ” ( It' S 106 miles to Arroyo, we got has full fusion concealment, half off has pack Radaway, it' S midnight, and I' m wearing has 50-year old Vault 13 jumpsuit. Let' S hit it. ). It is about a reference to the film The Blues Brothers : “We are with 106 miles of Chicago, we have a full tank, a half-package of cigarettes, the weather is black and we carry sunglasses. Allons-y. ” ( It' S 106 miles to Chicago, we got has full tank off gas, half has pack off cigarettes, it' S dark and we' Re wearing sunglasses. Hit it. ).
One of drugs in force in the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout is called Mentats . In the delivers and the film Dune, the Mentat S are strategists having a perfect command of geopolitics, who consume sapho in order to increase their intellectual abilities.
Cassidy, once recruited by the hero, repeats time with others I wonder whether the Texas survived the war. ( I wonder yew Texas survived the war. ). It is about a reference to film of war the red Paddle (Red Dawn).
In the Warehouse of Sierra, IA of the computing system is called Skynet , reference to Terminator , where this IA is responsible for the nuclear attack.
In Klamath, a damaged robot outputs sentences such as: “I cannot let to you do that, Dave. ” This sentence comes from 2001, the Odyssey of Space .
Cassidy exclaims sometimes: “My father gave me the name of a character of cartoons of pre-war period. 'Said to Me that it one was crowned wire of p^$£ him too! ” This is an explicit reference to the data base Cassidy .
It is possible to find a weapon called Red Ryder BB Gun. This refers to the video game Wasteland, itself inspired of the film has Christmas Story , where the hero wishes to have for Christmas this famous weapon.
In New Reno, the dialog with the manager of boxing Stuart Little, when this last critic a priori on the physique, is a resumption of a dialog between Mulder and a dwarf in the episode False friend Siamese of the second season of the series X-Files, at the borders of reality .
With quotes of L shelter one of the citizens, in a bar close to the council, fact refers with the captive of Patrick macgoohan by saying " But for which work the number 2"
the description of the weapon " 44 Magnum" is a reference to the one of the famous counterparts of Dirty Harry in the film Inspecteur Harry.

References to Fallout 1

In Shelter 8, the hero meets a kind of poor wretch which sings… Maybe , the famous song of the Ink Spots and the topic of Fallout , first of the name. In the French version, the translators inopportunely translated this passage ( Peut-être… can-êêêtre), making it completely inintelligible.
At the time of certain random meetings, it is possible to fall on the Iguana Bob' S Stand (the stall of Bob the iguana), which sold sandwiches with the human remainders in Fallout .
In Shelter 8, the hero discovers whole cases filled with water chips: it is about the invaluable object of the search of the first Fallout . These cases of water chips were intended besides for Shelter 13, but an error made that another parcel, containing a J.E.K., was dispatched in the place of the chips.
During a random meeting, the hero falls on the Coffee from the Lost Illusions ( Cafe off The Broken Dreams in VO) and meets part of PNJ precedent opus (such as Canigou) not having been retained in the casting of Fallout 2 . This coffee is in addition the counterpart of the coffee " the Maltese Falcon " center, in Fallout .
At the time of a special meeting, one discovers a temporal gate. When the player uses it, a message posts that one deteriorated the water chip of the Shelter 13,80 years before! This thus causes the beginning of Fallout first name.
the kinematics of introduction opens on the sentence “War. War never exchanges. ”, as in the first Fallout , but also as in Fallout Tactics . This sentence does not have however the same translation in the three opus: “ the war, always the war. ”, “ the war. All the wars resemble each other. ”

Other winks

1st of the year, February 14th (St. Valentine's day), July 4th (national festival with the E. - U.), December 25th, etc, Pipboy (kind of futuristic PDA offered to the hero at the beginning of its adventure) posts a message pointing out the object of the festival.
In New Reno, a combat can put at the catches the hero with a boxer likely to tear off the ear to him, in reference to Mike Tyson. This scene was withdrawn by the corrective first patch published by Black Isle.
In the buildings of the sect of Hubologistes with San Francisco, one can discuss with two local celebrities: “Tom C” and “Nicole K”. It is about a reference to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, members notorious of the church of Scientologie.
On the regulator of energy, object of before the Great War making it possible to save fuel, small an epitaph is above: “With what can that be used for well to control its expenditure, in any event one will have some always full, hein, not truth? ”, small wink with the current debates on the availability of the energy sources.
One can find charts “Tragic”, a parody of the charts Magic: the assembly.
the secretary of president Richardson specifies that it does not leave a spot on its dress, an allusion to the business Monica Lewinski.
Modoc is at the same time the name of a small agricultural community of Fallout 2 and the name of an Amerindian tribe, living formerly in California. Klamath is the name of an Amerindian tribe, near to Modocs. Modocs are the last tribe of California to have fought the American army, in the years 1872-1873.
Broken Collines (Broken Hills) is a reference to the American city of Broken Hill, city where the turning of Mad max 2 was held.
Redding really exists, like besides the majority of the cities met in the play. These cities are also on their exact geographical site on the chart of the play.
One finds at the end of the handbook of Fallout 2, in the appendices, two receipts of kitchen (on page 156 and 157).

Credits

The music during the first kinematics, and during the final credits is " has KIS to build has dream one " of Louis Armstrong.

To see

History of the Great War

External bonds

Article analyzing the violence and the morals of Fallout

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