Yes, worth buying.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $2.49.
- Story and characters: 127 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 45 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 58 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Interface: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 17 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 17k player reviews · updated a day ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The writing is still excellent — flavorful, very objective and to the point — and the amount of text is equally well-balanced.
We choose the statistics at the beginning of the game with the option to permanently or temporarily increase them during gameplay.
IF YOU CAN TOLERATE THE OLD GRAPHICS: Fallout 2 is worth playing a dozen times 12 different ways.
The soundtrack is great though a lot of songs from Fallout 1 are reused.
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Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $2.49 (−75%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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