Wasteland Video Game Series

The action of the games in the series Wasteland takes place in the distant future, on the ruins of the United States, which was almost completely devastated as a result of the nuclear conflict. The surface of the entire country is covered by barren wastelands, and its inhabitants have to fight a brutal battle for survival every day, facing both hostile humans and mutated creatures. In the course of the game, we take control of a group of daredevils called the Void Guardians. As former soldiers of the American army, members of this paramilitary organization take care of order in the wilderness. While the first installment of the series, the action of which begins in 2087, takes us on a journey to the sandy state of Nevada, Wasteland 2, set fifteen years after the events of its predecessor, takes us to sandy Arizona. W Wasteland 3 we find ourselves, on the other hand, in the ice-covered state of Colorado, where, as members of Team November, we have to build a position for the Void Guardians from scratch, since no one has ever heard of them in this region.

In the games of the series Wasteland the action is presented from a bird's eye view. In each of them we are given a vast and dangerous territory, where, in addition to human settlements, among other things, the ruins of an ancient civilization are waiting to be visited. We traverse the maps on foot or, in the case of the game Wasteland 3 - also behind the controls of vehicles. During the game we carry out conversations with neutral characters (dialogues are based on the use of key words, the resource of which increases during the game), perform tasks pushing forward the plot and complete various side missions, as well as fight with enemies. Clashes take place in turn-based mode, and regardless of whether a human opponent or a mutated mastermind stands in our way, the key to success is the skillful use of the characters' equipment and a wide range of their abilities. As we progress, we develop team members, increasing their combat potential. In addition, in Wasteland 3 introduced the necessity to build a Guardian Base from scratch and its constant expansion. As a result, we gain not only a smoothly functioning operations center, but also a place where diplomacy is conducted with the various factions operating in the frozen wastelands.

As an important element of the games in the series Wasteland is freedom, individual problems here can be solved in a variety of ways. This applies both to seemingly trivial actions like opening a gate and completing individual tasks. In addition, neutral characters react to us in different ways, depending on the course of the earlier part of the conversation, the choices we made, character attributes or even the composition of the team.