The game featured a strong storyline which required painful decisions by players and a storyline that allowed for maximum re-playability. Over the course of adventures rangers would receive promotions, acquire new skills and equipment, then face new challenges with outcomes that changed depending on the strategy used to defeat them. Wasteland was set in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world in the American Southwest. It was groundbreaking, which is why IGN named it one of the top 25 PC games of all time, Computer Gaming World named it the Adventure Game of the year in 1988, and it was short-listed for inclusion in the Smithsonian Institutionâ€™s current â€œArt of the Computer Gameâ€ exhibition. It was the first to provide far more than the one-key-for-one-lock style of puzzle solving.

The original Wasteland was the inspiration for the FALLOUT series of games, and the first RPG to allow players to split parties for tactical considerations, to face players with moral choices, and to make them deal with the consequences of their actions. Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to the first ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG.

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