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- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is the ultimate in squad-based, third-person tactical combat. Set in the award-winning Fallout
- universe, players join the Brotherhood of Steel as they travel through 20 tactical missions, attempting to overcome a powerful new
- enemy. Players will work toward developing their squads' specialised skills and improve their stats as they utilise squad-based skirmish
- techniques to survive battles. In multiplayer mode, 36 characters can be onscreen at one time with up to 18 gamers playing at once.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Fallout series of role-playing games is known for its epic post-apocalyptic storyline and its deep combat system. Fallout Tactics turns the tables by focusing almost exclusively on a series of complex missions that are loosely wrapped in the plot. The focus is on combat, but Fallout Tactics stays true to its RPG roots.
You create your own character with the RPG system from the previous Fallout games. The basics should be familiar to RPG fans: assign numbers to attributes such as Strength, Perception, and Dexterity, which help determine values for skills such as Medic, Sneak, Repair and Big Guns. Fun quirks such as Fast Shot, Finesse, and Bloody Mess make your character unique. Once your character is complete you're assigned your first mission.
Instead of the "one man against the wasteland" story of Fallout and Fallout 2, Tactics sets you up as a junior squad leader in an expeditionary force working for The Brotherhood of Steel, a no-nonsense group of soldiers that have managed to thrive in the nuked American landscape as feudal overlords. You and your squad tackle increasingly difficult missions for the Brotherhood.
Each successful mission lets you improve your character and squad by accumulating experience, weapons, equipment, and vehicles.
The word "tactics" didn't get into the title by mistake. Characters can sneak into position, lay down covering fire, set up ambushes, and do just about anything else a real soldier can do. You'll need to use these abilities in order to complete the game's tough single player campaign, or if you want to succeed against human squad leaders in the multiplayer mode. The game can be set to play in the strict turn-based mode familiar to Fallout veterans, or can play in "continuous turn-based", which is essentially the real-time strategy mode seen in games such as Baldur's Gate. The developers should get a medal for allowing gamers to switch between turn-based and real-time anytime.
Between battles, your characters wander the Wasteland in search of quests and interact with non-player characters whose reactions depend on the squad's reputation. It's enough to keep role-playing aficionados and action fans entertained. Fallout Tactics is just as profane and violent as the other games in the series, and isn't for kids.--T. Byrl Baker
Manufacturer's Description
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is the ultimate in squad-based, third-person tactical combat. Set in the award-winning Fallout universe, players join the Brotherhood of Steel as they travel through 20 tactical missions, attempting to overcome a powerful new enemy. Players will work toward developing their squads' specialised skills and improve their stats as they utilise squad-based skirmish techniques to survive battles. In multiplayer mode, 36 characters can be onscreen at one time with up to 18 gamers playing at once.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Fallout Tactics is a great game, and I am a huge fan of the series. So with great excitment I got the game and played it till completion.
Fallout Tactics was obviously made as a stop gap for Fallout 3. Fallout and Fallout 2 required huge amounts of thought and there was many ways of going throu the game, giving great reply value. Unfortunatley this is where Fallout tactics falls apart. By the time you get to mission 5 you have seen it all before. The destroy entrenched enemy, repeat as necessary. By the time you get the sniper rifle and the advanced power armour the missions become very easy. The skills like Science and repair are hardly needed anymore, you can either get someone for your party from the recruits master who'll probabley be more skilled than your'e character. The AI also has moments where you think your team has turned into lemmings. On many occasions members of my team have taken a silly route and been annihalated. The worst flaw thou is the one that is still present from the previous fallouts is that your teammates will fire off the most powerful gun they have, even if you are in the way and it normally ends up killing you, ending the game.
Graphicly Fallout Tactics is superior to fallout 1 & 2 but Fallouts beauty always came from the way it played, not the way it looked.
If the 22 missions don't keep you entertained, then the multiplayer will. The Human opponents on-line require far more skill than the computer and more stealth is required if you are to succeed
Fallout tactics is a good game, but it's repetiveness gives it a 4. If you are a fan of the series buy it, and if you are a fan of the X-Com series.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Okay, first of all let me make one thing very clear:
THIS IS NOT FALLOUT 3!
I've spoken to lots of people who were moaning about it 'not being proper Fallout'. And they are right, in many ways this game has strayed from the original game style.
The first major change is that the game is linear. Instead of being able to go where you want when you want, you are given a series of missions by the Brotherhood of Steel which you have to complete in the given order.
Secondly, the game is almost entirely based around combat. The science skill is almost useless, and they have taken the speech skill out of the game altogether!
There are also lots of other little things such as not being able to choose good/evil, which may leave Fallout vets. feeling disapointed.
Overall, I think most people who enjoyed the original Fallout games will also enjoy this, just don't expect Fallout 3. It was neither deigned to be or is that game.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
On the same note as the previous review i`ll say that this is definately not falout 3. Which in many ways is a shame. The games atmosphere isn`t as gripping as the second game. And the ending isn`t that good either. No matter which decision you make when you reach it. It is however a good tactical game along the lines of UFO and Xcom. A few missions are boring at times. Especialy the ones involving breaching roadblocks and sniper positions to progress to the other side of a town. But others are great fun and require a degree of planning as well as the aquisition of the biggest guns. I get the impression from the ending that there`s gonna` be another game in this series at some point. I just hope it`s more along the lines of fallout 1 and 2 than this game. It`s linear. Theres not that much to it. BUT it is good for what it sets out to be. Just don`t expect to find any of the depth of fallout2 here. Worth adding to the collection if you`re a fan. And it`ll keep you hooked for the duration if you`re new to the series.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Published on 10 Aug 2005
This is not fallout 3 !!!!!
I have played fallout, fallout 2 and fallout tactics, and my conclusion is this: Fallout fans will be very disapointed with fallout tactics especialy if they where hooked on the... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2005 by "aerobarr"
Waste of a concept
What a feeble effort. The Fallout team have proved they can write ... they just didn't bother. Are all tac game players propellerheads who don't like plot? Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2002 by doctor_jeep
Strategy and Action, All in one.
I loved both the earlier fallout games, But I prefered the first one, this one is just as good as that. The learning curve is a bit steep if you havn`t played the first two games. Read more
Published on 3 April 2001
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