Wasteland 2
Wasteland 2 is a post-apocalyptic role-playing video game developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Deep Silver. It is the sequel to 1988's Wasteland, and was successfully crowdfunded through…
Wasteland 2 is an adventure developed by inXile Entertainment, released 19 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. The main story takes about 42.5 hrs to finish.
What Wasteland 2 is
Wasteland 2 is an adventure game developed by inXile Entertainment and released in 2014. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is set in an alternate history timeline, in which a nuclear holocaust took place in 1998 in relation to an impact event involving a cluster of meteors that sparked a global nuclear war. On the day of the cataclysm, a company of U.S. Army Engineers were in the desolate southwestern desert constructing bridges in an area with a number of small survivalist communities and a newly constructed federal death row prison with light industrial facilities. The soldiers sought shelter in the prison, expelled the inmates and invited nearby survivalists to join them shortly thereafter. Years later, together they formed "the Desert Rangers, in the great tradition of the Texas and Arizona…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Wasteland 2 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 96 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 42.5 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB VRAM). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Wasteland 2 launched on 19 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wasteland 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
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Characters
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Dlc
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