Wasteland
The game mechanics were based directly on those used in the tabletop role-playing games Tunnels and Trolls and Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes created by Wasteland developers Ken St. Andre and Michael…
Wasteland is an adventure developed by Interplay Productions, released 2 January 1988 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Linux.
What Wasteland is
Wasteland is an adventure game developed by Interplay Productions and released in 1988. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 2087, a remnant of the U.S. Army called the Desert Rangers is based in the Southwestern United States following the global nuclear war of 1998. A team of Desert Rangers is assigned to investigate a series of disturbances in the nearby areas and, throughout the game, explores the remaining enclaves of human civilization, including a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. The player's party begins with four characters, and through the course of the game can hold as many as seven characters by recruiting certain citizens and creatures of the wasteland to the player's cause. Over the course of the game the player's party discovers evidence of a larger menace that threatens to exterminate what…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Wasteland holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 30 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 112.8 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM and 3D graphics card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Wasteland launched on 2 January 1988, within three weeks of Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels and Wizball. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels, Wizball.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wasteland yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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