Traditional turn-based role-playing games similar to the rules of Dungeons & Dragons require brain play, take more time to play, and have a higher threshold for getting started. Therefore, most players are more receptive to action role-playing games like Diablo' real-time combat brush equipment. Especially now that everyone is addicted to fast-paced and easy-to-operate mobile games, this kind of classic American RPG with cumbersome operation, strict rules and slow rhythm that requires a lot of reading text may gradually decline.
However, there are still some production teams in the world that are using new technologies to create such in-depth role-playing games, such as Pillar of Eternity and Elysium Disco. In particular, Larian Studios' "Divine Realm: Original Sin 2" and "Baldur's Gate 3" have made a comeback of these games, and both old and new players can successfully get started and enjoy playing.
The earliest generation of Wasteland was born in 1988, which is also a pioneer of the same type of game, but the sequel was not successfully developed, and it was not until 1997's "Fallout 1" that it was born as a spiritual successor. After many years, in 2014, I finally looked forward to Wasteland 2, which probably surprised and delighted players who loved this postmodern post-apocalyptic role-playing and were also garbage lovers.
Released in 2020, the story continues the second generation, and several survivors of the Rangers are looking for a new base, so they travel to Colorado, but encounter enemy attacks and suffer heavy casualties. Struggling to survive, he had to re-establish his ranger base in the city of Colorado. In the past, role-playing game themes like "Wasteland" that led to the end of the world were usually set on an adventure stage that was a yellow and barren wasteland. And this time the three generations changed to the country where the snowstorm is raging, which is also a refreshing feeling.
Because the gameplay of Wasteland 3 is close to that of Divine Realm: Original Sin 2, plus the most recently played similar types of games, it probably belongs to Divine Realm: Original Sin 2, so it is easy for players to compare the two with each other. Of course, many of the details of "Wasteland 3" may not be as delicate as "Divine Realm: Original Sin 2", and the picture performance of "Wasteland 3" is older in 2020. Personally, I think the most unfortunate thing about Wasteland 3 is that it does not have the high degree of freedom and fun brought by the theft system and rich physics of "Godworld: Original Sin 2".
But overall, Wasteland 3 still has a lot of highlights, mainly to see if players are interested in this post-apocalyptic wasteland style, with the retro and punk aesthetics of the 80s and 90s. It has a lot of black humor and irony, and the Iron Throne scene that imitates the Game of Thrones is also very impressive. Players play as part of the Ranger team, recruit many teammates to fight together, players need to cultivate an indestructible team, some are experts in computer hacking, some can detect traps, some are good at defusing bomb mines, and someone is responsible for unlocking to overcome difficulties.
In the process, there will be many moral choice problems, and it will feel that the fate of many people will be affected by the behavior of the protagonist, of course, players can not please each faction at the same time, there will be gains and losses. Many battles can be avoided by relying on the eloquence of the team members, but in the main plot of Wasteland 3, many battles must be fought. So in this turn-based combat similar to XCOM's bunker setting, players have to learn some tricks to successfully defeat terrible enemies.
The overall difficulty is still relatively hard, even if you choose the simplest difficulty, you still can't take it lightly, pick up the garbage well, in order to become the king of the wasteland. The characteristic of the three generations is that in the world map, the protagonist teammate group can drive a vehicle that can transform weapons and resist radiation, and when the battle is triggered in the world map, the vehicle will also enter the battlefield together, and can use the car to crush the enemy or fire at the enemy. Although Scrap 3 is a turn-based battle, before the start of the war, it is real-time, players can avoid the enemy's patrol route, first arrange the battle positions of the team members, and then use the sneak attack to fight, to gain the advantage of each battle.
Also because this game with a variety of plot options will have many unpredictable and irreparable situations, it is recommended to save more during the playing process. When "Wasteland 3" was first launched, it was criticized by many people because of poor optimization and slow reading speed. After all, this is not a game with no seams and large maps, often need to go in and out of the indoor environment to read the map, if the reading speed is slow, the playing process may have a lot of time to wait.
However, now that it has been updated, the situation has improved, I personally play on a traditional mechanical hard disk, and the reading speed is indeed slower than other games, but it is still an acceptable speed.
Now there are also complete unofficial Chinese Simplified, although the translation is not very good, at least it can be regarded as a smooth play.