Gaming

You know... I will only warn you once, don't come to Colorado... You will fall in love with the place and never want to leave. Sitting in the front yard on a nice cool fall evening... The fire pit going and your feet up... Smoking some wickedly good weed and watching a sliver of a moon hanging over the Rockies... This should be heaven...

Onto it though... I'll tell you right now, I'm fully expecting to love this game. My memories of the original are very fond. Not only that but I feel very comfortable the property is being handled by the right people who by all accounts have treated it with the care it deserves.. I'm so excited

I hit start and... A nice splash screen... InXile and Deep Silver logos... And the main menu: Continue, load, new game, options and credits... Lets start with...

Options:

Looks like all of the standard audio and display options.

There are a bunch of Gameplay options, mostly about recording conversations, text and such... A few others, I'll go with the defaults of pretty much everything 'on'.

Annnnnd onto a new game...

Squad Creation - There is an option to create or go with a default... Fuck it, I'm going with create. Next up, go with a custom or existing Ranger... Yup, Custom it is

Great googly moogly... I'm sorry but... There is so freakin much going on here, I'm not even going to try and describe it detail though I expect I'll be adding more as I get into it. Suffice to say, this is some serious old school tactical RPG goodness, with all the bells and whistles.

Graphics - Just amazing. I never thought a wasteland could be so beautiful. Classic top down view with lush detailed environments.

Control - Again... Just amazing. Everything required for a game of this complexity made slick and intuitive on a controller.

Story - I've just grazed the surface so it will be interesting to see just how big and detailed this game is... The dialog is detailed and depending on skills you can get lots of extra options. Add in both voice acting and text of the dialog for that extra polish.

Fun Factor - I love this shit... Tons of stats, perks and skill adds up to craploads of character variation. I can't wait to get a bit leveled up and start seeing the weapons and equipment.

Bottom Line - So far, I'm not seeing anything to even nit pick about here. Granted, I've just started and it will be important to see if it has staying power but... I'm going to smoke one more bowl and then sink a few serious hours into this