THE TOP 10 NON-ADVENTURE GAMES OF ALL TIME – Welcome to Just Adventure + – Articles — Part 6
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THE TOP 10 NON-ADVENTURE GAMES OF ALL TIME
Article by Agustín Cordes and Michal Necasek
October 3, 2003
4. Wasteland – Electronic Arts, 1987
Once upon a time RPGs were all about magic, potions, dungeons and dragons (pun intended). Then a game called Wasteland crashed the party with an in-your-face attitude, Uzis and mutants – and citizens rejoiced. It’s quite difficult to decide which feature should be praised first when talking about this game. How about the complex and revolutionary character creation system? Whereas in most RPGs you have to choose a class for your character like “fighter” or “thief”, Wasteland made use of an intelligent system that allowed the game to shape your character according to your actions, giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘role-playing’. The only ‘critical’ decision you had to make before starting the game was choosing the name of your characters and a few attributes which would or would not be useful, depending on how you played them. How about the exciting gameworld? The first post-apocalyptic epic to grace your monitors. A mean and radioactive world with countless of sub-quests that your entire party or just one of your characters could engage in. Or the wide selection of beautifully animated adversaries? Or the excellent writing that captured the apocalyptic mood? Or the… you get the picture.
This game also served as inspiration for another epic, which, funnily enough, found its way to this exclusive list.
