Fallout 2

Fallout 2 is an open—world computer role-playing game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment in 1998. It is the second part of the Fallout series. Despite the fact that the game engine has hardly changed since the first part, thanks to the detailed study of the game world and the plot, the sequel managed to surpass it in popularity.

80 years after the events of Fallout, the secluded village of Arroyo, founded by a native of the Vault Dweller, began to decline. New forces were needed to breathe life into the fields. The village elder sends the Chosen One to the wastelands for the miracle of pre—war engineering technology — GECK (Eng. GECK, Garden of Eden Creation Kit - GECK, a Generator of Eden Bushes Compact; unlicensed versions also use translations of "Group of Eden Structural Components" and "KoSoGoR" — "Kit for Creating a City -Paradise"), created so that the inhabitants of the shelters who came to the surface could found a new life. The chosen one goes on a dangerous quest.

The plot of the game develops as you receive and complete quests. Quests are tasks that appear in front of the player during the game or are given to him by other characters. There are several hundred quests in Fallout 2, and only one of them is mandatory.

Completing the initial quests in Arroyo does not require much effort and serves rather to prepare the player for future difficulties. At first, the Chosen One has very meager ammunition and a small amount of money. He is given the first task and the location of the nearest city, Klamath, is indicated on the global map.

Over time, a Chrysalis Highwayman car may be available to the player, which significantly speeds up the journey on the global map and can store things in the trunk. It can be improved as the game progresses. For example, if you leave a car unattended in New Reno, it will be stolen by a group of people. When meeting them, it turns out that they have expanded the trunk of the Highway Man. Then you can return the car by force, pay for it or just come back another time. Later, in Fallout New Vegas, his remains will be found in a large radioactive puddle, apparently, after the Chosen One did not need him on an oil rig, he was hijacked by raiders, broken and abandoned, as a result, a small location "Highway Man Crash Site" appeared.

Although the gameplay in Fallout 2 is designed for more than a hundred hours of play, the authors accidentally or deliberately gave experienced players the opportunity to complete the game in a fast way.[3] Such a passage takes 40-50 minutes of real time, but is hardly used by experienced players (unless you need to quickly equip a character to explore a certain place in the game), who prefer to enjoy simply being in the world of Fallout and gameplay.

After completing both story tasks, the player has the opportunity to continue playing, after which new opportunities and dialogue options appear in the City of Refuge and New Reno (this idea was implemented by Chris Avellon, who was developing the design of these cities (the Fallout Bible)), so, for example, Tully's father can give a book that increases all skills to 300% and giving 15,000 experience after reading. The main difference of this book is that it does not disappear after reading.Therefore, the player can get the highest level with it.

In 2241, the primitive town Arroyo suffers the worst drought on record. Faced with the calamity, the village elder asks the direct descendant of the Vault Dweller, referred to as the Chosen One, to perform the quest of retrieving a Garden of Eden Creation Kit (GECK) for Arroyo. The GECK is a device that can create thriving communities out of the post-apocalyptic wasteland.[5] The player, assuming the role of the Chosen One, is given nothing more than the Vault Dweller's jumpsuit, a RobCo PIPBoy 2000, a Vault 13 water flask, a spear and some cash to start on their mission.

The Chosen One eventually finds Vault 13, the supposed location of a GECK, devoid of the majority of its former human inhabitants and instead inhabited by intelligent Deathclaws. The Chosen One then returns to find their village captured by the deep state remnants of the United States government known as "The Enclave". The Enclave often terrorizes the inhabitants of continental United States with their supreme arsenal of advanced technology. The Chosen One, through various means, activates an ancient oil tanker and engages its autopilot, thus allowing them to reach the Enclave's main base on an offshore oil rig. It is revealed that the dwellers of Vault 13 were captured as well, to be used as test subjects for Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV). Vault 13 was supposed to be closed for 200 years as part of a government experiment,[4] making them perfect test subjects. The Enclave modified the Forced Evolutionary Virus into an airborne disease, designed to attack any living creatures with mutated DNA. With all genetic impurities removed, the Enclave (who remain protected from radiation) could take over. The Chosen One frees both their fellow villagers from Arroyo and the Vault 13 dwellers from Enclave control and subsequently destroys the Enclave's oil rig, killing Dick Richardson, the President of the United States, as well as a genetically modified Secret Service enforcer named Frank Horrigan. In the end, the inhabitants of Vault 13 and the Arroyo villagers create a new prosperous community with the help of the GECK.