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 - Legendary.Are you kidding? What else can be said about the best series of RPGs ever. My love of the post-apocalyptic realm started with Wasteland on C-64 and culminated with these classics. With only the excellent Stalker:SOC to tide me over until Fallout 3, its been a long wait. If you've never played them and turn-based is not your cup of tea then I would recommend Fallout:Tactics, faster paced and real-time. BTW not being able to get the game to run on your system is not a reason to give a game a bad review..patches are easily found by competent users. Rating: - Can't wait for 3!I was not yet into PC games when Fallout originally was released in '97. Having seen the screenshots and press about Fallout 3, I thought I'd try to find the original 2 and get some backstory on the look and feel of the Fallout world. I've played the first and am partway through the second and let me just say, I thoroughly enjoy it! You can customize a character to fit virtually any type you can think of. Want to play a smooth-talking thief type? You can. Want to play a big burly bruiser? Go for it. There are some types that are easier to play than others, of course, but it's a pretty well-balanced game. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who likes RPGs and/or is planning to get Fallout 3. I'm going to go reserve mine copy now! Rating: - Worth the purchaseThis is a classic game, and the fact that it works like a charm on both Vista and XP is a bonus. After the install the disc isn't needed to play, which is a nice convenience. The disc also has some cool bonus stuff on it...nothing major, but a nice touch. All in all, three great games for a great price. Well worth it. Rating:  - How to solve install problemsMany of us have had problems installing Fallout 2. I managed to fix the problem by opening up the DVD and going to the "Bonuses" folder then the "patches" folder, where I found a "Read me" file which explained that the master.dat or critter.dat files were a possible cause. I manually deleted the master.dat FOLLDER from the Fallout 2 folder on my hard disk, then dragged the master.dat FILE from the DVD into the Fallout 2 folder on my hard disk. This seemed to do the trick. Good luck. Rating: - Technical issues but a fun gameThis collection includes Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics. 2 and Tactics seem to work fine but i bought it just for Fallout 1 so i'll talk about that. Fallout 1 was released over a decade ago. This DVD installs Fallout 1 version 1.2, released in 1997, long before Windows XP. i already owned this game but my copy didn't run on XP so i bought this. And learned that this has exactly the same problem. Specifically, the game screen goes black every few seconds. i spent a couple of hours searching Google and found that this was a common problem but that there was no solution. Common solutions offered include updating (or downgrading) graphics drivers, trying patches, setting the compatibility mode and adjusting screen resolution, none of which have any effect. So i was really, really sad when i got this game (again) and realized i still couldn't play it i spent another couple of days researching it and i think i've got something. The screen in Fallout 1 (but not 2 or Tactics, which are newer games) goes black because some application changed the way it looked. Maybe a Web browser refreshed itself or an icon in your status bar changed colors. Anything that changes the way it looks causes Windows to redraw the screen (to update it to the new way it should look). Fallout 1 doesn't know that, even in Win 95 compatibility mode, so it gets blacked out by Windows but doesn't redraw itself The solution is to shut down everything before starting Fallout 1. It's not a great solution and it took me several days (this time; i tried before months ago) to figure out. None of the Fallout sites that i found mentioned it. But i've been playing with it for a few hours and if i shut down my Web browser i only get the black out screen once every five minutes rather than every five seconds i'm assuming you already know about the game. It's ancient and it feels that way (especially the inventory management) and looks that way but it's a ton of fun. The game itself is 5 stars but getting it to work on any computer sold in (roughly) the last decade is a 1. Few people will put up with the technical issues but it's great if you can get it to work
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