Resurrection is a modification for Fallout 2. It has a completely new story and takes place in New Mexico, sometime between the events of Fallout 1 and 2. It's as if there had been a third classic Fallout game.
This game gave me AIDS. I'm happy!
Seriously this is a really great work and is closest to original Fallout series from all the mods I tried. It has everything from the original, but is also unique in every aspect.
Best thing is, unlike many other mods, this mod doesn't overdo things. Other mods focus too much on humor, violence, uber-battles, boring and incomplete detalisation etc but this mod just got the balance on EVERY aspect. Just like in original Fallout series there is humor, cruelty, hardships, quests that have meaning and everything is very well balanced. There are moments of cruelty for example but it is not everywhere all the time so it's not depressing. Humor but not to the point of making the game a parody or a comedy show. I think the mod maker is really mature. Nowhere did I see the mod trying to appear too smart or great than it is as well. A very smooth experience.
Also I like the difficulty of this mod. It IS difficult, especially playing as a good natured character, but doable, and there are different ways to do things. Also never before in a Fallout game/mod have I had negative karma (and bad reputation in man places) playing as a good (more or less) character, but I did here! For example you want to save someone but they do not believe you and you end up being a liar in their eyes. Tell someone who's rude to f'off and the will make sure your reputation is f'cked.
The only thing I found lacking are small repair/science/doctor based quests, though perhaps this is because I am still at the first half of the game and technology is sparse there.
Cheers from ua to the guys from the Czech Republic.
This is very nice work, thanks for this mod.
You must be hating me for being a buzzkill, but I tell you minuses of this mod. As old fan I couldn't make me complete it through.
The main complaining in the boring game design. It's huge locations without points of interests, it's big simple buildings even without properly tileworks, population with no talkative NPC. The mod just have no new ideas or plot twists with overwhelming battles.
Fallout 1.5 Resurrection is a moderately well crafted Fallout fangame that re-interprets the original's aesthetic and themes, exploring the aftermath of Fallout 1's ending and humanity's propensity to indulge itself at the cost of others, and to allow its prejudices to define its actions.
Unfortunately the game is marred by some railroading with quest progression, which prohibited me from solving quests in ways I thought would be logical, this ultimately resulted in me abandoning my working relationship with several characters, and then trying to betray them to one of their rivals, but not being able to do so because I guess the developers did not account for that kind of approach.
After a while of doing petty errands for ridiculous people, and being asked to carry out suicidal assaults against their enemies, I had decided that I wanted to watch the world burn, I was going set all of these petty people, living in their luxurious little pretend kingdoms, against each other, so that the status quo of their communities would collapse, but sadly that was impossible under the game's structure, you can only pick a faction for each one of the towns and be an obedient do-it-all, I didn't really see any opportunity to sabotage their power base in the way that I wanted.
Spoilers follow:
There was one instance where I caused a revolt amongst miners against their employers, because frankly I felt they should come out of that mine shooting everyone, but that was promptly shut down by the local police, who were supposedly aggravated by the bad handling of the situation by the mining consortium, which necessitated their involvement, but this didn't really provide an opportunity to undermine said group's standing with the authorities, it only served as a means to help their rival faction oust them and win.
Another thing that I felt was disappointing is that most of the stuff going on in the towns seemed to be rather repetitive, the first place you get to travel to is the aptly named "Rat Hole", a town ruined by the petty and pointless rivalry between two former business partners, who hired mercenaries and started an armed conflict, "war never changes" I guess, and people fail to learn even after the world ended, okay, fair enough, moving on to the next one...
The next town over is a trade hub called Sedit, it is ruled by three powerful organizations who have a petty, pointless rivalry, they are constantly trying to oust the others from their current standings, so that they can take over their business. The cops are corrupt and sit at the literal middle, doing nothing, naturally.
After Sedit, comes Corath, a mining town, ruled by two powerful organizations, who have a petty, pointless rival- okay you get the idea. All of these three places are basically variations of Rat Hole. Admittedly I did not visit Albuquerque (a ghoul in Power Armor was standing in my way) or any other places after this, I ended my run at the end of Corath's quest line, after I found myself having to painfully wrestle a doped super mutant to death in hand to hand combat.
I guess I should also talk about this game's tone, it goes for this supposedly mature angle, of having everyone be an insufferable raunchy prick, which is another thing that makes you want to set this world on fire, but it doesn't really do anything with it, other than just point at its world and its people and say "this sucks", offering no further comment on it, the only thing you do in that world is pick your favorite gangster and enact bloody revenge on its worst offenders via public lynching.
Fallout Resurrection seems to be trying to say that "people suck", and what I have to say to that is "I can see that, yes, and...?" but it never offered me anything else beyond that.
Oh, one more thing I want to bring up: the way the writer deals with the themes of prostitution seems to exist only in service of the writer, rather than to present something. In one interaction, a prostitute was described as pressing her "incredible breasts" against those of my character, and that's when I felt like I had walked into someone's private smut, there never was a point to talking to these characters, besides degrading them and pointing out how miserable their living conditions are (people suck, you know), only two of them had more than one line of dialogue, one was a "young" lady who the player character can optionally exploit (people suck), the other was seemingly content with her life because, according to her, there wasn't much else for a woman to do in a mining town.
In the end I think I liked to explore the world of Fallout Resurrection, but I found its inhabitants to be absolutely insufferable, which is by design, and the way the story railroaded my choices put me off, I guess there is a bit of a thematic connection between the player having to play along and pretend to be like these people and the story of Resurrection, but I'm not sure if that was intended.
VERY great and Lore friendly mod. I really love how it feels like the original game i loved But has its own unique characters, story, and towns.
I cant say how much fun this is really, but this reminds me a lot of something the original devs would have made.
very good mod. Made me play again fallout 2 on my computer with an hd screen. No bugs. I play a good npc and I hired the three companions possibles (the dog, keri and lystra). The hd patch is very good. I have no eye problem that I can have with several recent game that I bought on steam. I use a gog fallout 2 version.
Awesome, real life characters (friends), includion of partymod, hiresmod, great story, great twists.
My God, even the amnesia cliche works well int this one!
I loved playing this mod so much I want Bethesda to make it canon. There's nothing I can criticise it for that the original games aren't also guilty of. The writing is superb and the pacing appropriate. The quests are fun and replayable. I had a whale of a time playing it.
What a great work. Thanks guys.
Great work. The Questdesign is terrific!