Gaming

Nintendo Switch sorely needs more games like 'Wasteland 2'

Matthew Vice tells you why

07 October 2018 - 00:00 By Matthew Vice

It's not all doom and gloom in Nintendo's neck of the woods these days. True, the Switch now has a paid subscription service it can barely justify to play games online and its release schedule still consists of cheap, throwaway indie titles and ports of old games with nary an exclusive killer app in sight - but at least some of the ports are really good.
So if you're in need of a salve to soothe the burn of your expensive hybrid machine still not quite living up to its potential, you could do worse than Wasteland 2. It's been on PC and other consoles for a while, and I'm quite surprised it came to the Switch.
But the fact is that Wasteland 2 is great. It comes to us from Brian Fargo, one of the creators of the celebrated original Fallout games of the late '90s, and is a spiritual successor to these games.
Set in a post-nuclear-apocalypse, Wasteland 2 tasks the player with creating a team of four wannabe Desert Rangers who are keen to prove themselves to the only organisation trying to maintain law and order.
WATCH | The game trailer for Wasteland 2..

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