15.11.2011 Resurrection? Just finished playing it!
A few weeks ago I talked to Ratman and Daemon, the FoRes designers, about beta testing the latest version of their modification. My job was clear. Find some bugs, learn thoroughly the entire game and then help with the balancing and some other things that are needed to be done.
I got the game two weeks ago and since then I played hard every day, looking for bugs and trying various solutions for each quest. In the version I got were missing scripts for one city area "only" and a random locations did not work on the map. All other locations are already well playable and need just a little difficulty tuning. Today I finished the game with a not very successful ending, because I came to the final location and my character was at least 5 levels lower than are expectations for this level with a fully functional map.
The game size is similar to Fallout 1, the story that follows. The story is excellent, polished to the smallest details (I dare not guess how many Prague pubs visits was needed to clarify all the story) and fits perfectly into the Fallout universe. Resurrection is more similar to Fallout 2 in variety and number of ways how to finish the quests. Ratman, the designer, said to me that one of the quests he made has up to 7 different possible solutions! The number of endings is higher than in Fallout 2 and almost 3 times as much as in Fallout 1! How will the world look like at the end of your playing in this Fallout will be only up to you. The world will flourish or will be all destroyed?
The dialogues are rich and like in the other Fallout games, depends on how you create your character and what skills you focus on. Of course there is an option to play a dumb character (not tested myself). The dialogue and atmosphere are similar to the Fallout 1. The world seemed to me much darker than the one in the first Fallout game. No wonder, because both major designers are known for their love in playing as bad guys in Fallout games. For me, playing positive character, it was very difficult, because I often had to choose between better evil and worse evil. But honestly, this is probably how the post apocalyptic should looks like, the world where the flower children and bunnies do not have the slightest chance of survival.
How do I rate Fallout 1.5: Resurrection at this stage of development As its name suggests, its story perfectly fills the time gap between the two oldest Fallout games and extends the Fallout universe with qualitatively similar product, even if it is just unofficial part. Part which you will not play once but several times and each time it will be different game, different experience with the different endings.
English version is planned, but it should come up some time after the Czech version.
Jiri_auf_Wiedersehen
06.02.2010 A reminder
Recently we have received quite a few questions asking whether we’re still alive and whether there is going to be an update soon. That’s quite understandable, considering that the last update came a year ago ;-) Ok so we’re not releasing a lot of info, but that’s because we’re trying to put all of our free time into the actual development. In order to compensate at least a little, we’ve uploaded two new images into the gallery. One is a screenshot of the player visiting supermutants, the other is a new loading screen featuring an ad for post-apocalyptic New Mexico’s favorite cigarette brand.
We’ve also set up an RSS channel, so that you can know about our new update the moments it’s posted. We’ll try to make sure we have something interesting to report in a lot shorter intervals than before.
Daemon
12.02.2009 Two new game screenshots
Various reactions to your character based on its stats are a core element of Fallout, as well as one of the things that made it so engaging. The two new screenshots in our gallery show examples of the kind of reactions that a woman character can cause in the world of Resurrection. One could see it as both a negative and a positive case.
We are constantly asked when exactly will Resurrection be done. Moreover the last update was only released in Czech. So I'd like to clarify this one more time: There is no precise release date. As you could see for yourself, we haven't been very successful with setting these, and hence we'll just say that when it's done, it's done, where at this point we are counting on this year. As soon as we'll be able to say something more concrete, we'll inform you through this page. For now... the work keeps going on.
Daemon