In Wasteland, you guide a party of up to seven characters through an ominous land in this role playing game from Interplay and Electronic Arts. After choosing the option of using four pre-generated characters or creating your own, your party sets off on a quest to help rebuild society and save humanity.
As you explore, your party is filled to capacity with up to three non-player characters (NPCs) at any given time. Basic elements of role-playing include seven modifiable personal attributes, skill points, rank, constitution, gender, cash and five different nationalities. The world is filled with the aftermath of a deadly nuclear conflagration precipitated by a false panic that saw the world's powers launch nearly every nuclear warhead-tipped missile in 1998. Mutations (animal and human), banished and exiled thugs, toxic waste and escaped prisoners are but some of the hazards found in the southwestern United States.
Gameplay is controlled through either keyboard short cut keys or the mouse in conjunction with a set of onscreen commands and menus. Puzzles, an array of weapons and more than twenty-five survival skills are encountered during the course of the adventure. You'll encounter a full stable of deadly denizens and mutants, oddballs and dangerous locales while traveling throughout the Wasteland of this apocalyptic post-nuclear devastated world. Viewpoint is from a traditional 2D perspective.