Note: Attempts have been made to proofread this document, but I am not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, so I may have missed some things here and there. I take no responsibility for any loss of life, limb, or property as a result of reading this document. So there. It takes place some time after WWIII, and you are part of the intrepid Desert Rangers, a para-military group that has set up operations in an abandoned federal prison located in northwestern Arizona.
Most of the action takes place along the AZ-NV border. I actually have never had an opportunity to play any of the other versions for more than about minutes or so. Any similarities between this version and earlier ones are merely coincidental.
Wasteland has always been a game that screams out for a sequel. The richness of the world begs to be fleshed out more. There were several games made that are mistakenly called sequels. Escape From Hell and Fountain of Dreams were both written with the intention of looking and operating in a similar fashion, but they do not, strictly speaking, utilize the same engine, and only FoD shares any thematic elements ie: post nuclear war in common with Wasteland.
A game called Mean Time was in development for some time, but was dropped due to the waning popularity of the Apple ][ platform, and was not deemed important enough to port over to IBM PC or start over from scratch, and even that was not really a sequel, but was reported to have something to do with time travel. The Fallout series has been absolutely fantastic, but its ties to Wasteland have been limited to a few Easter Eggs.
The spirit is there, though. For a long time it seemed unlikely that there would ever be a true sequel. However, Brian Fargo, having left the sinking ship was was Interplay and starting his own company InXile, acquired the rights to the Wasteland back in In March , InXile set up a Kickstarter to help finance the development of a proper Wasteland sequel, and more than fulfilled its financing in 2 days.
