If Fallout built the foundation, Fallout 2 expanded it into something far more ambitious. Released in 1998, it took everything great about its predecessor and made it bigger; more locations, more ...

However, Fallout 2 was its first game, and for some, it’s best. The sequel to Interplay’s hit RPG is mostly focused on doing everything bigger and better.

It’s the very best and very worst of Bethesda’s instincts laid bare, and the awkward friction integrating BGS’s environmental storytelling with Fallout’s anarchic RPG flavor makes vanilla ...