WASTELAND 3

Dark humour and ultraviolence in a cruel, cold world

- Tom Senior

On top of the dam I’ve just taken from a bunch of ruthless gangers, a Ranger Major dies horribly. As the game describes it, her intestines fall out just before she expires. Grim. Metres away I recruit a cat wearing a fedora to my team. Events can go from dark to light very quickly in Wasteland 3.

This latest RPG in the series is set in deepest, darkest Colorado Springs, a place where gang members string up their victims and paste threatening, bloody messages onto any spare wall they can find. You take care of these villains in turn-based combat reminiscent of XCOM, but with a gritty, survivalist feel. You bolt mods onto guns between combat encounters, and take down your foes with found weapons scrounged from the wasteland.