Dated graphics, clunky interface and distinctly patchy game play, especially in combat. Packed full of what should in any normal game be completely game breaking flaws. Which renders it bordering on the miraculous that this is still one of the very best and most enjoyable games to play that has ever been made. Forget what usually makes a game work, because none of it matters here. Atmosphere, dialogue, plot and characterisation in Fallout 2 are so far ahead of just about anything else (barring of course the peerless Planescape: Torment which set a bar nobody else will even get close to matching) that simply wandering the game world is made such a pleasure that all the problems fade into insignificance. Nothing less than a joy from beginning to end. If you don't enjoy Fallout 2, you have no soul.