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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut launching on Oct. 13

by: Travis - posted: 7/31/2015 3:18:00 PM
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Publisher Deep Silver and developer inXile have announced that the remastered Wasteland 2: Director's Cut will be launching on October 13 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (also a free upgrade for previous owners). The most notable features of the director's cut include overhauled graphics, new character models and voice-overs, and optimized control scheme for consoles.

The graphical overhaul includes a more advanced lighting system, upgraded environmental models and textures, and higher quality character models. Audio upgrades range from new voice-overs for NPCs to better sounding weapons. Console players will also be happy to hear that the developers have completely remade the interface and control scheme to function properly on consoles.

Features

  • The Director's Cut: Overhauled graphics with fully redone character and level art, voice-over expanded with tens of thousands of lines, and new features make this the definitive version of Wasteland 2.
  • Turn-Based Tactical Combat: Tackle explosive and deadly squad-based combat encounters against the wasteland's raiders, mutants, robots and more that will test the limits of your planning and tactics.
  • Your Squad Your Way: Don't feel like finding the key for a door? Pick the lock, bash it down with your boot or just blow it open with a rocket launcher!
  • A Huge Reactive Story: With hundreds of choices and consequences at your disposal, with both short and long term reactivity to the players choices and 80-100 hours of gameplay, no two players will have the same experience.
  • Huge & Customizable: Dozens of hours of gameplay. Hundreds of characters. Thousands of available combinations for your Rangers' appearance. More than 150 weapons. Dozens of skills!
  • Enhanced Classic RPG Game Play: Classic RPG game play ideas updated with modern design philosophies.