You know, I don’t think this game has a stupid subtitle? A sequel without a colon? What’s going on with the world, eh?

Anyway, I didn’t get on with the original two Fallout games, but I loved Oblivion. This game is an effective synthesis of the two. It feels exactly like a post-apocalyptic Oblivion, but the levelling and skills systems seem (from what I can remember) to have been taken wholesale from the Fallout games.

I did a lot of stuff and enjoyed myself thoroughly, but got a bit fed up with some fire ants that kept killing me. That quest was an effort – I probably should have left it for a few levels. Maybe level four isn’t the right time to be tackling it. My only decent weapons skill is Small Guns and my trusty pistol did very little damage to the ants, so I had to improvise with scavenged ammo and new guns. And mines. The main problem, though, was a lack of healing items. I got 500 bottle caps (the game’s currency) for being very naughty indeed, though, so maybe I should find someone selling medical supplies and stock up.