Fallen Earth Classic
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The crafting system lets players brew and consume alcohol and manufacture stimulant and chem consumables used as combat buffs.
First- and third-person gunplay and melee against human raiders, factions, and mutated creatures, with blood but no dismemberment or emphasized gore.
The setting turns on a global pandemic and nuclear war that killed off most of humanity, leaving a bleak wasteland of ruins and survivor struggle.
Genetically mutated creatures and abandoned ruins give a grim, occasionally unsettling atmosphere without being a horror title.
Players fight and kill mutated beasts and wildlife as ordinary combat and questing.
Gritty wasteland dialogue carries occasional mild profanity.
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What it is
Set generations after a nuclear conflict and a lethal plague killed off nearly all of humankind, this no-cost online role-playing title drops players into a ruined stretch of land near the Grand Canyon. The map is a sprawling open environment where characters take on missions, assemble an extensive assortment of equipment and vehicles, and battle both warped creatures and antagonistic bands of survivors. Fighting blends first- and third-person shooting, drawing on long guns, handguns, and close-range weapons; the action shows realistic injury and blood while stopping short of gore or severed limbs. An elaborate chemistry-based crafting system allows characters to mix and consume stimulants along with other substances that mimic drugs. A somber mood runs throughout, marked by widespread death, wreckage, and rival groups drawn from the remaining population. Because it operates online, the game includes combat between players as well as unfiltered typed and spoken chat with unknown people, meaning interaction that follows no script sits beside the pre-made material.
How it's framed
The title casts its ruined world as a fight to stay alive: clashes with mutated enemies and marauders are portrayed as defending oneself and as conflict between factions, while cooking up drugs and salvaging are shown as everyday means of scraping by instead of being romanticized as vice. The bleak premise of atomic and plague-driven disaster serves to build the setting rather than being lingered on in graphic detail.
Details
- Developer
- Little Orbit
- Publisher
- Little Orbit
- Released
- Feb 22, 2012
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