Description
After the great war, the wasteland is inhabited by a wide variety of mutated species... And one force of order and justice: the Brotherhood of Steel. As a new initiate to the Brotherhood, you will undertake different missions to take on Raiders and such as you attempt to protect the fragile respawning of civilization... and discover the new threat to the west...
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel is essentially the combat portion of the original
Fallout series, with a new campaign, graphical polish, a set of random encounters, and a world map. The emphasis is on squad tactics and tactical combat, though your characters will grow like in any RPG.
Alternate Titles
- "辐射战略版：钢铁兄弟会" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
- "異塵餘生戰略版：鋼鐵兄弟會" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
- "Fallout Tactics: Die stählerne Bruderschaft" -- German title
- "Fallout Tactics: BoS" -- Common informal abbreviation
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Art
Fallout Tactics did NOT use any of the arts used in previous
Fallout games. Interplay was unable to retrieve the archive of previous art on the backup tape. This caused quite a bit of problems for the developer as extra artists had to be hired to redo all the art from scratch.
Corrupt files
Following the tradition of "fatal bugs" that have plagued the
Fallout series and which prompt you to get a patch right from the start,
Fallout Tactics was initially released with some corrupt files in a batch of "bad" CDs that make it literally impossible to play. The only fix for this is to download a 85MB file from the Interplay's
FT:BOS site and replace it following a series of precise instructions. That is in addition to the regular bug patches.
Development
MicroForte was contracted by 14 Degrees East to do
Fallout Tactics. They caught Interplay's attention when they demoed a game featuring their isometric game engine. Interplay didn't like the game, but liked the engine well enough they suggested MicroForte to do
Fallout Tactics instead.
Endings
There are four different endings, depending on your final choices. Destroy, send someone else, or submit? The last depends on how much karma you got.
Extras
Fallout Tactics had a special bonus mission CD that was available only by pre-ordering the game from Interplay or certain outlets (Amazon, etc).
German version
In the German version all blood and death animations were removed.
Photoshop
If you try playing
Fallout Tactics with Photoshop running, you'll be told
Fallout Tactics cannot run "due to Photoshop's evil presence."
References
The "stinky meat platter" you find in various places throughout the game is probably a nod to Mahlon Smith's "StinkyMeat Project". As of 2001 it was available at http://www.thespark.com/science/stinkymeat/
References
- The game has many pop-culture references that mentions everything from Diablo (the game) and Everquest (the game) to the movies The Terminator, Die Hard, The Sixth Sense, The Space Race, Pitch Black (the character Riddick makes an appearance) and plenty of things in between.
- Morte from Planescape: Torment, does a little cameo in a special encounter. As you can see in the screenshots section.
Information also contributed by
Kasey Chang,
kbmb,
Kyle Levesque and
Zovni
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Kartanym 
(10796) on Mar 29, 2001.
