argh, okay fallout 2 is my favourite game and I am a huge fan of the series. I was anticipating this a lot and I am definitely going to type up a more detailed reply when I've digested more of the game but so far this is REALLY COOL. The very few complaints I have are the horrendous walking animations of third person view and the fact that while trying to walk to rivet city there were lots of "well placed" rubble collapses blocking my path forcing me to go through this pretty tough super mutant settlement. I have not looked at any walkthroughs or anything so far so this is all just the path I am taking, I've found myself in Rivet City pretty early into the game. Level 4 or so, I haven't even finished many megaton quests and this is only the second city I've visited. (I assume it is supposed to be a pretty high level area due to super mutants and the fact that Doctor Li just dropped some pretty big bombshells about my Dad.) It is also great that even at a lowly level four it is possible to take out 3 - 4 super mutants at a time with some tactical play. They are pretty lumberingly slow so with the right cover it was easy to take them down without really taking a hit.
I'm finding that playing the "good guy" leaves you feeling a little shafted sometimes though. GO TO THE OTHERSIDE OF THE MAP AND COLLECT ME A LANDMINE... *does so* thanks for collecting that landmine for me, here's a landmine as your reward, oh and a stimpack to compensate the 12 stimpacks you used fending off raiders, bloat flies, an angry sniper, vicious wasteland dogs, molerats, exploding cars and landmines that you accidentally stepped on.
The scariest moment for me so far was running into a Centaur, I wasn't sure if these guys were going to be in the game and they were pretty terrifying, especially when I only had 3 shots of ammunition left in my hunting rifle. I thought it was a human from a distance so I holstered my weapon and started walking towards it, I could see it coming towards me but there was no dramatic music or anything. All of a sudden this mutated pink guy is hurling mucus at me and screaming.