Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Goal Reached, Over $1 Million Dollars In Two Days

In just about two days, the Founder of Interplay, Brian fargo has managed to raise the targeted goal of $900,000 to produce a sequel to the classic 80’s title Wasteland.

 In total they have a little over a $1 million dollars, considering that Brian Fargo has vouched to give $100,000 if the $900,000 goal has been reached.The target date to reach this goal was originally April 17th, but this has now been accomplished in less then two days since the kickstarter project went live. This leaves about thirty-three more days until the date is reached, leaving plenty of room for more pledges.

Recently Double Fine launched a kickstarter program and managed to exit with a total of $3.3 million dollars. At the rate of pledges that Wasteland 2 has been receiving expect the team to be receiving just as much as Double Fine.

For those who are wondering what this game is about:

Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to the first ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG. The original Wasteland was the inspiration for the FALLOUT series of games, and the first RPG to allow players to split parties for tactical considerations, to face players with moral choices, and to make them deal with the consequences of their actions. It was the first to provide far more than the one-key-for-one-lock style of puzzle solving. It was groundbreaking, which is why IGN named it one of the top 25 PC games of all time, Computer Gaming World named it the Adventure Game of the year in 1988, and it was short-listed for inclusion in the Smithsonian Institution’s current “Art of the Computer Game” exhibition.

Wasteland was set in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world in the American Southwest. Over the course of adventures rangers would receive promotions, acquire new skills and equipment, then face new challenges with outcomes that changed depending on the strategy used to defeat them. The game featured a strong storyline which required painful decisions by players; and a storyline that allowed for maximum re-playability. Wasteland 2, with your participation and insights, will recapture all that and provide more. It’ll finally be the game worthy to be a Wasteland sequel, as challenging and rewarding as the original, with all added capacity and dazzle of games today.

You can learn more about the Kickstarter project here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

This is indeed great news to all those who have been awaiting for a sequel.