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I didn't play this when it came out; I've been meaning to get around to playing through, but always started and then put off for one reason or another, so this was a good opportunity to get through it. Having played Tactics and later, Fallout 1, comparatively, is tonally more subdued and less in your face with the references, which is a nice change of pace. It's also significantly shorter than I was expecting, unless I happened to miss a lot of points of interest. You can see a lot of the ideas of interactivity that would end up in Arcanum, like healing a guy with an antidote unprompted for XP, but it's not nearly as developed. I can see why it made as big of an impact as it did, but playing this for the first time almost 30 years after its release, it's fine.
