I bought this in China. I don't know what it is, and I haven't installed it yet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Tsaiyao/Img_1540.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/Tsaiyao/Img_1543.jpg

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&q=the+last+days+of+gaia

It's from 2004, developped by Deep Silver.

I already know that it's a different game, but that doesn't explain why it's got Fallout crap all over it. Anyone here can read the Chinese on the backside?

Maybe it's the communist version of Fallout, where you play a commie Lone Wanderer and destroying America >.>

edit : heck it looks even greater then Fallout 1 & 2.

Maybe because The Fall was made 7 years later ?

According to the game's website it has terraformers intended for Mars pumping CO2 into the atmoshere but the cover has "A post nuclear RPG" on it and it says fallout in english several times on the back and fallout 3 once so it's either a fake or an unlicenced continuation of the series

Good point, you'll get a golden star for that.

Well, Fallout's a generic word.
To be honest, I think it's just a Chinese Rip-Off.

I looked at the story on the homepage for the game http://www.the-fall.com/e/index.php?menu=story
Basicily, machines that were supposed to be used on mars to pump tons of CO2 into the atmosphere were taken over by a doomsday cult and used on earth, so the planet is a giant desert now. I wouldn't say it's a rip-off, very similar to fallout 1 and 2, gameplay wise, but they use a lot of standard RPG elements. Also, you can do things like ride vehicle, dig for water, hunt, seems like a pretty cool game, actually.

Oooh! Interesting.

The top of the cover art is almost completely ripped off from Fallout 2, even the blue circle for the 2 is there. Reminds me of all the other weird Chinese knock-offs, like the Chinese Nintendo Wii, the Vii.

From what I hear a few posts above, not quite.

Chineese Intelectual Property laws strike again...

Here is the Russian version just for lolz: http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii282/pidorbl/P1000592_resize.jpg, http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii282/pidorbl/P1000593_resize.jpg, http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii282/pidorbl/P1000594_resize.jpg.
Story is pretty decent, setting is great, but overall game is so-so: horrible controls, battle system, many bugs, no depth of gameplay and has kind of "rushed" feel. If I'm not mistaking, there's an add-on for it, but I don't have it.

Thats because they had to finish before Johnny Law busted down their door.This looks like such a big rip-off.

"A post nuclear role playing game" sounds familiar I just can't put m finger on it.

From what I can see, they eliminated the whole "Post Nuclear RPG" thing from the title. I had never heard about this game and never saw it on retail in 2004 when it came out.

The screenshots look really nice and some of the features sound pretty interesting. I've read of whole masses of bugs that came out with the game, however most were dated from forums around 2005 and I've seen plenty of links to patches since then so maybe the game was fixed. Nonetheless, a small research to see if it was available anywhere turned up zip so my guess is that it's completely gone with the wind by now. Shame, if it were something like 5 bucks in a bargain bin I wouldn't mind checking it out, that is if the patches fixed the bugs of course.

Oh well, I still have the Fallout series to enjoy :shrug:

I've been looking at this game for a while, but cannot find one single copy of it anywhere in stores or on the internet. Damn...

-Pip

So this is either:

1. A separate game that the Chinese have decided to slap Fallout packaging art onto (illegally).
2. A separate game that Chinese have "fused" with the Fallout franchise to create some new game.
3. A game totally different from either Fallout or Fall of Gaia.

I'll install it later and figure out what the crap this is.

This was actually a German game that never hit the states. So, if anything, it's a German ripoff, not chinese.

this is nice article. i like it.read story.after read people must be try think about this.thanks for this article.

Yeah thats right. And the only reason why The Fall didnt make it big was the fact that the whole thing was in german.

When the game got translated, it was already too old.

To set this straight, it's not a rip-off. Setting is fully original (imo brilliant one), gameplay is party-based with full control over party members, battle system is real-time with useless tactical pause, many original gameplay features (great concept but very poor realization). Gameplay-wise it's a lot more like, say, Icewind Dale than Fallout. Only Fallout references are post-apocalyptic theme, main title (The Fall) and obvious feeling that Fallout 1 & 2 inspired developers.


Actually it was not a doomsday cult, it was bio-terrorists, something like extremist branch of Green Peace.


Russian version came out like half-year after initial release and it was fully-patched, but there are still plenty of bugs to have fun with. I heard that original German version was totally unplayable when it first came out.


I believe it came out only in Europe and Russia. So this chinese version is most certainly pirated and all this "A post nuclear role playing game" nonsence is something that pirates thought would attract more buyers.


All screenshots and art is from The Fall: Last Days of Gaia, there's nothing from Fallout on that package, except "A post nuclear role playing game"-thing and some motives in decoration.

Lulz this reminds me of those chinese copy-cat games "STREET FIGHTER 11!!!! 10 GAMES IN 1"
Of course, instead of Street fighter, there was some weird 2D-like mortal kombat with Street fighter sprites

what's this? chinese distributors repackaging a game to resemble the packaging of a more popular game in order to boost sales? shocking!

was this ever actually OFFICIALLY released in english? i always thought it sounded interesting but i didn't really want to bother with fan patches.

Old news... I never kept up with it.. Looks cool though.