On the downside, the interface is a little cumbersome, particularly while moving units around in combat.
In fact, you can influence the story yourself, to an extent, depending which characters you choose to align with. The storyline is way above par given the throwaway plots usually associated with many of Fallout 2's fantasy counterparts, and there are plenty of twists The Fallout RPG series is one of them, and with a complex character development system and many skills to choose from, you can spend literally hours tinkering about with your characters, fine-tuning them until you have a squad that can deal with any situation the game might throw at them. but there are few modem day examples of truly great turn-based games with futuristic leanings. Fantasy fans and those with a leaning towards Civ copycats are fairly well catered for by PC games right now.