I'm greatly looking forward to Fallen Earth

I really like the concept of post-apocolyptic games. Looking at the graphics makes me think of the Road Warrior series of movies a little bit. I like the game idea of survival, finding supplies, and not in some wierd planet but right here on Earth with maps that resemble known places, like the Grand Canyon. That's perfect.

The Fallout series of games are a bit like that. There was another old Apple game that had extremely simple graphics, and you recruited a gang of people, searched the ruins for supplies, fixed up your vehicles, had to repair their tires after each fight, could ram, board enemy vehicles and take control of them. I can't remember the name, it had a USA and Europe version though. I went and looked it up, Roadwar 2000 was the USA one.

It was a lot of fun. But it was dumb in that each time you searched it was just a random die role what you would find. And the combat was extremely slow and took too much "work".

Anyway, I just remember some of these old games and it looks a bit like Fallen Earth might fill some of these gaps.

One of the things I hope for in most games is something that is 1) perpetual and 2) can be effected by me. For instance in Ultima you could place a house and it would be there, it wouldn't reset and disappear each day. Also, in Ultima they had some player events that had long term consequences to the game actually permanently changing the graphics and spawns in an area, for instance. Or in Eve you can have player owned space stations and outposts that you defend, or conquer, or destroy. I got the feeling that if I'd stayed playing Tabula Rasa long enough there might be some of that there, as well. I've read in Shadowbane you can build towns you have to defend that can be destroyed.

I hope to see some player elements in Fallen Earth that I can effect the outcome of the game in some way, or building something that you see each time you log in, or some other personalization of the game. Earth and Beyond you could paint your ship with your own colors and logos, and even though you were the only one that could see it, at least it was "yours". Eve doesn't allow any customization of ships, and that's a shame, I'd really like to be able to have a ship I could paint "kills" on the side of etc.

My point is I will be playing Fallen Earth and will bring a small hoard of people with me, and I hope it has some of these elements. I'm looking forward to it's beta.