Ironically, I never completed Wasteland, Fallout, or Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. I did, however, finish Fallout 2; so for the benefit of the likes of NoPretentiousCodename and bump:
[spoiler]As you reach the off-shore oil platform, you get into the reason that the Fallout world is the way that it is. In the first game, there’s little explanation for the War (other than that it “never changes”), but the solution to the second game, you find out and it kinda ruins the mystique.
There’s no more oil in the world except for that which is inside the reserves in the US. The world is starved for energy; Canada agrees to be annexed by the US in order to share what precious little oil is left. The rest of the world gets angry, both sides rattle their sabres, and eventually this breaks down into nuclear confrontation.[/spoiler]
I’ve finished a number of other games, including Homeworld, Dune II (the original RTS), Activision’s Starship Troopers, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Dawn of War.
The ones I’d like to finish, but never did would include the likes of Ground Control, Homeworld: Cataclysm, and Starcraft.