Depends on what you mean by "gritty" Graphically I think fallout/2 were more gritty in presentation than FOT which seemed... somewhat comparitively sterile?Heroin + herpes = kewl game? What the fuck? All that "grittyness" is what made Fallout 2 worse than the first.
Fuck right off. I want to euthanize that guy with a shovel.I'd say the impact the original had in its day was about so much more then the angle you viewed it at, or how combat was executed.