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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   Coming soon to your friendly neighborhood games shoppe, it’s Buffy the   
   Vampire Slayer: The Game. This time it’s you. You are the Joss Whedon.   
   Ok, maybe you’re the heroes, but you do get to run through what is   
   essentially your own special season of the show each time you play the   
   game.   
      
   Buffy is a fully cooperative action game with you and your friends   
   slinging magic and martial arts against a barrage of monsters of the   
   week as they terrorize the townies (yes, the game uses those terms).   
   Their demonic/vampiric mayhem leads up to a final challenge with your   
   season’s “bigbad” as you struggle to defend Sunnydale.   
      
   The foes are drawn from enemies faced throughout the TV series, with   
   many providing interesting twists such as keeping the players from   
   speaking to each other or forcing you to sing. There are even mechanics   
   for player controlled characters regularly becoming one of the bad guys   
   for a little while, because that’s what happens in the show after all.   
   You and up to 5 friends are, of course, major heroes from the show   
   (Buffy, Xander, Giles, Angel, Willow, etc.). Perhaps controversially   
   Spike is a playable character, not an enemy, but hey once in a while he   
   can be the one to turn against the group.   
      
   All of this is amidst a backdrop of stopping an ever impending   
   Apocalypse, with its own countdown counter on the board. If you don’t   
   patrol, find the baddies, and slay them the world as we know it comes   
   to an end. No pressure.   
      
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   In other news, somehow Crooked Hillary still isn't in prison...   
      
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