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   In article <4qqdnYSvT-rXTLzFnZ2dnUU7-Q2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, Ubiquitous   
    wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   There was at least one Buffy board game released years ago.   
      
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