From: madlove@arkham.dc
On 11/08/2016 04:27 PM, Your Name wrote:
> 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.
An RPG would be much better!
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