XPost: rec.arts.tv, rec.games.board   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   YourName@YourISP.com wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I vaguely recall seeing an RPG at my local comic book and hobby shop.   
      
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