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Game Geeks – Video Reviews
I’ve just been alerted to a guy over on YouTube who is doing video reviews of a whole lot of different games, both table top and PC. Check him out: http://www.youtube.com/user/pugknowspro
Cold City 1.1- Review
Cold City 1.1 is a game produced by Contested Ground Studios, the producers of Hot War, and is set roughly a decade earlier in a divided post-WWII Berlin. Cold City is the spiritual predecessor to Hot War and from the cover is “a game of hidden agendas, trust and monster hunting”.
Let’s get Savage
I’ve been aware of Savage Worlds for some time now, ever since I started looking for a system that I could slap onto any one off and convention games I write. I read through the Test Drive rules a few times and while I liked what I read I didn’t have any concepts that worked with a generic rules set like this. › Continue reading
Hot War – Thoughts and a bit of a review
Almost a year ago I met this interesting Scot named Malc. We played a game of My Life With Master at KapCon and got to talking. It turned out that he was a game designer and the game he was about to release was called Hot War.
The premise of the setting is an alternate future. In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis actually happened and the world is plunged into a terrible war. The book starts out a year later, with all of the players in London being part of a task force called the Special Situations Group. However the nuclear winter isn’t the only thing they have to deal with. Other ‘twisted’ technologies were also used, creatures from nightmare and out of crazy experiments. These are the real destructive force at play, not the run of the mill nuclear weapons.
3: 16 Carnage Among the Stars
I’m not sure where I first heard of this game. Either it was on the NZRag boards or perhaps Story Games. Where ever it was the premise grabbed me immediately.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about this is a game about Space Marines. Space Marines who are members of Terra’s Expeditionary Force, the 16th Brigade of the 3rd Army to be precise. An army whose main directive is to go into the stars, find life and kill it. However the subtleties and possibilities open to a gamer with a bit of imagination and willingness to do things differently is huge.