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.
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.
YourName@YourISP.com wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.
YourName@YourISP.com wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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.
On 09/11/2016 22:33, Ubiquitous wrote:
YourName@YourISP.com wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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.
They're selling tank-busting weapons there now? :p
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