Their world is forged of privilege, lubricated by money, and polished with the prerogatives of the upper crust, yet no depth where power might be found has gone unexplored. Human sacrifice, unnatural tortures, perverse and hedonistic practices… all are brought into the service of the Order’s relentless pursuit of power.
My reviews will not focus on the rules of the game. There are better reviewers on that format than I could ever contribute. The purpose behind my reviews is to highlight one, and only one, overriding aspect of any game: fun. That’s it. As a big kid at heart, I play games in order to have a good time. In the end, all I really care about is if I’m going to want to play the thing again, and will anyone else. Hence, I’ve chosen five areas to highlight that are all aspects of the game’s funness. Examined from this paradigm, these are all aspects that I believe should be enjoyed during the whole experience of playing board games.
All right already, enough philosophizing, on with the review…
GSGT “Mike” Ortega and his squad of US Space Marines barely survived the liberation of Station Arcturus. Now they’ve been shanghaied into finding a hidden alien airbase on La Glaciere, the ice-locked end of Aurore, with one additional task: Capture, alive, the first Kafer prisoner of the war.
“Mission: La Glaciere”, an official 2300AD novel from Game Designers Workshop, available only from DriveThruRPG.com.
By Matt Drake I think it’s time I raved all about the brilliance of small-press games. Specifically, I want to rave about Alien Frontiers, one of those incredibly rare cases where a pint-size publisher proves to have some serious staying power. The first game from Clever Mojo Games, called Ogre Castle, was fun, but it…
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