Post originally by arcady at 2004-11-27 14:05:18
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My review is already up. It didn't address players of the old game so much, but it did try to break down what the book entailed. I think I was coming from a focus of "can this become my Modern genre RPG?"

I drew a yes to that question, and then tried to say why, and what factors that would get in my way if I made that choice (ie: what I saw as the weakpoints, so I would know what, as a GM, I would need to be aware of).

Thinking on it now, without my rview in front of me, I think the biggest weakpoints weren't in the game, but the presentation. What bothered me most was the lack of illustrations or descriptions to the guns. I and most people I've known have zero gun culture exposure, so it was just meaningless numbers and a lot of very confusing pages.

Beyond that, the book is so well done that I can't see entertaining another option at present - a competing publisher would have to really wow me to get me to put them on the 'eye-level shelf' of my collection in place of this book.