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Originally Posted by Dan Davenport
I'm wondering that myself.
In the novel and the movie, the relative power levels of the individual humans and bugs are basically reversed: humans in tank-like power armor wading through bug hordes vs. humans with rifles fighting giant bugs that can slice and dice them. (And then, of course, there's the wide disparity in the tech level of the bugs in the novel as compared to their movie counterparts.) It sounds as though the cartoon, which I've only glimpsed, manages to find some middle ground, but based upon your review, it doesn't sound as though the game does much for the novel purists.
Great review, though!
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I've been playing this rpg roughly since it's release a few weeks back. This review was overall very fair and balanced. The tools ARE there (IMHO) to run a game based on the novel. Truth is, there wasn't enough detail in the novel to really base the game off of it, and the movie was so utterly awful that I wouldn't WANT to play a game based on it. What's left? The CGI series has enough variety of weapons and enemies to really make the game meaty and open up more and more avenues for supplements. It's not even too difficult to cut back on the bugs, arm them with weapons, and watch the fur fly. The CGI series compensates for the lack of Arachnid technology by giving them biological weapons and the genetic ability to breed a species for any ecological circumstance/niche.
With the exception of a few areas that were left a bit grey, a good GM would have almost no problem running a 'Heinlein' game.