Things have been a bit slow here, work has conspired to keep me from completing any sort of gaming related goodness, and the holiday weekend (Memorial Day here in the US) threw a family monkey-wrench into my plans...
The Fallout series of games is one of my personal favorites, and Bethesda announced
Fallout 4 today. I have to say it looks pretty. I am a bit concerned by the rocket powered pirate galleon, but Fallout has always had some oddball stuff, so I won't worry until I see it in action. Hopefully they have done a decent job on the story, which was a bit dubious in New Vegas, IMHO. It will be interesting to see Boston after the apocalypse, I expect it to be wicked cool.
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| Dawn checks a damaged car |
About the only thing I managed to complete was a ruined car, a VW Bug. I found it for cheap, as it was already broken, missing the doors. It wasn't very hard to make look much worse. I am very happy with the damaged windows, I think they look like they have 'spiderwebbed' like safety glass is supposed to when broken.
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| A box. There is a game inside. |
In more zombie related news, I did get a copy of Zombie 15' and have unboxed it. It is an interesting concept, with the game played in real time. Each mission has a time limit, and the game comes with a CD with three different timed tracks (with zombie groans signaling an increase in the 'horde') at different time intervals.
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| Zombie 15' Heroes |
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| Heroes next to a WF survivor, a LNOE zombie and a Reaper Horace Jackson |
The minis for the zombies look okay, and I think will scale well for 28mm. The survivors/heroes are lacking a bit in detail, and are on the small side. They are supposed to be kids or teens, but I don't know if even a good paint job will make them fit in well for miniature gaming. I'm hoping to get a chance to play it in the next couple of weeks. I will post a game report once I get a chance to play it. I wish it had an option for solo play.
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| One behemoth, 33 of each of the others... |
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| Next to the LNOE zombie and Jackson again. |
I have a ton of projects underway, hopefully I'll get something done and get a game in as well.
Oh, and this craziness:
Kung Fury!
Zombies look like the will mix quite well :) F4 looks cool. Don't forget there was ornithopters in F2 and BoS airships in Fallout Tactics it fits I reckon.
ReplyDeleteThey should mix in fairly well, once painted, most of them will be just fine. Some are a bit 'cartoony' which I don't care for, but still useful.
DeleteI just hope they don't go too goofy with the airship. I'm sure it will be fine.
Fallout 4 should be good something to look forward to. While never a fan of the "Mad" huge zombie tanks and the like the rest look ok and will bulk out the horde.
ReplyDeleteYeah, to be honest, I wanted the zombies just to add some more bodies to the horde, and these fit the bill. Getting a game with them was a bonus!
DeleteAh, yet another zombie game that is new to me? I thought that I was fairly clued in to the genre, but yet again I must show my ignorance :-( .
ReplyDeleteAs Clint says, the regular zombies and survivors look very compatible with "regular" figures (not Horace Jackson, obviously!) But I'm not keen on the "behemoth" concept either, though the figure looks well sculpted...
I hadn't heard of this one either. I came across it in a game store, and decided to take a chance. I figured the worst case I still got 100 zombie figs...
DeleteI'm not sure about the survivors, I may try and paint them up, just to see if they can be made to look a touch better.
Thanks for bringing this game to my attention, Steve. It had somehow passed me by. I could certainly find uses for the figures in other games, especially Zombicide with its many variant zombie types.
ReplyDeleteFor the figs alone, it seems to be worth it. I'll have a game recap up soon. It actually is pretty decent game on its own as well...
DeleteI like your beat up bug dude!
ReplyDeleteThat game sounds hella cool and the mini's would make nice teen adventurers. The zombies seemed to scale well and you can never have too many zombies.
My son and I played the ass out of Fallout 3 and New Vegas getting the game of the year editions with all the dlc, they were great games.
Thanks! It was mostly destroyed when I got it. We'll see if the figs turn into decent survivors.
DeleteI have enjoyed every version of Fallout (I loved Wasteland, back in the day) each one for different reasons. I am sure F4 will continue the recent tradition of good games.