Learn More About Mantic’s Survivors For Mars Attacks
September 21, 2013 by brennon
Mantic are keeping the Mars Attacks previews coming with some looks at more of the poor human survivors who have been dragged into the shenanigans of alien invasion...
"Ashley thought she had it all planned out. She knew which colleges she wanted to apply for by her first day of high school. She’d plotted a career plan before her fourteenth birthday. By the night of her prom, she could have told you every significant event in her life up to retirement."
"If you ever went to the Greenville Tavern, you’d know Joe. He was the kind of guy who had his own seat at the bar, and was there every night. Buy him a drink and he’d tell you how he had it all – His own auto repair shop, a beautiful wife, two kids, a home in the suburbs with a deck and a pool. He was living the American dream! Then he’ll go quiet, and finish his bourbon, and order another one. Good luck getting him to tell you what changed, or why he’s worked almost a dozen jobs in half a dozen towns over the past five years."
Some pretty interesting characters to look forwards to. It's always nice to know that these poor innocent human beings are going to be embroiled in some utter chaos when the game actually hits. Also if you remember Buddy and Brandi see what you think of their renders below...
Bring on the game and the almost guaranteed mass of extra rewards that will come with a Mars Attacks Kickstarter from Mantic. With these guys being able to push out practically everything for DreadBall and Deadzone on the way it looks like they have got the formula worked out when it comes to fundraising.
However, is a Mars Attacks game going to interest you? We have seen a lot of hype about it around but how many of you are fans of the background and looking forwards to this? This isn't to attack the game in any way, I'm just interested to see what folk are looking forwards to about this.
Will you be funding this?
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yes.
Probably not as my funds and space are limited – I backed Dreadball and Deadzone and have loads of that plus (and I blame Warren, Dave and the warlord guys for this) my oldest wargaming paradigm of WW2 has been reawakening in Flames of War and Bolt Action. I like the idea of Mars Attacks and I can see it attracting a lot of interest – especially with Mantic’s value for money and JT’s rule writing skills.
I know what you mean by space and funds. I backed to projects on KS and just salivating for them to come to my home. Wife will kill me if I back another.
It all depends on the gameplay. Since JT is writing it I’m hopeful…and Mantic does some amazing Kickstarters.
I’ll most likely throw some money their way but will probably not go too crazy. I have so many other games to support as it is.
Probably not at this stage. Wasn’t really bothered with the IP, though Mantic has done a good job of piquing my interest with the teasers so the odds are increasing… think I’d only jump on board if there was a really good deal to be had or if the rules seem really fun (at the moment, the only news I’ve heard on that front is Deadzone-lite which since I’m already getting DZ isn’t a big draw ;-).).
Definitely a “wait and see” for me too. I’ve a lot of Dreadball, Deadzone and Myth due to land at some point, on top of a lot of other projects. The concepts look good but do I really need a game that’s a lot like Deadzone on top of Deadzone?
I’m keeping an open mind and will watch this with (possibly detached) interest.
Incidentally, you can see painted versions of the survivors plus early versions of the scenery over at Jake’s blog if you look closely at the photos of his latest post 😉
http://Www.quirkworthy.com