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The mechanics remind me a lot of Gears Of War by FF. Not quite the same, but pretty close. Luckily I rather liked that game.

Sounds like it might be a fun game.

I must say that I am stil disappointed that it is not a miniatures game, or at the very least a board game with miniatures.

I'm still hoping a miniatures game eventually comes out of this...

~Eric

Sounds....

like a board game of Half-Life.

All your missing is Fox Maulder and Scully and you can call in Kolchack to drive the car.

Good play by play on the game, BTW. Interesting, but I'm not a fan of this one.

That board is too small for the cut outs, and the game would have been better with Variable sized tiles, ALA any of the other selections of tiled games out there with... stuff.

Interesting spin on the game, though, needs a 2 minute stop watch to go along with all of the other crazyness going on there.


The pomp and lipgloss for this game is a bit mutch, and for being so bang up, its pretty darned plain.

Grot 6 wrote:Sounds....

like a board game of Half-Life.

All your missing is Fox Maulder and Scully and you can call in Kolchack to drive the car.

Good play by play on the game, BTW. Interesting, but I'm not a fan of this one.

That board is too small for the cut outs, and the game would have been better with Variable sized tiles, ALA any of the other selections of tiled games out there with... stuff.

Interesting spin on the game, though, needs a 2 minute stop watch to go along with all of the other crazyness going on there.


The pomp and lipgloss for this game is a bit mutch, and for being so bang up, its pretty darned plain.

Almost exactly my reaction, just swap "Half-Life" for "Fallout" (before leveling up to the point of idiocy) or, depending on flavor, maybe "Eternal Darkness."

I thought Level 7 was going to be a 'universe'.

This is Level 7 [escape]. Could be a primer for Level 7 [skirmish]...

Time will tell.

IceSword wrote: Level 7 [skirmish]...

Where you push huge cards around a table and refer to 28mm miniatures to determine the cards stats and abilities.

Haha: http://level7film.com/

edit.

Hollywood, here he comes!

Wow, full of clichés, including, but not limited to,


If you like B or C TV sci-fi, it might be worth a watch, but I cut my losses at around the halfway mark. It reeks of low budget horror: Not terrible, but predictable writing and lacking the budget for effective eye candy. There might have been something original there, but I didn't stay long enough to find out.

What also bothered me was..

The over use of military jargon, the starship trooper tough guy talk, the swish of equipment as they ran and those plastic bags annoyed me the feth out of me. STOP DOING THIS ALL THE TIME YOU HARPY:

SON OF A...!

I don't know, guys, I thought it was a good X-Files spoof. I could see Wilson at the helm of the next Scary Movie.

-DE- wrote:SON OF A...!

I don't know, guys, I thought it was a good X-Files spoof. I could see Wilson at the helm of the next Scary Movie.

I'm not sure if you're serious-- did you think it was supposed to be funny? Seemed like they were taking themselves seriously, to me...

spiralingcadaver wrote:

-DE- wrote:SON OF A...!

I don't know, guys, I thought it was a good X-Files spoof. I could see Wilson at the helm of the next Scary Movie.

I'm not sure if you're serious-- did you think it was supposed to be funny? Seemed like they were taking themselves seriously, to me...

TOO serious. That dialogue made me flinch. "GRRRR, grubs." and "GRRRRRR bugs."

H.B.M.C. wrote:As probably the only tile-o-phile at Dakka, someone who has bought games for no other reason than to get the tiles that they come with, even this holds no interest for me.

Boring square single-room tiles that are bland and don’t even interlock. Not every tile-set can be the pure genius of, say, the DOOM board game tiles... but some creativity would be nice. Even the Gears of War tiles are more interesting than these.

And with Zombicide and Sedition Wars I think I’ve got my fix of tile-sets for this year... well... until all the Underdark D&D stuff comes out.

Negative, HBMC. I still own a massive set of Warhammer Fantasy Quest.

Let's take a look at this game as we might do if we were on Boardgamegeek, and not a minis-oriented forum. Overall, the game looks...meh. I mean, I already HAVE a ton of 'semi-cooperative survival horror' board games available to me. And, frankly speaking, if they're trying to waltz into the board game world, they need to step up the ROI.

For $55, I can tap any of the large-format board games out there, which have tons of pieces, and massive quality, from several dozen game companies with proven track records. Or I can grab several smaller games for the same price. I will note that the box contents in the picture above made me think that the game would sell for about $30.

21st century board games have seen a massive renaissance, and the competition is FIERCE.

A handful of generic/square board tiles, some standups, cards, and tokens does NOT a $55 game make.

"THEY DO THAT BRAIN THING!"

I expect this short to become a veritable treasure trove of hilarious movie quotes... if only it had more corny dialogue along the lines of "It's a weapon, it's really powerful. Especially against living things."

Some more Level 7 spanking: http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/insider-6-13-2012

well...ouch. that's not good.

they didnt even spring the money for Christopher Walken


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Wilson really needs to read Danse Macabre by Stephen King...

This seems like a pitch made to out of touch executives, possibly by an out of touch executive. Is this what happens when you run a succesful company for a decade or so? You go bananas and assume that your dull horror/sci-fi "world" is money in the bank?

I saw Wilson's name on that site three times, just how bananas is that?

Bakerofish wrote:well...ouch. that's not good.
they didnt even spring the money for Christopher Walken

They approached him, but he turned them down. Said it needed more cowbell and Wilson wouldn't have any of it, the auteur he is.

well, I guess I've seen much worse short films. Not entirely sure what the point is, however. It's standard "Grey aliens working with secret government types in secret government base" trope, this could just as easily been the opening scene of a X files or Outer Limits or Doctor Who or a dozen other shows and I wouldn't blink an eye. I don't see how it adds anything to to the product, it's too cheap and unintentionally campy to be a really exciting intro to the "world" they are "creating" and yet it's not campy enough to really make it fun. It takes itself too seriously for how cheap and mediocre it is.

By the end of it, I have no more desire to play the game (let alone shell out any money for it) than I did before, and perhaps a little less now that I know just how generic the setting is. It's not bad, it's just so damned mediocre. They should have just taken the money it cost to produce this short film and upped the quality of the game components.

BrookM wrote:Haha: http://level7film.com/

edit.

Hollywood, here he comes!

Wow.

I say again, Wow...

Well, looks like I have the answer to my prior question...

Is he so convinced this RE retread is a goldmine that he wants to be able to spin it off personally?

Apparently... yeah, he is. Yikes!

Is it possible that this is all some enourmous, Andy Kaufman-esque joke?

With a generic intro such as this..

Plunge into the dark heart of a sinister world where modern-day conspiracies
collide with the stuff of nightmares.

More than a film. More than a game. More than an online radio series.
More than you dare to imagine.

Face the darkness and experience a new level of fear—LEVEL 7.

THEY'RE DEAD SEROUS!!!1!

BrookM wrote:With a generic intro such as this..

Plunge into the dark heart of a sinister world where modern-day conspiracies
collide with the stuff of nightmares.

More than a film. More than a game. More than an online radio series.
More than you dare to imagine.

Face the darkness and experience a new level of fear—LEVEL 7.

THEY'RE DEAD SEROUS!!!1!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are. If they aren't, it's way too deadpan...

Ugh... I hope the property is separate enough that it tanking doesn't effect Privateer Press.

This looks to be...not good, to put it as diplomatically as I can.

~Eric

Maybe Matt Wilson is trolling us all super hard.

BrookM wrote:What also bothered me was..

The over use of military jargon, the starship trooper tough guy talk, the swish of equipment as they ran and those plastic bags annoyed me the feth out of me. STOP DOING THIS ALL THE TIME YOU HARPY:

Cant view it from work, but was the term "stay frosty people" or a variation on that theme used? Because that would be awesome.

BrookM wrote:With a generic intro such as this..

Plunge into the dark heart of a sinister world where modern-day conspiracies
collide with the stuff of nightmares.

More than a film. More than a game. More than an online radio series.
More than you dare to imagine.

Face the darkness and experience a new level of fear—LEVEL 7.

THEY'RE DEAD SEROUS!!!1!

I will say, for a "Plunge into the dark heart of a sinister world", it's got some damn funny comedy cuts.

I laughed out loud in some places. In fact, I find it difficult to imagine watching the scene with the guy waiting for the elevator in the "bio-hazard" suit and see his expression without laughing.

Wow.... this is like old SciFi channel movie of the week bad....
MST3K bad....

Didn't really laugh out loud, just a feeling of horror. That kind of horror you have when you lost 10 minutes of your life that you can never have back.

There's so much wrong with that trailer I don't even know where to start.

My 1 positive thing: the CGI effects looked at least somewhat professional. But they were the only element of the trailer that can claim this honor.

Taarnak wrote:Ugh... I hope the property is separate enough that it tanking doesn't effect Privateer Press.

This looks to be...not good, to put it as diplomatically as I can.

~Eric

They tend to keep their properties separate, money wise. Like, they fund them
separately so their returns only impact those lines.