Archive for July 30th, 2008

Back in the 1980s, I was drooling over the boardgame Space Crusade, a game from the Warhammer 40k franchise. But in the 1990s, when the trading card games like Magic: The Gathering were all the rage, a card game has drawn my attention. Its name? Doomtrooper. It’s a trading card game from the Mutant Chronicles franchise. Then snowball effect came along. I have gotten my hands on the RPG sourcebook. I have fallen in love, and Mutant Chronicles turned out to be the RPG I played the most along with Dungeons & Dragons and Legend of the Five Rings.

Then the franchise slipped off the radars because of the misfortune of its publishers (the cancellation of its MMORPG just did not help). However, a strong community of players (especially those from Europe) refused to let it die and kept the flame burning. The internet helped the communities to provide help for each other, then a new edition of the game, along with a movie has been announced.

The new Mutant Chronicles. Less BIG shoulderpads. MORE grit.

For those who will go see the movie, I’ll tell you this: If you were a player, don’t expect too much and take it as a separate entity, just like how Burton’s Batman is so different in flair and style from Nolan’s Batman. If you never played the game, just know that beneath the shallow B-movie shell lies an ambitious universe that hold strokes of genius that set it apart from its concurrent, Warhammer 40k.

So how Mutant Chronicles has come out as 40k clone but has managed to get an identity on its own? Why do I like it more than Warhammer 40k?

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