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I like Robot Commando and actually have a soft spot for Space Assassin as it was:
a) The second FF I read and the first Sci Fi FF gamebook I read.
b) Had a selection of weapons with options opening up soe tactical decisions.
c) Some very nice set pieces (the biosphere in the ship and the tank battle)
d) Some great opponents (the 6 armed god anyone? What about the Zark that gives you a riddle before it zaps you?)
e) The fact that you could blow up the ship and that the builders of the ship were stupid enough to leave a self destruct activation mechanism in a random part of the ship, completely unguarded. I know this counts as a failure and that the book says that Cyrus's virus would be spread far and wide, but come on people, it happens IN SPACE. You know what the probability of hitting a bloody great asteroid the size of a house is in space? INFINTESIMAL, even in the asteroid field between Mars and Jupiter (Up yours, C3PO. Han obviously said 'Nver tell me the odds' because the odds were WRONG!) so a minute virus, surviving in the massive radiation of space and penetrating a planet's atmosphere or a spaceship's hull is never going to happen.
f) The conversations with the pilot. When I was a kid, I wished for a friend I could have those kind of conversations with.
After Space Assassin, the lethal phaser fights of Starship Traveller put me off, but I did like having a crew. I did like Rebel Planet for its mystery element and STar Strider for its dystopian, wacky world building.
I'll admit that I've not atually read Rings of Kether - it's the one FF book I've never read, despite having it for 12 years. I need to get onto that.
Statistics: Posted by Slloyd14 — Fri Jul 29, 2016 8:49 pm
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