I've long been intrigued by this game, and thus bought the PDF of it a while back. I remember seeing the main rulebook and the supplements on the shelves at my local game store in the late 90's/early 2000's, so I've been vaguely aware of it for a while, but never dove into it until recently. It's interesting to me that it lasted long enough to have two editions and a range of supporting books, but once it ended, it never came back (despite its creator having remained active in RPGs).
It occupies a unique niche in RPGs -- a near-future technothriller that now would be set in an alternate past, a la Twilight: 2000 -- that not many others tried to fill. It was a like a cyberpunk game, but not quite as far in the future, and with very slightly more advanced technology than existed at the time.
The system definitely is a product of its time -- it's very detailed, and I suppose one could say that fits the genre, though it seems a bit heavy by modern standards. Maybe it's smooth in play, though. I'm more intrigued by the background, the default campaign setting (with the PCs working as operatives for a private security/investigations company), and the supplements, which look to be good resources. If I ran it today, I'd probably swap out the system with something else, and either update the setting (Millenium's Dawn?) or go the the T2K history-that-didn't-happen approach.
What's everyone else's experiences/thoughts on this game?
It occupies a unique niche in RPGs -- a near-future technothriller that now would be set in an alternate past, a la Twilight: 2000 -- that not many others tried to fill. It was a like a cyberpunk game, but not quite as far in the future, and with very slightly more advanced technology than existed at the time.
The system definitely is a product of its time -- it's very detailed, and I suppose one could say that fits the genre, though it seems a bit heavy by modern standards. Maybe it's smooth in play, though. I'm more intrigued by the background, the default campaign setting (with the PCs working as operatives for a private security/investigations company), and the supplements, which look to be good resources. If I ran it today, I'd probably swap out the system with something else, and either update the setting (Millenium's Dawn?) or go the the T2K history-that-didn't-happen approach.
What's everyone else's experiences/thoughts on this game?