Review Submitted By: Rin
Author Status: Player
Started on X-Men Movieverse: X-Factor: 2005
Submission Date: Aug 7, 2007
TMC Listing: X-Men Movieverse: X-Factor
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Rin]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
The game is fairly small and based in New York City, so the
backdrop is a cool 8 million people. It has a fairly even mix
of original and feature characters, with the type of character
not being a bar or necessarily an entry to RP. The game is
based on limited consent, so there is very little code, and
players are expected to volunteer for and be reasonable about
consequences to actions, with staff mediation as necessary.
That means if you betray Magneto, you will probably die,
although people will usually bend to try to prevent character
death if they can help it.
The size of the game can be a bar, since it's small, but
the roleplay quality is excellent. Since it isn't an
uberpower Marvel comics game, but rather a movieverse game,
it is based in real world pseudo-science. The concentration
is on characters rather than events, so while things can
blow up and there is the occasional violent showdown between
rival factions, the emphasis is on ordinary people surrounded
by extraordinary circumstances. This means that Mary Sue
floofy sunshine superhero tee-hee-hee will probably not make
an appearance and save the day. Sometimes, good guys lose!
Sometimes, everybody does.
As a result, the game can be gritty, but also (since it's a
reflection of real life with a twist) occasionally hilarious,
and sometimes downright ridiculous, in a good way. There is
a rich history detailed online and on the web site that people
can tap into, and the game is newbie friendly, though again,
it can be hard to get started due to the game's smaller,
more intimate size.
This is a game for people who like pure roleplay, without the
rolling of dice, and who are interested in making the Marvel
movieverse realistic and 3-dimensional, with all of reality's
warts and flaws.
