Mutant Chronicles
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| Designer(s) | Nils Gullikson, Michael Stenmark, Henrik Strandberg, Magnus Seter, Jerker Sojdelius, Stefan Thulin, Fredrik Malmberg |
| Publisher(s) | Target Games |
| Publication date | 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Techno-fantasy, thriller |
| System | Custom |
Mutant Chronicles is originally a traditional role-playing game developed by the Swedish company Target Games and soon to be a film starring Thomas Jane. AB (the rights to the game are now owned by Paradox Entertainment). The game is an offshoot of the earlier Mutant RYMD RPG. Swedish COG Games secured 2006 the licence rights to publish a new edition of the role-playing game, which will be published in 2007.[1]
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[edit] Story
The game takes place in a distant future, where the Earth is a long since plundered desert, and the humanity has spread to the worlds of Venus, Mars, Mercury, Luna and the Asteroid Belt.
During the centuries, the traditional nation-states of the world have merged into huge corporations, of which five are large enough to be called megacorporations: the German-styled Bauhaus, the American-influenced Capitol, the Japanese-themed Mishima, the British-inspired Imperial, and Cybertronic, all of whom use private military forces to fight for resources. Luna itself is considered to be neutral ground and is home the massive city-state known as Luna City. The other major power of this universe is the Brotherhood, a fanatical religious organisation formed to meet the threat of the Dark Legion.
The reign of the Dark Legion began as mankind set foot on Nero, a fictional 10th planet beyond the orbit of Pluto, where they discovered a citadel. As they entered the citadel, they accidentally broke the First Seal Of Repulsion, a thin ring of salt spread around the citadel. Inside, a mysterious iron plate was found, and as it was touched, the Dark Legion was brought to our dimension, and along with it, the Dark Symmetry.
The Dark Symmetry prevents computers and other electronic devices from functioning reliably, if at all, and intially caused total chaos, and then a forced adaptation of the technology used by mankind. The Dark Legion is capable of faster than light-travel possible, utilizing certain points in space, much like wormholes.
The Dark Legion is the enemy of all mankind and commands the most powerful armies of the solar system, including Legionnaires, resurrected corpses of fallen Megacorp heroes; Necromutants, hideously modified humanoids; Centurions, the lethal lieutenants of the Dark Legion; and Nepharites, fearsome, towering behemoths of unimaginable power.
[edit] Spin-offs
- Doomtrooper, a collectible card game where you command warriors, magic and resources against your opponent(s).
- Dark Eden, a second collectible card game designed by Bryan Winter based on the tribes remaining on planet Earth Genesis, an expansion set was never released.[2]
- Warzone, a Miniature wargame much like Warhammer 40,000. A Warzone real-time strategy computer game was in the process of being made but never published.
- A "Doomtroopers" videogame was released for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems.
- A trilogy of three novels set in this universe were published by Penguin Books to boost the franchise and widen the perspective of the roleplayers.
- The Siege of the Citadel was a board game where players would fight their way through a citadel filled with monsters from the Dark Legion.
- Acclaim Comics published a set of 5 Golgotha comics in 1996. Issue #5 was a Source Book with minimal info about some of the characters from the comics. Each of the comics came packaged with one of 4 promotional cards for the Doomtrooper CCG.
- Fantasy Flight Games is developing a collectible miniature game set in the Mutant Chronicles universe to be released in May 2007.[3]
- A movie, called "The Mutant Chronicles" which will be directed by Simon Hunter and starring Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Devon Aoki and Ron Perlman will reportedly be released in 2008.[4]
- Dark Horse Comics is developing a comic book series based on the upcoming movie.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Current projects. COG Games. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Winter, Bryan. Welcome to Dark Eden Central. thewinternet.com. Retrieved on January 25, 2007.
- ^ Fantasy Flight Plans First CMG. ICv2. Retrieved on September 14, 2006.
- ^ Template:Cite web The movie is described as a futuristic Saving Private Ryan.
[edit] External links
- COG Games - Creators of the new Mutant Chronicles role-playing game
- The Official Mutant Chronicles RPG Forum
- Fantasy Flight Games - Creators of the Mutant Chronicles CMG
- Mutant Chronicles the Movie - The website for the Mutant Chronicles movie
- Doomtrooper Official Website
