"The novel "Zoo" as a game." Topic
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| The Shadow | 09 Oct 2012 8:11 a.m. PST |
I just finished "Zoo" by James Partterson and Michael Ledwidge. The story involves a change in our ecology that causes mammals to attack humans. Without giving away the plot, animals all over the world, both domestic and wild, begin to act strangely and then band together to attack and savagely dismember any humans that they can find. If you've read "Zoo" you know that there are plot holes that you can drive a truck through, but it's a fast read and it offers interesting ideas for gaming. Animals of different species working together against humans can be formidable. For instance, apes climbing through high windows and opening doors to let swarms of rats and packs of dogs into buildings and apartments in a city would be tough to fight. Add swarms of bats taking out aircraft and whales sinking small boats and you have a lot of possibilities to consider. |
| BigNickR | 09 Oct 2012 11:29 a.m. PST |
I first heard about this through Howard, on one of his reviews over at Schlock Mercenary. link He -NEVER- posts negative reviews, and this one was scathing… ..Is it wrong that when I read the author the first thing that came to mind was the cardboard cutout that stared next to the sock puppet in those "twilight" movies? |
| Happy Little Trees | 09 Oct 2012 12:08 p.m. PST |
When it came out there were a lot of TV ads touting this as "The book James Patterson was born to write." And while it is very readable-that ad disinclines me to read anything else, if this is his best.
[Although I wonder if he has a lot of ghostwriters and just puts his name on the books.] |
| The Shadow | 09 Oct 2012 1:58 p.m. PST |
""He -NEVER- posts negative reviews, and this one was scathing" LOL! I never said that it was an instant classic. I said that it offers some interesting scenarios. |
| tnjrp | 09 Oct 2012 10:45 p.m. PST |
I suppose you can make a survival horror scenario out of it -- nutty as it is, tho less nutty than the ever popular zombie apocalypse -- for fairly cheap if you use plastic super market animals and don't get hung up on their sizes (which tend to be all over the place). I suspect fairly few miniature gamers have enough regular, mundane animal miniatures in a given scale to mount one. |
 Legion 4  | 12 Oct 2012 8:52 a.m. PST |
Apes, Zombies, Aliens, Animals, etc. … just twists on a storyline … |
| Artraccoon | 12 Oct 2012 6:39 p.m. PST |
"Day Of The Animals"…redux. |
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