Review: Knights of Cydonia

Forum; Invision Power Board

Future Earth.

The idea of a futuristic version of Earth that has been ruined by mankind's own actions has been done before, and there are several films that also use the idea of a government controlling the remaining population. While this idea has been seen before in other media, there are not many RPGs that tackle this situation and 'future earth' RPGs are not that common.

The rules state that the RPG has a rating of "L3-S2-V3", and explains that a fade to black policy is used for more mature scenes. Personally, I am not familar with that format of rating and I doubt all visitors to the site will be either. So either a brief explaination or a link to something that can tell the visitor what exactly that rating is would be benficial.

25

About May 2010.

Intermediate to advanced.

2-5 paragraphs.

Between 1 to 3 posts a day, spread out across a couple of days.

Original and Pre-mades/adoptables.

I like the layout of the site; it's simple and easy to follow. The information sections are nicely laid out and it's not at all difficult to find things. The only suggestion I have is moving the character section above the RP section so that it sits with the rest of the information. It was a bit confusing trying to find it at first as generally most RPGs have it near the top/before the RP sections. While it is nice to do things your own way it is sometimes best to place things where people expect to find them.

Nothing is too cluttered and everything is clearly labelled. Visitors can either use the board index to find what they want, or use the handy navigation menu on the right hand side which takes them straight to the relevant page.

The first glimpse of the plot is in the welcome box at the top of the forum, and it gives a little taster of what the RPG is about. It also provokes some questions such as what is 'Euphoria' and 'the Good Life Program'? As the terms are bolded the visitors eye is drawn towards them, and this suggests that they are important. It might be worth while explaining a little more about these terms or linking them relevant information pages so that visitors can quickly look and understand what relevance they have to the RPG.

Once a visitor begins to look deeper into the information of the RPG, there is a full recount of the plot, which is easy to understand and descriptive without being too cluttered.

There is plenty of information available without a visitor feeling too overwelmed. The Admin has covered the expected topics as well as some that you might not likely expect, such as information about the animals that occupy the dessert wasteland that earth has become.

The Admin's replies are prompt, polite and descriptive.

There is an application template to be submitted. It's a little unclear as to where it is to be posted, the topic does not request for the application to be posted as a new topic or just as a reply to that post.

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