Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game
{{Short description|Collectible card game}}
{{Infobox game
| subject_name= Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game
| image_link= Aliens_Predator_cardback.jpg
| image_caption= Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game card back
| designer= Ran Ackels, David Hewitt, Paul Brown, and John Myler
| publisher= Precedence Entertainment and Harper Prism
| players= 2 or more
| setup_time= 5-10 minutes
| playing_time= variable
| random_chance= Some
| skills= Card playing
Arithmetic
| footnotes=
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Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game is a three-player collectible card game (CCG) that was published in 1997. It was considered one of the more successful CCGs during the late 1990s and was Harper Prism's first foray into the CCG market.{{Citation |last=Frank |first=Jane |title=Role-Playing Game and Collectible Card Game Artists : A Biographical Dictionary |date=2012|page=49 |isbn=978-0786446100 }}{{Citation| last =Brown| first =Timothy|authorlink=Timothy B. Brown| title =Official Price Guide to Collectible Card Games| year =1999| pages =9–12}}
Publication history
Based on the Alien vs. Predator franchise created in the 1990s, Aliens Predator Customizable Card Game was published by Precedence Entertainment and Harper Prism.{{Citation |last=Miller |first=John Jackson |authorlink=John Jackson Miller |title=Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist & Price Guide, Second Edition | year=2003 |pages=53–56 |postscript=.}} Card art featured photographic stills from the film franchise. The 363-card set{{cite magazine|title=Spawn your brains out|last=Wilkie|first=Jon|magazine=The Duelist|issue=25|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=91–93|date=May 1998}} was sold in three 60-card starter decks (focused on one of Alien, Predator, and Marine players) having 50 fixed cards and 10 random rare and uncommon cards, and in 15-card booster packs.
The expansion set Alien Resurrection based on the film of the same name was planned for early 1998,{{cite magazine|title=Game news & updates|last=Varney|first=Allen|authorlink=Allen Varney|magazine=The Duelist|issue=19|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=77|date=October 1997}} focusing on the Marines.{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=30|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=76|date=October 1998}} It was delayed as the company was acquiring rights for the use of actor's likenesses for the photograph still images from the film,{{cite magazine|title=Game news & updates|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=29|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|page=92|date=September 1998}} which they had cleared by October 1998. The set was produced using "a full library of film stills", instead of the grainier publicity photographs used in the original set.{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=32|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=78|date=December 1998}}
By August 1998, there were plans for three expansion sets.{{cite magazine|title=Game news & updates|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=28|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|page=69|date=August 1998}} Development of the second set, named Atmosphere, was completed in March 1999 and focused on the film Predator.{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=36|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|page=73|date=April 1999}} The third set, Cityscape, was based on the subsequent film Predator 2.
Gameplay
This is a three-player game. Each player, equipped with a game deck, takes on the role of either the Alien, the Predator or a Colonial Marine. Each role has slightly different rules which lead to different strategies. Each player plays location cards, then moves from card to card, using decoy tokens to hide real movement. When each location is searched, character and equipment cards can be played to give in-game advantages. When two players meet in the same location, combat is resolved with a six-sided die.
Reception
In the March 1998 edition of Dragon (Issue #245), Allen Varney found the game to be "exciting... easy to learn, flexible in its variety of scenarios, and fast playing." Varney concluded that it was an "endlessly replayable, adrenaline-pumping game. Bravo!"{{cite journal|last=Varney|first=Allen|authorlink=Allen Varney| date=March 1998 |title=Roleplaying Reviews|journal=Dragon|publisher=TSR, Inc.|issue=245|pages=104}}
Christopher Wilkie, in a review in the May 1998 issue of The Duelist, stated that the rules were unclear at times, that differentiating between the numbers for power and speed on the cards was difficult, and that the card art is "sub par" and at times blurry. He also stated that the game is easy to learn.
Reviews
References
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External links
- {{bgg|5900|Aliens Predator}}
{{Alien vs. Predator (franchise)}}
Category:Alien vs. Predator (franchise) games