Pyramid Review
Full Clip: Hong Kong Action RPG
Published by Deep7
Written by James Stubbs with Colin Fisk
11-page PDF document; $3.95
For the latest in its 1PG line of RPGs, publisher Deep7 has turned to Hong Kong cinema, with its thrillers and action movies in the style of director John Woo. Players get to take on the roles of inscrutable tough guys, gangsters with attitude, and all-too independent cops in a world of honor, the importance of your word, love, romance and flashy displays of visceral violence. Clearly inspired by films such as Hard Boiled, Bullet to the Head, and A Better Tomorrow, Full Clip could just as easily handle Hollywood action thrillers as well.
Full Clip comes as a 2.01 meg Adobe Acrobat PDF file, compressed into a 1.92 meg ZIP file and available for download from the Deep7 website. The PDF document is eleven pages long, and consists of a full-color cover, a contents page, a combined character sheet and explanation of character creation, a sheet of notes for the referee, and five scenarios, each also a page long. A vibrant orange-red color scheme is used throughout for the layout, along with pieces of cartoon-style clipart that appropriately illustrate each of the various scenarios. The full-color cover shows gun- and knife- wielding cops and gangsters in a variety of threatening poses, but despite Full Clip drawing upon Hong Kong cinema for its source and inspiration, the individuals on the cover are anything but Asian!
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Article publication date: September 6, 2002
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