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Pyramid Review

Blowing Up Hong Kong (for Feng Shui)

Published by Atlas Games

Written by Chris Jones with Will Hindmarch

Illustrated by J. Scott Reeves

96-page softback; $19.95

As a reviewer I do not always get my facts right. On occasion I have made mistakes and I occasionally still make them. One such error appeared back in 2001 inIn Your Face Again, the scenario anthology for Feng Shui, the Hong Kong action movie RPG. In said review, I opined that Atlas Games should take the time to update the game from the end of the period when Hong Kong was administered by the British to take into account the fact that the city and territories were then and now back under Chinese control. Quite rightly I was corrected at the time by Bruce Baugh, that the rulebook made clear that it was not going to happen. The Contemporary juncture would always remain 1996, just as the other junctures -- AD 69, 1850, and 2056, would not advance in time either.

All that changes with the release of Blowing Up Hong Kong, a guide to the city that lies at the heart of the game. Besides describing the city and its surrounding environs, the major point of the book is that it updates the Contemporary juncture to 2005 and, in doing so, places the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region firmly under Chinese authority. This updating only applies to the Contemporary juncture, and none of the other three have been moved on in time. And while the book takes a look back at the city's history as well as pushing its future forward . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.


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Article publication date: October 21, 2005

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