I needed the book after seeing the preview was enough to whet an appetite ready to game on Barsoom for a much needed change of pace.

As for those who claim that the material is not all that original, I think they miss the point that the material it is based on has been begging for a game setting for almost 100 years (in the case of the stories by Burroughs). I, for one, am glad someone put out a game like this to show just how enduring the novels that started the genre of Martian tales is.

If you appreciate Burroughs, then you will appreciate this game. For all of its flaws, both the literary works and this game, it is worth having on both counts. As a gamer who prefers settings that offer something out of the ordinary all I have to add is more of this, please.

Fun take on the obligatory alternate Earth adventure. Worth a look, if you can forgive the publishers only giving you a glimpse of Vine' rather than an overview (which I'm not sure I can or not).

Considered a classic, I understand, when it was printed (and it is still highly regarded to this day) I find CACC fun and enjoyable. Isn't that what everyone looks for in a game? Whether it is or not, this is a slice of an era in superheroes where they actually put some thought into the variety of characters they were presenting & working hard not to duplicate others with their abilities & eccentricities. Does it work its magic for today? Yeah, if you're into this sort of thing. It has an innocent fun aspect I found refreshing that might actually put others off a bit when they'd rather do something grittier and darker.

More chaos & mayhem makers for V&V. That sums up this product, which presents a variety of characters worthy of anyone's supers campaign. While a couple of the characters might be laughable today (okay, they might have even been laughable when this was originally printed, too), it still offers something vibrant and new if played right.

You gotta love the 1980s! The superhero concepts and ideas would have been fun to read in a comic book, especially those presented in BATE. Something is missing, though, when you read the adventure that an actual comic would have filled in. That's when you realize it's a product designed for the gaming to fill in the details and bring it to life. Brilliant? Maybe not. But with the fun stuff in this adventure, from a space station to the sterotypical battle above the earth (it's even in the title!), it certainly takes you back to a time when that might have been all you needed for a game system to work on a sunny, breezy afternoon / evening.

I'm never disappointed with my purchases of V&V products. They each offer something interesting and new to one's campaign and ideas. SC&C comes up with some interesting villains/criminals/thugs from a variety of angles. This is how such products need to be written...graphics for each character and all the information you could ever want in just a few "text-bites". If I had a complaint with this product, it would only be that it suffers from its era as these days gamers go ga-ga over all-color books more than they do over B&W ones that think of your wallet.

I loved the comic as a teenager & I love this interpretation of the characters for a game system worthy enough to present it! The spirit of the comic is preserved and offers gamers to experience one of the more interesting comics from the 1980s that had some of the most potential with where it could have gone. It's also fun to see certain elements of the comic come to life, sometimes comically, like the idea of MEGA-MAN (which somehow seemed cooler when you're younger but doesn't age very well, in my opinion)!!!

Take a walk down memory lane! This game reminds me of everything that drew me into gaming (old school style) in the first place. While it's not perfect in the way it presents its materials and rules and makes you have to go searching without a handy summary page available, it does make up for this in its imaginative way in presenting a supers setting. It was the 1980s, and its fun to see how the games today still need to give kudos for the ones who first blazed the trails...like V&V. Even with its flaws, this game system is still much better for me than some of the ones sold today. Somehow the innocence of the comics I read as a kid remains in V&V. Not to say that other games can't capture that, but it's nice to find a game where the innocence is part of the allure of the system!

The fun continues! I enjoyed this product and appreciated the variety of monsters and beasts it offers. It definitely supports the freestyle attitude of QUESTERS without making you feel that there's going to be just one more sourcebook around the corner that you will feel compelled to buy multiple copies of because of the subliminal messages between the lines (or something). What I didn't like was that it could use more graphics for the creatures within this tome, but it's a minor quibble, really.

LOVE THIS!!!! For me, it reminds me of my favorite fantasy setting, Bill Wellingham's IRONWOOD (for THEATRIX)...and that is definitely a good thing. Tongue-in-cheek and adaptable for whatever style you'd rather have, this delivered in ways I didn't think possible when I purchased it. My only complaint is that it doesn't cover the different cultures in the setting as well as it could have done. I also would have liked to have seen a bit more character races offered right off the bat. Only a minor complaint, given the possibilities with QUESTERS and how you want to approach it.

I thought the concept was well thought out and the mechanics seem simple enough to dive right into a session. What I personally didn't like was that it was fairly text-heavy and didn't have enough graphics to break up what it was presenting enough.

ACTION! offers a system that can support a variety of settings. It's a nice little system if you haven't settled on one to focus on, but it really doesn't offer much in the way that it resolves the usual mechanics for a game being played. Lots of potential if you have the time to invest.

Nice little product to be able to use in a variety of game settings!

This might offer someone useful graphics for their sci-fi/fantasy gaming...but that someone wasn't me.

Despite the tendency to offer one style of hero / heroine in these kinds of products, I found that this offered a bit more than others - even ones you had to pay for. Ther price was unbeatable & so was the quality in a few (sadly not all) the characters. This is the one you want to "free-buy" before you look at the rest!