Editing Dark Future

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Is super awesome. This page however, is not. It needs help. Read some of the books. Seriously - there is a book series published under the collective "Dark Future" heading that's still easily available on Amazon, and for cheap - give them a read, they are good, stupid, fun:  Ninja killer Ferrari nuns from Rome. Demon credit cards. Machine guns on every car. Psycho killer chick protagonists and a native american hero named Two-Dogs-Fucking. Elvis is a Special Forces veteran mercenary.

None of that was a joke. Seriously, this game is sick and so is its fluff. As well being Mad Max AF, it also has a strong [[Fallout]] 3/4 feel (in terms of its alternate timeline, radiation everywhere, taking place in fucked up cities, gribblies in the Wasteland vibe). I guess you could also watch Death Race for inspiration, in that the game is based heavily around modified cars blasting seven kinds of hell out of each other with bolted-on machine guns. [[GW]] discontinued it when they decided to focus solely on [[Warhammer]], and when they realised everyone was just using converted Matchbox cars rather than their own bespoke models.

Check out ~~the actual~~ a previous version of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dark_Future&oldid=1018955827 Wikipedia page] - it has a surprisingly huge amount of info on the fluff.

==Game Play==
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The game itself is a 2+ player board game, with the board itself being made up of straight or curved track segments, which players set up to form a customisable playing area. The track segments are then split into lanes (each with speed limits), and boxes - these determine how far players move each turn. The faster you move, the more actions a player can take - but, if you take a corner section too quickly, physics kick in and you (probably) kick the bucket.

The game is a chase game - one player is the chaser, the other the chased. Cars can take offensive weapons, as well as defensive loadouts - so the game sort of turns into a post-apocalyptic Mario Kart.

There are/were lots of car customisation options, and GW later released rules for pedestrian combat focused on gangs - but this sucked and should generally be disregarded. Dark Future is all about the cars.

==Playing Dark Future today==
You can still find copies online for around £70. Pretty steep, but if you're into old-Skool GW and 80's punk, you'll love it. YMMV, however.

'''Dark Future: Blood Red States''' is a video game that released for PC in 2019. You've got a good deal of customization for your ride and a mix between strategy and auto-combat a la Twisted Metal. 

==External Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130827075514/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1340008_Dark_Future.pdf Wayback of the Rulebook from GW's website]

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