I am also looking forward to Darwin's World. I'm hoping that I can get it as a Yule gift for myself.
But I think you can play any version of GW in the grim and gritty fashion if you choose. The Alternity version was a failure for me because of what it left out. I still think that 4th edition was the closest to GW perfection for me.
Ultimately it all depends on what you do with the rules.
I think an Albedo/GW cross-over would be intersting...
I think you can have a serious GW that still contains humor. I ran a three+ year 3rd edition campaign that had both. I even tossed in a bit of mystery as well.
The party Pure Strain Human pulls the mask off of the villain...
All the PC's: "Why it's really the old mutant Carruthers!"
"Yeah, and I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling Sleeths!"
Every game of Gamma World I've played in has been both funny and dead serious. Funny, when you find a broken Record player, and the PC's have to figure out what the huge horn is for. Dead Serious, when the 8 ft. tall mutant plant with the Mark VII fusion rifle blows a chunk out of the nearest PC.
The party Pure Strain Human pulls the mask off of the villain...
All the PC's: "Why it's really the old mutant Carruthers!"
"Yeah, and I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling Sleeths!"
Every game of Gamma World I've played in has been both funny and dead serious. Funny, when you find a broken Record player, and the PC's have to figure out what the huge horn is for. Dead Serious, when the 8 ft. tall mutant plant with the Mark VII fusion rifle blows a chunk out of the nearest PC.
