What is Gear Krieg Like? and is it Pulpy enough?

[Albert_Fish]

I have heard of this game, apparently a pencil and paper game and a taple top war game. I thought it was an alternate WWII, like Weird Wars but it seems i was wrong. I could hardly believe that it is supposedly pulpy in feel. Has anyone played it? does it have a decent treatment of the genre? i am interested in any sort of pulp game so should i be interested here? is it Comparable to Weird wars by Pinnacle or Godlike by Hobgobblyn ( www.godlikerpg.com ). what sort of rules does it ue? anything innovative? is it too expensive? anythign even reviews by others would be helpful.
thanks guys.
edited for stupid smelling mistakes

 

[Wil]

I never picked up Gear Krieg, but I know the system inside and out. The system is very, very solid - fast, intuitive and well-written. Gear Krieg in and of itself started out as a fan project for Heavy Gear, in an alternate WWII with superscience. I don't know how well it simulates the pulp genre, but all of Dream Pod 9's games are good and I can only assume that it is as well.

 

[Desdichado]

Maybe I just haven't had enough sleep, but I say Gear Krieg and for some reason I initially thought it said Greg Kinear. He's not particularly pulpy, even in Mystery Men!

 

[Ayrk]

Most of my experience is with the tabletop WWII tactical game.

The deeper into the war you get, the more pulpy everything becomes. It starts out with just walkers (called gears) entering into the war, soon Tesla cannons appear on tanks, German rockettroops fly across the sky, US soldiers wear portable helicopter backpacks, some gears become amphious or have their own helicopter blades, the Germans create a form of zombie and have remote control spider-like mines.

I would recommend looking through the SuperScience book for the RPG, that should tell you if it is as pulpy as you like.

 

[Eudaimic]

Though I own the GK rulebook and have read it, I've never played it. But I have extensive experience with Heavy Gear, DP9's primary system, and it uses the same mechanics (the Silhuette System) which is really really good.

And the quality of all DP9's books are always over the top good.

I found out though that I'm not much of a pulp kinda guy, so if you wanna buy a book... (It's 100% un-used, I've read through it once)