Review: API Worldwide: Europe
Name: API Worldwide: Europe
Author: Owen Edwards, Eloy Lasanta, Darren Pearce
Publisher: Third Eye Games
Category: Role-Playing Game Supplement
Cost: $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-9819874-1-5
Source: Complimentary item for review
From The Publisher
API Worldwide: Europe is the second regional sourcebook for Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. It is a complete guide to adventures set in the European Union and other European locales. Details provided on the various oaths the company has made with their demon comrades… and the lengths they go to keep the Earth safe. The secrets of Europe await within.
Thoughts
API Worldwide: Europe is Third Eye Games’ 3nd sourcebook for Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. API, of course, is Third Eye Games’ fantastic flagship title that mixes the best elements of The X-Files and Hellboy together in a tight setting that is guaranteed to provide hours upon hours of gaming enjoyment.
This 91-page book contains 4 chapters (Europe at a Glance, Inside The Company, Allies and Enemies, and Mechanical Wonders), a 5-page introductory fluff piece (Get Your Hands Off My Clock!), a 5-page adventure titled “Elsewhere?”, and of course, an index.
The introductory piece not only brings the API universe in touch with the reader, but it ties in with the adventure at the end of the book. If I had one complaint about it – it would simply be that the story is too short. I’d love to see an all-story API release in the future, because it is a great and believable setting.
The first chapter is an introduction to Europe, with brief descriptions of different areas and notes of interest. Overall, everything seems quite well-researched and reads like a pocket travel guide (replacing pubs with vampires, of course).
API Worldwide: Europe’s second chapter is a very detailed look into the history of their worldwide headquarters in London. This chapter is very Torchwood-like in inspiration and is the strong-point of the book itself.
The third chapter goes into the major European factions and how they relate to API.
The fourth and final chapter contains new rules as well as new monsters and four new playable races.
Third Eye Games has changed the previously dark artwork to provide a more vivid and eye-friendly book. While I don’t really think that it was too much of an issue in the past, the change is noticeable and for the better.
API Worldwide: Europe takes Third Eye Games to a whole new level of awesomeness. I cannot possibly recommend a better product for not only playing fun, but just simple reading enjoyment.
