It was quite open in what it was trying to do: It wanted to provide a game experience that was akin to Space Hulk and it wrapped up that idea in a really rather groovy theme with some excellent artwork and background fluff. While Space Hulk was out of print, the first edition of Incursion came along. It removed the sand timer element for the marine player (removing all the frantic excitement and sense of urgency that came with it), changed a bunch of rules, and had a horrible flamethrower mechanism that was just fiddly. Sandwiched between those two editions was a version of the game that was pretty terrible. I was a huge fan of the first edition of the game, and I now own the super shiny third edition. However, now the campaign is over, I can write the review I wanted to. I didn't want to be accused of trying to sabotage the campaign (not that my opinions are important enough to do that), and I didn't think it would be fair to the publishers or the backers. I was reluctant to post anything negative during the Kickstarter campaign. However, I have purposefully held off doing so.
I have been itching to write this review for a while (not literally, I'm not diseased or anything). The new edition was all chromed up, with plastic miniatures (and a suitably high price tag), so I saw my trade as a way to try out the game to see if I liked it before dropping serious money.
Now, by the time this deal was agreed, I already knew that Incursion was going to get a reboot through Kickstarter, a website that allows artists to get the money they need through crowd-funding. I wasn't particularly fond of Age of Mythology, so I was happy to make the trade. I finally got my chance to own it when I was approached by someone on who wanted to trade for my copy of Age of Mythology. It's a game that I have been interested in trying for quite some time, but I was never prepared to pay the high asking price to get a copy.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, it fails to deliver on that promise. Incursion, or Space Hulk 2.5, is a game with a huge amount of promise. Designed by Richard Halliwell (ha ha - not really.
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