This is a new one for me and it seems very cool. Aussie voiceover artist and friend, Kevin Powe (@voiceover_au), put me onto this as he has the incredible honour of supplying the voice of Judge Dredd himself in this new gamebook for iOS. Dredd! It’s the first Dredd iOS gamebook and it comes from Tin Man Games. Here’s the official blurb:
Drokk! It’s an adventure game. It’s an interactive book. It’s an RPG. You are Judge Dredd, the toughest judge to patrol Mega-City One, a vast futuristic city, set in the 22nd Century!
Sector 106 of Mega-City One is short of senior Street Judges and only the most experienced Judges have been reassigned to fill this shortfall… foremost among them yourself, Dredd! What begins as a routine patrol arresting juves and skysurfers, turns into a race against time, as mysterious “Voices of Dredd” find their way into the hands of the local perps. Riding your Lawmaster bike and armed with your trusty Lawgiver, you must pit yourself against Sector 106′s brutal criminal underworld. Quick Dredd! The countdown has begun…
It’s basically an interactive story where you play the role of Dredd and choose your path. Remember the old “Choose your own adventure” books from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone? This is the modern incarnation of those. With voiceover by a local boy, no less. Sounds brilliant.
It looks like loads of fun – I’ll be checking it out. I have to say, I’m pretty pleased to see the current resurgence in Dredd and 2000AD. I read the comic throughout my teens and still read it to this day, and have a deep affinity with many of the characters. My friends and I have spent many hours playing the Judge Dredd: The Roleplaying Game as well. This iPhone app strikes me as a sweet little nostalgic revisit to those days. And the new mnovie looks like it’s a pretty solid homage to the original vibe of the comic stories, so I’m cautiously hopeful about that too.
You can learn more about the game here: http://gamebookadventures.com/gamebooks/judge-dredd-countdown-sector-106/
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