Time and Time Again (1984) is another time travel game, this one from Timeline Ltd, the makers of The Morrow Project, so you just know this is going to be crushingly complex. The back of the box boasts it has “the most realistic combat system, armed and unarmed, ever published. Like Morrow, there are blood points for you to track! Thrilling!
(Weird thing: Terminator came out in 1984, and this game insists on abbreviating the title as T2, which, of course, is what the Terminator sequel abbreviated its title to. This feels significant, considering the amount of time travel involved. Or dumb. Maybe it is just dumb. Oh, wait, no, it is T-SQUARED. Never mind, then.).
T2 is the most boring time travel RPG ever (again, not a ton of competition, but still). You can’t travel forward, which, OK. But if you go backwards in time, you can’t change anything. Like, the time stream just doesn’t allow it (OK, this is actually interesting and the game Continuum plays with the concept). You basically play time traveling bodyguards for time traveling tourists. This is a weird structure for a game that has the most realistic combat system ever devised, or whatever. The box doesn’t even have the good grace to include a Murder-the-Fuhrer scenario. Or any scenarios.
Now, if this could be used in the post-apocalyptic Morrow Project setting, that might be interesting. No, wait, no, not even that would make this game interesting, sorry.
