Product Description

Life is lawless and dangerous. Survivors like you either live in scattered, fortified towns or roam outside as bandits. YOUR mission is to cross the wilderness to the far-distant oil-refinery at San Anglo and bring vital supplies back to the peaceful town of New Hope. Even in the armed Dodge Interceptor you are given, the journey will be wild and perilous. Will YOU survive?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90660 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 210 pages

About the Author
Ian Livingstone is, with Steve Jackson, the originator of the Fighting Fantasy series. Since Fighting Fantasy’s huge success, he has become a major figure in the world of computer games, and is currently Creative Director of Eidos, the name behind Tomb Raider.

Customer Reviews

Motorway madness!
Fighting Fantasy game book number 23, called Freeway Fighter, was written by Ian Livingstone. This book isn't set in any of the fantasy worlds we've seen before; medieval or a science-fiction future, but on Earth in the near future.

The year is 2022. Life is proceeding as it has for years, then, without warning, a devastating virus sweeps around the globe killing tens of millions of people. All that is left in its wake is a desolate wasteland. People now divide into two sorts; the lawful and the lawless.

You are a hard-as-nails hero who lives with the good people of a small fortified town called New Hope. One day you are given a mission to take supplies of seeds from New Hope, out across the badlands, to another fortified town of good guys called San Anglo.

In return for the seeds, so they can grow crops, they agree to give New Hope a big tanker filled with 10,000 litres of petrol from their oil-refinery. Petrol to run machines and motor vehicles is like gold dust in these times. People will steal, fight and even kill for it.

Off you go on your hazardous journey to San Anglo, armed with a special car called a Dodge Interceptor. This car is fast, armoured with steel and bullet-proof glass and armed with all sorts of James Bond-style goodies like machine-guns, metal spikes and rocket launchers.

Along the way you have to avoid miles of burnt-out cars, maniacs that shoot at you, thieves trying to steal your car and lots of dangerous road gangs. Added to this, you have to constantly find enough fuel, so you don't run out of petrol and get stranded somewhere.

The book is quite different to any of the previous game books. Freeway Fighter is different but likable. There are interesting aspects like driving through the desolate wasteland, the constant search for petrol and other Mad Max-inspired adventures.

A couple of things I didn't like were the mediocre artwork and the fact this game book has 380 references instead of the usual 400. The text is reduced by 5% but the price isn't!

All over I'd say that this book isn't that complex, isn't entirely original, is balanced okay in terms of opponent strength and has its fair share of interesting encounters. Likable but an average addition to the Fighting Fantasy game book series.

Calling all Road Warrior Fans
To anyone out there who loved th Film Mad Max 2: The Road warrior, this is the book for you.

The gamebook in itself is very like the film Mad Max, but with YOU in the driving seat. You can choose to stop and help people or drive past them.

Also watch out for a certain charchter from film who makes a appearance