Dark Future

[1] The game is set in a fictional alternate world United States in 1995, ten years after the American government privatised all police forces.

Ecological disaster has overtaken the country as well, with the Great Lakes having shrunk to a fraction of their size, and the Midwest turned into a desert.

The players take on the role of mercenaries called "Sanctioned Operatives" or "Ops", who are hired for a variety of missions on the unpoliced highways.

The merger, featuring artwork by Tony Ackland, Dave Andrews, John Blanche, Mark Craven, Carl Critchlow, Colin Dixon, David Gallagher, Pete Knifton, Mike McVey, Tim Pollard, Bil Segwick, Andrew Wildman, and Nick Williams, was published by GW in 1988 as Dark Future.

Later the same year, GW also published a game expansion, White Line Fever, that featured more vehicles and weapons, and more tactics.

A finished manuscript for a novel titled Violent Tendency by Eugene Byrne was lost when the writer's computer crashed.