Mutazoids is a science fiction role-playing game published by Whit Productions Inc. in 1989, set in the 21st century, when a virus has mutated many humans.
[2] The combat rules are very detailed, allowing biting, grappling, punching, slashing, tackling, tripping, and characters can choose from a list of weapons that covers brass knuckles to baseball bats to explosives.
"[3] Rick Swan in his book The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games summarized the game as "a cops-and-robbers RPG set in the future, where the cops are Dirty Harry-type anarchists and the robbers are bug-eyed nightmares from the Late Show."
Swan found the combat rules "extremely detailed, but the level of complexity is about right for a game that stresses violent encounters such as this."
Swan concluded by giving the game a solid rating of 3 out of 4, saying, "overall, designer Ken Whitman has done an impressive job of creating an attractively chaotic RPG environment.