Dominion Strategy Forum
Miscellaneous => Other Games => Topic started by: Ozle on August 25, 2012, 05:49:19 pm
-
Anyone played this?
I'm looking for another game to add to my collection that's casual player friendly, and I reckon this fits the bill.
-
I don't have time to give a full reply, but I will step in quickly to say:
I have played it ~5 times. It is among my least favorite games. There are many casual-friendly games with far superior mechanics.
So far as I can tell, the only appeal to this wreck is if your group can really get into the "Ooh ha haa, look at those zombies, at it again with their broken deck of cards!" Or the once-in-a-blue-moon "My cheerleader has a chainsaw strapped to her baseball bat, no brains for you!" Personally, I never saw the latter happen, but my friends insisted that it was possible.
Is the zombie setting an important criteria? What else are you looking for?
-
"My cheerleader has a chainsaw strapped to her baseball bat, no brains for you!"
This sounds positively awesome.
Never heard of the game though.
-
I don't have time to give a full reply, but I will step in quickly to say:
I have played it ~5 times. It is among my least favorite games. There are many casual-friendly games with far superior mechanics.
So far as I can tell, the only appeal to this wreck is if your group can really get into the "Ooh ha haa, look at those zombies, at it again with their broken deck of cards!" Or the once-in-a-blue-moon "My cheerleader has a chainsaw strapped to her baseball bat, no brains for you!" Personally, I never saw the latter happen, but my friends insisted that it was possible.
Is the zombie setting an important criteria? What else are you looking for?
Wow, that's quite a damning assessment that I have not seen elsewhere!
Are you saying its completely unbalanced?
-
Zombie game. Does what it is meant to do. Not particularly memorable.
-
Hey Ozle,
Yeah, 'unbalanced' would be generous. For the humans, it is random chaos piled on top of more random chaos, and yet your objective usually centers on finding a single needle in the chaotic haystack. The zombie players' cards, however, are almost always useful; they are actually quite well designed, thematic and devious. Humans, not so much. I figure the only way to fix the game would be a pregame deck set-up of that human haystack.
For example, a common objective is to get ~2 gas can cards and 1 car key card from the deck, start the truck and get out of dodge. The deck has (I'm guessing) 100 cards in it, and each player could draw around 2 cards per turn, maximum--assuming they weren't running away from zombies or firing their peashooters. Since the zombies only take ~2 turns to close on the humans in any given scenario, that leaves you drawing roughly 10 cards before you absolutely must start performing actions other than searching the deck. And the zombie cards are all the while messing you up. Estimated %10 chance of finding what you need before the slaughter begins. I don't remember the dice combat values, but I think the zambies have the advantage (on top of weight of numbers, they certainly do).
So, if you want to feel like you're a stock B-Movie face-chomped farmboy, or else gnaw on your buddies' delectable brains, this might do the trick. But you'll very rarely be Ash, and the game mechanics are often very frustrating.
What else are you looking for in a game? You mentioned casual friendly. Is theme a big factor?