comical
04/14/2011, 10:45
Pretty Cool for Wizkids!
Livingdice.com ... here's the beginning of the article:
Every year GTS rolls around and Livingdice faces a brutal task. We choose the one game that stands above all others, the “GTS 2011 Best of Show.” We do our level best to give every game an equal shot, regardless of company size or marketing budget. Earlier winners include the groundbreaking, but sadly unsuccessful “Ex-Illis” software/miniature game hybrid and the “Yu-Gi-Oh 5D” in store arcade kiosks that combined both standard CCG mechanics and a fun digital interface. This year’s winner is a low-tech board game, but with a great theme, fun mechanics and a serious challenge factor. Let me talk a bit about the game play itself and then move on to some of the finer points.
Stuart and I got in a nearly complete game, save for a ship combat mechanic that was not ready just yet (the Clix bases were non-functional on the ships).
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If you have not already guessed, this is a cooperative game, so team work is essential to success. Ego by players will result in defeat.
The mechanics are fun and the game quite fast (under one hour). The cards, board and Clix miniatures all were of good quality. Most importantly for me though was the “feel” of the game. The Wizkids! representative indicated that Reiner wanted the game to play like an episode. I thought he was just trying to sell us on the game, bu it actually is true. As you play the game, you almost have “acts” like a TV show. Things start going well and then BAM!, the plasmatic ferangulator device fails and you need to find some dilithium crystals or you are all going to die!
There's more.
Congrats Wizkids!
Livingdice.com ... here's the beginning of the article:
Every year GTS rolls around and Livingdice faces a brutal task. We choose the one game that stands above all others, the “GTS 2011 Best of Show.” We do our level best to give every game an equal shot, regardless of company size or marketing budget. Earlier winners include the groundbreaking, but sadly unsuccessful “Ex-Illis” software/miniature game hybrid and the “Yu-Gi-Oh 5D” in store arcade kiosks that combined both standard CCG mechanics and a fun digital interface. This year’s winner is a low-tech board game, but with a great theme, fun mechanics and a serious challenge factor. Let me talk a bit about the game play itself and then move on to some of the finer points.
Stuart and I got in a nearly complete game, save for a ship combat mechanic that was not ready just yet (the Clix bases were non-functional on the ships).
...
If you have not already guessed, this is a cooperative game, so team work is essential to success. Ego by players will result in defeat.
The mechanics are fun and the game quite fast (under one hour). The cards, board and Clix miniatures all were of good quality. Most importantly for me though was the “feel” of the game. The Wizkids! representative indicated that Reiner wanted the game to play like an episode. I thought he was just trying to sell us on the game, bu it actually is true. As you play the game, you almost have “acts” like a TV show. Things start going well and then BAM!, the plasmatic ferangulator device fails and you need to find some dilithium crystals or you are all going to die!
There's more.
Congrats Wizkids!