Welcome back to the January finals of the Monthly Game Smackdown! As a reminder, the MGS is where 4 games are picked at the beginning of the month and every week each game is played for an hour.
You’ve paid for the entire seat but only needed the edge as your anticipation has become a palpable thing; condensation on the tubes that are these internets! Or, you’ve just wandered over from somewhere else in the ether. Either way, here are the results from our first smackdown!
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Welcome back to the Monthly Game Smackdown! As a reminder, the MGS is where 4 games are picked at the beginning of the month and every week each game is played for an hour.
Another Monday is here and so are the results of the hour spent with each game last week
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Welcome back to the Monthly Game Smackdown! As a reminder, the MGS is where 4 games are picked at the beginning of the month and every week each game is played for an hour. Last week, I discussed the elimination of one game with our previous format of the smackdown. Not particularly satisfied with that, every Monday I’ll discuss what I find fun, or not, fun about the game based on the previous week’s game time.
It’s a new Monday and each of the games has had my attention now for two hours. Find out if initial impressions have changed with an extra hour behind the controls.
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Monthly Game Smackdown: Round 1
Welcome back to the MGS January 2010! To recap, this month’s smackdown contenders are as follows:
It’s the end of round 1 and the games have been played for an hour each. After the jump, find out which game failed to keep us appeased for more than an hour.
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Welcome to the first Monthly Game Smackdown! The MGS is a battle between four games that we have either started and not felt like finishing, aren’t shiny new anymore, or for some other reason, are laying about waiting to be played. In the first week of the MGS, each of our contending games will be played for an hour. On every Monday I’ll eliminate and discuss the least fun of the previous week until only one stands victorious (or at least interesting and fun enough to play for 4 hours in a month).
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Verdict: we’ve been playing HOW long?!
In a Nutshell: This is a strategy board game similar to RISK, but more like RISK’s older, more mature, private college attending brother.
(from the game’s box)
“This game of world conquest traces the history of the world from the dawn of civilization to the threshold of modern time. Through 7 Epochs, you’ll lead a different empire, from the ancient Sumerians to the Persians, Romans, and Huns. You may take command of the Vikings, Ming Dynasty, or Germans. You must score as many victory points during your empire’s reign, for it is fleeting. A new power will soon rise to glory.”