During the country phase you’ll pick from one of the three country cards that are face up or take a random one from the deck and place it on the appropriate continent on the board, thus opening up new areas to infect since these countries contain a number of major city spaces. You need somewhere to actually place all of these cubes, though, which is where the game’s slightly boring looking red board comes into play. Indeed, this creates an interesting strategy choice as it may be worth spreading yourself thin early in the game in order to control a bunch of countries, even if that means merrily plonking down cubes in enemy territory. These points are important because not only is it the person with the most DNA at the end of the game who wins, but they’re also the currency you’ll be using to mutate your virus so the more points you can snag the more options will be available to you. This is the biggest change in the transition from video game to board game because the Earth and its scientists and doctors are no longer capable of detecting your plague and trying to eradicate it through research, rather the Earth remains mostly passive, a submissive target waiting to be destroyed by a barrage of pretty colored cubes and delightfully sadistic symptoms.Įach turn kicks off by calculating how many DNA points you earn based upon the amount of countries you control, which is to say countries in which you currently have more cubes than anyone else. Unlike the video game, though, you aren’t playing against the world but rather other people controlling their own personal plagues in a race to inflict the most casualties. Just like the digital version the goal is to take control of a plague and slowly mutate it over time, adding to its ability to infect and kill every human it comes in contact with.
So, how well does the goal of killing every human translate to cardboard? The Board Games comes in, created by the very same people who developed the video game. There are many joys to be found in life the pleasure of eating your favorite food, the smell of fresh countryside air, the laughter of friends, the low-down thrum of holding hands and the creation of a deadly disease designed to wipe out every person on the face of the planet.
#GREENLAND GAMING BLOGO FREE#
Review copy provided free of charge by Esdevium Games.
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