Red NovemberTabletop Tuesday: Commie Gnomes, Leaky Submarine | Submitted by IanSchreiber on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 00:35. |
Normally, boardgames with a sufficiently wacky theme use humor to cover up lackluster and uninspired gameplay. Normally, games have to be at least halfway decent to make it into Fantasy Flight's "Silver Line" series. So, when I saw a Silver Line game about an experimental Russian Cold War submarine run by gnomes... well, I wasn't sure what to think. Since you're reading about it here, you can probably guess that it's more good than bad.
Lord of The RingsTabletop Tuesdays: One Game To Rule Them All | Submitted by John Mc on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 23:59. |
Lord of the Rings is an impressive adaptation of the classic story to boardgame format. The Lord of the Rings books, as beloved as they are, don’t quite fit the normal boardgame mold and could easily become a game with little more than a Tolkienesque flavor. Luckily for us, world renowned game designer Reiner Knizia decided to tackle the challenge. The result distills the essence of Tolkien’s epic into an innovative, engaging, and exciting experience.
PandemicTabletop Tuesdays | Submitted by rbr on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 15:08. |
Four terrible diseases have broken out all over the world, and they're spreading fast. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance. The clock is ticking, and your small team of health professionals has to find a cure to all four diseases before time runs out, or before infection spreads so far that it's just too late to save the human race. There goes Kinshasa! There goes Mumbai! There goes Tokyo! You'd better hurry.
Knytt is a small, freeware platformer created by Nicklas 'Nifflas' Nygren as a follow-up to his indie hit Within a Deep Forest. Players take control of a small creature that has been kidnapped from its home by an alien who promptly crashes his spaceship on another planet. In order to get back home players must explore the planet in order to find the scattered parts of the crashed ship. Nygren has said that he takes inspiration from the games of Fumito Ueda -- Ico and Shadow of the Colossus -- as well as fellow indie developer Clysm's Seiklus, and those influences are obvious. However, Nygren's game sets itself apart in its unique use of minimalism, which gives the game its distinct feeling. In short, Knytt is very likely one of the most balanced games to have been produced by the indie scene up to this point.
