On a semi-regular basis I get together with a few friends
to play games (board games, card games, role-play-games and such like).
Recently we met at Martin’s and we played these games:
this looked like a complicated game and we were
becoming increasing uncertain about it as the length rules were being read out,
but once we started playing it became clear it was not too difficult once you
get the hang of it. It retains quite a lot of the feel and humour of the show
and we soon got to enjoy it. It does have a lot to it and we did not have the
time to finish a game but we definitely would give it a go again.
this is a fun game that pulls together many of the
iconic characters and situations from the horror (pulp) genre. It starts out
co-operatively for a while until the ‘haunting’ begins where it is revealed
that one of the players is a betrayer hell bent on the destruction of the
others. From then on it is just a matter of time until he destroys them all or
the hero’s thwart his evil plans. The tile based board and the many various
situational haunting means that the game would seem to have a good re-playability
to it. The only down side is that a player can be killed off and has to watch
as the others continue to the end of the game.
This is a card based game where various stereotype fantastical
factions are paired up (such as robots and pirates, dinosaurs and magicians, ninjas
and undead etc.) to battle each other for dominance. I find these sorts of
games difficult and I was having a hard time knowing what to play when, but the
others seemed to enjoy much more.
This is another card game though it is only for very
considered and select groups of players. It is possible the most un-PC game in
the world with the very real possibility that it will offend nearly everyone.
That said if you play it with like minding folk who have a very sick sense of
humour then it is absolutely hilarious.
Very similar in game play to another great game called
Apples to Apples you have a selection of cards with bizarre answers on them.
Each person takes turns to pose a question and the others then select a
suitable (unsuitable) card which the questioner then selects what he finds the
most humorous from.
Probably don’t play this with relatives or those of a sensitive
nature.
