The Last Night on Earth Board Game
I love board games. There’s something about being with a group of people, sipping down some beers, and moving some strange colored tokens around a board that makes me have a good time. Maybe it’s all the smack talk in person or the infectious laughter after a bad turn, but playing board games in person trumps any video game with exception Rock Band.
Here’s a new zombie board game if you like board games as much as I do. I haven’t played this one, but watching the video review embedded on the page, it looks to be quite similar to the mega awesome Zombies!!! game. Two to six players undertake a variety of different scenarios from trying to defend a manor to saving the town to just plain old killing zombies. The board is modular, allowing for different setups each time which makes for some interesting encounters.
It sounds like a fun game to play in a large group. The reviewers only complaint was that it tends to get confusing when two people are playing the zombies. The one thing that I note is that there are not a lot of zombies included in the game. The great thing about Zombies!!! was that after a couple of turns, the entire town was covered in the dead whereas in this game, the zombies appear to be thin in numbers.
If anyone has this game, drop a word and tell me what you think. Is it worth the fifty bucks (?!) or should people just play Rock Band instead?
Last Night On Earth – Zombie Board Game (ghosttheory.com <- new window)
Definitely get Last Night on Earth. It’s MUCH better than Zombies because of the opposing teams and the ability to run multiple scenarios. I also love the fact that your characters are all individual – with specific cards making some characters better than others (e.g. Faith for the Priest).
As for the complaint about confusion, I’ve never found it a problem for the Zombie players. And the number of zombies seems more than enough – the actual game board size is quite a bit smaller than ‘Zombies’; especially compared to it in the later stages.
Wow … thanks for the insight. You’ve certainly peaked my interest. I’ll definitely give it go but I can’t promise I’ll play the soundtrack while I play ;)