In my group, I’m one of the few people who likes racing games. Although the racing I do is in video games and go carts since amature racing seems like an expensive hobby to me. My fondness for racing means that I’ll look for racing board games too. Rallyman is a rally racing board game designed [...]
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Loot and Scoot iOS Review
January 26th, 2012 
Scoop Having never played the board game Loot and Scoot, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. All I had to go on going in was the description which included dungeons, looting, recruiting heroes, and killing monsters. That’s the kind of description that gets my attention. Read on to find out of it delivers.
Rory’s Story Cubes Actions in review
January 24th, 2012 Dan Spezzano Recently GameWright sent me a few games to take a look at which is always good news around the house. Anytime my girls can get their hands on some new games to play with the family they are all in. It’s also instant feedback as my girls are not shy if they don’t like something. [...]
Pathfinder Beginner Box in review
January 18th, 2012 Dan Spezzano Long time readers are aware that I grew up playing role playing games. A lot of what I loved about rpg’s is the story and creativity they allowed me to explore and express during my formative years. I’ve touched on some of the great memories that playing dungeons & dragons allowed me to have growing up when [...]
Ascension: Chronicles of the Godslayer iOS Review
January 16th, 2012 Scoop Ascension: Chronicles of the Godslayer (A:CotG) is the iOS version of the card game of the same name. For those unfamiliar A:CotG is a deck-building card game designed by three Magic: The Gathering tournament champions. Where most collectible card games, like Magic: The Gathering, require you to construct decks that you will use for the [...]
Suppressing Fire!!!
January 4th, 2012 Dan Spezzano Band of Brothers the new game from designer Jim Krohn and publisher Worthington games bills itself as a fast playing game of squad level combat in WWII. It’s a scenario based game covering the action of the 101st airborne throughout world war 2. Thanks to Stephen Ambrose and later the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers the subject matter [...]
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Fame and Fortune indeed.
December 13th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Fantasy Flight games version of Civilization is one that gets played a lot by some of the OBG staff. Myself and Chris have played many games. I think it is safe to say both of us were eager to get our hands on the new Fame and Fortune expansion for the game. The question is [...]
Urban Sprawl: A review
December 7th, 2011 admin GMT further dips their toe in the Eurogame pool with this middle weight design, a follow-up to designer Chad Jensen’s superb (and 2011 Golden Geek game of the year) Dominant Species. While an abstract in every sense, players are ostensibly city planners, vying for control of growth and political office. In its more abstract sense [...]
Building a Kingdom one card at a time
November 28th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Recently released to mixed reviews is Queen Games Kingdom Builder a game which has you putting down pieces in an attempt to skillfully build the best kingdom. Kingdom Builder is getting mixed reviews for several reason some of which are fair and others that are not. The game was designed by Donald Vaccarino the same [...]
Mayhem and Destruction in downtown Tokyo
November 16th, 2011 Dan Spezzano If last year was the year of the deck building card game. Then this is the year of dice games and if there is a better one then King of Tokyo I haven’t played it. A very fast playing, fun and competitive game set around the theme of giant monsters fighting over Tokyo. King of [...]
And I ran, I ran so far away…
November 14th, 2011 Dan Spezzano Dungeon Run is the new release from Plaid Hat Games the makers of the wonderful Summoner Wars game. While Dungeon Run is set in the same universe as Summoner Wars, the games share little in common. In Dungeon Run you take on the role of a hero trying to traverse the dungeon to find the [...]
The 3rd times a charm. A Legend of Drizzt review.
November 2nd, 2011 Dan Spezzano As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. - – Drizzt Do’Urden from the R.A. Salvatore novel Exile.
Return to Hell with De Profundis
November 1st, 2011 Dan Spezzano Claustrophobia is one of my favorite “move little guys” around games. It has a great theme of priests and warriors fighting Demons from hell and their troglodytes minions. The things that make the original game so appealing is the rule set is very easy to grasp. It comes with excellent tiles and painted miniatures and [...]
Longer than anticipated
October 27th, 2011 admin It was the First Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run, if yer Yankee) that convinced Americans that the Civil War was destined to be longer and bloodier than anyone originally thought. Test of Fire: Bull Run 1861 by Martin Wallace unintentionally recalls this realization with it’s game play. It promises a 45 minute experience, but sometime [...]
Four Times the Fun in Space–A Review for Space Empires-4X
October 24th, 2011 admin To keep with a recent theme on the site, there is a certain stigma when folks take a GMT game out of their game box. You get some similar reactions: “Too Long,” “Too Wargamey,” “Too Complicated,” etc. etc. Sometimes these are correct sentiments, a lot of GMT Games are War Games, a lot of them [...]