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Doom - The Board Game Announced

Posted by simoniker on from the board-game-modding-ahoy dept.

Thanks to Gaming Report for its coverage of Fantasy Flight Games' announcement of Doom: The Board Game at the GAMA Trade Show. According to the info sheet reprinted in the story: "Doom: The Board Game will include scores of sculpted plastic miniatures, specialized oversized dice, board piece for players to make their own custom maps, and enough weapons to drive back the legions of Hell." Fantasy Flight are also responsible for the previously discussed Warcraft board game, and this new Doom board game, which "incorporates graphics and themes from the upcoming Doom 3", is apparently "scheduled for an October release and is to retail for $39.95." GamingReport also has a number of other stories on new products being launched at GAMA.

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  1. Frag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who needs this? We have Frag. :-)

  2. Try this for something similar... by oldManSquad · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you like the idea of this try Frag.

    Though sadly looks out of print...

    1. Re:Try this for something similar... by thebosz · · Score: 4, Informative
      FRAG was a great game! With a couple of friends (4 was pretty good, but it had rules for up to 12 at once) it was awesome. I feel it perfectly distilled the feeling of a deathmatch down to board game form.

      The turns went fast and so the action never slowed down. The best part was rolling the dice. It used D6's and you rolled the number equal to the damage on the weapon you were using. The person who you were shooting rolled the amount equal to his/her armor. Divide the armor into the damage and that's how many hitpoints the guy just lost.

      Nothing's better than having the nuke (12D6) with the quad-damage (x4) for a total of 48 dice worth of damage! The guy didn't even bother to roll for defense.

      There are a lot of variations that include height, terrain and other stuff like that. If you see this game at your store, pick it up, along with the two expansions. It's definitely worth it!

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    2. Re:Try this for something similar... by Ondo · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you see this game at your store, pick it up, along with the two expansions.

      In addition to the two expansions, there's Frag PvP, an expansion based on the comic, and Frag Deadlands, a stand-alone game that can be combined with the original.

      The homepage at www.sjgames.com/Frag, and has the rules in PDF form, and some fan-created variants.

  3. sound like space hulk by truffle · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds a lot like Space Hulk, one of the many enjoyable miniature games from Games Workshop.

    I wonder if they'll have a CTF mode? :)

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  4. The Doom Comic by fredrikj · · Score: 5, Informative

    This better not be anything like the Doom comic in quality.

  5. Re:Can't see it working... by crackshoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    It had enough 'backstory' (i lied, it didn't) to make up at least 2 novels. really -- i have em.

    too lazy for html linkage
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/deta il/-/0671 52562X/qid=1079629050/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-677186 2-0979112?v=glance&s=books

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  6. Please, anything but Zombies!!! by Mr.Mustard · · Score: 3, Informative
    Zombies!!! has all of the bits you need to play a decent game, assuming you decide to throw out the rules that came with it.

    The quicker play rules that can be found on board game geek tries to reform Zombies!!! into something fun.

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  7. Re:Here's how it works by crazyaxemaniac · · Score: 3, Informative

    For instance Nintendo bought Doki Doki Panic years ago and rebranded it as Super Mario Brothers 2.

    That's a pretty good example of #2.