Doom - The Board Game Announced

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.

Comments

Come on, it's your turn!

[Rallion]

Roll the damn dice already! Stop slowing down the fast-paced FPS action!

Just seems like a stupid idea. No fun in it. Why not just...buy Doom 3 or play the original?

Frag

[Anonymous Coward]

Who needs this? We have Frag. :-)

The Doom Comic

[fredrikj]

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

Re:Can't see it working...

[crackshoe]

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

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Re:Try this for something similar...

[thebosz]

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!

Here's how it works

[NickFusion]

Doom is a well established brand.

What can one do with a well established brand? Use it to sell new products by expanding the product line.

How does it usually go down?

1) The Quick Buck. Slap the brand name on any old piece of dreck, and shove it out the door. Short term profit, but long term damage to the brand.

2) The Smart Move. Create a new and interesting product that shares enough of the characteristics of the original product to legitimately claim the relationship, and leverage the power of the brand name to build a market for the new and interesting product. Short term profit, long term profit, and a boost to the brand image.

Yeah, you get a lot of #1. But #2 is a much better strategy.

Can't they just make a crappy movie instead?

[GeorgeH]

This seems about as smart an idea as Monopoly: The First Person Shooter.

Re:Can't see it working...

[Sloppy]

I'd have thought that the people who like Doom, like it because it was, once upon a time, quite an exciting FPS.

Well of course "Exciting FPS" is part of it, but there's more. Doom had a cool "feel". If you take the exact same game mechanics and change all the graphics and setting, the game would be less interesting.

What's the magic feel of Doom? Fireball-throwing imps in computer rooms, that's what! Creeping through the dark nervously holding a shotgun while hearing the growl of demons all around you. Doom's imagery was exquisite.