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DOOM: The Boardgame

Posted by michael on from the deploy-chainsaw dept.

Ant writes "And I thought I had seen it all from DOOM world. Nope, there is a boardgame! It is for 2 to 4 players, playable in 1 to 2 hours, based on the groundbreaking DOOM 3 computer game by id Software. Seen on Blue's News." There's also Frag, which IMHO isn't a very good boardgame. The Doom game looks like it might work, though.

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  1. Looks less than thrilling by Rhsqueak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somehow I just don't think that a board game is going to be able to capture either the immersive atmosphere of the game. The game was all about being alone, how can you play it with other people?

    Besides, its hard to play a board game in the middle of the night with the lights off.

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  2. Groundbreaking? by EEBaum · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The author is quite kind. I'd hardly call a very pretty FPS "groundbreaking." Then again, with the extremely low amount of groundbreakery in video games lately, perhaps it is.

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  3. Hmmm... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now if it were Demonslayers of Catan they might be onto something...

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  4. Re:Eh???? by bryll · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, if you play in 'campaign' mode you get to beef up your character over time. Mostly in the way of 'default' armour and such. The board game is actually a lot of fun to play. It's slow, tactical and actually requires some thought - completely unlike Doom 3!

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  5. Doom Risk by SumDog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember being in the dorms and playing the new version of Risk (Risk 2210) for hours, usually twice a week. I think it would be cool to have a Doom version of Risk. The map could be of Mars with several bases on the map and posssibly even an orbiting station. I can see great potential for such a game.

    -Sumdog

  6. I've actually tried it. by scoopr · · Score: 3, Interesting
    A friend of mine actually bought it. So far we've only playd it once. It was actually rather good boardgame, infact I enjoyed it more than the actual computer game, but the one level we played took some four hours to play, which I think is rather too involving.. Granted it might of been the first-time hassle that prolonged the session. I recommend boardgame fanatics to try it out, just remember to reserve a good full sunday afternoon for it :)

    PS. You can actually see something in this game!

  7. It's a very good game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are (fortunately) incorrect.

    In Doom (the board game), one player always plays the monsters. So with 2 players, the marine player is "alone".

    Also, when played with 4 players (=3 marines), it really freaks you out when/if you are far away from your own team - for example your team decides to enter a room and when you step in the door suddenly closes cutting you off from your team.

  8. Re:More information on boardgamegeek by CaptainCheese · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ranked 68th, that's very good!

    I don't trust the rankings there. Boardgamegeek ranks DOOM: The Boardgame higher than Risk ,Monopoly, and even Chess. It also beats Kill Doctor Lucky, which is definitely an award-winning kick-ass game (as well as a Cheap-Ass Game)

    Now I havent played DOOM::TB, but I doubt it's more interesting and holds a better replay value than Chess. I have played Zombies!!! - a seriously flawed game, yet the voters of boardgame geeks still rank it higher than Risk and Monopoly. I suspect theres some vote-rigging going on, much like that which the admins at IMDb are constantly battling.

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  9. Spacehulk anyone? by Cougem · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looks just the same to me

    Very good game though if you've got some free time and you're a games workshop fan

  10. Re:Wow, they mean it. by Schnapple · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Acquire is a game I never heard of before meeting my Wife. She and her family are PSYCHO about that game. They still had a copy from the 1960's that was on its last leg.

    Christmas before last I got them the last copy in the area. Seems it was re-released in 1999 by Hasbro, who owned Avalon Hill (ironically, for the purposes of putting out a new Civilization computer game). I was the hero of the day. I still don't get how to play the stupid game, and the one thing her family doesn't like is the fact that the hotel companies in the game were changed to tech companies (it was 1999 and all) but they can play the game for like five hours without breaking a sweat.

    As far as I know the 1999 printing is the latest one and as a result, the game's been out of print ever since. If you're in the mood for a "hardcore" boardgame snatch it up while you still can...

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