DOOM: The Boardgame

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.

Comments

Re:More information on boardgamegeek

[CaptainCheese]

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.

Re:Wow, they mean it.

[Schnapple]

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...