Archive for the ‘game review’ Category

Review – Star Trek Expeditions from WizKidz Designer – Reiner Knizia Graphic Design – Ed Repka and Chris Raimo Many thanks go to BoardgameExtras for providing this game for review purposes. Captain’s Log Stardate 2259.26 – The Enterprise has entered orbit around Nibia, responding to an invitation from the Nibian government to open discussions about [...]

Review – Fortune & Glory from Flying Frog Productions Designer – Jason C. Hill Graphic design, Art – Jason C. Hill, Jack Scott Hill, Matthew Morgaine, Christian Bian, Gael Goumon Music -Mary Beth Magallanes   Woohoo! I do love the Indiana Jones films, King Solomon’s Mines and pulp adventure stuff in general. The cliffhanger element [...]

Review – Wiz War (8th Edition) – from Fantasy Flight Games Designer – Tom Jolly, Kevin Wilson Artwork – Philip Dickenson, Christophe Madura, Denis Medri, Dallas Mehloff, Brian Schomburg, Wil Springer, Peter Wocken, Ben Zweifel, Special thanks to my sponsoring retailer Spinning Dice Games for providing a copy of this game for review purposes A [...]

Review – Kingdom of Solomon from Minion Games by guest reviewer, the awesome Alan Hatcher Designer – Philip DuBarry Art – Ricky Hunter A copy of this game has been provided by Minion Games This is a strategy game for 2 to 4 players, ages 12 and up. It takes about 90 minutes to play. [...]

Review – U-Boat Commander from DVG Games Designer – Dave Schueler Art – Val Nunez A copy of this game was provided by DVG games No, I don’t like being convide in close spaces which means I would have never volunteered for the submarine service although I surely tip my hat to those who did [...]

  Review – The Barbarossa Campaign from Victory Point Games Designer – Gary W. Graber with additional development and design by Alan Emrich and Carl Paradis Art – Alan Emrich and Tim Allen A copy of this game was provided by Victory Point Games There are a ton of games out there on the Russian [...]

  Review – The Hero of Weehawken from Victory Point Games Designer – Robert Leonhard Art – Tim Allen Victory Point Games provided a review copy of this game A horse of a different colour you might say. Yes, Victory Point Games are prepared and able to take risks as this is built into their [...]

Review – Leipzig 20 from Victory Point Games Designer – Lance McMillan Art – Christopher Magoun Victory Point Games provided a review copy of this game Victory Point Games seems to be growing in their ambitions, spreading their wings, etc. as they are clearly moving into some larger, more complex games. One of their flagship [...]

Review – Shenandoah: Jackson’s Valley Campaign Designers – Tom Dalgliesh and Gary Selkirk Art – John Paul Strain Columbia Games provided a review copy of this game Woohoo!  I was very excited to get my mitts on Shenandoah. Having only recently become acquainted with Tom Dalgliesh and his publisher Columbia Games through playing Julius Caesar, I was [...]

Review – Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan from AEG Designer – Frederic Moyersoen Art – Conceptopolis, Llyn Hunter, Yutthapong Kaewsuk, MuYoung Kim, Jorge Mutar, Florian Stitz AEG provided a review copy of this game At last year’s UK Expo, i was introduced to AEG’s War of Honor, which was  my first experience in the [...]