Archive for the ‘Board Game’ Category
Middle-Earth Quest
Middle-Earth Quest is the latest in a long line of games that let fans participate in Tolkien-based adventures, though this is a little different. There’s still a Sauron player intent on conquering everything, but everyone else portrays second-string heroes, cinematic extras who fill in the setting’s historical blanks by forestalling the villain’s ascendancy until the [...]
Tara
Tara, developed by Murray Heasman and distributed by Tailten Games, is an abstract strategy game inspired by the Book of Kells. Players place red and blue “ring forts” onto the board, and link them together with bridges. By the end of any given game, the board looks more like a piece of Celtic [...]
EVE: Conquests
As anyone who’s read a banner ad on a geek site probably knows, EVE Online is a grass-roots Massively Multiplayer Online RPG where players save their pennies to outfit starships and conquer the galaxy, though they do the latter more through trade and mercenary dealings than blowing things up. It’s more Traveller than Star Wars, [...]
Ra
Ra is an auction board game designed by Reiner Knizia and published by Rio Grande Games. It is nominally about proto-dynasties competing to earn rewards from the eponymous sun god so they can rule ancient Nile Valley. This theme is beautifully reinforced by the artwork of Hans Vohwinkel, but when you get down to it, [...]