Posts Tagged ‘Fantasy Flight Games’
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 [...]
Ad Astra
Science fiction would have you believe eventually we’ll wear out our welcome on Earth, or perhaps more accurately, we’ll wear out Earth itself, and at that point everyone has to look for new worlds. Hence, Ad Astra, wherein mankind has split into five factions based on the subspecies they have evolved into, each of which [...]
Star*Craft
Merchandising. As they said in Spaceballs, that’s where the real money of the movie is made. Game companies have finally learnt the same lesson, but it’s about more than just money – it’s about crossover potential. I know a guy who owns one game, the Mustang version of Monopoly, because he likes vintage mustangs. So [...]
Arkham Horror
Arkham Horror is one of Fantasy Flight Games’ “big box” games, and it has a big price to match. But the big box comes with big contents and big return. There are hundreds of cards, sixteen different heroes, eight different villains and a gigantic board – all illustrated in full color. Naturally, Arkham Horror draws [...]