From Marvel to Yu-Gi-Oh, the successful Dice Masters series continues to expand its collectable card/dice game empire with household names. The latest addition is DC Comics with the release of DC Dice Masters: Justice League. Fully compatible with all other versions of Dice Masters, players can finally create epic battles between DC and Marvel characters, or mash them up in to create your own dream teams. Can this Justice League starter set meet or exceed the quality set by its predecessors?
Space Cadets aims to be the Star Trek game of your dreams. Sure, there are no shortage of Star Trek games or games inspired by Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi classic, but this one puts you and your friends in charge of operating individual stations on a larger ship. Of course, there’s a captain, but others are required to run engineering, the helm, shields, weapons and sensors among other things. Does its novel approach to simulating a ship like the USS Enterprise work as a quality board game?
All Ajay wanted to do was fulfill his deceased mother’s final wish of having her ashes spread on her home soil. Instead, he gets tangled up in a bloody civil war that forces him to take arms against the evil empire. This is the underlying premise of Far Cry 4, the latest in Ubisoft’s hit shooter franchise.
I’ve experienced my fair share of unpleasant moments with past Far Cry games. The stealth sequences in Far Cry 3 forced me to give up the game towards the end, and I thought that the humour of Blood Dragon wore out its welcome long before the game ended. However, I keep coming back in hopes that Ubisoft will finally push their open world franchise to its full potential. Is Far Cry 4 the game to do it?
Just Desserts puts you in the shoes of a waiter at a specialty dessert restaurant. Customers are looking to satisfy their sweet tooth and it’s up to you to serve them with the delicious treats from the kitchen. Competing against other waiters, you want to be the first person to serve five people of different suits or three people of the same suit to win. I bought the game off the strength of its core concept, but does it have what it takes to satisfy my taste for a small card game?
Things aren’t looking good for you and your fellow colony members. Supplies are running low. The bitterly cold weather puts everyone at risk of catching frostbite. Tensions are running high, as you’re never sure of who your real allies are. Oh yeah, and there are zombies everywhere. Welcome to Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game.
Marvel’s ragtag group of intergalactic heroes finally make their presence felt in Legendary: Guardians of the Galaxy. Inside this small box expansion, you’ll get the five protagonists from the movie, two new villain groups, two new masterminds, and the introduction of the most dramatically new gameplay mechanics since the game’s inception. They may be the stars of 2014’s biggest movie, but can they also hold their weight as an expansion for Marvel’s deck-building game?
After mining World War II for everything it had to offer, Call of Duty got a huge boost by moving into the modern era. Years later, in a time where present-day warfare feels like old hat, the franchise moves again to the only logical next step: the future. Sure, for those keeping score, Black Ops II was a half-step in this direction, though Advanced Warfare leaves all semblance of the present behind with futuristic guns, gear, and movement options that represent the most dramatic change to the core formula. Can Activision score another touchdown off of the same era-switching play?
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