Risk: Factions comes to PC
Risk: Factions has come to the PC, and is now available on Steam for $9.99. Humans, Cats, Zombies, Robots, and Yetis duke it out for world domination...
EA released the Stainless Games re-imagining of the classic board game, Risk: Factions, on the PC yesterday. The title has already spent several months on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but it's available now through Steam for $9.99.
Factions puts its own spin on the Risk formula by introducing new objective modes, terrain benefits, and new maps besides the standard World. Players who prefer their Risk untarnished by new ideas can play the Classic mode, while Factions mode weaves a zany cartoon story around the action. If you've ever been playing Risk and thought to yourself, "if only Zombies were fighting Robots," this is your game.
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replyComment on Risk: Factions comes to PC, by Steve Watts.
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Summary: Risk: Factions has come to the PC, and is now available on Steam for $9.99. Humans, Cats, Zombies, Robots, and Yetis duke it out for world domination...
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Why does the name Risk still attract consumers when there are boardgames that are so much better? It's just the same with Monopoly, and it makes me sad.
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Because most people don't play board games often enough to recognize anything other than the big names.
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This would be the correct answer. I can name you like 15 board games, and like 12 of them are made for 8 year olds.
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I don't care about the original at all, but Risk:Factions entertained me.
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Risk is popular because it is very easy to learn (basic rules) with a quick setup and it has a degree of strategy which differentiates it from other board games. It also doesn't hurt that it is 54 years old.
Too many times have I tried to play Axis and Allies with friends only to send 20 minutes setting up to realize, they didn't want to be bothered with learning all the rules.-
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Because if you really liked to play them you wouldn't balk at the 20 minute setup and you'd bother learning all the rules? I wasn't really being serious with ameritrash comment. I grew up playing, and having fun, with Monopoly, RISK, Axis and Allies all that sort of stuff. If you like it, play it. People will be snobbish about anything. Although I don't know if I would call boardgames 'something basic' either.
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Risk is a terrible fucking game. It has pretty much all of the qualities that should be avoided in board games. To name a couple:
1. Extremely high chance element
2. Early player elimination-
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you can play the odds, of course. poker is obviously a game with a huge chance element but there are good players and bad players. it's just that that's not what i'm looking for in a strategy wargame.
i play labyrinth and twilight struggle a lot, and these are games with substantial luck factors (dice and cards). but the luck elements are more subject to strategic control which i find more interesting. -
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I can't tell you how many times my vastly superior numbers have been crushed by the luck of the dice in this game.
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fuckin hipsters
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If you can name a product, you can find people who are snobby about it.
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No. It's not a great game. There is nothing about it that qualifies it as a great game. It's a popular game, but from a game design perspective and from a strategy perspective it has so much wrong with it that it's laughable.
I don't blame people for liking it because it's a decent gateway drug to actual strategy board games, but man there is just no defending Risk. It's absolutely terrible.
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Monopoly is actually a decent game when played by the rules. But I've never seen a group of players play by the rules.
Most people don't even know what auctioning is.
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Do a Small World version with online multiplayer, please. Now thats a game worth playing.
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Only 2 player hotseat for now. They're too busy with Memoir '44 online. Hopefully they can implement asynchronous multiplayer sometime this year.
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