Finally got to play Race for the Galaxy yesterday. Very fond of it! I also played San Juan for the first time last week, which was good but I wasn't especially taken with. The similarities between the two games really are quite striking (if you didn't know, Race for the Galaxy was sort of a proto-San Juan, they held a contest for San Juan and RftG was one of the entries which didn't win).
I've really only got two gripes with it.
1. It seems kind of inelegant to me that it's almost a pure card game, except for the victory tokens. They play such a relatively minor role in the game that I would have liked it if they could have just designed the game to use nothing but cards.
2. The box is hueg liek Xbox. Most over-packaged game I've seen since
Poison.
Other than those two issues, though, it was really cool. I was worried about the theme a bit, which is odd since I vastly prefer sci-fi to historical. I think I'm just too much in the anti-Sci-Fi mindset which pervades Eurogames. But the theme works really well, and it was awesome in the first game when my home planet was New Sparta. You can be sure lots of jokes were made about the game being madness.
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