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Last night on earth zombie game any good>?'
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Emirikol
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If anyone has any further thoughts on the game, that's helpful too Jayh
Define good.
The mechanics aren't exactly new - action cards for items/events and die rolls to attack/defend. They use a modular board that gives replayability, all the art is pretty good.
The characters are varied and interesting, the action cards available are pretty okay. The fact that they split the group into zombies & humans make it tougher to play and quite fun in the co-operative sense. I like the fact that there are multiple scenarios - more interesting than just a plain out slug fest than Zombies.
So, what's the but? I guess it was just that the theme doesn't do much for me. As I said, the mechanics are the same-old, so it felt (definitely in the first scenario) like playing a better balanced, slightly more interesting version of Zombies!!!
The mechanics aren't exactly new - action cards for items/events and die rolls to attack/defend. They use a modular board that gives replayability, all the art is pretty good.
The characters are varied and interesting, the action cards available are pretty okay. The fact that they split the group into zombies & humans make it tougher to play and quite fun in the co-operative sense. I like the fact that there are multiple scenarios - more interesting than just a plain out slug fest than Zombies.
So, what's the but? I guess it was just that the theme doesn't do much for me. As I said, the mechanics are the same-old, so it felt (definitely in the first scenario) like playing a better balanced, slightly more interesting version of Zombies!!!
Gundark
Explorer
Yes the game is good. Not very rules heavy but a lot of fun. They really captured the horror movie feel. I'm going to grab "a touch of evil" when it comes out as well.
The downside is luck plays a big factor in the game for the heroes, downside meaning that it's hard to come back in the card draws aren't going your way.
The downside is luck plays a big factor in the game for the heroes, downside meaning that it's hard to come back in the card draws aren't going your way.
It's a good game if you're into the theme. If you've ever played Zombies!!! and thought, "Man. I wish this game were just a little better..." then this is probably the game for you. Personally, I played Zombies!!! and thought, "God, how did they make this suck so hard?" so after playing Last Night on Earth I was left saying, "Man. I wish this game were just a little better..."
Basically you run around fighting zombies on a semi-random board. There aren't enough interchangable pieces to make it feel really random and the board is always shaped the same way. Each turn you can either search or you can fight. Searching nets you cards out of the deck that might be weapons or items or might be special effects. The player controlling the zombies (or two players, though the 2-zombie-player variant was kind of weak, I felt) gets a fixed number of cards and rolls dice to see how many zombies he gets to spawn at the end of his turn with the difficulty to get more zombies increasing based on how many are already out on the board.
The biggest weakness with the game, other than that fighting without a weapon as a hero or doing anything other than swarming one or two heroes at a time as a zombie player is pretty much futile, I felt, was the lack of zombies. I forget the exact count but the game comes with somewhere between a dozen and twenty zombie figures. Once the zombie player runs out of zombies he can't place any more, so there's a pretty low limit on how many total zombies can be in play during the game. It's all balanced fairly well for the recommended numbers of players but I think that it really loses some of the zombie apocalypse feel when there are only, maybe, 3 zombies for every human on the board. For all the things it did wrong, Zombies!!! at least managed to maintain the whole "There's no stopping them. All we can hope for is to beat off enough of the zombies to make it to the helipad" feeling of your average zombie flick.
If you're into very light strategy-combat games, zombie games, or both then I'd say Last Night On Earth is a good one to pick up. It's at the very least rules light enough and quick enough that you can break it out at Halloween for a casual game night.
Basically you run around fighting zombies on a semi-random board. There aren't enough interchangable pieces to make it feel really random and the board is always shaped the same way. Each turn you can either search or you can fight. Searching nets you cards out of the deck that might be weapons or items or might be special effects. The player controlling the zombies (or two players, though the 2-zombie-player variant was kind of weak, I felt) gets a fixed number of cards and rolls dice to see how many zombies he gets to spawn at the end of his turn with the difficulty to get more zombies increasing based on how many are already out on the board.
The biggest weakness with the game, other than that fighting without a weapon as a hero or doing anything other than swarming one or two heroes at a time as a zombie player is pretty much futile, I felt, was the lack of zombies. I forget the exact count but the game comes with somewhere between a dozen and twenty zombie figures. Once the zombie player runs out of zombies he can't place any more, so there's a pretty low limit on how many total zombies can be in play during the game. It's all balanced fairly well for the recommended numbers of players but I think that it really loses some of the zombie apocalypse feel when there are only, maybe, 3 zombies for every human on the board. For all the things it did wrong, Zombies!!! at least managed to maintain the whole "There's no stopping them. All we can hope for is to beat off enough of the zombies to make it to the helipad" feeling of your average zombie flick.
If you're into very light strategy-combat games, zombie games, or both then I'd say Last Night On Earth is a good one to pick up. It's at the very least rules light enough and quick enough that you can break it out at Halloween for a casual game night.
No. It's actually a brilliant game - I've played it quite a bit, and it's got variety, theme and funness in the package.
Although there may not be that many zombies in the basic package (14; 21 with the expansion), I assure you that there are many times when they are just TOO MUCH FOR THE HEROES!
One hero swarmed by 7 zombies? Yeah, I've seen that happen. It wasn't good for the hero.
Cheers!
