Zombies!!! 2nd Edition
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Toys and Games Reviews of Zombies!!! 2nd Edition
Customer Review: The one that starts it all!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been curiously addicted to this simple game since I bought the first edition used at a game auction a few years ago. I have since gone back to buy this Second edition new, and al lthe expansions plus multiple Zombies packs glowing and plain. This "Wide Screen" set is the first of the games that gets the ball rolling. I upgraded to it because it contains a larger, deeper box that can hold the tiles and cards from most of the expansions (not 4). Don't expect it to hold more than 200 Zombies with all those cards and tiles though!
With very simple and easy to learn rules, the only complaint I have heard from people that have played the game is that it can get a little long to play, and indeed it can. Minimum game length is from 60 to 90 minutes, unless you cheat the helicopter into the middle of the tiles. I have seen game sessions go 2-3 hours, and heard of even longer ones at my local game store.
I am an old school gamer and this length of game does not really bother me. After all, the point of playing a game is to spend time with your freinds...(and help zombies kill them if possible.) Still I often use the Helicopter tile in the midlde "cheat" for shorter games myself.
But fair warning if you are expecting a collectible card game style sit down for a game and get up 5 minutes later, it ain't gonna happen! This is NOT a Magic the Gathering! This is a tabletop game in the style of the old "Illuminati" card game only much simpler to play.
If you get bored of this starter game there are 8 expansios available for variety, all of which I own, and most of which I love. There is even a Humans!!! game where you get to play the zombies! Twilight Creations does a great job with these games, and I am a huge fan. Later this June (2009) they will be coming out with a Martians!!! 1950's sci-fi game and frankly I cannot wait.
Give this game a try.
Customer Review: One of the worst games I have ever played (Director's Cut)
Summary: 2 Stars
The last time I can remember being so frustrated trying to play a game was during the Scattergories battles of yore, before we had the internet to find out what was and wasn't a proper noun.
This game is way too complex to have basically a one-page pamphlet for a rulebook. The turn consists of placing a map tile with the proper bullet tokens, life tokens and zombies; moving your guy; battling zombies; drawing new event cards; and moving the zombies. And that doesn't even include the playing of event cards.
The rules say that you can only enter a building by tiles with doors, but it was very hard to tell where the doors were and weren't. (There was much debate on this issue) It was hard to tell where the buildings themselves started and ended. There were no instructions on how to decide where the vitally important tokens and zombies were supposed to go at placement time, who was supposed to place them, or what to do at the end of the game if and when you ran out of zombie tokens.
By far the worst part of the game was the event cards. The rules stated that they could be played at any time, and yet some of the cards had the specific instructions "can be played at any time." These cards are for royally screwing your opponents, so people are going to argue any point they can, and there were so many grey areas that we had arguments about every round. People threatened to quit the game--people threatened to leave our home, it was that frustrating. For example, one card says "Zombies do not attack people until the end of your next turn." So if this card is played at the end of the previous player's turn does it only last during your turn, when if it was played at any other time the effect would last for the entire round????? There were many vague and contradictory issues like this.
I don't have any clue how it got so many positive reviews on here.
Customer Review: Before the movie ZombieLand there was this game
Summary: 4 Stars
Did you enjoy the movie Zombieland but just felt it didn't really give you that personal: "Oh my God how do I escape from being eaten by a Zombie experience?" (why you would WANT that experience I won't ask) Then Zombies!! is the game for you.
Players find themselves trapped in a complex trying to get to the heliport to escape, however your path is blocked by the living dead. LOTS of them. As in the movies they are slow and easy to kill, also like in the movies one Zombie isn't much trouble, but the seer volume makes it a challenge to make it to the end without being lunch.
Like the Steve Jackson Games Munchkin Quest your map is built as you go along so you have to find your way around. It also has an element of Cutthroat Caverns in that you need to cooperate to survive but since the first player to the Heliport wins (unless you just want to win with the 25 kill rule)you need to slow down your friends a little.
It is an easy game and a great one to introduce people who don't play board games to the genre.
The one weakness of this game can be its length, it can go on VERY long time and can eat up an evening, but with that caveat it is certainly a fun game, particularly with a large crowd, and enough variants and expansions exist to keep you rolling in rotting flesh for years to come.
Customer Review: Zombies Rule!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I played this game with my 8, 10, and 11 year old sons. It was so funny to watch them play. As the game went on and the more zombies that appeared with each tile played, the louder and more excited they got. By the time the helipad was played it was total anarchy in our kitchen. I had to laugh and only wish I had the whole event on video.
A simple game, as someone else commented, after a few rounds you have the basic turns/rules down pat. So you can pick up on it quick.
Even after one game, we realized we did NOT enjoy playing by the rules for things such as deciding how many zombies/spaces you can move at the end of your turn - it seemed too slow. To speed the next game up we just decided 6 Zombies can be moved 6 spaces. It helps get the zombies around the board a little quicker and keeps the game moving along as you don't have to now roll dice to decide that information.
The little carboard hearts and bullets stink. They're only printed on one side so you have to waste time turning them all over. So, we promptly stored those away in the kitchen trash and decided to use little poker chips - red for hearts, white for bullets. It works out much nicer and it's much quicker when placing them and picking them up. Plus, they're about the same size as the squares on the tiles.
The sewers added a whole new dimension to the game and made movement much more interesting. So feel free to change the rules to speed things up, make it more challenging and keep it fresh!!
Customer Review: Love Zombies, love this game!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great game! Finally they something for a board game/horror freak like me. A bit of a learning curve, but a little patience and you'll have it down by the first couple of plays. Even got my fiancee to play and she had fun! It's kind of like a survival horror video game in a board game format.
Play consists of:
1. Placing a map tile down to expand the playing field and putting the number of zombies, bullets and lives indicated on that map tile.
2. Rolling for your turn (combatting any zombies on the way. 4, 5 or 6 you kill the zombie; 1,2 or 3 you have to sacrifice a life or use how ever many bullets it takes to make a high enough score to kill the zombie. If you die, you start over at the town square and lose half your killed zombies)
3. Rolling for how many zombies you can move (they are slow so they only move one space each. Rolling a 6 would allow you to move 6 zombies one space)
4. Playing an event card (events cards allow you to do evil things to your opponent or get ahead a little. Think if George Romero did the Community Chest and Chance cards in Monopoly).
The goal is to reach the helipad tile once it has been placed with your life intact OR having 25 defeated zombies in your collection. Pretty simple...AND FUN!
Caveat emptor: If you are playing with more than 2 people, invest in an additional bag of Zombies they fill up the board pretty quick.