I have the game Zombies!!! but I have to say I’m not very impressed. Really nice graphics but the game play is very weak. There’s no real strategy involved. It’s just dice rolling and tile flipping.
Now the thing is that there are a number of expansions. Do these add some depth to the basic game and make it more interesting? Or are they just more of the same?
A bump. Anyone else played this game?
You mean Zombies!!! the boardgame? , my group of friends like it, but its a pretty unbalanced game, and most of the fun come from the company you play with instead of the actual game
but having a pile of slayed zombie trophies stays fun…
That’s the game. I’ll have to read through the PDF rulebooks in your link to see if they expansions are worth it.
On the site or on one of their forums were a number of alternative scenarios which sounded fun…like delivering pizza’s though a zombie town, and one were you were you had to rob a bank(on of the players was a undercover fed) in a zombie town
only get the expansion if you thought that zombies! is over to soon
Zombies!!! is not a strategy game. It’s a beer and pretzels game, or family game, where getting the right cards and making the right dice rolls means winning or losing.
That said, there is some strategy involved in which cards to play when, when to discard to try to get better cards, where to go in the city at what time and so forth.
If you’re looking for chess, this ain’t it. If you want to kill little plastic zombies while being chased around an ever-changing board representing a city under attack by the zombie apocalypse where anyone playing the game has a chance at winning despite how much more experience other people have playing, this is a great choice.
The Twilight Creations site has lots of optional rules for customizing the game to more suit your individual tastes. You can lift rules from other expansions for those changes that don’t require the new cards or tiles that come with the expansions, of course. So you can start using guts rules (changes how many cards you can hold in a hand at a time) or dodge rules (to get out of the zombies’ way) or subways or whatever. You can buy bags of zombie dogs or zombie clowns or radioactive zombies to incorporate into the game, either with rules you make up or lifted from the expansion that introduces each of them. The 3.5 expansion adds more cards, which helps a few of the weak spots in the original game, and also includes the option for people to make customizable decks. If you want to go all out, Zombies!!! 6.66 has blank cards and tiles for you to make up whatever you want and incorporate them into the decks without people knowing which are new ones and which are originals until they are flipped over.
The base game is aimed at a very wide audience, and the people more into strategy or customization can get the add ons or make changes. Ideally it would be great if eventually they release an expansion specifically for out and out strategy, but right now most of their sales are to people who don’t play a lot of other games and would get confused, or who want to be able to play with mom, dad and three young kids and not have the parents have to choose between always winning or purposefully throwing the game.
I’ve heard that people into zombies and strategy games like Last Night on Earth better, but I haven’t played that one so have no clue whether it’s any good.
Ditto.
It’s a fun game with your friends, not a deep game. I always find it hilarious how at the beginning of the game everyone is using their zombie moves to pile zombies onto their opponents, but once a well-equipped guy gets in the 17ish number of dead zombies, suddenly everyone starts using their zombie moves to get zombies AWAY from that guy.
I’d say the expansions are a waste, except for the one that’s purely cards.
It’s a game about screwing the other players, and that’s what makes it fun. Hell, we had one game where one guy spent pretty much the entire game inside the Flower Shop. He went in for something, and everyone kept using their cards to keep him in there.
The rest of us found it hilarious, and we still mock him about it years later.
-Joe