Zombies

By Richard Moore

Twilight Creations
Players: 2 to 6.
Age: 12 to adult.
$55.

If you like movies about the walking dead then you are going to absolutely love this wicked little title from Twilight Creations.

Zombies plonks you down in the middle of a town overrun by flesh-eating ex-humans and it is up to you to survive long enough to escape to the local helipad and be rescued.

You are not alone, your fellow players will have the same troubles with zombies, however the aim of the game is for you to be the first to clear the helipad of the monsters and if that means being mean to your opponents ... well so be it.

Zombies is a tile game and as each player begins a turn they add a new tile to the townscape, connecting them road by road.

Each time a new tile goes down a new batch of zombies appears and, if you are lucky, extra health points and bullets. The HPs and bullets are necessary as each time you are in contact with one of the nifty little zombie plastic figures you have to roll a die.

On a four or more you kill the creature and add it to your trophy collection of rotting corpses. For each number under the magic four you lose a bullet, or a health point. You can have an endless number of bullets, but health points are limited to five per person at any one time.

Other things to help you on your way are event cards - done in terrific 1950s-style artwork - that can make your survival easier and can hamstring your opponents.

One of the really fun things about Zombies is that you can enter a game late and still have a chance of winning. If you die during the game it's no big deal as you just start again in the town square, although you do lose half your dead zombies. Kill 25 of them and you also win the game.

Zombies is fun, easy and a lot of laughs.

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