Review: Zombie Fluxx

Gaaahhhhhh... braaaiiiinnsss!!!

I've never played any version of Fluxx before. I know plenty of people who have, but card games aren't necessarily my favourite sort of game in the world. Sure they can be simple, quick, easy fun, but I'm the sort of gamer who wants to sit down and play a full on game with little toy soldiers and counters. Whether that be a board game, wargame or indeed a card game. Fluxx doesn't really come onto my radar therefore, because it is so simple and so straight forward, and more importantly so quick to play. But, I figured that I can't really judge the product as not being for me if I'm not willing to at least give it a go, right? Besides many people have raved about Fluxx and I feel like I don't want to miss out, it is after-all an Origins Award Winner. So why not review Zombie Fluxx given I'm doing a week of zombie articles?

Product description

This is what you get in the box.

Zombie Fluxx isn't a complex product. It comes in a really small tight and compact box, it contains100 cards and some fold out rules to let you know just exactly what you've let yourself in for. However, I'll post a video from the games creator to give you

Review: Blood Bowl Team Manager

 

It comes in a very compact box

Blood Bowl Team Manager: The Card Game is the first card game in a box that I've actually brought. I mentioned in an earlier blog that I don't tend to like the blind buys that most card games foist upon gamers, I'm looking right at you Magic the Gathering. The constant searching for the special cards, and the wasted booster packs as well, it's just not this particular gamers cup of tea. Which, I admit, is a terrible shame because it's actually quite a good little game, in fact I know many card games are the same, great games, but still the cynical and shitty sales ploy of blind buys sticks in my throat a little too readily for me to ever be that sort of card gamer. So Fantasy Flight Games 'Living Card Games' actually appealed to me quite strongly, and got me looking at card games again, as there are no blind buys and you know what you're getting when you buy the packs. However, to be clear, Blood Bowl Team Manager isn't one of those 'Living Card Games', it's just a standalone card game, that again requires no collecting of booster packs to find the Morg 'n' Thorg foil card!

Box contents, it's not a huge amount, but it's enough

Product Description

It's a card game in a box, which is a sort of a variation on a theme for this here blog. Right, the game has a plethora of different card types, over 220 cards in total split between team player cards, star player cards event cards upgrade cards etc. For those who like to know these things, the cards use Fantasy Flights protection sleeves 4 and 2. The rulebook is clear and concise and retains much of the humour evident in other iterations of Blood Bowl released by Games Workshop. The game isn't hard to learn, and to be brutally honest you'll be away and playing the game in no time at all. There are your usual tokens and counters, that all come attached to the usual card sheets, as well as two green block dice. There are also 4 score board fan score tracker thingies to assemble, and they can be assembled wrong so take your time and make sure you do it right because I very nearly got one wrong being in a rush. So that's fun!!!