So we managed to play a few new to us games plus an old favorite the other day. We wound up playing two zombie games, the semi cooperative Run, fight or die and the competitive Last night on Earth. Much preferred the latter game as it offered a bit more involvement as Run, fight, die tends to just be a simple random lightweight game. I really do like the Flying Frog games, they look great, they typically are very thematic and are easy to play.
We also played a very short game of Sentinels of the Multiverse. We had Skyscraper and Expatriette up against Chokepoint in the Omnitrom IV environment. It did not go well, one of our shortest games. Expatriette died all to soon and despite Skyscrapers limited successes it seemed to be a rather forgone conclusion.
keeping with a tradition of ours, we decided that the last game of the night would be one that we had never played before. Spectre was a game that I picked up from the Dollar store for $4.00 but had not yet read the rules. So at 10:30 we decided to give the game a try.
Well, first off I think the board and the components look very nice. The rule book looks nice too, that is until you open it up. However, once you look inside you find a jumble of badly explained rules. It took us quite some time to work out how the game is supposed to play. Our confusion was aided by the late hour and in part by the game board itself. Nice though the board is it includes some redundancy information that only helped to confuse us and more annoying was the shift in layout of the regions.
At any rate the game was not bad even if it took a while to play. We will certainly give it another go now that we have a better grasp on the mechanics.
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