60 minutes to save New York
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Publisher's Description:Chainsaw Warrior is a game of danger and excitement for one player. You are the warrior, battle-hardened and trained to a peak of fitness, a walking killing machine. But this time you may well have met your match! The building is the centre of a gigantic warp in space and time, and through it are pouring foul creatures – irradiated mutations, undead zombies and worse. And at the heart of their fearful corruption sits the Darkness, readying itself to destroy the whole of New York City! You must venture into the building, vanquish all the undead opponents Darkness will throw at you, fight your way into the depths of the building, and destroy Darkness before it can obliterate the city. |
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Trev says:How do you cope with the fact that board games players are thin on the ground and have trouble finding opponents? Why not sell them a game that they can play on their own? Well, basically because the one real element that makes boardgames fun is the |
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interaction with other players and the development of strategies and ploys that enable you to beat regular opponents. The idea, then, was ultimately doomed to failure. With other players, they get better at the same time as you do and so a game adapts to your skill level. With this game the level of difficulty has to be constant and, to provide variety, there has to be a high random element to play. What this means in practice is that it is very hard to complete and you can easily get wiped out at the turn of a single card and/or a crap dice roll. Luckily we now have computers for single player gaming and we don’t have to see any more vain efforts like this. What really gets to me, though, is that this game is designed by the designer of two great games: Chaos Marauders and The Fury of Dracula. What happened Stephen? |