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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great variations to the original, July 24, 2000
This review is from: Risk II (CD-ROM)
Risk 2 offers new variations to a classic strategy game. It offers many different types of play. There are single and multi-player games, including hotseat play. Risk 2 includes the standard "take over the whole world" game but also has many options. You can lower the percentage of the world you must occupy to win, which is helpful if you are looking for a shorter game. The Mission risk option is interesting. Each player is given a mission to achieve to win. Single players can also play a tournament of 16 games. The games get proggesively more difficult and you may save tournaments after each game. Only one tournament at time can be played which can be inconvienent. The most interesting addition is same-time risk. Same time risk can be played by single or multi-players, world domination or mission, and by a variety of AI Generals. Each phase of your turn (reinforcements, battle orders, battles, surge attacks, tactical moves) is conducted at the same time as everyone elses. (All reinforcements are placed, then the game shows where everyone else went. Then everyone places battle orders, then you see them all at once. Etc.) This is a interesting and addictive variation to a classic. In comparison to Risk, this offers many similarites but I find the AI is better and the same time option is great. It does not include the ultimate risk option found on the original. If I were to only buy one of the two, I would purchase Risk 2. Great game that can be enjoyed by teens and adults.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Risk 2 -The Companion, March 27, 2000
This review is from: Risk II (CD-ROM)
Risk 2 is not an upgrade. It is a companion to the original game offering additional variations on the game. The interface is improved and the 'bookkeeping' phase moves quickly even with all of the options turned on. There are two additions to the classic version - the first is 'same time' Risk. All moves are entered and the computer resolves battles simultaneously (similar to Diplomacy). The second addition is the 'tournament'. In the tournament there are 16 pre-determined starts and to win you must beat each of the 16 games. There are other smaller refinements. Both the original version and this version are first class.
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35 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A downgrade, not an upgrade, March 23, 2000
This review is from: Risk II (CD-ROM)
The best part of Risk 1 was Ultimate Risk. Strategic attack and defense options, generals, terrain difficulties, and forts, made for ever changing and stimulating gameplay. The only problem was the computer AI which caused some opposing forces to make moves contrary to common and tactical sense. I was looking forward to playing Risk 2 against more intelligent opponents. Microprose, a quality game developer, decided not to include Ultimate Risk in Risk 2. It now has a variation called simultaneous Risk. All players make all attack decisions at once for a turn, then you press a button and the attacks are carried out. There is no flexibility to change tactics based on changing fortunes of war. This brings us back to playing only Classic Risk on a board that looks graphically like it was taken from a DOS game in 1993. The battle boxes are graphically state of the art. I watched the battles unfold a few times, said, "Cool," and turned them off to speed up gameplay. I uninstalled Risk 2 from my computer and am back playing Risk 1, Ultimate Risk, one of the great games of the 90's in my opinion.
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