Customer Reviews

Risk II

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I purchased this for my boyfriend as a gift. He loves the board game, and was able to easily teach me how to play on this. Graphics are great, the sound is entertaining for a while, but it gets a littl bit agravating. I thought it was great on the pc, but he thought it was better as a board game because he gets to roll the dice by hand. Personal preference there I suppose. He said the dice are half the fun of the game. Risk does get you thinking and stratagizing. It's probably good to boost your IQ, though that's just my thought. I don't know. Oh, one more thing. If you're in a bad mood and want to just take over the world, break out a pc game of Risk and go for TOTAL DOMINATION. Lol

I love this game in any version, on the board it takes too long though, so got the PC version which is great on a big screen with some friends or family. Now when nobody is home and you try to play against computer players - just forget it, there is no AI involved there, you'll be the only one thinking about strategy. Although they post that the generals have different strategies and behaviors - they just blindly fight towards their own missions with little aim and sense and no care for the rest of the board. Most of the games you will win within 5 turns or so, it's just boring, even maddening how stupid the AI players behave. Had the first PC version of the game back in the 90s - that was much better...

I trully enjoy playing this game. Its too bad that it is not that well known by the general public. The online gameplay would have been spectacular fun... but it was hard if not imposible to locate players in the lobbies. But just to play in LAN or on your own its a great deal of fun.

Love this game and the same time version is awesome. Great buy for all who like risk.

Game is alot of fun. The battle scenes are pretty good. I recommend this to anyone who liked playing the first Risk game. Fun for the whole family.

I have a dell with an i5 core and the game will not play on my computer. a waste of 20 bucks

I've loved playing Risk for decades. It's one of my favorite game-playing memories from my "formative years". This particular game looks good, has some interesting options, and hasn't crashed on me yet. That being said, I will never play it again.

It's absolutely infuriating to play this game because the AI is so, SO godawful. Utilizing "strategy" that calls for habitually stopping short of the border of another player's continent when the other opponent has only one (1) army on the border, the upshot is that some players are allowed to hold continents and continue to build extra armies, all for lack of one simple die roll. After a few repetitions of this beginner's mistake, very quickly this game descends into a contest of which opponent plays more stupidly than the other.

It's almost as if the players had an ongoing silent peace treaty- such treaties are part of the game, of course, but when such passivity occurs every single time then after a while it becomes clear that this is just a programming shortcoming. In the several games I've played so far, I've entered into several treaties and the average length of time that transpires before the other player breaks the treaty is 2 turns. So it seems unlikely that one can blame the passive approach on "contractual agreements".

Also, armies are left in small groups of 3 or 4 on countries in the interior of continents- countries that will never see any action- instead of being concentrated on the borders where they're needed. This is a mistake typical of a 9-year-old, and players who make decisions like this are easy to beat in a game with a small number of opponents. But when multiple players are in action they make so many bad decisions that the effect is that they may as well be teaming up against you.

Nothing that a smart player can do can overcome the collective stupidity of the other players. By failing to make common sense moves they give so much advantage to everyone else that they make it virtually impossible for the reasonably skilled player to win.

I appreciate that this isn't chess, but there's very little reward competing in a game that's so poorly designed.

Anyone want my copy of Risk 2? I'll let it go for 49 cents.