Customer Reviews

Risk (Jewel Case)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Hasbro's PC "Risk" is a good but not great game. The sheer scale of "Risk" is a big part of its charm, and who can resist a bid to take over the world? But the battles themselves are handled a bit too simply, so that what should be exciting becomes routine after a bit. Ultimate Risk departs from the classic game in several ways, adding forts, rebels, generals, and a much more detailed and exciting battle resolution system, and is actually much superior to the classic rules. Overall, "Risk" is certainly fun and a quality production, one well worth its relatively low price tag. On the other hand, some other Hasbro computer games, like "Battleship" and especially "Stratego," are far superior.

If you like the board game risk, but don't have anybody to play against, you'll be satisfied with this game. The best part is its' low price. The parts about it that irk me are that the artificial intelligence seems weak, in the classic game you can't form alliances like you would if you were playing with people, the games can become too long and there's no mechanism for saving them, the instructions especially for the ultimate game are almost completely lacking and sometimes with the ultimate dice rules completely illogical things take place like 400 attacking armies being destroyed by 60 defending armies. The artificial intelligence demands further explanation. I've had the computer attack me when I'm absolutley no threat to it and it's not trying to take me out for my cards, while it will leave another powerful neighbor with a complete country and a border of one army go. It defies logic. Also the computer doesn't guard borders of territories. Invariably it will have all of the borders with multiple armies except for one. Again it defies logic. If you get down to three players and one is too powerful while you and the other computer player are weak the weak computer player will attack you when he gets a risk instead of both of you ganging up on the powerful computer player until everything is more even. Once again, it defies logic. I still enjoy the game and find it challenging, I just spend way too much time playing it. They need to fix the save function.

for classic risk this game cant be beat. it has 5 different maps to play on and several levels of challenge. I have found it very challenging when set at the most difficult level. sound game save to keep those long games going. a must have strategy game

Its an awesome game for its price, and age... You get all these cool maps to chose from and theirs Ultimate risk, where you chose how you're going to attack (attack rightflank, defend rightflank, etc..) and if you have a general, you can choose even cooler options (ambushes, etc.) and if two generals match up, you get a animation of the battle as it progresses..way cool... in the end a MUST GET, even though it is an old game... you dont feel it one bit

The box says multiplayer so I brought this one home to play on an impromptu 2 player network along with a friend. Unfortunately, multiplayer means "3 or more players" which is written nowhere on the outside of the box. Sooo, in a nutshell my 1 friend and I are hosed. No stars here!

This game gets old after playing about five times. The options may sound great, but the game offers a lot and delievers very little. The battle sequences in the Ultimate mode are (to put mildly) crap. The same old 3D video sequences over and over. I wouldn't have bought it, if i could change the past.

I LOVE the Risk board game.
I bought this computer game a few years ago and it was fun to play for a while.
If you've played the board version, you'll understand how everything works very quickly.
It was nice to finally be able to play Risk when I didn't have a few people around to play the board game with.
The graphics and audio are SO bad that I just gave up on it.
If I were to look at buying again, I'd pass on this unless they came out with a version that's more up to date as far as the graphics and video go.

It seems often that the computer players are designed to attack me first. Even when another computer player might have just gotten all the territories in a continent, the players will focus on me. It does also seem like the dice rolls aren't random. Also for some reason, when I tried to save a game, all the slots are filled with gobblegook which I can't delete or replace. I tried reinstalling the game with no difference. When Risk gold edition came out, I bought it but had the same problem with the save. I like the expanded maps and I don't know why they didn't keep them in Risk II.

This is one of my favorite board game and I've play it many times. The PC version plays pretty good. The pre game menus were a bit confusing to me at first, but once you get the hang of them, it's OK. I think it's a bit "overdone" and that made be why the menus slow you up. Game play is fast and OK. It might take some people a bit of time to figure out how the controls work, but after that you'll have fun.

Dated but I love to play it anyway, especially the scenarios.