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In The Walking Dead Board game, only the strong survive. The weak turn into walkers, and then turn against their former friends. Fight your way through zombie-infested Atlanta with your fellow survivors. Grab some weapons to clear a path. Visit destinations like the department store, old folk's home, and the CDC. Find the tools you'll need to live another day. Take on the role of Rick, Andrea, or one of the other hapless survivors and scrounge for sweet weapons like a Shotgun or Crossbow. Keep your eyes open for new allies, but watch your back. When supplies start running low, it's every man for himself. If you can make it back to camp with enough gear to defend yourself and those you still care for, you win! Should you fall to the hungry horde of walkers, the game doesn't end. When a player dies and becomes a walker, they leave the world of the living behind and seek out the remaining survivors. Spring surprise attacks on the living, cause the walkers to frenzy, or contaminate the survivor's supplies. Put the bite on your former friends and they'll join you in your pursuit of the living. The fate of the human race is in your hands, either as a survivor or a walker. A game for 2-4 players. Age range 15+ years. Time to play one game - 60 minutes.
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In The Walking Dead Board game, only the strong survive. The weak turn into walkers, and then turn against their former friends! Fight your way through zombie-infested Atlanta with your fellow survivors. Grab some weapons to clear a path. Visit destinations like the department store, old folk's home, and the CDC. Find the tools you'll need to live another day. Take on the role of Rick, Andrea, or one of the other hapless survivors and scrounge for sweet weapons like a Shotgun or Crossbow. Keep your eyes open for new allies, but watch your back! When supplies start running low, it's every man for himself. If you can make it back to camp with enough gear to defend yourself and those you still care for, you win! Should you fall to the hungry horde of walkers, the game doesn't end. When a player dies and becomes a walker, they leave the world of the living behind and seek out the remaining survivors. Spring surprise attacks on the living, cause the walkers to frenzy, or contaminate the survivor's supplies. Put the bite on your former friends and they'll join you in your pursuit of the living. The fate of the human race is in your hands, either as a survivor or a walker. Join us this September 2011 with Cryptozoic Entertainment's The Walking Dead Board Game. Key Selling Points . A Game for 2-4 players . Be the first to reach the Center for Disease Control! . Unique resource mechanic simulates the pressure of trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse. Resources are scarce so use them wisely! . Players who die come back as zombies and now hunt the living! . Semi-cooperative. Help your friends to keep them from turning in to a zombie and turning against you
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96 of 100 people found the following review helpful
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The first thing that hits me, is that it contains this cool playmat instead of the boring cardboard other games have. This alone let it stand out to all the other games. But after I played it I came to recognize how much thought went into this game.
1) The players have limited resources. When they are all up, they can't get more. This gives tension and makes every encounter with a zombie count, as you can't throw out all your cards at once, as you have no chance otherwise.
2) The game is constantly hard. No build up and working to an final encounter. The hardest zombies can come up in the first round and they stay this way till the end. It get's even harder due to the limited resources and due to the fact that...
3) Players who run out of red-shirt allies get turned into zombies themselves and try to stop the remaining players. So no sitting next to the others and waiting that the game finishes. And team Zombie can even still win the game. That's an amazing part, as it allows me to win the game at the end with a different objective than at the start of the game.
Although this game has a lot of cooperative elements, in the end you still try to be the one who comes out victorious over the others. I had a blast playing this game.
1) The players have limited resources. When they are all up, they can't get more. This gives tension and makes every encounter with a zombie count, as you can't throw out all your cards at once, as you have no chance otherwise.
2) The game is constantly hard. No build up and working to an final encounter. The hardest zombies can come up in the first round and they stay this way till the end. It get's even harder due to the limited resources and due to the fact that...
3) Players who run out of red-shirt allies get turned into zombies themselves and try to stop the remaining players. So no sitting next to the others and waiting that the game finishes. And team Zombie can even still win the game. That's an amazing part, as it allows me to win the game at the end with a different objective than at the start of the game.
Although this game has a lot of cooperative elements, in the end you still try to be the one who comes out victorious over the others. I had a blast playing this game.
72 of 83 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
We had fun playing it, because we have fun drinking and talking to each other, but the game itself is NOT good enough to be the focus of the evening.
Think of Monopoly, or Trivial Pursuit, or similar. It has a square path around the outside, connected by a plus through the middle. You can travel forward or backward, but can not hop back and forth.
You land on spaces, draw an encounter card, and see what you have to fight.
The goal is to collect the 4 location cards (located on each corner) and return to the middle.
You get Scrounge Cards to help balance out the fight with the encounter cards.
It seems like they thought out a decent game, but didn't run it through testing long enough.
-Problems: You die way too fast, if you are not rolling 5 and 6 on every roll.
Cool thing is, that if you die, you can join TEAM ZOMBIE, and fight against your human friends. This is nice, but then you have people racing to die, so they can kill the others.
The Zombie cards, are again, too powerful. The Zombie Team won every game until we adjusted the rules for Crossbow, and Bat.
We made it so if you roll a 3 or better, you get to keep the weapon, instead of 5 or 6.
Overall the game didn't have much of a ZOMBIE feel to it.
Even with all the zombie pictures, it still feels like monopoly.
I think it's because of the "road" you have to follow. It's not an open map, and you don't have many options as far as moving around.
Better Zombie games are: Zombie Survival (The Board Game) , or the Mall of Horror Board game.
Zombie Survival has the right feel, but it's not so interactive. You can play as one player..... or you can play the way my nephew plays, and not defend your house, just keep using all your moves to throw zombies on another player's property. That is pretty much all the interaction you can do.
Mall Of Horror is nothing but interaction. It's more of a diplomacy game, with you pushing the losers out, to get eaten.
I tried the other Walking Dead game, and it's better then this one, but it's so super confusing, that you'll spend half your night trying to figure out what each card does.
There is also Zombies!!! the game, but despite it's good reviews, I found it to be less then fun. We played it twice, then forced ourselves to play it again to get our money's worth, but It now collects dust.
I'm still looking for a good Zombie Game
Think of Monopoly, or Trivial Pursuit, or similar. It has a square path around the outside, connected by a plus through the middle. You can travel forward or backward, but can not hop back and forth.
You land on spaces, draw an encounter card, and see what you have to fight.
The goal is to collect the 4 location cards (located on each corner) and return to the middle.
You get Scrounge Cards to help balance out the fight with the encounter cards.
It seems like they thought out a decent game, but didn't run it through testing long enough.
-Problems: You die way too fast, if you are not rolling 5 and 6 on every roll.
Cool thing is, that if you die, you can join TEAM ZOMBIE, and fight against your human friends. This is nice, but then you have people racing to die, so they can kill the others.
The Zombie cards, are again, too powerful. The Zombie Team won every game until we adjusted the rules for Crossbow, and Bat.
We made it so if you roll a 3 or better, you get to keep the weapon, instead of 5 or 6.
Overall the game didn't have much of a ZOMBIE feel to it.
Even with all the zombie pictures, it still feels like monopoly.
I think it's because of the "road" you have to follow. It's not an open map, and you don't have many options as far as moving around.
Better Zombie games are: Zombie Survival (The Board Game) , or the Mall of Horror Board game.
Zombie Survival has the right feel, but it's not so interactive. You can play as one player..... or you can play the way my nephew plays, and not defend your house, just keep using all your moves to throw zombies on another player's property. That is pretty much all the interaction you can do.
Mall Of Horror is nothing but interaction. It's more of a diplomacy game, with you pushing the losers out, to get eaten.
I tried the other Walking Dead game, and it's better then this one, but it's so super confusing, that you'll spend half your night trying to figure out what each card does.
There is also Zombies!!! the game, but despite it's good reviews, I found it to be less then fun. We played it twice, then forced ourselves to play it again to get our money's worth, but It now collects dust.
I'm still looking for a good Zombie Game
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By S. Adams
Amazon Verified Purchase
Durability:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Educational:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I was a little bit apprehensive about purchasing this game at first. It wasn't terribly cheap until recently if purchased new, (however, I did procure a used version from Amazon for only $25, though the box was slightly damaged), and the reviews, here and on other sites, are mixed. However, many of the negative-leaning reviews were written by people who were more experienced in board-gaming than myself, so their dissatisfaction is relative to their experience. I am only a casual board-gamer, card-player, and I absolutely adore this game. My husband and I play it all the time. I love the mouse pad material that is used for the board. The cards are fun, there's plenty of images from the show and some images are from scenes that were never aired on TV. You have to keep an eye out for them. I can't say enough good things about this game. There are a lot of pieces, which can be a little bit of a pain, I've already lost one of my "Ally" pieces, but there's 16 in total (plenty if you're playing with 1-3 people, problematic if you're playing with 4. So, I just made a new one out of cardboard. It requires some strategy, but depends on luck too. Many experienced gamers dislike the "luck" aspect and the fact that movement is dictated by a die. I don't mind it though. It is similar to Monopoly and Sorry!.
Objective: Each player has to go around the board to all 4 corners before being able to return to "Camp".
The Locations: Each corner is a location, these include: the Police Station, the Department Store, the Abandoned Car Lot, and the CDC. (All locations which Rick and sometimes other survivors had to find in the show.)
The Characters: You can play as 1 of 6 players including: Rick, Shane, Dale, Glenn, Lori, and Andrea. Each of the characters has a corresponding "Special Ability" which can be used once during the game. My husband and I like to randomly pick our characters because some are better than others, so it's best to do at random. However, let me just say Lori sucks as much in the game as she does in the show. Her amazing ability only moves you forward one space once during the game. For some reason I ALWAYS end up with that god-awful character. The rest are pretty good though.
The Cards: Then there are the cards. There are 3 types of cards: Encounter, Scrounge, and Walker. Encounter cards are drawn on every turn you take. The majority of them are attacks by walkers (which have a specific strength which you must match or best with your Scrounge cards + your # rolled), some are precarious situations with your fellow survivors, and some, but few are good/beneficial cards. Scrounge cards are what you hold in your hand. These are your supplies and weaponry. You use these to fight the walkers. Each Scrounge Card has a strength which counters the strength of an attack from and Encounter card. Lastly, there are Walker Cards. These are used towards the end of the game when your opponent/s has died. They get to come back as a walker and use the Walker cards to attack the living survivor/s. There are also Allies. Allies function the same as Scrounge cards, they are small circular pieces of cardboard that will take the bite for you if you fail to defeat the Encounter Card/s with your Scrounge cards. However, once you run out of Allies, you run the risk of being bit yourself and becoming a walker, so you have to be smart about how you use your Scrounge cards and Allies. There is a limited number of Scrounge cards because there are a limited number of supplies in the Zombie/Walker Apocalypse. That's where the strategy comes into play.
There's really not much more to say about the game. It's pretty easy, once you figure out all the rules. There a convenient FAQ on the Rulebook, which is very helpful when you're learning the game. It's simple and fun. You can play it alone or with 3 other people. It's rare you find a 1 person board game. You can up the challenge or lower it by increasing/decreasing the number of Scrounge cards you put in the pile at the start of the game. I highly recommend it. Especially before October and Season 3 comes along. It'll be a great way to pass the time before new episodes each week.
Objective: Each player has to go around the board to all 4 corners before being able to return to "Camp".
The Locations: Each corner is a location, these include: the Police Station, the Department Store, the Abandoned Car Lot, and the CDC. (All locations which Rick and sometimes other survivors had to find in the show.)
The Characters: You can play as 1 of 6 players including: Rick, Shane, Dale, Glenn, Lori, and Andrea. Each of the characters has a corresponding "Special Ability" which can be used once during the game. My husband and I like to randomly pick our characters because some are better than others, so it's best to do at random. However, let me just say Lori sucks as much in the game as she does in the show. Her amazing ability only moves you forward one space once during the game. For some reason I ALWAYS end up with that god-awful character. The rest are pretty good though.
The Cards: Then there are the cards. There are 3 types of cards: Encounter, Scrounge, and Walker. Encounter cards are drawn on every turn you take. The majority of them are attacks by walkers (which have a specific strength which you must match or best with your Scrounge cards + your # rolled), some are precarious situations with your fellow survivors, and some, but few are good/beneficial cards. Scrounge cards are what you hold in your hand. These are your supplies and weaponry. You use these to fight the walkers. Each Scrounge Card has a strength which counters the strength of an attack from and Encounter card. Lastly, there are Walker Cards. These are used towards the end of the game when your opponent/s has died. They get to come back as a walker and use the Walker cards to attack the living survivor/s. There are also Allies. Allies function the same as Scrounge cards, they are small circular pieces of cardboard that will take the bite for you if you fail to defeat the Encounter Card/s with your Scrounge cards. However, once you run out of Allies, you run the risk of being bit yourself and becoming a walker, so you have to be smart about how you use your Scrounge cards and Allies. There is a limited number of Scrounge cards because there are a limited number of supplies in the Zombie/Walker Apocalypse. That's where the strategy comes into play.
There's really not much more to say about the game. It's pretty easy, once you figure out all the rules. There a convenient FAQ on the Rulebook, which is very helpful when you're learning the game. It's simple and fun. You can play it alone or with 3 other people. It's rare you find a 1 person board game. You can up the challenge or lower it by increasing/decreasing the number of Scrounge cards you put in the pile at the start of the game. I highly recommend it. Especially before October and Season 3 comes along. It'll be a great way to pass the time before new episodes each week.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfectly content
Completely satisfied with the condition of the game when I got it. Had odd markings on its front, as if someone wrote on it, but it's barely noticeable and definitely not what it... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Robert Banks
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun but too short
This is a fun game but the way it is set up you can die on your first roll. Then become a zombie but ...
Published 8 days ago by jojobinks
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cryptozoic produces quality
The game itself is an absolute blast. Reviews will point out that you die quickly or often. The game itself is very challenging to win. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Poedonk
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great game
This would be the best game if it wasn't so complicated, but I still find it fun and worth buying
Published 10 days ago by Tammy Perino
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what we expected/
Good game. Could have been better.My 21 month old granddaughter tore the board in no time flat. So, I would suggest something sturdier for the board.
Published 17 days ago by Jennifer
5.0 out of 5 stars
i was wrong and wanted to appologise
the walking dead board game I was really upset there was only 4 pieces for the people to play the other 4 would not have a stand and I wanted 8 people to play and we couldn't I... Read more
Published 17 days ago by mamat1959
3.0 out of 5 stars
Something Missing
Maybe it is an older game but, no Darryl Dixon game piece????? Come on. Maybe an updated version of the game needs to be produced.
Published 19 days ago by Teri Showalter
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dead on Arrival?
The Walking Dead board game is a tragic example of the difference between theory and practice. In theory, the idea of a board game in which players who get bitten continue to play... Read more
Published 26 days ago by Julie A. Dawson
5.0 out of 5 stars
awsome game!
this game rocks! me and a few friends turned it into a drinking game. its a blast. try it out for yourself....
Published 26 days ago by John Mamula
3.0 out of 5 stars
I really wanted to love it...
...but I just don't. It is so boring and kind of... I don't know... difficult? My son and I played it a few times and the games were so brief and we had to keep cheating to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Nagy
