Sunday 12 May 2013

The Walking Dead Card Game

 
I've tried to play this two times now with two different people and no one has fucking worked it out yet. I saw it and hey I love Walking Dead and love card games.. so I bought this on payday for an ok £13.99 and damn son. It's not good.
 
Well.. it might be the most amazing game in the world.. I just don't bloody understand it. The whole set is abit duff too if I'm honest.. We get 104 'walker' cards and 6 'hero' cards tho for the shit of me I still can't tell the point of the hero cards.
 
You have no idea my rage there is a freakin' T-Dog card but not a Dale? or anyone more relevant? ok cool...
 
 
Yep
 
How it says to play online is different to the sheer wtf wording the rule book has... and there is two ways to play this bullshit. Me and my friend just pretty much made up a game using the cards and it still wasn't fun.
 
The Walking Dead Card Game, based on Wolfgang Kramer's 6 nimmt!, features the same basic gameplay as that card game while adding ten character cards and two modes of play: Survival and Hero.
To play the game, you shuffle the 104 number cards, lay out four cards face-up to start the four rows, then deal a number of cards to each player. Each turn, players simultaneously choose and reveal a card from their hand, then add the cards to the rows, with cards being placed in ascending order based on their number; each card is placed in the row that ends with the highest number that's below the card's number. When the sixth card is placed in a row, the owner of that card claims the other five cards and the sixth card becomes the first card in a new row.
In addition to a number from 1 to 104, each card has a zombie point value. In Survival mode (for 3-10 players), players want to collect as few points as possible, while in Hero mode (for 2-6 players) you want to collect more zombie points than anyone else. In Hero mode, each player has a single-use character card that can give you an extra advantage in the round in which you play it.
 
I just....... what? maybe I'm being thick..
 
 
A deck of 104 zombie cards and these are the only pictures you get... bit cheap really when there are worlds of screen shots you could have used... Also the cards themselves feel grainy and really unfinished.. it was a case of 'Slap WALKING DEAD on it and nerds will buy it' well played... well played...
 
T-Dog's seen some things man...
 
All in all if you are a collector of The Walking Dead then yeah.. why not but if you like fun and not wasting your money on some sell out crap? avoid it.
 
Just play snap or something with them.. I don't even.
 
0/5
 
XJigsawX
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

Monday 6 May 2013

House Of The Dead 3

 
All my love for this franchise and the third one is the love of my life. If this game was a women I'd be married to it, with three kids, a house and even a shit car to fit all the kids in. The game itself people could argue sucks but for me I just fucking love it.
 
It's fun, it's zombies with green fucking blood, and I used to work full time in an arcade and baby sitting and keeping the games all clean tidy and safe from shit kids was a biiiig part of my job and this machine was my baby. The guns worked even if they were made from 90% duct tape and happy thoughts.
 
 
So yeah I used to spend a good deal of my early twenties on my lunch break playing this game and I got rather good at it. The cgi is lol-able and I enjoyed the tarot card references. Like how the guard was 'DEATH' and his weakness was his head...
 
Up until you have to choose either 'THE FOOL' [giant asshole sloth monster] and 'THE SUN' [Massive tentacle monster with the heads] I'm amazing. I can beat 'DEATH' and get all the way to either of those bosses on my own for like £2 with the help of knowing where hidden lives are.
 
That fucking sloth.... UGH sloths are slow not like great big hairy ball sacked ninja's. Damn. The plant thing is alright just hard to aim at.
 
God damn assclown.
 
 
 
Plus the main guy is a great big spinny wheel of death 'WHEEL OF FATE' and my god he is a massive asshole. On my last night of working at the arcade I fired in £10 to see how fire I could go.. this guy decided to flop his dick out and piss all over my chips.. But hey I never said I could aim for crap to start with.
 
Also fucking love playing it on XBOX even though gotta reply on controllers which aren't as fun or as easy to use.
 
Either way I am sad it's hard to find this game in arcades any more.. where I used to work no longer has it. Too little horror related arcade games no more...
 
XJigsawX
 
 
 

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Zombie Awareness Month

Well kids it's the month of May which means not just 'May the 4th be with you' or 'free comic bookday' or even 'MCM London Expo' no, even with all those amazingly nerdy events in one month it is also the month in which we must realise the implications of the arising zombie apocalypse. Zombie awareness month!
 
So in today's fun blog post I will be listing a bunch of useful zombie related items and hey you might even learn something that will save your life!
 
 
 
 
Dr Dale's Zombie Dictionary: The A-Z Guide to Staying Alive
 
If you think the whole zombie thing is a bunch of rubbish then this book is a great funny read but also dead [haha!] informative! it shows you how you can use anything to your advantage in a full blown zombie attack.. even how to make use of Lorraine Kelly!
 
 
 
The Zombie Survival Guide
 
I always loved this book because I couldn't tell if it was trying to be so serious it was funny.,.. or it was funny because it's so serious.. either way it's a fantastic and well written book and the best thing to study for the future attacks.!
 
 
 
Left 4 Dead
 
Always a good way to find out who of your friends will be useful to have around and who your better off using as fodder to the undead masses... but on the flip side they will also see what a massive cock you really are.. Get some team training in with this game!
 
 
 
Dawn Of The Dead
 
Amazing soundtrack, overall great movie.. watch it, love it, avoid the kinds of people in the movie and also a handy reminder that people fucking suck in end of the world situations and... mall's aren't great places to hide.
 
 
 
Zombie Shopping Mall Experience
 
Get trained! in an awesome taster of what it could be like when the world goes to shit.
 
 
That's all from me today but hope you enjoyed my little post. Keep your eyes open and ears to the ground for the end of the world as we know it~
 
XJigsawX