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Risk 2210 (Revised) User Review
I was recently re-introduced to the classic Risk by my Statistics teacher (he has a stash of board games in his room, and for a week in his class, all we did was play Risk to “learn about probability”), and I and the four people I played it with had an awesome time. We couldn’t wait to get to seventh period all week. We, unfortunately, never made it to complete global domination as our time was cut short and we needed to move on in the text book, but we all wanted to play more. I came home one of those days and found a copy of that exact version in a cupboard. Now I really wanted to play.
After a couple out-of-school games of classic Risk with some friends, I really wanted to see what else was out there, and I came across this and Risk Godstorm. Despite their complexity and brevity (five years/epochs just seems so short sometimes; like you’re cutting short some major turnaround that would make the game really interesting later-on) the games are both tons of fun, and they actually make you think. Some say it relies to heavily on dice rolls, but between placing armies, buying and placing commanders, considering the three different types of battlegrounds, buying command cards, and deciding when to defend and when to keep going, there’s much more to it than dice rolls. And even the dice rolls have to be factored into your strategy – D8s vs. D6s, two dice vs. two dice, two dice vs. one dice, three dice vs. two, and so-on.
Maybe not all that educational, but it’s much more involved and fun than a game of simple Monopoly, Sorry, or Candyland. The lack of holders for all of the pieces is annoying too, but small sandwich bags aren’t expensive. Overall, a blast for three or more friends, on a rainy day, or simply on a day set aside specifically for play.
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Reviews Risk 2210 (Revised)
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