Game » consists of 3 releases. Released Jun 23, 2010
Similar to Catan and Carcassone, this is a fun, fast, and frenetic XBLA-to-board-game conversion. The ease of computer automation makes it possible to play a lot of matches and learn strategy. The art style is delightful and brightens up the game. There's a low amount of "campaign" content, but like Catan/Carcassone, it's about playing lots of custom games.
Risk: Factions is a pleasant surprise to most people. A lot of people, myself included, downloaded the demo expecting the game to be translated to the Xbox Live Arcade in the most generic fashion possible. This couldn’t be farther from the typical port. The game features awesome animation, easy to play gameplay, and some of the best times you can have with an XBLA game. The singleplayer component features both a campaign and custom skirmish games to be played against the game’s A.I. T...
I guess if you were going to update any board game for the console market, it may as well be Risk. It’s not that online renditions of Kerplunk or Hungry Hungry Hippos couldn’t work (actually, they probably wouldn’t), it’s just that Risk is already a game about war and console gamers love games about war many times more than the soldiers actually fighting wars. Thus, the changes that turned Risk into Risk: Factions at least feels like a logical progression. Inversely, a video game adaptation of M...
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