Shaun Of The Dead In A Board Game (Zombies)

Member Name: Billiesue

Product:	Zombies
Date:	01/09/08 (20 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great Fun

Disadvantages: --------

My brother got this for christmas last year from my older brother (who wanted it himself). We spent the whole of christmas morning playing it. The box looks like an old fashioned horror movie poster. Especially as the text says "Twilight Creations presents: ZOMBIES!!!"
THE BOARD
The box contains 30 map tiles. These have road and buildings on. In the corner it tells you how many zombies, bullets and lives need to be placed on this tile. One of the great things about this game is the map is always different. The centre map tile is put down first. At the start of your turn you take a map tile from the top of the pile and place it so the road joins with one of the roads on the centre map tile.

TOKENS
At the start of the game, each player recieves three life and three bullet tokens. The tokens are little cardboard squares. The life tokens are red with a heart on and the bullet tokens are black with a bullet on. If you land on the same square as a zombie you have to roll the dice. If you roll a 4 or higher then you win and the zombie is killed. If you roll lower than a 4 you must use enough bullets to raise the number to a 4 or lose a life. When all the life tokens have been lost, the player returns to the centre tile, gets 3 lifes and 3 bullets, loses half the zombies they have collected and loses any weapon cards they had in play.
CARDS
Each player always has 3 event cards. If the player does not have three at the start of their turn they pick up enough to make it 3. One card can be used per turn. These card can be very useful and amusing. For example, the Fire Axe card can give you an axe to use as a weapon. This means 1 point is added to each of your combat dice rolls. The picture on the card shows a zombie with an axe stuck in his head.

WINNING THE GAME
At some point, the map tile put down will be the helipad tile. This tile is full of zombies. To win, you need to get to the tile first and kill all the zombies. Alternatively, you can just kill 25 zombies to win. This is how I usually win.

CONCLUSIONS
I absolutely love this game. It is different every time you play it and is very fun. The game can last any amount of time as it depends on when the helipad turns up. I believe extension packs can also be bought for this game to make the map even bigger.

Summary: everyone should try this game