An Infectious Game
Every so often a game comes along that grabs the imagination. I recently got Pandemic from Z-Man games, and it’s rapidly becoming our most-played game.
If you’re not aware of it, it’s a co-operative game for 2-4 players where you are a team of scientists trying to contain and cure a series of infectious diseases that are ravaging the world. It’s full of difficult decisions, and a fine balance of trying to contain the diseases on the board whilst working as a team to cure the world. Each player takes one of five roles which are dealt out at random, so the tactics used vary from game to game depending on which combination of roles you have available.
It’s a very tense game and you rarely lose a game without feeling you could have won if you’d only played a little differently. The game does whop you on the head sometimes, and we’ve had some spectacular early game losses, but it’s a great feeling when you win.
It’s certainly grabbed Jackie (and my eldest son, Joshua), and we’ve been playing it alot (nine games in the last three days!), as it’s got that “one more go” factor.
10/10
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I got a copy in a recent Math Trade, and we’re digging Pandemic as well. Have you looked at any of the variants that are available over at the ‘Geek?
I’ve not tried any variants yet, we’ve yet to master the standard game, but it’s good to know there’s other variants to try out.
We’ve now clocked up 50 games of this. I’ve never played a game so much in such a short time and I’m still keen play it more. We’ve had some tight games (winning – and losing – on the last round, having nearly every infection token on the board, even winning one game with no infection tokens left at all).
Jax loves it, she dislikes confrontational games, and this is her perfect game.