This Month's Most Viewed Games Tagged 'board' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us

]]> 31 Aug 2007 06:13:34 Tricky block-sliding puzzle, like a 2D Rubik's Cube. Line up the tiles in rows or columns, as fast as possible and using the least number of moves possible!
TIP: carefully watch the instructions to understand the strategy to solve a board!

]]> 11 May 2007 10:02:37 Remake of a classic russian board game. Your target is to shoot all of opponents checkers out of the board.

]]> 03 Mar 2007 11:43:10 Get a Life Show is a PC game that represents the hottest TV Show of this season. The player get inside a reality show in which the entrants have to compete like they never did before. The winner will be the best in managing an equilibrate lifestyle with success and charisma.

Get a Life Show has 3 impressive TV studios that represent real urbanizations where the competition is transmitted to the world. Each TV studio recreate a hole virtual life in there. The sets available are Paris, New York and Buenos Aires.

The main objectives of the competition consist on reaching the highest levels of education, career, cash, health and happiness.

To reach that, the players have to live their lives using complex electronic systems in which they will take important decisions of their everyday actions. Those devices will be the access to the different locations available on the show, like your own home, a bank, a shopping mall, even a casino (in which the player can play some games trying to win easy money, or lose easily the money already has), between others.

The players also can learn special abilities, buy unusual items and use those to interact with their rivals, helping or obstructing their way to success. The elimination system will allow to vote your rivals to abandon the show. The public will decide who stay based on they actions during the game.

]]> 25 Jan 2007 05:44:11 This is a very simple board game for 2 players (or 1 player versus the computer). Both players get 7 pawns and 1 king on a 8x8 board. The goal is to get your opponent's king or 6 of his pawns. Each turn, the player may select 1 stone and move it straight or in an L-bow. You cannot jump over stones, but you can step onto your opponent's stone to take it. The numbers on your stones indicate the number of tiles they can move in a turn. When the Mastermind option is selected, the stones change in value when you move it. Pawns can get numbers 1-4, while the king only gets 1 or 2. A challenging game!

Setting the Mastermind option (to change the alue of your stones each move) will show numbers on the board so you will know the number you will get when you move a stone there.

This games comes with 5 imaginary friends of fine-tuned artificial intelligence to play offline against your computer.

]]> 17 Apr 2007 04:47:13 Catan is based off of a best-selling board game from Germany where players gather and trade resources in order to build settlements and expand their control over the land of Catan. The board is constructed of hexagonal tiles which are randomly placed in a large hexagon surrounded by water. Numbers are then placed on the hexagonal land tiles. Players take turns rolling dice which decide which land tiles produce resources that turn. Any player with a settlement or city adjacent to the tiles which number has been rolled will recieve resources which they can use to expand their colony. Distributed over XBox Live, Catan bares a 10 dollar price tag.

]]> 06 May 2007 09:21:35 A beautiful mix of strategy and action.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 07:53:55 It is your duty as a ladybug to push small droplets of water in the special water holes. The game saves your progress along the almost 150 levels.

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]]> 17 Jan 2007 02:26:06 Dice Mogul is a circular board game, very similar to Monopoly, in which the objective is to run around the board, buying property, collecting money from others who land on what you own until they all run out of cash and you remain victorious. The slant on the gameplay comes in power-ups, which can change the numbers on the dice you're about to roll, send an opponent to the hospital (think jail in Monopoly) or upgrade all your owned properties to landmarks (think hotels in Monopoly), among other things.

The biggest difference, and what makes the game much quicker is the smaller board size, inability to trade and lack of "monopolies". Each property runs from one star to four star, and each star is worth $100 (buy a three star property for $300, for example). Then, when upgrading it (it can be upgraded three places), each rank costs that amount (upgrading a four star property to max is $1600, then!) and whatever the value is, that's what opponents (or, unfortunately, sometimes you) pay (so a two star place upgraded all the way - 3 times - is $800).

The game is much easier to figure out after a few play throughs, though, so give it a shot!

]]> 25 Jan 2007 07:07:21 Players collect train car cards that enable them to claim North American railway routes. The longer the routes, the more points they earn. Additional points come to those who can fulfill their Destination Tickets by connecting two distant cities, and to the player who builds the longest continuous railway.

Ticket to Ride's elegantly simple game play can be learned in less than 5 minutes, but will provide both family game players and experienced gamers with exciting decisions on every turn.

Since its release in 2004, Ticket to Ride has become one of the best selling board games in the world, with over 500,000 sold worldwide.

Playable online at: http://www.ticket2ridegame.com/, registration is required but free.

]]> 16 Feb 2007 01:48:20 Embark on a thrilling puzzle expedition to restore an ancient Mayan temple city. Learn how to play with the convenient tutorial, then choose between the relaxing Quest Mode and the exciting Arcade Mode. Starting as an inexperienced expedition rookie, you set out to become a world-known treasure hunter.

Gemsweeper offers never-ending fun for players of all ages. Solve over 200 unique puzzles on your way to gold, gems and treasure hunting glory!


Gemsweeper features:

Over 200 unique puzzles

30 treasure hunter ranks

Challenging Arcade and soothing Quest mode

Easy to grasp tutorial

Hours of mind-bending fun for all ages

]]> 08 May 2007 05:36:27 Danger is the name of the game in 1080 Avalanche. Huge air, massive drop-offs, deep powder, and the nastiest tricks come together in one of tightest snowboarding games available. 1080 Avalanche is a worthy successor to the Nintendo 64 version of the game, with a wide variety of play modes, challenges, and secrets to keep you on your toes (or heels, if you're turning the other way).

1080 Avalanche is teeming with challenges. In Match Race mode, your goal is to beat an opponent to the bottom of the mountain in a variety of difficulty levels. Stick tricks on the way down to increase your rider's speed and power. There are multiple routes to find on each run, so be sure to scour the landscape for grindable trees and hidden shortcuts.

One of the best things about 1080 Avalanche is the element of surprise. Huge drop-offs can easily catch you off-guard, and if you don't land just right you're toast. Rockslides, natural wildlife, dizzying drops, and sudden weather changes keep things interesting, but nothing compares to the incredible avalanche sequences which will definitely get your heart racing.

1080 Avalanche is an awesome snowboarding game. The runs are designed perfectly, and there is a wide variety of tasks to complete before you unlock everything in the game. It's been over five years since the last 1080 became the first-ever 3D snowboarding game, and 1080 Avalanche proves that it's been worth the wait!

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