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4.5
This is a big win for anyone who’s a fan of the source material for the walking dead! A visually appealing game with great art work, great table presence, and was pretty easy to learn to boot! Also the seller was awesome to deal with! Arrived a day early and everything! All around excellent transaction!I'm a massive fan of the first board game ZMAN made for the Walking Dead. I have no idea what their problem is with this game. My copy had a ton of missing tokens and problems with a few of the cards. For whatever reason they didn't add in any of the food tokens or the ammo tokens and there's only about 1/3 of the zombie tokens there should be. Luckily, those are the same tokens as used in the original so I pull that out with this to use for playing. The next problem is that the location cards don't exactly match the playing board locations. One of the locations I could not find the card period and a few others have slightly different names (Card says: Admin Office, board says Administration). That's not a deal breaker per se, but it seems a professional company that's been around as long as ZMAN has would be a little more put together.With that said the problems could EASILY be erased if their customer support would at least ANSWER it's customers about it's TWD line. I emailed them a year ago using their site to ask about purchasing more dice for the original (as there's not enough dice I feel like and really wouldn't mind paying a few dollars for more) and they completely ignored me. After I bought this game and found the issues I did I went on their Facebook (which listed responses in "about an hour") and sent them a nice message asking about the reasons they won't offer additional pieces to complete their game. It's been three days now and still no reply. I am just baffled how a so called "reputable" company is still in business.Negativity aside the game itself plays very nice and can be used in addition with the original. The game seems to be a fresher take off of the original and adds a few new twists, well written cards (typos aside), and can be a lot of fun even with only 2 players. The more the merrier with this though as you never know what card you're going to pick up or how many zombies you need to kill. Do you help your fellow survivors or do you screw them over to gain more for yourself? Lots of great decisions. My only gameplay complaint is the fact that the Otis follower is once again left out on all my playthroughs because the awful BLAM dice is even more brutal in this game. You don't just fill the area around you with zombies if you roll it... you fill the entire room with them!!! That's game breaking to me as a few of the rooms are massive and could completely wipe the game out for both players with a few rolls of the dice.Great game with a TON of material and references to the comic - though you can play it without needing to read it first. Only a few spoilers if that's your concern.As this game can be used as an expansion to the first game, the two games really just compliment one another when used together. While it can be played on it's own, the game is missing a few pieces that the first one had in spades. You can substitute the missing pieces, sure, but the fact that the right tokens are in the first game, this an expansiom and not to mention cheaper too...why wouldn't you buy both?lolRecommendation:If you bought the first game, it's not really out of your way to get this game too.If you haven't bought either, I suggest you buy the first game first, as the second is missing some basic pieces(though they can be substituted).Overall, I like both games, but I like the second one even more because I have the first already. Some people think differently, and that's okay. Art is subjective and games are a form of art too.I had higher hopes for this one. I really liked the original it was based on and I was excited by the same theme and characters and winning by way of area control. What keeps this form being a higher rating is the poor quality control. This was a originally a kickstarer that failed. It was picked up by Diamond but they missed printed the rulebook and shorted you every copy of the game the correct number of cardboard makers you need to play the game.They have (1) post on their site[...]and then nothing but crickets. The chance of ever getting the parts is nil. At least my copy of the game came with all of the dice. Many people reported being short of them also. On the plus side I only paid $15.60 and Prime shipping.was glad an expansion finally was release but was disappointed in the missing contents (from the manufacturer, not the seller) came sealed but they had a disclaimer on their website there was misprinted copies shipped with missing tokens and to use anything as tokens (dimes, nickles,etc). for someone who collects "complete" board game to where it doesn't depend on owning the first game, it was a big blow when they said they would not ship the missing piece. besides that, the game is great, just as fun as the first.**Updated** I bought a second copy, hoping that the first copy I bought was just unlucky. The second came NIP and it was missing pieces, a full sheet of tokens. SkyBound is NOT helpful at all. The only reason I'm keeping this version is because I own the first game and have the pieces to play. I wouldn't buy this game unless you get it on discount and have the first game.This expansion is sub par compared to the base game. Tokens/pieces were missing from the game. Reached out to SkyBound who were no help at all, and when we researched online we found we werent the only ones who had problems. Apparently the US copies are widely missing pieces, their own forums with Q&As have them suggesting to people to just use coins in place of tokens. It's really disheartening.The positives, the artwork is the comic art. It seems to follow the same gameplay as the first, which is great (we don't know though because it was missing so much we couldn't play).
