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User Rating: 6 | Risk II PC
By Shystr3 | Review Date:
There's not much to say about this game, it’s your average board game to video transfer. I like Risk a lot so I enjoy it as well as anyone who plays, or has played Risk. The AI is well rounded, although it can be dumb at times and over time, can easily be figured out by those who have the ability. There are a couple of game types: hotseat, LAN, and straight up playing; you can also play a tourney ladder or head for a quick game. Your able to change aspects of army count for held continents, add the extra areas/ connections, play at single turn rate or all at once. Graphics are no Halo, but are your run of the mill. Control is point and click so there is no obvious problems there. Sound is a bit lame but it’s what you would expect, when you enter a battle theres some ambient gun fire as well as when you have a larger army (cannon) there’s some explosions. The big downfall is like any game of this type, the dice roll; "put me at a craps table and I'll walk home a millionaire" doesn't apply here, and the whole tension of a choke roll between players is all up to mathematical probability based on statistics.

At ten bucks or less, it’s a buy. The game can be really fun when you have multiple human players just like the board version so, the more you have the better. Not much replay value against the computer, if it becomes too hard you will just put the game down or once you figure the AI out you can just conquer the world fairly easily, so its one of those "well I got an hour to waste and I bored so ummm…Risk II sounds good" games.

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