Munchkin

Munchkin
Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson Games
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Munchkin is a joke on role playing games, in which many inside jokes are made, but can still be considered funny by those not famillair with roleplaying games. Munchkin is for 2-6 players and takes from half an hour to an hour to play. With only a five minute setup time. The objective of the game is to gain ten levels, this is done by defeating monsteres, selling treasures and special cards that allow for leveling-up. Players begin the game with one experience point. Players begin thier turn by flipping up a "knocking down a door," this producse a race card, a class card, a spell card, or a monster card. If a monster card is drawn then the player must battle and if it is a spell then they are affected by the spell. With the monsters the player may beat them with the help of an allie, with the help of a spell or just on sheer level. If a player cannot defeat a monster they can attempt to escape by rolling dice, if you win you escape to fight another day but if you lose you lose your items and your level. If you win the battle you can gain a treasure card, and how ever many treasures and points given from the monster defeated. Players can help or hurt other players. Munchkin is vaguely like war, with the cards, the object of chance, and the levels of cards how one card is better then others.

sub search

Title: Sub Search
Publisher: Milton Bradley
Platform: Tabletop, Board
Genre: StrategySub Search is a two player Naval strategy game. The game usually lasts no longer than 30 minuets, although set up takes about 10 mins in itself. Each player has 3 surface ships 3 submarines and one mine. There are three levels for submarines, and the surface for the ships to move along. The mine is placed on the 100ft level and will explode if a ship is placed over top. The submarines are placed, and game play begins. Each ship has as many “depth charges” as there are holes in it. The ships move up to three spaces per turn, and may fire a depth charge to destroy submarines. The player guess the level and the space their ship is on, the other player tells the if it was a miss, a hit or a near miss. A near miss is when the submarine was directly above, or below, or to the left, right, front, or back of the guessed space. Submarines may retaliate with torpedoes in certain situations. The goal of the game is to destroy all of the other player’s submarines. Sub search is very much like Battle Ship with just a few more complexities thrown in.

Alice

Title: American Mcgee’s Alice
Developer: Rogue Entertainment
Publisher: EA Games
Platform: PC
Genre: Horror
Rating: M

American Mcgee’s Alice, based off of Lewis Carol’s novel is a horror game that delves into the later of life of Alice. In this story Alice returns to Wonderland at the age of 19 after losing her entire family in a fire, Alice is summoned to Wonderland which is now a twisted, demented world. Alice using toys battles against characters from Lewis Carols original story. The players move through fantastic environments and a scary plot with the help of the Cheshire Cat as guide. Characters have a limited amount of health and of long range attacks, these can be refuelled by killing enemies and using their life force. Alice is able to move forward and back, jump, look left and right, and attack in two different ways for each weapon. Players are ushered through the world with lesser objectives, with the primary objective of finding and usurping the Red Queen from her control of Wonderland. Alice plays like Silent Hill in the way that the battles are set up and the way that the weapons are used.

Fatal Frame

Fatal Frame
Keisuke Kikuchi
Tecmo
Consule: Playstation 2, X-box
Survival/Horror

Fatal Frame is a single player horror game taking place in an abandon Japanese mansion. The game begins as Mafuyu, enters the Himuru Mansion in search of Junsei Takamine, his mentor. Strange things begin happening, which Mafuyu uses his camera to exorcise ghosts. Mafuyu is chased down and the intro chapter ends. A week later Mafuyu's little sister enters the Himuru mansion in search of her brother. Miku explains that ever since she was little her and her brother have been able to see ghosts. She enters the mansions, finds her brothers camera, and begins to learn the terrifying history of the mansion and the family that had lived there.

Fatal Frame is a single player . Players need to exorcise the ghosts from the house, while finding Mafuyu. The player has to explore the mansion, deal with minor ghosts and complete puzzles. Resources include health items and film, film is used to take pictures of the ghosts in order to exorcise them and also to find the answer puzzles. The conflict is between the player and the game. The player is stuck inside of the mansion. The player can either win the game, or die trying. The objective is to rescue Mafuyu and escape the Himuru mansion before Miku dies. Using the camera the player must take pictures of the ghosts depending on how long the player wait and how close they get, the more damage you accomplish. If a ghost touches the character health is lost. Ghosts and Miyu have a total of health, that does not change. Currency is in the form of points received for destroying ghosts, these points are use to upgrade the camera. The inventory is accessible from the paused screen and has no limit to the amount that you can carry. As the challenge increases the power of the player's camera increases also. The character is is primarily controlled by the player. This game is best for explorer type players.

Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 4
Shinji Mikami Hiroyuki Kobayashi Yoshihiko Wada
Capcom
Consule: Playstation 2, PC, Game Cube, Wii
Adventure/Horror

Resident Evil 4 is a single player adventure game taking place in a rural area in Europe. The player plays as Leon Kennedy (a character from previous games). Leon now works for a special government agency. His job is to find the presidents daught Ashley Graham and return her safely to her father. Players shortly learn that not all is what it seems and the hostile locals are more than just human.

The player must accomplish tasks and destroy enemies to escape from locations to save Ashley and keep Leon alive. Players gather weapons, ammunition, health supplies and other items to aid in Leon's mission. Health is taken away by being hit by an enemy, and health is restored through herbs and first aid sprays. Money is used to purchase supplies from a traveling merchant. The inventory in the game is setup in a grid patern and players must fit all items in the grid in order to carry the supplies. At times the challenge of the game out ways the ability of the player and this causes a high level of frustration, very infrequently the ability of the player outways the challenge of the game. The game includes mini goals but the overall objective of the game is to rescue Ashley and escape from the captors.

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Silent Hill 4: The Room
Team Silent, Suguru Murakoshi
Konami
Console: Playstation 2, X-box, PC
Survival/Horror

Silent Hill 4 is a single player, horror game in which the player assumes the role of Henry Townshend. The player begins the game locked in his apartment, and being haunted by a strange apparition. Shortly the player is led through a hole in Henry's bathroom wall and enter the surrounding area to Silent Hill. In this nightmarish world the player has to battle monsters and try to stay alive while escaping from the apartment and Silent Hill.

Through game play the player can find weapons, health items and other useful items. Using the weapons found in the game, Henry must kill monsters and avoid ghosts. The player's general objectives are to stay alive and find answers as to why Henry is trapped in his apartment.