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by Nick Breckon, Jul 14, 2009 6:00pm PDTBattlefield 1943 is surprisingly fun. I'm sure I'll get more out of playing with Shackers on the PC, but flying in particular is clearly well-suited to the 360 controller.
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If you like board games this one is awesome. Very flexible in the amount of players and the time it takes to play. Tons of options via the expansions and being able to pick and choose pieces of the expansions to use. Basically it has game options surpassing most hardcore PC strategy games and that surprised me when I started getting into it.
It captures a nice HP Lovecraft atmosphere while not making it as hopeless as a literal translation of the source material to a game would make it. There is flavor text everywhere to keep you in the spirit of the game and every single noun in the books gets a nod at some point. It's a pretty tough game but I think a lot of that was due to my group fudging some rules and making it way harder than it needed to be.
Played it 4 or 5 times so far. Next game we add Dunwich Horror! Supposedly it balances and paces things out nicely. It's the only board game since Risk I've really been into and I'm hooked on buying all the expansions even though I have only played the base game. >.<
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