RISK: The Game of Global Domination

RISK is an extremely addictive strategy oriented game with a load of options and adjustable gameplay features. This game can definitely absorb a good amount of your time and brain processing power. A typical game of Ultimate RISK with a few players and all of the computer opponents enabled could take a few days to complete! Good thing there is a save feature... I liked the fact that the game was so flexible with the configuration options. You can easily customize each outing to give you a fresh new game each time you play. The computer AI is no slouch either...in hard mode I was continually impressed with the moves that it executed...for the most part. If you love strategy games, especially those that let you include up to eight human players with, then get RISK. It translates incredibly well from a board to console game and should provide you with a good challenge and a nice value for your gaming dollar.

Unlike other companies who are re-releasing board games for the PC with souped-up graphics but little else that's fresh (e.g. Monopoly), Hasbro has taken Risk to the next level, making a decent computer game out of a classic board game, without disturbing the tradition they are building upon -- and because of that, this release should be recognized as a worthy effort. Better multiplayer support and more stylistic documentation would have made this an even stronger title, but it's pretty good as is. If you really like Risk, you'll love this game. If you're only slightly interested or indifferent, you may be better off with the Duke Nukems, Quakes, and Red Alerts of the gaming world.

If you like the board game of Risk, you should enjoy this game. It is best when played in multiplayer mode with your buddies but it is playable in single player mode as well. Some nice options and different game modes should keep you interest for a bit. In the end, this game may not be the best choice for everyone but fans of the game should enjoy it.

In summary then, Hasbro have taken a classic board-game, put it on pc, and brought lots of new features to it, and I for one enjoyed it. It's addictive, highly replayable, and it looks quite smart too. If it had real-time combat we would have been talking a 90+ score but, sadly, it hasn't. So, wonderful as Risk is, it unfortunately isn't the Steel Empire for the 90s affair I was hoping against hope it would be. Now if you don't mind, I'm just going to retreat into a corner and cry my eyes out for a couple of days.

Hasbro Interactive has provided a near-perfect translation from the board game to the PlayStation. It has managed to preserve the style of play perfectly, without adding too many annoying new features to distract from Risk's sublime simplicity and speed.

Die bisher aufwendigste Brettspielkonvertierung von Hasbro gefällt mir als Fan des papierenen Originals ausgesprochen gut. Endlich ist es möglich, auch ohne menschliche Kontrahenten Partien mit bis zu acht Mitspielern auszufechten. Die Computer-KI reicht aus, um selbst einem Spitzenspieler das Leben schwer zu machen.

Egentligen är det här inte alls Risk längre, men fullt spelbart och emellanåt riktigt roligt. Men fortfarande är det oerhört förvånande att ingen ännu skapat den version av Risk, som funnits till Mac i många år, för pc. Det är nämligen så Risk ska vara på dator.

Blickt man hinter das grafische Drumherum, bleibt ein auch in der "ultimativen" Variante ein höchst simples Spielprinzip übrig. Die Taktikkarten sind ein schlechter Witz, da nirgends erklärt wird, warum eine Karte gegen eine andere von Vorteil ist. Beide Parteien entscheiden sich auf gut Glück, welche "Taktik" sie verwenden. In einer Schlach verlor ich mit einem Stufe-3-Offizier und 2:1 Überlegenheit nur deshalb, weil ich zufälligerweise genau die falsche und mein Gegner genau die richtige Karte einsetzte. Er hatte keinerlei Verlust, mir fehlten danach der Offizier und 23 Armeen. Kurzum: eine sehr schöne Umsetzung, ein durchschnittliches Computerspiel.