The Computer Edition of Risk: The World Conquest Game

The Good
It's still Risk. It was also fairly easy to erase from my hard drive.

The Bad
This version of Risk was shoddy even by the standards of the day. The AI was dumb but lucky, which is always maddening to the human player. But the worst thing about this game is the complete lack of human contact or human-like behavior. There isn't a diplomacy module, and you don't even have pieces to move and dice to toss, so the computer version is actually WORSE than the old-fashioned boardgame, even if you were to play the boardgame by yourself. I heartily recommend one of the Hasbro/MicroProse versions of Risk if you have to play this on the PC.

The Bottom Line
A major disappointment, and a game to avoid no mattter how cheap you find it.

The Good
Looks like the board game. Plays like the board game. Quick solo games. Human wins most but not all games.

The Bad
The AI isn't very good. One setting is quite literally "sit there and do nothing". Its aggressive setting doesn't plan ahead very well and doesn't understand the concept of overwhelming force.

Maybe I don't understand the rules, but if I wipe someone out, gain their cards, and now have (say) two matching sets, I want to be able to turn them both in right away. The game will only let me turn one in, though.

When a computer opponent started a turn by cashing in a card set and dumping large numbers of armies on a single country, the game sometimes crashed (okay, maybe it does understand overwhelming force, but has a reason not to employ it often!). When I tried to run this game under Win95, the display of the army count on each country was limited to one digit no matter how many armies were actually on it. In a sense that made the game a bit more challenging :)

The Bottom Line
A decent alternative to Solitaire while waiting in voice mail hell for a human to finally come onto the phone. At five or ten minutes, it's nothing like the five or six hour all-human marathons I used to play!