Beitragvon Uli Blennemann » 21. Oktober 2005, 12:29
Andi,
ob es was taugt, musst Du wohl für Dich selbst beantworten.
Die Fairplay-Scout-Noten waren so schlecht nicht, zudem - WERBUNG AN - hier ein Auszug von Rick Thornquist von Gamewire:
Mesopotamia
After doing a bit of game shopping, a group of us headed to the Phalanx booth to play Mesopotamia, their new big box game. The tables were full but one game was close to finishing, so we played a quick game of Hey! That's My Fish!. Perfect filler.
We finally got a table and sat down to learn the game. The board is a set of hex tiles - sort of like Settlers, but these tiles interlock. Each tile is one of a number of different types of terrain - plains (where you can build houses), woods that produce wood, quarries which produce stone, and volcanoes which cannot be moved into.
The idea of the game is that players control people who gather the wood and stone resources and use them to build houses (to get more people) and temples (to get magic points). Every time you build a house you get a marker - each player has four of these markers. The first player to have his people pick up and deliver all of his markers to a central temple space is the winner.
On a player's turn he has five movement points to move his people and pick up resources. He can then do one additional action - build a house, build a temple, get a special card, etc. Though this is sort of an action point game, I didn't find much analysis paralysis - you can plan your move while others are playing and execute your move fairly quickly.
Thought the game has a decent amount of rules, I was very impressed by how clean the game system was. The designer obviously went to great lengths to make things consistent and the game is much the better for it.
So what's the verdict? I thought the game was very, very good. There's lots of strategy here, the game moves fairly quickly, it looks great, and is fun to play. Here's a testament to how good the game - both of my opponents instantly got up and bought copies of the game. I will be getting a copy of this one for sure.
Uli