Doom - the board game

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Doom - the board game
Game data
author Christian T. Petersen
Kevin Wilson
graphic Bob Naismith,
Scott Nicely
publishing company Fantasy Flight Games ,
Heidelberger Spieleverlag
Publishing year 2004
Art Board game
Teammates 2 to 4 (in a team match up to 6 players)
Duration 180-240 minutes
Age from 12 years

Doom - The Board Game is a board and strategy game by the American game designers Christian T. Petersen and Kevin Wilson . It is a board game adaptation of the well-known computer and video console game Doom from 1993. The game for two to four players (up to 6 players in a team match), ages twelve and up. It was published in 2004 in English and German as well as in other languages ​​by the game publisher Fantasy Flight Games and the Heidelberger Spieleverlag .

Playing style and equipment

Doom is a tactical semi-cooperative fighting game, a so-called "dungeon crawler", in which the aim is to repel invading demons on a Mars station. Only three marines stand together against the intruders and try to fight their way through the infiltrated station to a rescue ship.

Game material

In addition to the rules, the game material consists of:

  • 4 overview maps
  • 66 plastic figures
  • 6 combat dice
  • 66 invader cards
  • 18 marine cards
  • 1 compass token
  • 3 equipment overviews
  • 58 map tiles
  • 14 doors with stand
  • 18 obstacle tiles
  • 3 key plates
  • 6 encounter tiles
  • 6 teleporter tokens
  • 30 wound tokens
  • 15 armor tokens
  • 10 Marine Order Tokens
  • 113 equipment tokens
  • 1 scenario book

Preparations

At the beginning of the game, the game master, the overlord, has to set up the starting area of ​​a scenario using individual map pieces from the space station. The overlord plays the invaders , the other players the marines. The marines assemble their characters from different characteristics.

Game overview

Course of the game

The game is played over several rounds, in which the marines and the invader take turns and can perform the following actions:

  • Move
  • shoot
  • Pick up objects
  • Passing on the object
  • Open / close doors
  • Play Invader Card (Invader Only)

The marines can collect weapons, ammunition, medi-packs and keys for doors as items to use for battles and puzzles. As soon as an unknown area is entered, the overlord briefly interrupts the game, sets up the new visible rooms, monsters and objects using the scenario, reads from the scenario book and also plays the newly added demons on his turn. Using the invader cards, the overlord player can carry out further events or make new additional monsters appear.

Playing

The game ends with a victory for the Marines as soon as they have found the exit or as soon as the invaders kill the Marines six times. If the Marines win, they can play the next scenario, otherwise they have to repeat it.

extension

An expansion for the game called Doom: Expansion was released in 2005 .

Issues and evaluation

reviews
Meta page rating
BoardGameGeek 6.9 out of 10 points
board game report 17 out of 20 points
Hall9000 4.3 out of 6 points

Doom - The board game was developed by the American game authors Kevin Wilson and Christian T. Petersen on the basis of the computer and video console game Doom from 1993 and was released in 2004 Fantasy Flight Games . The attempt was made to transfer the concept of the first person shooter to the board game.

The game material with 66 miniatures known from computer games and numerous playing cards and markers is very extensive for a board game. The thematic implementation of the computer game is considered very successful. With the dynamic playing field structure through the different scenarios, Doom plays just like the computer game in different campaigns. A team match variant is also playable, in which, as in a computer game, two teams compete against each other without an overlord. The game and the expansion are no longer in production. A new edition with a medieval theme was released with the Descent series.

In 2017 a new edition appeared that changed both the design and the game mechanics. The game should live up to the spirit of the 2016 reissue of the computer game version of Doom (2016) .

The computer game

Doom 3 is the third computer game in the Doom series and was released in the USA on August 3, 2004. As a result of the continued success of id Software's previous games , it became a highly anticipated game. The publisher Activision started the largest delivery in the history of Activision Germany on the date of publication. The PC version of Doom 3 and the Xbox version received a Metascore of 87 and 88 out of 100 points, respectively.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Versions in the BoardGameGeek game database; accessed on March 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Extensions in the board game database BoardGameGeek; accessed on March 27, 2017.

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