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Playing against the computer doesn't replace playing humans

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is quite fun but playing against the computer can get very boring. The computer is programmed to play a certain way which makes it very predictable. For example, if you take control of the continent, one or more of the other five opponents controlled by the computer will automatically attack you to stop your hold. Also, the computer is programmed so that it often makes very stupid moves. For instance, if an opponent gets weak, then a computerized opponent rarely attempts to take him over. Hence, the key to winning the game is by keeping your eye out for weak opponents and taking them over. Occupying a continent will usually hurt your more than help you.

To conclude, the game is fun at first but as you learn how the computerized game system plays, it becomes boring and predictable. Playing against other people is much more fun.

Risk Fan Who Hates This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok the main advantage of playing a media version of Risk is that it would hopefully speed up play - not this game! If you take on 5 computer opponents it goes extremely slow! I really don't care to see little animated shows for every battle. One version of a computer game of Risk I played had a "do or die" mode where the dice kept rolling until you took over the country or were down to 1 army - this would help. You can't view the entire map at any time - like when your deciding how many armies to move to a new country, you should be able to look around the entire map. My biggest complaint has to do with the color. I'm color blind so I need to see very contrasting colors to tell them apart. First of all, the only way to tell a country's owner is a dime-sized color. There are only six colors to choose from so if you're playing against 5 opp - you're SOL. I could never figure out which countries I needed to get an entire oppent. At the very least, when you have selected a country it should tell you the name and the owner. I agree with prior comments too about cards - they play an important part of this game. Not being able to turn them in until you have 5 or see them really sucks. I also like the standard card option - 4 infantry, 6 cannons, 8 calvary and 10 for mixed set - this doesn't have it. I STRONGLY suggest you rent this before blowing $20 (at Best Buy) for this game.

dead on, mr. schumacher

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Couldn't agree more with the first reviews. It's confounding how a system so superior to its predecessor could produce a game so inferior to its own predecessor. Yes, there's only one map, as opposed to five on the PS1 version. Yes, the gameplay is slower and clunkier. Yes, the game disc is blue and funky, and I don't doubt unplayable in many cases (unfortunately, mine only crashed 10% of the time). But most of all, who the **** needs to hear fifth-rate American voice actors adopt insulting, stereotypical accents to convey the military terrors of Napeoleon and Shaka Zulu? How about a decent card system instead?I LOVE Risk; it's one of the greatest board games ever. I LOVED the earlier Macintosh version. The PS1 Risk (by Hasbro) is still one of my favorites for that system. Therefore, my dissapointment with this game can hardly be expressed in PG-13 language. I sold this clunker about three weeks after purchase. Ouch. Stick with the PSOne version, if you can find it-my personal search for it in the retail world lasted about 2 years.

simple but great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome a great transition from the board game my only problem why can't you play specific continent maps like in the old computure version. i'd love to play on a just north american or just europe map. this game doesn't have great special effects or anything so by adding in the single continent mode it wouldn't hurt a thing but its a great game

I agree with Mr. North this is a Broken Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I too bought the game and tried it on two systems and both times I couldn't trade in cards or if I could no one else could. Also I had the problem that if I could trade in cards I was able to do it a couple of times so instead of say trading in for 40 armies I was able to trade in again with the same three cards for 45 additional armies.
Don't get me wrong risk is a classic that I always love, but it needs to work to be a classic.
If you have the game and it doesn't have any bugs your lucky, I've returned mine and am trying out my second. I hope to keep the game if there is no bugs.

Don't "Risk" buying it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 28
Date: December 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really can't review this game properly, since I COULDN'T GET IT TO PLAY! Risk is one of the dreaded "Blue discs" that are almost impossible to get to play.

A blue disc has a blue backing on the underside (Where most games are silver like a mirror). I am sure that this is done for some reason... but I really don't know what it could be. Whatever, the reason... do NOT BUY blue disc games.... I have owned two and neither have played on my Playstation (which is only a couple of years old).

So while other reviewers tell you about the gane, listen to my advice first, "This game may not even play on your PLaystation". Definitely rent the game before wasting the $$$ to see if the game will even work on your Playstation.

Get out the board game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Bugged to high heaven above. Rent before you buy. If you can handle the bugs, the more power to you.

Better to break out the game board and play it the old fashioned way. Not worth the pain.

the best board game now a video game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved to play risk with my family days on end. When I saw this game on the store shelf, I knew i had to get it. It was worth buying, because it gives some great features such as you can play against the most famous military stratagist's in the world such as George Washington and Napolan. There's different maps to use and different dice to use such as bone dice or silver and gold dice. This game is worth buying for people who love the board game.

A Seriously Broken Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As someone who'se played more than his fair share of Risk over the years, I gave in and bought a copy of the PS2 version of this game in hopes of finding a more challenging AI than I found in the PC version.

It's hard to tell if I did or not, because the game is so full of bugs that it boarders on unplayable, at least if you want to play a fair game.

Here are just some of the bugs I've found so far:
-The ability to turn in the same set of card over and over again, providing an infinite number of reinforcements.
-Incorrectly displaying what cards you have. In multiplayer, the game shows your cards face down, and lets you fake out your opponents by pushing one direction to show a card for real, and another to show a fake card. The problem is, even if you push the real way, it sometimes shows you a fake.
-If you're playing with more than two people, only the first player can look at his cards. Everyone else is forced to wait until they have five or more.
-When setting up the players for a game, it randomly deletes your settings and sometimes your saved data.

It has an unlockable cheat mode, which I can only imagine being useful if it allowed you to stop the bugs from making the game unreasonable.

I would strong adivse against buying this game. Rent it, if you don't believe me, and see for yourself.

And I Don't Like Video Games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my husband who loves the Risk board game. I can't comment on quality, graphics, etc because I don't play video games - but this one I love. Lots of fun. There are a couple bugs - looks like ours are minor to everyone elses - easy to play around.

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