This week, XBLA in Brief takes on Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride. One of them is a pretty good board game about building railroads. The other one is a weird game that doesn't really seem to take advantage of the cartoon upon which it's based. We'll let you figure out which one is which.
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I played Ticket to Ride for about 90 minutes today. It is difficult to describe why it's good, but it is. I haven't tried the local multiplayer-- I can't quite figure how that works when you don't want anyone to know which routes you have? Is there anyone who's tried local multi yet?
I expected to hate Ticket to Ride and like Happy Tree Friends. How wrong I was... whoever developed HTF missed a golden opportunity. I plan on spending my points on TTR.
You can't trade cards, but you *can* block routes. I haven't played much but I can tell you it's pretty annoying to have your route blocked off after you've already built most of it.
You only have a limited number of trains too, which means finding your way around a block can be costly.
Thanks a lot. I love Catan, so I'm tempted to at least give it a shot despite my initial impressions being that it's a bit too simple (both in theme and execution).
Carcasonne was enough for me and it was a great game. I'll pass on these releases. Instead I picked up Xevious and Dig Dug bringing my arcade total up to 66 games....Yay.
My wife and I played local multiplayer all night yesterday. It was great. You can block routes to the point of effectively sticking someone with a destination card or cards. Its really amazing how it sucked away our night. I am really happy we jumped on this one. Cataan i like but no local so thats a no, I have carcasonne and lost cities just couldn't get into it. Waiting to see what game they come with next.
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