| Last Night On Earth The Zombie Game |  | Brand: Flying Frog
Category: Toy
List Price: $57.95
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Seller: MyAtomic
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,811
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 12 x 3 x 12
MPN: ffp0101
Model: FFP0101
UPC: 094922782359
EAN: 0094922782359
ASIN: B000VDPDTE
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| Features:
| • | Huge hit at GenCon 2007! | | • | 2-6 Players, Ages 12 and up; 60-90 minutes | | • | Hero and Zombie card decks; modular game boards; | | • | Hero characters/models, zombie characters/counters, scenario cards | | • | sun track, extra counters, dice, rules, CD soundtrack |
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Product Description
When night begins to fall on the sleepy town of Woodinvale, the shadows and fog rolling in bring with them more than just a chill shiver. A living nightmare erupts as the once peaceful community is overrun with the restless dead scratching and clawing their way to the surface with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Now only a handful of unlikely Heroes are left, banding together to fight for their very lives. On a night that never ends, the only thing worse than death is becoming infected.
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Best of the Zombie Board Games October 18, 2007
B. Miley (Lancaster, PA)
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
I am a huge Zombie fan and usually keep up to date with all the latest and greatest zombie games that come out. I must have had a lapse though becasue this game snuck up on me. It had been released for several weeks before I even found out about it. I have to say, what a surprise.
The game is bursting with theme. The great bits, artwork, and photos all contribute to placing you in the mind of being part of the zombie movie. Players get to play as either Zombies or Humans. The game manages to create a great deal of tension for the humans by forcing them to get inside buildings and spend an entire turn just to have a chance to find something useful(Crowbar, Baseball Bat, Chainsaw, etc.) These turns spent searching for something give the very slow moving zombies the chance to build their numbers and shamble their way towards our heroes. This helps to build the feeling of being crept up on by an army of the undead. Good Stuff. The game is also pretty much infinitely expandable and customizeable. I could go out and buy a big pice of 1" grid poster board and draw up my own shopping mall and recreate Dawn of the dead if I wanted. I can't wait to see what else these guys come up with.
One side note, there are advanced rules in the book for using gasoline to "douse a square" and then use another item(lighter, flare gun, etc) to set the square on fire killing everything in it with the chance of killing everything in the adjacent squares. When I read this rule in the book I thought 'Oh that's cute' but didn't think you would realistically get the chance to pull it off very often in a game. To my delight I was able to do this twice in my first game and giggled like a little kid at Christmas each time it worked. There is nothing like wiping out three zombies at one time by drenching them in gasoline and shooting a flare gun at them. Good times, good times.
The best zombie game on the market today!!! October 15, 2007
M. Stamp (Western NY)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
I recently bought this game, then sat down and read the rules. There are two types of rules basic and advanced. The rules are easy to understand and in no time you will be playing this great game. The game comes with many different scenerios that willl keep the game fresh and exciting. For example there is one scenerio that is called "defend the manor." Where the heroes have to survive the night and at the same time keep the zombies from overtaking the manor. If you are a fan of zombie movies then this game is for you. I have to admit that it was one of the best board games that I have played in my life.
Excellent Game November 4, 2008
Andrew W. Lang (Neenah, WI USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This game is awesome. I would highly recommend it to people who appreciate more unique or obscure boardgames. Although the game starts out a little slow, it inevitably builds to a crescendo of energy as the hero players fight against all odds to defeat the zombie hordes. This is a game that, like few others, is a total blast to play regardless of whether your side wins or loses, simply because you never quite know what to expect next. Of the two advanced scenarios we've played, both have been extremely intense, exciting, and challenging, which is always something I look for in a good board game. Flying Frog is a relatively new company and they do a good job of providing web content and support for their games, I hope they continue to create games of this caliber for many years to come.
I think the ultimate strength of this game is that it provides the entire board gaming experience without completely monopolizing your day/afternoon/evening. Consequently it's a lot easier for me to get my friends to play this than to agree to a 4+ hour game of Arkham Horror (which is also an exceptional game).
If you're contemplating getting Last Night on Earth from these reviews, hesitate no longer: it will not disappoint!
The Games that Make Boards Fun January 12, 2008
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
One theme that ages like a fine wine in board gaming is mall survival, and this game is one of those that does the idea justice. Easy to use but not too easy to master, it takes the novice player and gives them a platform to play from and also adds in more complex rules for people that have played the game a time or ten so they can have fun as well. That has to be commended in boardgames because being able to replay a game and not have the same experience is, well, odd.
I liked one of the other reviewers and what they had to say on the product, talking about the feel of the game and how the turns can really draw out the ambiance you really want from something of this nature. When you, as a player, find yourself scavenging a building for something to use and then find yourself surrounded by an army of the crawling dead - it has more "boomph" than you'd figure. If you have a good group and a keen sense of description then it really has the ability to get under the skin.
Combine these features with the fact that you can take the already-existing set-up and create something new and you have an interesting take on something that is fun to do; the rules are designed to let you take the map and turn it into something more engaging if you feel the need to make your own mall of dread and I like that feeling of fluidity. It makes for a good experience with an ever-changing terrain (if you want the experience to become more complex).
All in all, this is a good buy and shows how much the games have been growing. This and a few other games have shown just how creative the idea has become and how much people enjoy the idea of zombies and trying to survive and onslaught.
Just add players.
Executing a Vision without Compromise July 19, 2008
J. Nipar (Houston, TX)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
First off, let me justify my 5-Star educational rating by noting that anything that prepares you for the eminent Zombie takeover of the planet ranks right up there with tying your shoes and lighting a fire (both of which are critical to a quick getaway). Learning to deal with zombies is like the the third corner of the Survival Triangle.
These fella's at Flying Frog had a Vision and refused to compromise it. The game's production value is a Benchmark for the gaming industry and shows in Every-Single-Component. If your experience of a quality gaming piece is the token from Sorry, you may simply pass-out when you open the box. If your experience of quality game pieces is peg-filled car from The Game of Life, you'll probably just wet yourself - which is fine, really, because LNOE is so good everyone will understand.
The Vision didn't stop at design and I tell you, gameplay is something magic. By the second or third time through the game (there's a learning curve for me on the mechanics, rules, cards) I was completely drawn into the experience. I felt as though I was pulled into the board and could feel the excitement of a daring getaway, the excitement of searching for a chainsaw with the hoard slowly surrounding me, the breath of joy at surviving to sunrise... LNOE delivers on its goal to put you right-smack into the middle of a zombie movie, just as though you were to step into your TV and live the terror. Again, I can feel the Vision and the designers did not compromise it.
The game can be complex and my experience was that the first (2-3) plays were focused on understanding the rules. It felt clinical to me, and somewhat lifeless. I was, honestly, even a little frustrated. I got through it thanks to the dudes on BoardGameGeek.
And then the faucet opened and the magic flowed, and I stepped into the vision.
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