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It’s Christmas so I decided to give my #GameNight group a little present and picked up #PandemicLegacy. Okay, it’s mostly a present for me, but they get to play too! So far we’ve played January so what follows will not explore beyond the first two games but if you don’t want any spoilers look away now. “It was a cold new year, much like any other, viral infection was rampant with the temperature lowering the populations immune systems. We figured it was a January just like an

The Forbidden series from Matt Leacock was spawned from one of the classic co-op games of all time, Pandemic. Now, co-op games aren't something new, D&D and many other roleplaying games were co-op long before the term became popular but Pandemic and the games that followed brought the genre to the fore and now you are spoilt for choice. What makes a co-op game so popular, particularly around the holidays, is the unity it provides. If you play a game with the family and one me

Epidemics sweep the world, hospitals are crowded with the sick and the dying. Their only hope is you, brave adventurer. You must go forth and search for a cure, to end the suffering and the dying. Save those you can, quarantine those you can’t and don’t forget to wash your hands. Many moons ago, back when this blog was young I reviewed Pandemic with a sardonic vigour, ending with “I am still not as blown away by Pandemic as I feel I ought to be. For me it is a filler game at

So, this is just a mini review examining the new roles that come in the first expansion for the 2008 hit Pandemic. On the Brink adds many new ways of playing Pandemic but it also adds new material that can simply be added straight into the base game. Each of the new roles add a little complexity, but not too much. Although they all add exciting new abilities some of them feel a little underpowered when compared to the original 5 roles. In particular we find ourselves struggli

Hi, I’m Brad Cummings I entered into the hobby in 2009. I had previously owned Settlers of Catan and had played Magic, Warhammer etc while growing up, but it was not until 2009 that I started collecting and playing a wide variety of boardgames. I have been reading Unboxed reviews for the past few months, and expressed interest in contributing. The quality of reviews on this site is very high, and I hope that you enjoy this slight change of focus. Please let me know if there a

In Pandemic you are a member of the CDC sent out to battle disease wherever it may lie. What are those diseases called you ask? Why… Red, Blue, Yellow and Black of course. And how do those diseases manifest you might ask, why as Cubes of course. The truth is while the game claims to be about fighting disease, it’s really not, it’s an abstract maths puzzle. In a lecture given by Matt Leacock, he describes the method he used to create the game and it is really mathy, that’s not