Wednesday 27 March 2013

Violent Board Games - DD1000


All these games use the act of violence as a major point in the winning or loosing of the game. But although they may sound extreamly violent compaired to other games, they are not. Admittadly they are a little more obvious with the violence then other board games, but most games of all types contain subtle hints of a violent intent. The classic game of Cluedo is a good example of hidden violents, in the game you all play as detectives trying to locate a killer and the murder weapon that they used. In the game of Risk player fight each over as they all attempt to take over the world using any menas at there dispossal.

Capital Punishment - A game original made for political reasons to make a point and try to warn people away from committing crime. This game consists of each player trying to get their criminals along the path of justice to death row and the electric chair, while this is happening the players have to also spring the opponents criminals from jail so they go back on the street and cause more crimes. The escaped convicts then assault the players civilians sending them to 'heven'. This game has violent undertones as it forces players to release criminals onto the street even though they know that those criminals will kill Innocent people.

Kablano - A game that highlights the fun that can be had playing Russian roulette. Each player gets a board that shows the rotating barrel of a gun pictured on it, the player loads the gun with six counter that represent chambers. Each bullet can do different thing some kill you and others can be used to change the placement of the bullets in an opponents gun, each turn the player rotates the gun revealing the next bullet in the chamber.

Pain doctors - In this game the player plays as a doctor that is performing surgery for money, the aim of the game is to perform as much surgery as possible without the patient dieing. This is made harder by other players sabotaging the surgery to try and lower the patients health. This ends up like a game of chicken with yourself as you try to do more and more surgery for points but risk the patient dieing and losing it all.

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