Zombies!!! 1 2nd Edition | 
| Brand: Twilight Creations Inc.
Category: Toy
List Price: $27.99
Buy New: $20.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5388
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 2.8
MPN: TLC2010
Model: TLC2010
UPC: 823973020109
EAN: 0823973020109
ASIN: B000HX1NBA
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New & Factory Sealed!
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| Features:
| • | Ages 12 and up; 2-6 players; 60 minutes | | • | 30 Map Tiles, 50 Card Event Deck | | • | 6 Humans, Life and Ammunition Tokens | | • | 100 Plastic Zombies in 2 different poses, Instructions |
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Product Description
This expanded edition of Zombies!!! features updated and revised rules, plus gut-wrenching new art on Map tiles and Event cards for greater visual impact, as well as new 'Red Heart' Tokens and a brand-new Female Zombie figure!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Should you believe the hype? June 11, 2008
KiWiSouP (Minneapolis, MN USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
You go into your game store and see Zombies!!! both the original and the director's cut, 6 expansions, a booster pack, numerous bags of plastic zombies, you can create your own tiles with a kit, there's even a spin-off series. This game has got to be good, right?
Not as good as the hype would leave you to believe...
Sorry to say, but this game is just plain shallow. The board tiles (other than the director's cut) are not very pleasing to the eye and they never stay put. you spend most of the game shuffling around dozens if not hundreds of various tiny cardboard tokens while moving your playing piece around not knowing where the magic helicopter tile is going to be placed, only to find out it's on the complete opposite side! There's almost NO point to the first 90 percent of the game! You search buildings, get killed numerous times...with very little consequence I may add. Dying can actually be used to your advantage. This game has more plot holes than any crappy b-movie zombie film I've ever seen. Total waste of money and I can't even pay my friends to play it anymore. The randomness of placing tiles on each turn is what really interested me, but every turn you have to place a tile, then put a half dozen zombies, and a handful of tokens onto it...what a pain...
If you love zombies, and GOOD games...check out Last Night On Earth: The Zombie Game. Now that's how you do a zombie game correctly! Last Night on Earth The Zombie Game
 Not another "Bored" on a Board December 19, 2007
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are a few types of board games but only one really captures the essence of any occasion by placing you in the midst of an army of the undying and asking you to stay alive. It also bucks that annoying trend of "trying to help others" out of the window by giving you pieces that are never really helpful to anyone but yourself, and it tells you that your sole objective is to get out of the "city" alive. This means leaving everyone, even hindering them with cards especially suited for the task, until they manage to stumble and fall you make it to a newly arrive helicopter.
O, the joy.
The game has quite a few different parts, but all of them are quite easy to learn/manipulate. First, there are the game tiles themselves. They are randomly flipped over, reveal pieces of a broken city, and they have specific "stats" that have to do with that portion of the city. They tell the tale of health, of bullets, and have the number of zombies that appear when the card is flipped over. Added to that are the cards you acquire, more suitably used to mess with your "opponents" than to really help you make it out alive, and the health and bullet cards. Fighting is casting a six-sided die (1-3 gets you hit/ has you use a bullet to get a new roll and not lose a health card, 4-6 gets them to pimp on you), and surviving is flipping over new cards with terrain on them until a helicopter pops up.
Then the scramble comes up to get the hell out.
While the game seems simply and the fun seems geared toward a specific audience, you'd be surprised by how many people can play it. Some of the cards have gory little pictures on them but the little zombies are not that creepy, and throwing down with some relative that you only see once or twice a year definitely makes for good fun when you ride off in your chopper and laugh.
That's how I imagine Santa feels each and ever Christmas.
There are also six editions to the game thusfar, all ranging from higher education to mall blitzes, and they hook in easily. You can also buy sets of new cards, sets of zombie dogs and undead babies, and that keeps the fun rolling on and on.
Love Zombies, love this game!!! November 30, 2007
Sean Stark (Denver, CO United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great game! Finally they something for a board game/horror freak like me. A bit of a learning curve, but a little patience and you'll have it down by the first couple of plays. Even got my fiancee to play and she had fun! It's kind of like a survival horror video game in a board game format.
Play consists of:
1. Placing a map tile down to expand the playing field and putting the number of zombies, bullets and lives indicated on that map tile.
2. Rolling for your turn (combatting any zombies on the way. 4, 5 or 6 you kill the zombie; 1,2 or 3 you have to sacrifice a life or use how ever many bullets it takes to make a high enough score to kill the zombie. If you die, you start over at the town square and lose half your killed zombies)
3. Rolling for how many zombies you can move (they are slow so they only move one space each. Rolling a 6 would allow you to move 6 zombies one space)
4. Playing an event card (events cards allow you to do evil things to your opponent or get ahead a little. Think if George Romero did the Community Chest and Chance cards in Monopoly).
The goal is to reach the helipad tile once it has been placed with your life intact OR having 25 defeated zombies in your collection. Pretty simple...AND FUN!
Caveat emptor: If you are playing with more than 2 people, invest in an additional bag of Zombies they fill up the board pretty quick.
A Blast February 22, 2007
Cape Vapor (MI, USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
A must have for anybody (like myself) who is actually looking forward to the Zombie Apocalypse. :)
Because one exclaimation point wasn't enough. February 10, 2007
Joshua R. Look (CT)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Zombies!!! is a game that puts style over substance. Luckily, the style is true to the genre of films it's based on. And what substance is there is quite good.
It's a very simple game. In fact, by your second or third turn (which should be about 5 minutes in), you'll have the rules down. You and the other players are stuck in a zombie infested town, searching for whatever supplies you can find until you can make it to the heliport and bid this unholy mess adieu. Players take turns laying down map tiles. This gives each game a unique quality, since the playing board will never be the same twice. There's various building for the players to explore, where they can find extra life and bullets. But, as the name so subtly suggests, there's zombies. A TON of zombies. At times, there will be so many that it seems overwhelming; just like the movies. Killing them is easy. Roll and 4, 5, or 6, and they're dead. Roll 1, 2, or 3, and you lose a life token (you start with 3 and can carry a maximum of 5). Or, if you roll low, you can spend bullet tokens. One token adds one to your die roll. Play continues until the heliport is placed and a player makes it to the center the heliport square.
This is also a mean, mean game. There's plenty of cards that you can play to annoy your opponents, all borrowing common elements from the horror genre (Your shoe's untied! You can't move this turn!). The rest of the cards will help you, although there seems to be too many that rely on being at the right place at the right time. For example, some cards will give you bonuses if you're in a certain building. If this building has already been raided, it's pointless to go back. Luckily, you're allowed to discard unwanted cards at the end of your turn. Still, it seems a waste.
I should talk somewhat about the components themselves. The cards are quite nice and feature some truly grotesque artwork (this game is not for people with a strong disliking for gory violence). The zombies are kinda cool and come in to poses (a male and a female zombie). The player pieces (called "shotgun guys" by the rules) aren't so good. Something tells me Zombies!!! didn't have too much of a budget, so it's forgivable. The map tiles are fine, and looks like the art might be computer generated.
Simply put, if you like zombie movies, and you like unwired games, you'll get plenty of enjoyment from Zombies!!! There's a huge amount of extra material out there (Dawn of the Dead fans will want to pick up Zombies 3: Mall Walkers). But you need to start here. RECOMMENDED.
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