Pyramid Review
Zombies!!! 6: Six Feet Under
Published by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Written by Kerry Breitenstein and Todd A. Breitenstein
Illustrated by Dave Aikins and Kurt Miller
16 map tiles, 32 event cards, 10 sewer tokens, one-page rules sheet; $14.99
Zombies!!! 6: Six Feet Under is another expansion set for Zombies!!!, the board game of tile-laying, shotgun-shucking, dead-body-blasting mayhem in which the players must escape "Anytown America" by using its resources and coping with the endless hordes of the corpse cortege between them and the Helipad. Of course, the players have an advantage in the benefits that the game's Event Cards grant, all superbly illustrated to ghoulish effect by Dave Aikins. And while the players might end up in the grave if a game goes badly, that is not what Zombies!!! 6: Six Feet Under is about. No, this expansion focuses on going below ground to get around, specifically via the sewers and the underground.
Since its publication in 2001, Zombies!!! has received four expansions and one complete add-on game. Not all have been that successful, too often just increasing the game's sprawling nature or providing a fiddly new mechanic. Fortunately, Zombies!!! 6: Six Feet Under is a whole lot better than that in three simple ways. First, it does not add another area to explore -- and find space on your table for. Second, it is designed to be mixed in with the basic Zombies!!! game, rather than being played . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: June 15, 2007
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