Pyramid Review
Grave Robbers From Outer Space Card Game
Published by Z-Man Games
Written by Stephen Tassie
Illustrated by Steve Bryant and Jason Millet
120 cards; $19.95
Everyone loves a B-movie: Alien invasions, giant ants, mad scientists, and mind-controlled zombies after your brains, let alone porcine acting and laughable special effects. Of course, not every B-movie is really bad, but for every Them! and The Day The Earth Stood Still, there has be a Plan 9 From Outer Space, Flight to Mars, The Giant Claw, or Robot Monster. The genre is wonderfully celebrated in GURPS Atomic Horror, whose second edition was recently released, and in the It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show RPG trilogy from Stellar Games. Taking the genre out of RPGs and into a soda and popcorn game is Z-Man Games, with Grave Robbers From Outer Space, A Sci-Fi/Horror B-Movie Card Game.
Grave Robbers From Outer Space is designed for two to six players, who are directors attempting to shoot their low budget stinker and damn the plot! They bring out Character, Prop, and Location cards from their hand into play to create a movie, and throw Creature cards at the movies of their opponents in an attempt to destroy that movie. SFX cards can aid or hinder such attacks, as well as having plenty of other effects. At the end of the game, players tote up the value of the cards they currently have in their movie; the highest wins the game.
Grave Robbers From Outer Space is comprised of 120 color cards, wonderfully illustrated and . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: October 12, 2001
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