While Nintendo is still trying to corner the kids market with the recently released Nintendo Switch and PC gamers do the best with what they have, it's the consoles that have taken over gaming.īoth the PlayStation and Xbox provide fantastic gaming experiences with a host of added features available for both consoles. Since the turn of the century, the video game world has continued to evolve for the better, with Sony and Microsoft dominating the market with the Playstation 4 and Xbox One respectively. When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation.Just a few weeks ago I wrote an article about the worst video games of the 90s so it's only right I follow that up with a look at the worst games of the 2000s. The turn continues around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have passed.Ĥ) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases:Ģ) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn.ģ) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources.Įach player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat.
Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards.
Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources.
The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand.
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