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Escape: Zombie City

Game ID: GID0116950
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2014
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Game description from the publisher:

In Escape: Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city. Everything is going great — well, as great as it can be when zombies are all around — but this is all about to change as a big wave of zombies is coming to town, and they want your brainy goodness. Your only option is to gather all the necessary supplies, start up the old VW Microbus, and get the hell outta Dodge (the city)!

Escape: Zombie City is played with a soundtrack that lasts fifteen minutes. After that length of time, the zombie hordes have gotten too big to defeat, and you have lost your mind, so to speak...

Description

Game description from the publisher:

In Escape: Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city. Everything is going great — well, as great as it can be when zombies are all around — but this is all about to change as a big wave of zombies is coming to town, and they want your brainy goodness. Your only option is to gather all the necessary supplies, start up the old VW Microbus, and get the hell outta Dodge (the city)!

Escape: Zombie City is played with a soundtrack that lasts fifteen minutes. After that length of time, the zombie hordes have gotten too big to defeat, and you have lost your mind, so to speak...

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video DSDmwmQCMDg The Dice Tower Top List at 0:52 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Frantic and fast-paced
Cons
  • Not quite as good as the original game
Thematic elements
  • zombies
  • a city
Comparison games
  • Escape: The Curse of the Temple
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • cooperative play — You use your dice with your fellow people to fight those zombies and run.
  • Dice Rolling — You are rolling dice as fast as you can to get out and using your dice to fight zombies.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • There was a time where we thought, 'Oh, there's so many zombie games.' And of course there was.
  • Zombies are a very easy mechanism to put into a board game cuz the bad guys will move slowly towards you or run fast towards you, whatever.
  • Zombies are predictable, they don't have brains, they're trying to eat them, and so they're coming towards you and it just makes it an easier game mechanism.
  • Frankly, in the past several years, the number of zombie games has gone down considerably.
  • It is a neat way to get rid of that alpha gamer where someone a quarterback or telling everyone what to do.
  • At the end of the day, your biggest enemies are the other humans.
  • You're just chucking dice. So, this is kind of like mixing a Yahtzee type game or King of Tokyo with zombies.
  • This is one of the meanest games out there.
  • This is my favorite of all the Zombicides, which I know that I'm in a minority.
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Video ElecsgNMz84 The Dice Tower Analysis at 7:38 sentiment: neutral
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Neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • Escaping a city
  • Zombie apocalypse
Comparison games
  • Escape: Curse of the Temple
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Dice Rolling — You're rolling dice as fast as you can.
  • Real-Time — A frenetic 10-minute game.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • A frenetic 10-minute game from Queen.
  • This is one of the key games I have not played. This is the sixth one.
  • That's a cool name.
  • I felt it could have done a little better. Um, it's it's almost too slight for me.
  • I found it a little too fiddly, but as you can see, it's moving up in ranks.
  • So it it's kind of funny it took him so long to come out with an Axis and Allies World War I game.
  • I know I enjoyed it, but also it's 10 years ago, so it's hard to remember.
  • This is the prequel to Clue where you're going around trying to kill Dr. Lucky.
  • And I found it to be a lot of fun.
  • If you like He-Man, this really brings it out.
  • I've heard good things about this game, but I have never played it.
  • This game is very weird and unique but I like it.
  • This is one of the classic war games.
  • It's running a kind of like an engine building thing through the space station.
  • I liked it, but it has been a while.
  • This is the OG Fury of Dracula game.
  • I have never played Peanuckle. I know a little bit about it, but it's interesting to see this one kind of rated way here in the middle.
  • I find it very odd that they are they're basically the same game. I'm not sure why they have two separate entries.
  • Bidding to take Bowolf down a path has almost nothing to do with the theme.
  • I liked it fine.
  • I do like that you use the box and stuff as terrain.
  • This is kind of a holy grail for many people.
  • I'm not as big on the horror theme as many other people are, but I know people like this concept here of horror games running around.
  • Of the ones I talked about today, I think Masters of the Universe, the board game, um, is my favorite.
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