Excellent game, but the AI is nowhere even close to 4-stars.

I was really interested in getting the game soon but comments like these scare me. Yet, other users seem not to experience what Nathaniel talks about. Strange. Could this have something to do with versions of the game? Patches not applied?

Please enlighten me! I used to play BB leagues back in the days and would love to play the game again - against an AI. However, I suppose this list is probably not the place to discuss the merit of the AI, perhaps someone could redirect me to somewhere more appropriate?

Dude, if you like Blood Bowl at all, then the PC game from Cyanide is a good purchase and will provide you with much entertainment. If the AI ends up being too easy to beat on all three levels, then go online and join a league where you can play against human opponents. The game has new content, game balance and Star Player Morg'N'Thorg added with the current patch, and will add a new team (Dark Elves) very soon for FREE!! They are improving the game all the time, but have said the AI is not intended to be better than human players, it's intended to teach the game and give less experienced players a chance to get their feet wet without having to learn against experienced players. It is certainly good enough for that.

I have seen a few problems with the AI, such as a lack of time management as the clock winds down. I have also seen the AI run a player into my backfield as I'm approching the opposing endzone, only to have the ball stripped from my player, picked up by the opposing team and passed to a player who then ran and handed it off to the guy on my end of the field for a touchdown against me... more than once! The AI has deficiencies, but it is not as hopeless as some would have you believe.

Whatever the case, the game is well worth getting for many reasons, although the RTS mode is not one of them, IMHO, I agree there at least. Otherwise, I have had a blast with the game so far (pre-oredered), both online and against the AI and recommend it to any fan of the board game.

I love Blood Bowl, and I'm looking forward to trying this game, but haven't done so yet because of the system requirements. From the Cyanide Website:



It's not really that bad, but if you have an old computer like mine, you simply don't have the right slots to upgrade to the required video card.

I only have a Geforce 6150 LE and it is still playable.

This is absolutely superb. If you have troubles with the installation, as the README says, e-mail Keldon. He answers, and is helpful! Don't skip this if you have a slight problem installing it.

Good night man, this AI is fierce.

Attempted the installation and hit a brick wall.

yeah, I had the same problem. Works on my notebook but not on my desktop. Something to do conflicting old.NET stuff that I cannot seem to uninstall.

Okay got it done. Apparently it is because I neglected to run the GTK file.


Once I actually hit the run button etc. on the GTK file, then reopened the desk top icon, we were off to the races.


Awesome!

Really fun game. You can't even tell that you are actually doing math problems, additions because you are having fun.

Great educational tool.

Excellent little programme, I've had a lot of fun with this.

New version available with a complete english interface :

Nouveautés de la version 4.0 :

Les principales évolutions sont dans le domaine des enchères avec des systèmes prédéfinis (Wbridge5, SEF et SAYC). Beaucoup de nouvelles conventions ont été développées principalement en liaison avec l'introduction du système standard américain (SAYC): 3SA gambling, Gerber, 2SA Jacoby, Michael non précisé, leaping Michael. Le programme a également été intégralement traduit en anglais.

I have this on my laptop at work. My students absolutely love it. They are always requesting Roll or Don't. We even had a tournament this year. (Eric won and is the school champion.)

Just downloaded and got immediately addicted! Thanks!

Version 9 is now available! This version features a new variant, "Leapfrog", which makes for a very fun and very fast game! Also, the stats for your current game are displayed on the menu bar.

http://www.rollordont.com

There is a German version of this, from Koch Media, also with a hidden English interface. The game is available for download and purchase from softunity, an online german software shop. The software is great, AI and Interface both get 5 plus (the AI often overvalues fields, almost like if they give 4 or 5 points per city, even when set to 3 points). Highly customizable in terms of AI, rules and other options. High score lists and nice sound.

I looked on SoftUnity...seems to be no longer available.

I would rate the AI on the asobrain version only 1.5 stars. It's not random, but it's not much better than random.

You can play this on the XBox 360. Download it through XBox Live. It's not free but not expensive either. There is also two river expansions. Lots of fun.
Edit: See #33 below.

And unfortunately no longer available for purchase.

It explains how to play in English in the information about the game:

I have this, the AI in the base game is OK, but it is when you install the expansion that the AI ramps itself up. you can play with the first two boxed expansions, but even on Vanilla I would rate its AI as a 5.
the different opponents have different playing styles, but they all like to strand your meeples whenever they can.

This item should be deleted.

...or all reference to crokinole.biz could be replaced with info about the Carrom Facebook app.

It remains for historical reference. Perhaps I will make a geeklist of dead games...

This seems to be Java, not Flash. (Which makes it not work at my locked down wierdly configured computer at work )

This game looked so cool so I traded to get a copy. Read the rules and realized that, everything is random: your abilities, how much equipment, how many equipment, where Darkness is and more. Not sure if there is any real choices that needs to be made.

However good theme and is tense--love the chainsaw sound from the online game.

Link is dead now.

box shot:

...and if you're bored of playing normal chess try ChessV at http://www.chessv.com/. With this free open-source program you can play traditional chess as well as the following variants:

Alapo
Almost Chess
Angels and Devils
Archchess
Berolina Chess
Bird's Chess
Cagliostro's Chess
Capablanca Chess
Capablanca Chess, Aberg variant
Capablanca Chess, Paulowich variant
Carrera's Chess
Chess 480
Chess with Augmented Knights
Chess with Different Armies
Chess with Ultima Pieces
Courier Chess
Cylindrical Chess
Diagonal Chess
Diamond Chess
Embassy Chess
Emperor's Game
Eurasian Chess
Exinction Chess
Fischer Random Chess
Great Chess
Great Shatranj
Grand Chess
Grotesque Chess
Janus Chess
Janus Kamil Chess
Kinglet
Ladorean Chess
Legan's Game
Lions and Unicorns Chess
Los Alamos Chess
Modern Kamil
Modern Shatranj
Odin's Rune Chess
Opti Chess (mirror I)
Opulent Chess
Orthodox Chess
Polymorph Chess
Roman Chess
Royal Court
Schoolbook Chess
Shatranj
Shatranj Kamil
Shatranj Kamil (64)
Sosarian Chess
Switching Chess
TenCubed Chess
Three Checks Chess
Ultima
Unicorn Chess
Unicorn Great Chess
Unicorn Grand Chess
Univers Chess

The AI seems good, or is it just that I'm bad at chess? The GUI is functional but nothing spectacular. The good thing is that you can customise the pre-loaded variants to try out your own unique take on chess.

Apple Mac OS X comes with a very pretty version of GNU Chess.

Didn't know that this was a Sid Sackson game.

I've been playing it on my Palm under the name "Sigma"

http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/sigma.shtml

Holy cats, I'd almost forgotten about this game; I played it back in high school. Sid described it in "A Gamut of Games"; he simply called it "Solitaire Dice."

I just spent an hour playing Choice.

I've played it once and it's pretty simple to learn but has a lot of options. Some moves are obvious but others you need to set up. I'm don't typically like abstracts but this is pretty good.

Unfortunately, the AI is amazingly bad. In fairness, I didn't check to see if there were any harder settings, but with the default AI, it's hardly even worth playing.

I hate to be so negative, but I didn't like the interface either. The 3-D diagonal view looks cool, but is too difficult to play -- top down view would have been better.

The game basically amounts to a chess variant on a circular board, where all of your pieces are either pawns or bishops (and pawns can promote to queens if they reach the center). Could be interesting with a more useable interface and AI.

Link dosent seem to work.

It looks like the game's publisher, Cirondo Games Company Limited, has gone out of business. The domain name of their website is currently up for sale again.

Box shot + This computer game includes the Citadels: The Dark City Expansion

Unfortunately, it misplays the 3-player rules (discarding 4 cards, instead of giving every player 2 role selections). With 4+, it is pretty good though...