Risk II JC

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $4.70

Features:

• Unlimited Play
• Three Game Modes - Classic, Tournament, and SameTime
• Hot-Seat and Network Play
• Save Games in Progress
• Stunning Full Screen Graphics

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

excellent pc game but don't believe the claim it can be played online [Posted on 2007-10-05]
I bought this game as a birthday gift to my brother because we loved to play the board game, and he now lives out of state. The box claims it can be played online. I was extremely disappointed to find out that was not the case!! The link provided is for Zone.com which now appears to be games.msn.com, and the latter no longer supports online play of this game.

I spent hours sending emails to amazon.com, the manufacturer's of the game, the support folks listed in the documentation, etc. -- trying to find out who they could guide me to that supports it. No response from anyone except amazon.com, who washed their hands of it.

I spent many more hours scouring gaming web sites and found many that offered it for download...but most were not clear if it could be played there or just downloaded. So here comes many more hours sending emails to them. In the end I still have not found anywhere to play it.

Of course, there are sites that offer the original Risk game...but read on.

Besides the above issue, the game itself is AWESOME!! I'll never go back to the original Risk now that I've played it.

It includes capabilities to play against the computer or with someone else (in the room). There are options to change the point values of each continent, to randomly place armies at the start of the game (instead of each player manually placing them), or to hold an "election" which will decide the deployment. You may choose to have two additional points awarded when you own a territory shown on a set of cards you turn in, and the table for turning in sets adds a "12" level. You can play "same time" instead of "turn-based" if you want to add another monkey wrench, play "tournament" style, or opt for a version called "capital risk".

You decide which generals to play against, instead of, or in addition to, other live opponents - and each general is ranked so you can determine how tough an enemy you want to tackle (I took an easy one and won my first and only game so far so other reviewers might be right about the challenge in this).

There are a couple of new territories that can be added beyond those on the board game, and you can switch the "mid-east" link between continents on or off. There are provisions for making alliances with other players, including the AI (artificial intelligence...the PC). And lastly, you can play a shorter 80% or 60% world domination game.

By the way, I had to set my compatibility mode for Winblows '95 or '98 for use on my Vista machine because the PC would lock up part way through one of the tutorials (and who knows what else wouldn't have worked). After that no problemo.

Big hit [Posted on 2007-11-25]
My daughter is having a great time with this game and would play for hours, if I let her. Totally satisfied.

A Great Game! [Posted on 2008-02-20]
Just like I remembered it as a kid! The whole family enjoys this computer version of the popular board game.

Good but network game has limitation [Posted on 2008-04-06]
Good game play and visuals. Issues:

1. Network LAN play requires a minimum of three players. And, there is no way, that I can see, to create a third player as a computer opponent. Why not allow two players? This is bizarre, no worse, its cuckoo. Totally wacko. Its like today I was at the shoe store and the salesperson said, "we have a sale on socks. Buy a pair and get half of the other." But, I have two feet! What am I going to do with half a pair of socks?
2. Is this product supported by any company? No where to ask anything about it.

Bottom line, its ok.

ONLINE RISK PLAY [Posted on 2008-04-15]
Bought RISK 2 couple weeks ago,played it online second day,at "WAR ZONE".The best of all worlds,can host game on line and play diffrent people around the world.Have played people from NORWAY and BRAZIL in the last 2 days.Just remimber only 1 winner in the game, be a good sport when you lose. I lose more than I win but still fun.
P.S.Does not have to be the "risk server" link to play risk at war zone,ones you have server you chose risk game link.

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