Pandemic - July 18th, 2009

Pandemic
A recently released cooperative game in which players must race against time to cure 4 diseases before they spread out of control.

Ian and had arrived by this time and he had expressed interest in trying this out, so Ian, Trevor, Hilary, and I sat down for a game. Just as I finished explaining it to Ian and Trevor, our friends Alana and Thorsten arrived. Hilary and Alana wanted to catch up, so Thorsten replaced her and did a pretty good job of learning on the fly.

We got off to a pretty good start and were able to cure the yellow disease pretty quickly. Unfortunately, the blue and black diseases got out of hand and we were unable to get them under control before we crossed the 8 outbreak threshhold. Ian told me later that he was lukewarm about the game - for all of the good things he had heard about it, I think he expected something a little deeper. I still feel this is a great game for what it is - an easy-to-teach cooperative game that looks great and plays in about 45 minutes.

Chris: Medic
Ian: Operations Expert
Trevor: Scientist
Thorsten: Researcher

Result: Loss (8 outbreaks)