- You are also getting Monopoly total of 2 cd's.
Product description
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Shake the virtual dice cup and Ultimate Yahtzee will roll for
the 5 fun and challenging Yahtzee variations. Colorful graphics
and fast game play make this game realistic. Hasbro programmers
went to great lengths to model the physics of throwing dice.
Every surface and texture is modeled after the real thing--the
marble dice, leather-wrapped dice cups, and steel-plated throwing
surfaces. Fast-paced play options let you roll your way through a
game in less than 15 minutes. Options include five gaming
variations, a choice of musical scores, and realistic sound
effects.
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Shake the virtual dice cup and Ultimate Yahtzee will roll for
the 5 fun and challenging Yahtzee variations. Colorful graphics
and fast game play make this game realistic. Hasbro programmers
went to great lengths to model the physics of throwing dice.
Every surface and texture is modeled after the real thing--the
marble dice, leather-wrapped dice cups, and steel-plated throwing
surfaces. Fast-paced play options let you roll your way through a
game in less than 15 minutes. Options include five gaming
variations, a choice of musical scores, and realistic sound
effects.
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Review
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Yahtzee. The name immediately brings fond memories to mind for
just about everyone. It was only a matter of time before this
classic found its way to PC screens, and with Ultimate Yahtzee,
Hasbro has delivered not only the venerable dice game to gamers,
but also four new variations. If you like dice games, your day
has come.
For those of you unfamiliar with Yahtzee, I recommend studying
your 'human lifestyles manual' a little harder, or you're sure to
be detected for the extraterrestrial you are. For those who
really were raised in a cave, here's the rundown: Each player
(two to four people are required for a game, but the computer
will be glad to fill in any empty spaces) rolls five dice three
times in an attempt to create combinations vaguely similar to
those found in poker (four of a kind, straight, full house, that
sort of thing). The ultimate combo is a 'Yahtzee', or all five
dice the same. At the end of the round, all players' scores are
added up, and the player with the most points wins. Unlike most
board games (Monopoly, Scrabble, Clue) a whole lot of Yahtzee is
based entirely on luck, a fact that adds a great deal of
excitement to the game while preventing veteran players from
kicking the crap out of newbies again and again.
As stated before, Ultimate Yahtzee is collection of all the
wacky Yahtzee variations that were released over the years. In
addition to the standard or 'classic' Yahtzee, Ultimate Yahtzee
also includes Triple Yahtzee (about the same as playing three
games of Yahtzee at once), Pyramid Yahtzee (a four-sided dice
variation that's a lot quicker to play than the basic game),
Painted Yahtzee (Yahtzee with colors, very addictive) and Battle
Yahtzee ( you get a chance to throw your dice at your nents'
combinations, guaranteed to start fights). All of the versions
have a clean (if not particularly impressive) look and feel, and
do an excellent job of retaining the original flavor of the game.
The 'virtual cup' (don't get me started on that moniker)
technology - actually moving the mouse around to throw the dice -
is kind of cool, but it's not much more than a gimmick and
eventually becomes annoying. Although the dice sounds are well
done, the rest of Yahtzee's fairly thin effects library is easily
the game's weakest attribute.
You might as well face it - Yahtzee is Yahtzee, and the addition
of a computer screen and mouse doesn't really change that. If
Hasbro had for network or Internet play, there would be a
lot more to write about here, but they didn't and that creates
the biggest question of all. If I have gather my friends together
and roll my own dice, why should I play this on a computer at
all? Strictly for loners who love the original dice game. --Trent
C. Ward
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