Ultimate Board Game Collection

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  • Summary: Ultimate Board Game Collection contains 20 classic board and table top games that have been played by countless families around the world. Games included are Chess, Quatro, Checkers, Enigma, Backgammon, Reversi, Snakes & Ladders, Naval Battle, Parcheesi, Dice, Dominoes, Go, Chinese Checkers,Ultimate Board Game Collection contains 20 classic board and table top games that have been played by countless families around the world. Games included are Chess, Quatro, Checkers, Enigma, Backgammon, Reversi, Snakes & Ladders, Naval Battle, Parcheesi, Dice, Dominoes, Go, Chinese Checkers, Word Cubes, Mahjong Solitaire, Anagrams, Concentration, 3D Tic-Tac-Toe, Mancala and Jigsaws. 20 Classic board game style games. Customize each game by selecting different rules, environments, piece type etc. Play against the CPU or up to 6 other players, depending on the game. User selectable sound track, chose from 4 different styles. CPU opponent has multiple difficulty levels. Includes 100 different Jigsaw pictures.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. Deeko
    70
    With a $20 price point, Ultimate Board Game Collection is a steal and will provide countless hours of enjoyment.
  2. PSX Extreme
    50
    For roughly fifteen dollars, you get 20 board games on a single blue-backed disc. That's a great value, assuming you're into board games and have a couple friends nearby.
  3. GamesRadar+
    40
    While a few of these games may have some value when played with a group, fans of board games may as well stick to actually playing board games.
  4. PSM3 Magazine UK
    33
    It manages to distract you from how pointless it actually is for, ooh, at least half an hour. [July 2008, p.78]
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  5. Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK
    30
    An uninspiring collection that's poorly presented and underwhelming to play. You have been warned. [June 2008, p.66]
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  6. IGN
    30
    Instead of a compilation of good times, Ultimate Board Game Collection is a horrifying pile of examples of why some developers should spend their time focusing on gameplay instead of showing off their environments.

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  1. ThomasY
    Jul 29, 2009
    7
    I like it. I like the fact it includes many different types of games.
  2. aspentitan
    Jan 15, 2020
    6
    The real question here is this a good replacement for all those board games causing clutter and taking up space? Value wise it's a no brainerThe real question here is this a good replacement for all those board games causing clutter and taking up space? Value wise it's a no brainer as this disc has 20 games and includes simplistic instructions to play them and help you along if you don't know the rules. It has very simplistic trophies to achieve but I can't see how this would be interesting to anyone over the age of 5-8 maybe. Production quality isn't very high but is serviceable. Some games like chess especially though are hard to play because choosing pieces are not easily defined. Load times are ok but not instant. Production wise the games are there but just ok at best which does make me think it'd probably be best to hold onto original board games since this game also has very little "atmosphere" and warmth to it. Honestly, board games are about social interaction with a few exceptions, but not all and this collection contains some good solitude games to just keep oneself entertained and occupied for a random amount of time when necessary. So just by which games these are I'd say it's not worth the swap because of presentation. The game disc does however contains famous games you probably already know. "Dice" is "Yahtzee", "Enigma" is "Master Mind", there is chess, checkers, jigsaws, memory games and so forth and I did enjoy a brief stint trying some of these games as I've never owned all these games in my life so from that aspec it wàs nice having this. That said the presentation could have been much better to make you want to use this as a replacement. Had I owned all these games I'd be keeping them and getting rid of this disc, but since I don't this game succeeds in allowing me to have these games so from that standpoint it's a success. Unfortunately I own too many games I'd put ahead of this I checked it out wrote this review and that's as much entertainment as I will try to get from it. I suspect this will be the case with anyone who buys this nowadays.… Expand