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| | | Description: | | Pandemic: On the Brink is an expansion to our popular cooperative game, Pandemic, wherein players take on roles to work together to fnd cures to 4 diseases. This expansion to Pandemic includes new event cards, new role cards, rules for five players, and optional game challenges to increase the difficulty, such as the 'Legendary' difficulty level, the Virulent Strain challenge, the Mutation challenge, and the Bio-Terrorist challenge. These challenges can be mixed together to make the game even harder. .............. In this expansion you will find six new roles (plus 1 revised OpEx and a Bio-Terrorist), eight new special events, and several challenge kits to be added to the basic game play. Virulent Strain challenge: makes one disease become particularly deadly in unpredictable ways. Mutation Challenge: adds a fifth (purple) disease that behaves differently than the original four. Bio-Terrorist Challenge: pits one player against the others! You may also play with 5 players and play on Legendary level! Other components include: 12 purple disease cubes, 12 pawns in a smaller size, petri dishes to store your diseases and pawns, a bio-terrorist pad for that player to record his actions. | | | Features: | |
• Expansion for Base-game
• Six new roles (plus 1 revised OpEx and a Bio-Terrorist), eight new special events, and several challenge kits to be added to the basic game play
• Virulent Strain challenge: makes one disease become particularly deadly in unpredictable ways.
• Mutation Challenge: adds a fifth (purple) disease that behaves differently than the original four.
• Designed by Matt Leacock and Tom Lehmann
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 7 reviews |
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 On the brink of insanity...Jul 20, 2010
Pandemic is not an easy game. My wife and I beat it maybe, 50% of the time when it's just the two of us, less when there's more people (and that's when never more than 5 epidemics). On the Brink takes a hard game and then lights it on fire, gives it steroids and grants it evil super powers. Seriously, the extra challenges in On the Brink will blow your mind and make you love the game even more. All the new (and updated) roll cards in this will enhance even vanilla play of the game. This expansion pack is well thought out, well crafted and, as a final bonus, includes petri dishes for storage of game pieces. Seriously, it's classy.
If you liked Pandemic, you'll love On the Brink
Instant favoriteJul 16, 2010
After playing Pandemic for the first time, I was instantly hooked. I immediately read more about it and found this expansion. Once you play the expansion, you realize that the only way to play is with the expansion. The new roles are great. Also, there are a couple 'create-your-own' role cards. I made a detective: he can see the terrorist if the terrorist is in any adjacent country, and he can capture the terrorist from one country away. Anyways, the new special events and the three added scenarios are nonstop fun. The terrorist scenario adds a competitive aspect to the game that the original Pandemic does not have. If you buy Pandemic, buy the expansion. It is well worth it.
Great addition to an already great gameJul 09, 2010
Having played the original Pandemic with friends for awhile I was interested to see how this expansion would affect the game. I was happily surprised at the new roles and the addition of various scenarios. Just for fun we shuffeled in all the new 'Epidemic' cards and 'Mutation' cards and were properly whipped. :) The game itself can be difficult to beat and as others have said it actually gets more difficult the more people you have playing. However this has been an appealing part of the game as some of the co-op games seem to be a bit too easy for my taste (such as Castle Panic). This is a worthy addition and will give you a different game each and every time.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Solid expansionJan 30, 2010
The origonal game had kind of lost the challenge, it was easy to beat and even with max epidemics we were trouncing it a good 80% of the time.
The expansion gives you new tools, and challenges, the virulent strain, along with the ability to have random effects on the epidemics changes the game considerable. Mutations and Bio Terrorist also add fun twists.
If you've already "solved" the origonal game buy the expansion and see if you can keep up with the new challenges.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
A lot of fun packed into one expansion!Dec 04, 2009
Pandemic is one of those games that defies logic. First, it's one of the few purely co-operative games out there, with no one even designated as a traitor later on. Second, it actually gets harder the more people you play with, not easier. After several breezy sessions with just my girlfriend and I, we proceeded to get spanked when we tried it four-player. It was a blast to try and beat this game, as it's always a challenge, and winning is usually done by the skin of one's teeth. With the release of the expansion, you have a variety of new smaller scenarios you can add individually, or you can group them together in interesting combos to make the challenge even more difficult. I have still never even tried this game on heroic because it's so difficult, and now there are even harder challenges to face with a disease that acts completely unpredictably, a fourth deadly disease thrown into the mix, and possibly even a bio-terrorist on the loose (which adds a little competitiveness into the game). On top of that, the makers includes some petri dishes for storage containers, which is a wonderful idea for storing containers, and it really makes the game look sharp! Also, even though it was never a huge problem, they included a set of smaller player pieces to allow for boards often crowded with disease. Z-Man games really cares about making quality games with excellently-made components. I highly recommend this to anyone who has the base game, and if you don't have the base game, stop your life right now and order it!
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