N'Gai Croal
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Feb 4, 2008 10:28 AM
The board for Hasbro's Risk: Black Ops. Photo by Gamers With Jobs
Last August, Electronic Arts announced that it had entered into a long-term agreement with Hasbro,
allowing its EA Casual division to develop and publish the videogame
versions of such classics as Monopoly, Yahtzee, Nerf, Tonka and
Scrabble, the latter title making headlines recently because of brewing
legal battles over the successful copyright infringing knockoff
Scrabulous. The deal was even a reunion of sorts, with former EA exec
Mark Blecher, now a Hasbro senior vice president, put in charge of that
Hasbro's digital gaming initiatives, opposite EA vet Chip Lange, who
was named vice president and general manager of EA's Hasbro games
operation. And as we wait to see what will emerge from the agreement, a
tantalizing possibility has reared its head in recent days. Gamers With Jobs revealed last week that an updated version of Risk, titled Risk: Black Ops, would be coming to store shelves this year.
The re-envisioned Risk isn't simply cosmetic, though we do like its new artistic direction, as shown in the photo above. Designer Rob Daviau
has added a new resource system based around Capitals and Cities, which
give the player that holds them additional troops. But the core of the
revamp, according to Gamers With Jobs, is its new Objectives system,
which not only adds variety to the gameplay, but also streamlines the
duration of individual gameplay sessions. Here's how Gamers With Jobs
described it:
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