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From designer Matt Leacock, Pandemic is a cooperative game of teamwork where an elite team must work together to keep four deadly diseases at bay. Assemble your team to discover the cure, stop the spreading diseases, and avert a global disaster. Celebrate a decade of curing diseases with the game that started it all. This beautifully-rendered anniversary edition of Pandemic includes a custom metal box, all-new art with a vintage aesthetic, large ID cards, plastic figures, and plenty of wooden pieces. Can you save humanity?
aaj94
Alisha loves this one, so I finally caved and bought it. What do you want me to say about it, it's Pandemic? I won't play 2-player with her, though. I am finding Pandemic Legacy to be a whole lot more interesting, because your decisions carry over from game to game, and it communicates the tension of the theme more effectively. Base Pandemic is just absolutely boring. I think that the base game needs a random deck of 'objective' cards (similar to how you face different objectives in Pandemic Legacy) to spruce it up and keep it fresh. Beyond that, something that I dislike in all of Matt Leacock's games is the alpha player tendency. I know I can be this kind of player myself, and I hate that the game doesn't do anything to smack me down and keep the collaboration even among players. While it is intensely satisfying to dream up a last-ditch effort to save the world and win the game, it's frustrating that the game doesn't force you to come up with that plan together. It's Pandemic. I have problems with the alpha-player tendency (which the game does nothing to curb) and the repetitiveness, but it's everyone's favorite co-op for a reason.
1welligr
Save the world from 4 deadly outbreaks. This is a co-operative game. Find the cure and play against the game. It has increasingly difficult setup options. 1-4 players.
aaarg_ink
151119 Late in 2014 we started playing it again and what an excellent game. We also dug up the bioterrorist variant and its quite fun, even 2P. 130929 Some how the fear of an alpha player has gotten me scared to pull out this game. But its still a great design. But I rate games by desire to replay and Pandemic just hasn't been getting the itch for me to play. 100212 A little Easy in 2player, but wow...a lot harder and a lot more fun with 4. Played it with 5 and it was damn near impossible (finally won with only 3 epidemics...and even so with 3 cards left the deck).