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Face dangerous new threats as a fifth virus spreads across the globe and Hot Zones make their entrance, changing the rules? for the worse! Fortunately, new medical experts have joined the fight to help you. Experimental Meds is a healthy dose of expansion contents to Pandemic: The Cure.
Dianthus75
I love having the addition of new characters and new event cards, but I don't much like either of the modules introduced. They made the game harder, more random, and as far as I can tell, impossible to win. I will always use the new roles and events when playing the game going forward, so in this sense, it's indispensable.
Cheesechick
I like the the way the Hot Zone dice work generally. They're probably fairly situational - they didn't really swing things too much one way or the other in our game, but I'm willing to bet depending on the state of your board they could make a big difference. I also like the purple dice, but here's where we get into tricky territory. It feels weird to say, but I think the systems in The Cure may actually be [i]too[/i] interconnected. The great thing about original Pandemic's expansion challenges is that they each push your strategy in a different direction - generally by making one of the ways you die more likely. The concerning thing to me here is I'm not sure how we could have played differently. The loss conditions are so entwined that making progress against one generally means you're making progress against all of them. If you love The Cure, this is probably a good addition. If you're a veteran Pandemic player who found it a little too swingy, though, I'm not sure this will do much to change your mind. Personally I'm somewhere in between, so I'm happy to keep this, but it's not [i]quite[/i] the game-changer I wanted.
Arkeas
Additional roles are fantastic and a welcome addition to the game. Really wish the role cards match the badge-style ones from the first printing of the base game. New challenges also help make the game interesting and gives a few new ways to play, keeping the game from feeling too stale.