Risk Title screen
Title screen

Risk

Talented and creative developer Panther Programs released Risk in the year 1986. The game was new, challenging and very engaging. Play it again online here.

Risk description

Another war game, based on the rules of the Board game "Risk!", what is easy to guess by looking at the name. This option this strategy works on simplified rules: here the army is not divided into kinds – infantry, artillery, cavalry, and no bonus cards, koi in the desktop prototype was issued for the seizure of territories.

After starting Risk you will be prompted to choose the number of participants (two to six) and the color which will be painted controlled by you the earth. Then you move on to the playing field, which is decorated as the map of the Earth (by the way, this is the only graphic element present in Risk) and "cut" regions. Latest equally distributed between the warring parties. The goal is to take over the world.

The gameplay is turn-based, and there are few differences from the original "Risk!": each turn you get a certain number (depends on the number of lands in your possession) reinforcement, which must be allocated to cash armies, then regroup, move troops in friendly territory, and at the end of the attack enemy positions. And yet – capturing a group of regions forming part of any continent, you'll get extra military units, until the continent is under your control.

The result: a Risk - not the most outstanding representative of "Rashidov", it will be interesting except to collectors of such games. In addition, there is no "artificial enemy", and for full enjoyment you have to look of the living participant.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

Risk

Genre:
Strategy/Tactics
Year:
1986
Publisher:
Panther Programs
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Panther Programs
Gameplay:
Board Game