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Rush n’ Crush

The Armed Racing Game

Our near or sometimes our far future, usually also provided with a bit of end-time scenario feeling, is often used as a background for games which do not conform to the politically correct ideas of topics or their implementation. In future times one can easily work with satire, violence and aggression, expressed in the motto of this futuristic car racing game: Chaos is fun and chaos with weapons and tank armor on race cars is even more fun.

If you arrive at the finish line first, you win. The game comprises 10 double-sided track parts for random combinations, dashboards for the cards and two different rule books, one for the apprentices, the other for the psychopaths. The rules basically correspond to those of other car racing games – you adjust the characteristics of the car, you modify results with dice and try to stay on track. After six damages have been inflicted on the car, the racing fun ends. The car is moved by either choosing to shift gear of the speed up, additionally modified by possible movements of the stirring wheel. Therefore you should learn to drive you car before you turn your mind to the rather nasty ways how to eliminate you opponents from the race.

And there are lots of them, which gets rather interesting in the overdrive mode, when collisions are evaluated in detail. Oh, and in order to ensure that at least one car crosses the finish line you are only allowed to activate one Rush n‘ Crush action per round.

So far so good and nothing really new, but implemented cutely and well, all offered in a thick rulebook at reminds one a little of the aforementioned chaos motto.

OUR REVIEW – PLAYED FOR YOU

Players: 3-6

Age: 12+

Time: 90+

Designer: Frederic Henry, Charly Cazals, Guillaume Blossier

Artist: Mauro Baldo

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Rackham / Alderac 2010

Web: de.asmodee.com

Genre: Car racing game with sci-fi topic

Users: For experts

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

American age recommendation, in Europe rather 16+ * well-known mechanisms nicely combined * gaming experience recommended

Compares to:

Formula Dé and other car racing games with detailed rules for car characteristics

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 3

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0