If you're the sort of person who prefers games that let you blast your enemies to smithereens with a rocket launcher, you probably wouldn't be too interested in a rousing game of Chinese checkers. And that's too bad, because the latest edition of Hoyle Board Games proves just how enduring and intriguing some classic strategy and board games can be. One of four new Hoyle titles--and quite probably the most addictive--Hoyle Board Games offers a wide range of familiar and not-so-familiar pastimes, and each of these comes with a number of engaging visual and audio perks that could only exist in a computer game. The unfortunate but very evident downside to this otherwise pleasant package is that Hoyle Board Games is so similar to Hoyle Board Games 2002--which itself was almost a dead ringer for Hoyle Board Games 2001--that it may only appeal to players who are unfamiliar with any of the previous editions. This adaptation of Battleship offers more fire and brimstone than the pen-and-paper version you might have played in elementary school.
Like all Sierra games bearing the Hoyle name, Hoyle Board Games runs nearly as well on an old beater desktop or laptop as it does on a graphically accelerated top-of-the-line computer. In fact, when you consider its undemanding system requirements and its subject matter, the game is ideally suited to those quick breaks during the day when you don't have the time or the computing horsepower to embark upon a long episode with a more complex game. And Hoyle Board Games has plenty of games to play. Sierra has added two more games to last year's list for a grand total of 18, including age-old favorites such as chess, checkers, backgammon, and dominoes; more recent games such as battling ships (Sierra's virtual adaptation of Battleship) and mahjong tiles; and electronic-only affairs such as gravity tiles. Although everyone will inevitably find certain favorites, the game works so well because very few of its games are anything but solid. Chinese checkers, for example, translates very well to the computer screen, as do chess and checkers. Battling ships, wherein animated cannons fire volleys over a wall and tiny ships explode and burn, is far more fun on the PC than it ever was with a pen and paper.
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