By: Michael Cannon
 Monster Mayhem (c) White Wolf I recently play tested a new board game call Monster Mayhem. Created by White Wolf Game Studio, the same people that brought you such great titles as Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, and Mage the Ascension. However, this game wasn't based on their World of Darkness setting. It was set in some miscellaneous town that just happened to have an infestation of all your standard, run-of-the-mill monsters. You had a choice of a vampire, a werewolf, a zombie, a mummy, and a poltergeist. The basic objective of the game was to chase down and devour your victims to fill your individual craving type. Whomever had the most craving points at the end of five turns won. The victims all had amusing names such as "The Double Dealing Politician" and "The Strung Out Crack Whore". This sounds like it would be alot of fun, but the rules of operation were so over-complicated that it made game play dry and pain staking, at best. It felt more like I was doing a chore instead of playing a board game with my friends. It was so bad in fact, we couldn't even finish one complete turn. The price tag on this piece of trash is ridiculous, at a suggested $44.95. Luckily, one of my friends was fortunate enough to be loaned a copy to play test and we both agreed that this game was by far the worst board game we had played in recent memory. All in all, my official rating for Monster Mayhem is a 2 out of 10. Outside of the main concept, this game isn't worth the cardboard its printed on. |