Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear

Perhaps appropriately, Cowboys: Way of the Gun is a game out of time. It was first published in 2007, but it has the look and feel of a game from the early 1980s, right down to the "bookshelf format" game box and a design sensibility that definitely favors function over form. It reminds me a lot of the 1989 Aliens board game, which is an excellent game design let down by weak production values.

Mechanically, Cowboys is a very well-designed small scale skirmish game that avoids a lot of the convoluted rules that seem to plague most games of this type. It plays on a grid for easy movement, and has simple game mechanics for establishing range and line of sight. Since it is played on pre-printed boards, the rules for moving and shooting through terrain are also very straightforward. It's a very fast-paced game, with the average scenario taking around 30 minutes to play.

"Move and shoot" games can get stale easily, and like several others such as 7TV and Alien vs. Predator: the Hunt Begins, this one uses a deck of event cards to give players a way to introduce some tactical decisions and unpredictability to the game. This game's event deck also functions as a standard poker deck, which allows it to be used as a random number generator for things like initiative. It might have been interesting to take this a step further and replace the dice with card draws to determine whether or not an attack is successful.

The real meat of the game is in its scenario book, which details 26 simple game setups that recreate famous gunfights both historical and fictional, from the shootout at the OK Corral to the three way standoff at the end of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The scenarios in the book escalate slowly, starting with one-on-one "shootout at high noon" games before eventually moving on to more complex setups with victory conditions beyond simply killing all of the other side's cowboys.

Unfortunately the game falls seriously flat on its outdated production values. It uses cardboard standups and tokens in lieu of miniatures, which in itself wouldn't be a problem, but the artwork on the game pieces is very bland. The same holds true for the game's various boards depicting sections of wilderness or classic western buildings like saloons and banks, which is a pity because they are otherwise of pretty high quality, printed on nice sturdy cardboard.

"The fight's commenced! Get to fightin' or get away!"

That said, the game's simple rules make for some cinematic action that inspires the imagination. In one game, I had to have Wild Bill Hickok run into a general store to reload his weapon, then come crashing through the store's window into the street to get a shot at his opponent. In another, recreating the famous gunfight at the OK Corral, I was stuck with one character (Ike Clanton) who didn't have a weapon, so I had him run around getting in the way of my opponent's line of sight, much like the "get to fighting or get away" scene from the 1992 Tombstone movie.

It shouldn't be too difficult to find some gunfighter miniatures (in fact, I have tons of them) and maybe even find some western town maps with better artwork, which is all it would take to make this a truly great game.

Rating: 3 (out of 5) The biggest problem with this game's weak production value is that it's a hard sell to get others to play, especially if they're not particularly interested in the historical west.

Cowboys: Way of the Gun official website
Cowboys: Way of the Gun on BoardGameGeek

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a third-person action-adventure puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Ubisoft. Revealed in March 2003, it was released across Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows in November 2003. The Sands of Time is a reboot of the Prince of Persia series, created by Jordan Mechner. Mechner served as creative consultant, designer, and scenario writer for The Sands of Time.
The game follows an unnamed Prince whose father sacks a Maharaja's city at the instigation of its treacherous Vizier. During the attack, the Prince obtains an artifact called the Dagger of Time, while his army captures an hourglass containing the Sands of Time. Visiting Azad to present the Sands as a gift to the city's ruler, the Vizier tricks the Prince into releasing the Sands, transforming the city's population into savage monsters. Together with the Maharaja's daughter Farah, the Prince works to correct his mistake and return the Sands to the hourglass. The gameplay revolves around the Prince's platforming abilities, broken up by fights with the creatures created by the Sands. A key mechanic in the game is using the Dagger to rewind time if the Prince makes a mistake platforming, and using it to kill and freeze enemies.
Concept work began in spring of 2001, after Ubisoft acquired the Prince of Persia catalog. After Mechner was brought on board, production began in June of that year. After the initial story draft was scrapped as it was too complex, the team began with four guiding concepts, including the ability to rewind time: this idea grew into the Dagger, the Sands, and the various powers related to them. Mechner's script drew inspiration from the Shahnameh, with the main focus on creating a simple narrative that worked with the pace of gameplay. The game used Ubisoft's Jade engine, originally designed for beyond evi Good & Evil, another game published by the company. Production was troubled, with the team facing problems with the engine structure and delays with environment assets, while also managing to create an effective tester network to seek out the game's bugs. In 2004, a version for mobile phones was developed and published in North America by Gameloft.
Upon release, it received critical acclaim, won and was nominated for numerous awards, and has been recognized by many as one of the greatest games of all time. Sales of the title were initially slow, but it eventually became a commercial success. Its success prompted the development of a sequel, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, which was released in November 2004. Further games set in the Sands of Time continuity have been developed, and it is generally cited as the reason for the Prince of Persia series' return to fame.
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Gobliiins - Won!

By Ilmari

Elves? I thought these were goblins

It was quite easy to find the exit - Hooter could magic the gate open - but that was still far from completing the level. Time to again get the full story from the manual. The hooded creature was the librarian Carbonek, who had been bitten by a werewolf and had after that written only melancholy works, lamenting his lost humanity. Indeed, reading any of the books on the screen made the goblins lose their health because of sadness.

The simple aim of the level was then to get Carbonek to laugh, by using various items on the level. There was banana, a false nose and a soap, all of which Dwayne could use for various simple gags, and as a reward Carbonek, who had turned now into a human being, gave him a humorous book.

The giant figure at the middle of the screen was Meliagante, whose only pastime had been reading books of Carbonek, and because these books had been melancholic, Meliagante was a pretty grumpy figure. My first task was then to read Carbonek's new book, but there was an obvious stopper preventing Meliagante hearing anything Dwayne would say.

If you have very good eyes, you might catch a small thing poking from the ground under the coat of arms. When Hooter enchanted that thing, it grew into a stick or lever. BoBo could then hit that stick, which raised a ladder to the pedestal with the statue. Hooter used then his magic to whisk the cork away, leaving Dwayne a chance to read some jokes to Meliagante.

Why don't you share the joke with us?

Meliagante then moved his finger so that the goblins could access the tower on the right. The bowl on the top of that tower could be used to catch some of the tears Meliagante would secrete when laughing. What then? Well, it took me a while to notice, but you can see one pixel of an object hidden on the left tower.This object - a fish - was called a bait, so perhaps I was meant to put it somewhere to attract something.

Indeed it was

With nothing else to do, I tried using Meliagante's tears with the monster that had appeared. Somehow the creature turned into the ultimate weapon I had been looking for. So, what was the secret for defeating the evil wizard? A catapult. And no, not the Roman variety, but what Americans would call a slingshot. Should I find some Angry Birds to shoot with it?

Getting back to the previous screen, I now had the means to solve a puzzle I couldn't before. You see, the bananas had prevented the goblins from using the lever. With the ultimate weapon in my hand it was easy to drop the fruits into the moat. Pulling the lever opened the grate and revealed my ride away.

You'll fall if you continue standing on the fish

Elves again? The translator should surely have communicated
with the persons deciding the English name of the game

Final showdown

I had the ultimate weapon, so vanquishing the wizard should have been an easy task.

Take that!

Won!

Or not

I don't like the look of this

The game now settled on a repeating gag, where one of the goblins would be captured by the wizard, who had taken some horrendous form, and another goblin would rescue the captured one, but be himself captured.

Let's use some magic

Failed again

Let's try some raw power then

This is getting tiresome

BoBo, who was the last one to get imprisoned by wizard, now in the form of a spider, was released by Dwayne shooting the web holding him with the catapult. Hooter could turn the wizard-spider into a bunch of smaller spiders, which would drop and could be easily captured by a well placed sack.

And there was lot of rejoicing!

I must confess I am bit sad that the game is already over. Although all the levels weren't as carefully designed as others, Gobliiins was still a nice enough game to play. We'll see how my enjoyment will be reflected in the PISSED score.

Session time: 3 hours
Total time: 18 hours 30 minutes