Pyramid Review
Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever!
Published by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Written by Kerry Breitenstein & Todd A. Breitenstein with Mark Metzner
Illustrated by Dave Aikins
16 Map Tiles, 32 Event Cards, "Guts" Tokens, 4-Page Rules Sheet; $14.99
If you thought that with Zombies!!! 4: The End, it really was the end for the tile-laying, zombie-bashing, desperate-scramble-for-survival board game, then you were wrong. Rather, that acts as a bookend with Zombies!!! between which sit the two-and-a-half supplements available for the game. Which means that there is still room for other expansions, such as this, Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever!
Like the other two expansions (but not the half), Zombies!!! 5: School's Out Forever! adds another area adjacent to the small town America depicted in Zombies!!! Like Zombies!!! 3: Mall Walkers, it is also self-contained, which means that it can be played on its own as a mini-game, although it still needs the addition of the rules, dice, and various pawns and tokens from the core game. Of course, it is really intended to add another area to explore within the game, providing a possible avenue of escape from the corpse cortege.
Despite the subtitle -- "School's Out Forever!" -- it should be made clear that this supplement is not set within the halls and classrooms of a school. Now the subtitle is correct because school is interchangeable with college in American English, but reading it in English results in the expansion not being as advertised. . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: July 7, 2006
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