Need More ‘Pandemic’ In Your Life? Try ‘Pandemic – Hot Zone’, Now 50% Off!
Pandemic – Hot Zone offers that same tense and dramatic cooperative gameplay in half the time and a quarter of the table space!
Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America features the same gameplay you can find in Pandemic, but in a more digestible manner. It’s smaller scope, smaller scale, smaller box, and smaller playtime. Pandemic is a fantastic game, but can have quite the learning curve. Pandemic – Hot Zone is a great way to introduce someone to one of the best legacy titles out there, Pandemic Legacy, without being overwhelming.
Pandemic – Hot Zone
The core gameplay of Pandemic – Hot Zone doesn’t change from the standard game. Players work together to collect cards from different cities to cure diseases while preventing outbreaks from occurring. But in order to make the game smaller in scope and scale, game designer, Matt Leacock, mentioned in a blog post that he had a few goals in designing Hot Zone.
He wanted the game to be focused on just a single region of the world. This reduces the number of cities and the overall size of the board. Done and done. Similarly, by reducing the number of diseases, as well as outbreaks and epidemics, the game would play a lot faster. Also done and done.
Finally, the smaller board size allowed for making certain actions more efficient. For example, the build research station action is gone, as well as the shuttle flight action.
All of these changes make Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America a much more accessible for newer players and also to act as a “travel” version, in many respects. If you’re a fan of Pandemic and are hoping to spread it to your friends (get it?), Pandemic – Hot Zone is the perfect way to do just that.
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