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Finalists Announced for 2008 Int’l Gamers Awards
The finalists have been announced for the 2008 International Gamers Awards with games released between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008 being eligible. This year’s nominees are:
General Strategy Games: Multi-Player Category
- Agricola – Uwe Rosenberg (Lookout Games, Z-Man Games, and many others)
- Brass – Martin Wallace (Warfrog Games)
- Hamburgum – Max Gerdts (eggertspiele, Rio Grande Games)
- In the Year of the Dragon – Stefan Feld (alea, Rio Grande Games)
- Kingsburg – Andrea Chiarvesio & Luca Iennaco (Stratelibri, ElfinWerks, Fantasy Flight Games)
- Pandemic – Matt Leacock (Z-Man Games, Pegasus Spiele)
- Race for the Galaxy – Tom Lehmann (Rio Grande Games, Abacusspiel, Ystari Games)
- Stone Age – Michael Tummelhofer (Hans im Glück, Rio Grande Games)
- Tinner’s Trail – Martin Wallace (Treefrog Games)
- Tribune – Karl-Heinz Schmiel (Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Fantasy Flight Games)
- 1960: The Making of the President – Christian Leonhard & Jason Matthews (Z-Man Games)
- Cold War: CIA vs. KGB – David Rakoto & Sebastien Gigaudaut (Fantasty Flight Games, Pro Ludo)
- Power & Weakness – Andreas Steding (MOD Games)
- Perry Rhodan: Die Kosmische Hanse – Heinrich Glumpler (Kosmos)
- Tzaar – Kris Burm (SMART, Rio Grande Games)
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Aug 26, 2008 at 01:30 PM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 890
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A lot of strong games here—I know I would be pressed to decide between some of these. I have this feeling Z-Man may fair well at Spiel Posted by tom moughan on Aug 26, 2008 at 01:07 PM | #
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Having played all the multi-player games I say they should be ranked (from first to last):
Agricola
From the two-player category I’ve only played 1960 but I would probably pick it or Tzaar based on what I’ve read. Posted by Greg Williams on Aug 26, 2008 at 03:46 PM | #
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What an incredible list of games! Every single nominated multiplayer game is a winner and I can’t really think of another design I’d like to see there. (Maybe Wabash Cannonball, but which game would you kick out?) Tremendous job by the committee. Of the two-player games, I would have liked to have seen Shanghaien in there, but other than that, it’s also a strong group. As for the favorites, you have to figure that Agricola and Race for the Galaxy are the early frontrunners for the multiplayer award. One question will be if Race has enough appeal outside of the U.S. to compete. Brass shouldn’t be ignored and Tribune, which is much beloved in Europe, is a dark horse. Finally, lighter games have often done well with the IGAs, but this is a pretty heavy group. The lighest of the bunch is probably Kingsburg or Pandemic, so some consideration should be given to these. Still, I think I’ll make the boring prediction and go with Agricola. With the two-players, it’ll probably come down to 1960 or Tzaar. We’ve heard less about the latest GIPF game than has been the case in the past, including awards, so I’m going to go with 1960, despite its U.S.-centric theme. Posted by Larry Levy on Aug 26, 2008 at 05:16 PM | #
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I can’t see 1960 lose in the 2 player category. Multiplayer it’s R4TG or Agricola as the winner (probably the 2nd) with Brass jsut behind. A vey very strong selection this year, for sure. Posted by Olivier Reix on Aug 27, 2008 at 02:15 AM | #
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