The game is alright – RISK: Global Domination Review

So it has a ton of maps and fun new zones to try and take over, but I swear, something is up with the luck. Some instances are unbelievable with how it is apparently “equal” lucks. I’ll take a 16 stack against 5 defenders and lose all 16 troops to taking no enemies out meaning I’m 0 - 16 in a battle I should’ve won. Conveniently, it just so happens I rolled the exact same number as the defenders 15 of those times. Different scenario: Defender rolls a 1… I’m over here thinking this is an easy win and then I roll three 1’s. Then the defender rolls 6’s the next 7 battles completely obliterating anything I throw at them so I stop pushing with my last remaining troops. The AI then gets unbelievably lucky with cards and drops 13 troops in that very tile and proceeds to take 3 of my tiles (taking out 8 troops total) not losing a single troop despite “totally random” being active. What I’m trying to say is not having blitz be on realistic makes the AI stack wipe anything you throw at it 80% of the time. Meanwhile the AI is also lucky regarding cards. It seems every time I’m about to control Asia, 1 tile remains and the AI burns a 13 troops batch of cards and puts them all on that one tile. Never mind another AI has S.A., Africa, and Europe. No I’m the one causing all the problems in Asia. I guess I’m just bitter that the game seems rigged, but then other matches feel very favored in your light. I know it says everything is random but rolling triple 1’s back to back to back isn’t something you should see often cause it is extremely unlikely to occur, but it happens multiple times in a game. Without realistic blitz on, random rolling is suicide for the player. Only problem with blitz is it takes out most of the fun of the game. Besides all the complaints that I’ve listed, the game is extremely unique if you like Risk because the amount of varied maps you can play on is astonishing. As much as the bots ruin many games, I still appreciate there is a mode with bots cause playing against players is annoying at times (mostly irl).
Review by jake1313jkjk on RISK: Global Domination.