Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers
Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers is a 1987 board game published by Supremacy Games.
Publication history[edit]
Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers is a board game in which each player takes the role of the chief executive officer of their own multinational corporation.[1]
Gameplay[edit]
Up to six players can play Rollout simultaneously, with each acting as the head of an international business, trying to leverage opportunities in commodities markets.[2] The game's purpose is to become the richest player.[2]
Gameplay comprises five turns of six stages each.[2] At the beginning of the game, the bank owns all company stock. Each game turn, two shares of each company stocks are offered for sale.[2] By the end of the game, all ten shares are sold for all companies.[2] An initial random determination by d6 die roll determines which product the players' companies will pursue.[2] Players must account for various other factors including "Sales Track-advertising, your price, the quality of your product, and the number of worldwide stores you own".[2]
Reception[edit]
Stewart Wieck reviewed Rollout in the December 1988 issue of White Wolf Magazine, stating that while the game was "structurally very sound and nicely incorporate[d] many aspects of running a business, it lack[ed] fine details which could have improved the game".[2] Wieck noted the excessive dice rolling and way the Stock Market worked as drawbacks. He concluded that "Economic simulations are tough to do and while 'Rollout' takes a fine stab, it is not a killing blow."[2] Wieck's overall rating for the game was a sum of 3.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Rollout: The Game of the Risk-Takers". BoardGameGeek.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Wieck, Stewart (December 1988). "Reviews: Supremacy and Rollout". White Wolf Magazine. No. 13. pp. 24–25.
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