By Jeann Wong Price: 800 Points
Featuring an innovative “pop-up picture book” art-style, Pop-Up Pursuit plays like an electronic board game – most of you would be familiar with this style from Mario Party games except without the minigames. Pop-Up Pursuit features two different boards which must be played with 4 players, whether they are human or CPU controlled.
The system is based entirely on a card/coin system. Cards determine the number of spaces you move, or sabotage your opponents in some way by taking away some of their cards or coins. Coins are used to purchase bonus cards or extra movement spaces, and add up to your score at the end. Each player starts off choosing whether to draw a card or a coin, and then moves by selecting their cards they want to play. Each space you land on has different attributes, such as adding movement cards, extra coins, or something random like stealing a characters cards. The whole game is based on randomisation, which means there is no determining who the winner is until the very end. You don’t know what cards you’re going to draw, or what is going to happen when you land on a space, or what the CPU might do next.
Pop-Up Pursuit is a cheap multiplayer board-game which offers some entertainment. It is however very simplified but the randomisation aspect may add a bit more to your gaming experience.