A Super game - SO SAY WE ALL!

As with games made by Fantasy Flight Games is customary, the equipment is made plentiful and visually very appealing. For the money, there are a lot of components in very nicely taken Galactica design, and of course the good presentation of the game increases the fun.
The only design drawback is that a lot of information available on the board - for the players sitting unfavorable at the table and be able to read it only on the head, this is always annoying and makes in the opening laps like to for quite a surprise effects (" What - you can do that on the field as well ")?. Here we recommend the numerous fan-made reference cards, this is online ... or you do quickly its own (there are only 16 fields).

The rules are extensive, but well written and also in the German translation to properly reproduce. Battlestar Galactica is not a difficult game, but you have to first in the game and purely reconsider its basic idea, this may take some time - if this is but managed to read the rules very straight forward.
Complicated the rules are not so, and if one has understood first the game plays very quickly and the rulebook is rarely needed. By snappy rules is one when it first runs, in principle continuously somehow off or can at least affect the game. Long Rumsitzphasen in which all the players have to watch, there are not practical.

The game itself is known operationally with many players "Shadows over Camelot" comparable - or even with other cooperative games such as "Arkham Horror".
Compared to the very similar "Shadows over Camelot" is determine that is Galactica much more influenced by the element of betrayal and suspicion - Battlestar Galactica is a game to paranoia and malice! In addition, much more to do with Galactica much for the people, it is a mistake from one crisis to the other, which of course all very quickly sets the table under stress ... casually and without meaning to values, one can say that Battlestar Galactica just here complex, or adult for that matter, "harder" than "Shadows over Camelot".
The basic type semi cooperative games you have to like, of course, to really wrest also Battlestar Galactica something.

Stark is also how well the game captures the atmosphere of the series. Games to novels or Movie templates have indeed often the problem, relatively little except the optics to do with the model to have (a few examples are probably familiar with most of them). In other here: the dark and apocalyptic atmosphere of Battlestar Galactica is excellent at the table 'over: the permanent threat that constantly dwindling resources, a crisis triggers the next starting, battles are not won but maximum postponed by flight - and of course the permanent distrust and Paranoia.

Criticism I can the opposite little voice - a little more interaction options (various fans on the Internet developed some great ideas) would have been great, but otherwise both fans of Battlestar Galactica as well as entertaining board games should get their money.

All in all a blast, entertaining, furious and sometimes very very dark ... SO SAY WE ALL!