Terrific game (deduction for reissue)

I want to say that this game is even the full five stars would have deserved the front way. The game itself is simple to describe as amazing. Not without reason has the game won several Game Awards. In short it comes to the disease in the world to break the one must (cooperative) combat. The point is to prevent and find the antidote the spread. It all sounds quite simple, but all the players is only possible with the necessary cooperation.

I especially like the gameplay that the difficulty without any problems can be varied (very good if you take smaller players play) because you can easily mix more or less outbreak cards in the discard pile.

All in all the game is "pandemic" actually a game for young and old that really is well suited. The gameplay is absolutely highly classified, as each player has a different task in the game which also requires cooperative behavior (ie ideal for game night with friends and Co.).

But the devaluation:
The devaluation does not refer directly to the game, but on the new edition of ZMan. Before buying you should know my opinion that the processing of ZMan version can only be described as cheap. The pieces are mostly made of plastic which is very light and also very small. The cube (see Amazon Product Photos) have just a side length of 5 mm which is not just good enough to touch. In addition, there are no boxes or similar in that you can do the game characters after use (in the Pegasus variant were petri dishes for storage included). In previous versions of the game are all pawns of wood and everything is bigger (which in this game just is beneficial).

Smaller characters and plastic alone are not directly the problem, but I want to briefly touch on why it in this game simple is bad:

The epidemics are represented by Cubic stones of which there are 4 different colors each of 24 stones are (thus 96 stones). Half of which is approximately distributed on the field. The small plastic cubes are a very fiddly matter here. Here the wooden cubes (which are nearly twice the size of the plastic cubes) have better I like them.

The game is great and definitely a recommendation (my favorite game), but I would advise everyone to buy the Pegasus version that is still available in the bay.

UPDATE:
Compared to the Pegasus variant I noticed that the event cards and the additional rollers were significantly improved. The additional roles are an uncommon win for the game, since some skills that can be added to good use. By this change the version of Z-Games wins again immensely over that of Pegasus.