That being said, my love of zombie movies is rivalled only by my love of giant monster movies, and I quite liked ‘Monsters Menace America’. Not as much as Z!!!, but nothing else really comes close for me.

I think with some add-ons, MMA could have become a much more robust and strategic game. It’s too bad really that Avalon Hill seems to have discontinued the game.

Is anyone here interested in the game enough to try out some custom made add-ons for MMA that I have created?

We made up a few house rules as we went along [mainly for mechanics that the rules didn't explain clearly], that seemed to help a bit.

Overall, if you can find it for $15-20, and especially if you like Gian Monsters [who doesn't] it’s worth a try.

IIRC most of the heavy life gain cities are also easily in range of military bases allowing opponents to build up units and chop away at whatever life was gained. Whomever had just stomped NYC would of course have the option of going into hiding after the quick 3d6 of life, but thats still most likely 2 turns of not gaining more life, infamy or mutations. So I don’t think changing the amount of hit points gained per city is that big of a deal.

Similarly, I didn’t think infamy tokens were that bad. Their were a couple of fights particularly in the second game that both monsters got to dump their infamy tokens at the beginning of the battle and still it came down to rolling 3d6 a piece to see who won.

The final battle at the end is kind of anti-climatic, but its not that large a percentage of the play time. As you said its maybe 10% at the end. I kind of like the idea of the roll off at the end. It adds randomness yet still the monster who was in the best shape at the end has the best shot of being the winner.

This game is far from the next Settlers of Catan. But it does have more depth then Ticket to Ride and after a couple of play throughs, I think it wouldn’t be that thought intensive either. The second time we played through was much smoother then the first and was actually enjoyable even though my purple blob ended up out of the game before the challenge. Assuming everybody knows how to play this seems like a decent, unintensive, social game.

Given all that, I am not sure what price point I’d recommend or not recommend buying it at. $15 doesn’t seem that bad, but there are a lot of games in the unintensive social game category for four folks. I wouldn’t advocate paying much more.