Annihilator & One World
Annihilator & One World is a 1980 package of two 2-player board wargames published by Metagaming Concepts.
Gameplay
Oneworld has a diceless combat system. Annihilator is a wargame where one player sends a small force of space soldiers into a huge, robotic planetkiller, while the other player controls the planetkiller's automated defenses.[1]
Reception
In the inaugural issue of Ares Magazine, David Ritchie gave the game package a poor score of 2 out of 9, saying, "The result is a nicely balanced game which almost succeeds in overcoming the flimsiness of its premise. The two games are playable in one-half to three-quarters of an hour.".[2]
In the May-June 1980 edition of The Space Gamer (Issue No. 28), Denis Loubet reviewed Annihilator & One World was similarly unimpressed by either game. "Oneworld seems to take itself too seriously, and I don't know whether to believe the introduction or not. The counter mix is sort of unbalanced; the fog counters are of little worth, while the blades are the main attacking force... "Annihilator is just too small a game; there's not enough there. If there were more and different counters and a more complex and varied map, it might have the popularity of Ogre, but as it stands it's too small.".[1] Loubet commented that [1]
In the August 1980 edition of Dragon (Issue 40), Glenn Williams reviewed Annihilator and found "both the rationale and the mechanics of the game were poorly developed."[3]
References
- ^ a b c Loubet, Denis (May–June 1980). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (28). Steve Jackson Games: 25.
- ^ Ritchie, David (March 1980). "A Galaxy of Games". Ares Magazine (1). Simulations Publications, Inc.: 32.
- ^ Williams, Glen (August 1980). "The Dragon's Augury". Dragon (40). TSR, Inc.: 59.