Sometimes the best option is to toss everything into a blender and see if you get a smoothie or a slurry. Card game? Sure! Board game? Absolutely! Game show setting? Can't see why not. Story mode with cut-scenes more than a little reminiscent of one of the two developers' previous games, 3 Out Of 10? Bring it! Exploding trains? There is no combination of ingredients that can't be improved by exploding trains, so that's a definite Yes. Battle Train is all this and more, and even released a demo two months back to give a taste of the mechanical carnage ahead. As of today it's also released a Kickstarter to help with the pending launch, not to mention grown the demo beyond all reasonable expectations.
Incontrovertible Proof That All Game Shows Should Feature Explosions
The gist of Battle Train is that you're a contestant on the most popular game show in the world, and you might even be able to take on the ultimate champion, the Supreme President Conductor, if you can build the right deck and learn to play with enough skill. It's the dream, although granted one that every contestant of the last thirty years of the...
