As you and your family step off the Mayflower, you tingle with excitement at the prospect of freedom.
With this new land brings the challenge of survival. To succeed, you must build shelter, grow crops, and conduct trade with your neighbors.
The winner of this game will be the one that achieves prosperity in … New England.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS
Jennifer Martin (5 out of 5)
I bought this game because it won the Games Magazine Game of the Year award. I never typically buy board games but thought I'd give this one a try because I like the theme and it won the award. After getting through the rules, which was a little hard for me as I'm not used to these types of games, I started to play with my friends. I liked how you are in competition to try to buy land or cards. The bidding element is really cool and creates some nice tension in the decision making of the game. We've played it several times and I'm finally starting to get in touch with the subtle strategies of the game. The artwork is very cool too and the quality is better than any game I've ever seen. I was
...Read the rest of this review - 2/8/2004
Tim Steen (4 out of 5)
New England is another solid entry in the German board game market. It's got everything a game needs: a clever mechanism, a good auction phase, opportunities to build fun little bits--it's all there!
And it works very well. The clever mechanism in this case is that whatever amount you bid, that is the same amount you pay to take your turn. And since you can make up to 2 turns, bidding high means losing a lot of money. It's a simple mechanic that works really well. The other trick is that there is too much to do, and not enough resources to do it in. If you buy a piece of land, you have to decide whether to turn that land into points, or to save it for building something else that isn't d
...Read the rest of this review - 1/31/2004
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