Looking for your next game to keep you family occupied this spring? Gamemaker Usaopoly has a recently released board game for fans of Bruce Willis’s John McClane and the Die Hard franchise. It’s the Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist Board Game. While you’re sheltering at home (you’re doing that, right?) you can order the game from two good sources we found: Amazon here and Entertainment Earth here. Bookmark this link to Entertainment Earth for future reference, because as Amazon reprioritizes shipments, it may be the quickest shipping method for the coming months for all your game and toy purchases.
The Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist Board Game is a one-versus-one, two, or three players game of stealth, combat, and action-tactics, following the story of the original Die Hard film. The game has several components and plays out with cards and tokens in a sequence of three acts. One player is John McClane and the rest play thieves, moving through Nakatomi Plaza, while the thieves try to stop him and break into the vault. Thieves proceed to break six locks to get to the seventh level, when the FBI breaks in. McClane must complete objectives to get to each new level.
Players have shoot and punch attack actions, and McClane sneaks around the board–yep, walking through glass. Thieves get “line of sight” to draw blood (not “first” blood, that’s a different movie). Thieves get reinforcements, and McClane can get radio support. The game ends when McClane dies, the thieves break into the vault, or McClane kills Hans Gruber.
The game is for 2 to 4 players, suggested for ages 15 and up. It has a learning curve, so utilize the Geek & Sundry video resources first to help ease in to your first gameplay.
Character images and tokens aren’t photo-real, but they are close enough to pull players into the spirit of the classic Christmas hit movie.
Geek & Sundry has a quick video with a set-up and how-to-play preview for the game here.
Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist Board Game is available now.
C.J. Bunce
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