Play Risk on Facebook
Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 22nd, 2007 11:41 AMRemeber the classic board game, “Risk?” I used to be a huge fan. Eric Schiermeyer and Mark Pincus have developed a seriously addictive multiplayer version of the game called “Attack!” Similar to online poker, there is a game staging area where you can pick what game you would like to join as well as view which of your friends are currently playing in a game.
The first time I played this game I lost pretty bad. Apparently there are some other people on Facebook that are experts at this game. While I thought I may be one of them, I definitely am not. Apparently the key to this game is to join a game and then invite 20 of your friends. As soon as you send the invites you will receive 20 armies and can rampage through the other territories.
The only thing lacking from this game is the ability to private message people. Once they add that, this game is going to remain as one of the more entertaining games on Facebook. I already lost once and now I want to go play again! If you are a big fan of Risk, go check out the Attack application.
(31 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)
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October 22nd, 2007 at 6:34 pm
[...] - As I reviewed this morning, Attack is a online multiplayer version of the classic game of Risk. Given that I used [...]
November 10th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
This is probably my new favorite app. I was also a big fan of the classic board game, but I always hated how long it took sometimes because the game would drag on toward the end when so many armies were attacking each other and you had to figure out each dice roll. The dice rolls are calculated automatically in this app so the game moves along a lot quicker. I love it. I can play several games in just one sitting.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
This is probably my new favorite app. I was also a big fan of the classic board game, but I always hated how long it took sometimes because the game would drag on toward the end when so many armies were attacking each other and you had to figure out each dice roll. The dice rolls are calculated automatically in this app so the game moves along a lot quicker. I love it. I can play several games in just one sitting.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
[...] were only 39 active daily users yesterday. A far cry from the close to 60,000 users playing the Attack! application. So what do Facebook users want to do when they are logged into the site? They either want to check [...]
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:36 am
A good attempt on providing Risk for the masses, but unfortunately it is by no means as capable as most of the popular online Risk games available. They also have strange rules, such as lack of fortification, missing border links in the classic Risk map and no options to control the time limits imposed on players while playing the game.
Good luck to those who like it, but it is really only useful for those who have never played Risk online before and have just found out that they can play their childhood games! So go for it, Risk is truly a great game.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
A good attempt on providing Risk for the masses, but unfortunately it is by no means as capable as most of the popular online Risk games available. They also have strange rules, such as lack of fortification, missing border links in the classic Risk map and no options to control the time limits imposed on players while playing the game.
Good luck to those who like it, but it is really only useful for those who have never played Risk online before and have just found out that they can play their childhood games! So go for it, Risk is truly a great game.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:12 am
I too play the online RISK game on Facebook. There are people there who just play and play and play, and they have a huge amount of armies. Where do these people come from, and how do they find the time? I mean, there are literally hundreds of them. Are they fake?
December 15th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I too play the online RISK game on Facebook. There are people there who just play and play and play, and they have a huge amount of armies. Where do these people come from, and how do they find the time? I mean, there are literally hundreds of them. Are they fake?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:18 am
The problem with the Attack game in Facebook is the FREEZE GLITCH.
This enables players who are bad losers to freeze the game for everyone playing on that board. The game then has no winner, or pretty much the last man not quitting wins, as far as I know. But play stops immediately.
I don’t know how they do it, all I know is that it has something to do with placing an army in Quuensland in Australia.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am
The problem with the Attack game in Facebook is the FREEZE GLITCH.
This enables players who are bad losers to freeze the game for everyone playing on that board. The game then has no winner, or pretty much the last man not quitting wins, as far as I know. But play stops immediately.
I don’t know how they do it, all I know is that it has something to do with placing an army in Quuensland in Australia.
August 30th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
im good!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Also check out http://www.conquerclub.com … it's pretty awsome for Risk and includes a ton of different maps and different playing modes. Highly recommended!
September 19th, 2008 at 4:37 am
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September 19th, 2008 at 4:50 am
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September 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
This is a good app.. sometimes slow on FB. A lot of us on facebook have also started playing on a different site.. http://www.strategygamenetwork