Spotted Online – Crysis Series Boardgame Coming in 2013

Purple Pawn has the story, but it all boils down to a new boardgame coming next year from Queen Games. Based on the video game series, the Crysis Analog Edition follows earlier “computer game to boardgame” titles in an attempt to translate the digital action to the tabletop.

As someone who has done exactly that sort of work before — Frag, first published in 2001, translated the feel of first-person shooters to the tabletop — I can say that there are challenges to that sort of high-concept game design. But, if you can pull it off, it can be a lot of fun to watch people get into the game and have a blast rolling dice and blowing away friends. Hopefully Queen Games has good luck with their upcoming game.

Seemingly continuing the video-to-board-game trend, Queen Games will be releasing Crysis: Analog Edition in March of 2013. That’s 1 month after Crysis 3 comes out for Windows, Xbox360, and Playstation 3.