by grey_wolf
The one thing that puts me off even considering purchasing this game is the awful overall graphic design. It is not the card art, that looks pretty good. But the things that are put on the table!? In all of the videos about this game that I've seen, everyone was really excited about the game, and yet I could only stare at the various tables and think: "BORING!"The game board is utterly bland: a huge, huge area - grey in grey. It is basically just some mostly featureless huge texture (the few features being in darker shades of grey and one dark reddish blotch). It basically looks like the rockcrete field from Blood Bowl. This impression is reinforced by the M/W logo in the center of the board. Who comes up with something like this for a setting like this? Yeah, What would have been so bad with a slightly more colourful/interesting game board? Chalk scribblings? I get the arena thing, but it could have been done in a much less humdrum manner.
On the other hand, the things that are colourful are really garish. In particular: the card back in flashing crimson/yellow, the orange and yellow dice...? It looks like an afterthought counterpoint to the drab board. The overall impression is that of an uninspired game board that is beefed up by specks of bright colours that leap out at you, but in a really bad way.
If this game will sell as well as the current hype suggests, please, please, please consider a revision of the overall colour scheme for the 2nd edition.