X3F TV -- XBLA in Brief: Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 25th 2008 at 7:00PM }

This week, XBLA in Brief takes on Happy Tree Friends and Ticket to Ride. One of them is a pretty good board game about building railroads. The other one is a weird game that doesn't really seem to take advantage of the cartoon upon which it's based. We'll let you figure out which one is which.

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Tags: days-of-wonder, happy-tree-friends, next-level-games, playful, playful-entertainment, sega, stainless, stainless-games, ticket-to-ride, x3f-tv, xbla, xbla-in-brief, xbox-live-arcade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RockerAnimeFreak @ Jun 25th 2008 8:30PM

how do you guys capture video feeds off of the 360? =/ and nice review might consider getting HTF for some demented fun...

Momer @ Jun 25th 2008 9:06PM

They use a video capture card. They're not very expensive these days and you can get one easily off TigerDirect.

Mike Schramm @ Jun 25th 2008 9:08PM

All aboard the awesometrain!

SoxFan13 @ Jun 25th 2008 10:17PM

I played Ticket to Ride for about 90 minutes today. It is difficult to describe why it's good, but it is. I haven't tried the local multiplayer-- I can't quite figure how that works when you don't want anyone to know which routes you have? Is there anyone who's tried local multi yet?

Richard Mitchell @ Jun 26th 2008 12:20AM

From what I can tell, local doesn't work in the trial. I was curious about how that worked too.

stinger503 @ Jun 26th 2008 2:22AM

I've tried it and they do give away your cards and destinations. However it just requires different strategies and was still tons of fun.

derektgreen @ Jun 25th 2008 10:24PM

Great review. Gonna go get myself that train game.

Seanross @ Jun 25th 2008 11:36PM

I expected to hate Ticket to Ride and like Happy Tree Friends. How wrong I was... whoever developed HTF missed a golden opportunity. I plan on spending my points on TTR.

Digital Limit @ Jun 26th 2008 2:34AM

So, uh, what are the strategies in Ticket to Ride? Is there trading, can you block routes, or what kind of player interaction is there?

Richard Mitchell @ Jun 26th 2008 8:32AM

You can't trade cards, but you *can* block routes. I haven't played much but I can tell you it's pretty annoying to have your route blocked off after you've already built most of it.

You only have a limited number of trains too, which means finding your way around a block can be costly.

Digital Limit @ Jun 26th 2008 3:38PM

Thanks a lot. I love Catan, so I'm tempted to at least give it a shot despite my initial impressions being that it's a bit too simple (both in theme and execution).

ccc @ Jun 26th 2008 5:43AM

Carcasonne was enough for me and it was a great game. I'll pass on these releases.
Instead I picked up Xevious and Dig Dug bringing my arcade total up to 66 games....Yay.

Tyr1n @ Jun 26th 2008 8:21AM

Thnx for saving me 800 msp :-D

i was going to buy htf, but NOT anymore!

Dadidito @ Jun 26th 2008 9:30AM

My wife and I played local multiplayer all night yesterday. It was great. You can block routes to the point of effectively sticking someone with a destination card or cards. Its really amazing how it sucked away our night. I am really happy we jumped on this one. Cataan i like but no local so thats a no, I have carcasonne and lost cities just couldn't get into it. Waiting to see what game they come with next.