The Art Project

Stylish and colorful.

In this 1-5 player cooperative game you are trying to retrieve boxes stolen art across 6 different maps. Each round is pretty simple: everyone gets 2 cards and must play one which usually costs "something", puts bad guys in one or more cities, gains "something" and establishes a clue for one of the cities. Three matching clues spawns an art crate on the respective city (so 3 music clues makes it appear in "music" city) then going there (costs fuel currency), fighting the bad guys (dice roll supplemented by gun currency and radio currency). If the city has no baddies then you are free to collect the crate and get one step closer to victory (which in all maps is filling a line of crates)!

Of course its not that simple. There are only 6 of the fuel, gun and radio currency and you cannot gain more than there are available in the game. If you need to spend something you don't have it costs a heart, and if someone runs out of hearts its game over for everyone! Same if you run out of bad guy tokens or "lost city" tokens. The latter happens when 5 bad guys are in a city and survived the combat round. This seals off the city entirely and prevents movement through it which again can lose the game. 

That said its very simple once it gets going, and is fast to setup and take down and the artwork is pretty nifty too. Thumbs up!