Carcassonne DS ports the Xbox Live puzzle game to Nintendo handheld
Board game fans will be glad to hear that Carcassonne from Xbox Live Arcade is heading to the DS thanks to Koch Media.
Carcassonne for DS will contain the entire main game as well as the River expansion. The adaptation is true to the original, but with three new locations: the Asian, Arabic, and Nordic worlds.
Three different game modes are also available: The Story mode features numerous exciting levels and a gripping storyline. In the so-called Quick game, players get to determine the number and strength of AI opponents for the next match. And in Multiplayer mode, both Single-Card Play and Multi-Card Play are available for Nintendo DS owners and their friends via DS Wireless Communications.
In Carcassonne, players place tiles to form a landscape with cities, cloisters, roads, and fields. Turn for turn, they expand the playing field according to specific rules, adding more and more terrain tiles. With their followers, players keep expanding their influence on the various areas in order to gain victory points. Followers can be used as knights or thieves, farmers or monks – depending on the environment where they are placed. For example, a game token will represent a knight in a city, and a farmer in the field. Successful captures give the player more points, but the final outcome is only decided at the very end. The player who scores the most points then is the sovereign of Carcassonne.
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