Risk is a game board produced by the Parker brothers since the 1950′s. It was conceptualized by a French film director named Albert Lamorisse and one of his colleagues contacted the Parker Brothers to have the game published.
It has a very simple objective that will take about 6 to 8 hours or even more to achieve. All the players need to do is conquer the opposing player’s territories by eliminating all their armies on the mapthrough attacking opponents’ territories. The winner of the game is decided when all armies of the opposing players are eliminated from the map. In simpler terms, what the players need to do is to conquer the whole world.
This game is very much a favorite of game board enthusiasts. Becuase of this, the Parker Brothers, which is now a subsidiary of the Hasbro Company, has produced variants of the game. The company has produced and manufactured variants of Risk with different scenarios and even different territories. There are Risk board games where you have to conquer the moon or some underwater territory or just Europe. This is one classic game that will continue to prosper and will continue to produce various scenarios and maps.
In fact, Risk is considered to be one of the most played war game in history. To think that this game has survived since the 1950′s is a testament to its interesting, fun and stimulating game play features.
Since the board game is actually a strategic and tactical game, and since there are a lot of strategy games produced for on-line and computer gamings, the publishers of the game has decided to produce this very same game as a computer/on-line strategy game.
Risk is a game that could be enjoyed by every man, woman and child over ten years old. This is the perfect game for friends and family during during family reunions or when hanging out.