 A city screams in terror. A cooperative game against the world's most famous monsters. The village is under attack. Dracula, the mummy, Frankenstein's monster, his bride and more are on the rampage and your team of heroes must defeat them. Each monster offers an entirely unique challenge and players can adjust the difficulty by playing against a new group of adversaries every game. Overcome them all before the horror overwhelms this is horrified universal monsters. If you grew up on the universal monsters like I had then you would understand how awesome it was to find this at my local Walmart. One day my wife and I were browsing the toy aisles and I was looking for at the board games as I usually do to see if there's anything that you know popped my interest and right off the bat this was sitting on the shelf and it was like it contained this aura that just drew me to it. As you can see here the stakes have been raised horrified on the front cover you've got Dracula you've got the bride of Frankenstein's monster Frankenstein's monster the creature from the black lagoon the mummy the wolf man and the invisible man you can play one to five players ages 10 and up I watched a few videos on how to play this game and it doesn't look too complicated it almost seems like it's similar to back to the future of the back-and-time board game we'll be playing it later this evening and then I'll return with my review of the ease in which the game is played and then the rules the instructions how easy they are to understand let's just take a second to appreciate this artwork on the front I really love the colors they used on this it really looks like there's fire light from fire shining on them it's just incredible artwork really makes me wish that Universal's dark universe had gotten off the ground I watched the the new the mummy movie a few weeks ago it was okay they didn't really do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde very very well they didn't really stay true to the book for that I didn't really like Tom Cruise's character that much in it it needed a better story but we'll go into that for another time growing up my cousin had the just about the entire collection of Universal's monsters figures they were I want to say they were like eight to twelve inch tall pretty much solid plastic I think the arms might have moved but I can't remember uh it's been so long since I saw them but I always remember playing with them anytime I'd go over to their house so let's go and take a look at the side of the box and as you can see on this side of the box we have Universal monsters horrified and we have the Bride of Frankenstein's monster with some villagers inside her her head there and then we'll flip it over the creature from the black lagoon on this side with a nice swampy type area inside his head we have the wolf man as you can see his these trees kind of look like his fur and then the full moon makes it look like his eye that's pretty cool and then we've got Frankenstein's monster now on the back if we flip it back over so on the back as you can see it says one to five players they just 10 and up 60 minutes is about how long it should take to play the game so here's here's the game board we have some I think action cards I want to say the cards for each monster here are the monstrous miniatures there villager cards and then hero cards so let's go ahead and open the box up and we'll take a look at the pieces individually so first thing you want to do when you open this up is there are four tabs they're just plastic tape tabs cut on all four sides and then there we go as you can see here on this side we've got Frankenstein's monster and the Bride of Frankenstein's monster pieced together from human corpses and reanimated by electrical means Frankenstein's monster will use his immense power to protect himself and his soulmate at any cost both beautiful and terrifying the bride shares her groom's sinister and unnatural origin dangerously confused and alone her inner rage can only be tempered by love an Egyptian high priest buried alive and brought back to life through an ancient life-giving scroll the mummy will stop at nothing as he seeks the reincarnated soul of his beloved the undead vampire Dracula rises from his coffin each night to feed on the blood of his victims using his charm and hypnotic abilities to ensnare them an ancient amphibious species long thought extinct the creature haunts the murky waterways looking for his next victim to drag to the chilly depths the once brilliant chemist driven mad by a potion that renders him invisible the invisible man stealthily stalks through the village unseen with an insatiable lust for power cursed by the bite of a changeling in wolf form the wolf man is helplessly driven by his savage animal instincts to hunt down his prey so there's each of the bios for the monsters now here we have the instruction book which we'll be using throughout this video to name each each piece on them on the game we have the game board six monster mats six or seven monster figures 60 item tokens 10 villager movers seven hero movers seven hero badges one frenzy marker one terror marker one item bag three dice 30 monster cards 20 perk cards five reference cards we have one boat a camp overlay four coffins one frankenstein dial one bride dial one precinct overlay one laboratory overlay one cure one hunted emblem one museum overlay one soul sign six scarabs so there's the instruction manual we'll go ahead and set that off to the side for right now here's the board let's take a moment to read that we feel it would be a little unkind to present this game without just a word of friendly warning you're about to unfold one of the strangest tales ever told we think it will thrill you it may shock you it might even horrify you so if any of you feel that you don't that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain now is your chance to well you were warned we'll go ahead and move this off to the side for a minute while we open the board up and take a look all right so i'm not sure how well you can see this it fills up more of the screen than i would like all right so up here is the terror level track uh if the token reaches the skull before you clear all the monsters off the board then your team loses the instruction said this should take about an hour to play now you can travel as a hero you can travel along these cobblestone roads you cannot travel the waterways the waterways are meant for the creature from the black lagoon and generally there are items you can pick up along the way whenever you reach certain areas you use your turn to collect the items so that's all i'm gonna go into on the board itself let's go ahead and take a look at some of the items here we have the monster deck and this is the perk deck you can tell them apart because the perk deck is like a creamy white color and the monster deck is a black color all right so here are the overlays we have the camp which let's go ahead and move these cards all the way see we have the camp which goes right here we have the laboratory which goes here we have the precinct which goes here and we have the museum which goes here all right so we have the hero badges for this game you can either play as the inspector the professor and Marianne here on Gilligan's uh the archaeologist the mayor we have a scientist we have the explorer and we have the courier so here we have the terror marker and that will go up here on the terror level tracker and as i said as we go along the terror marker will travel along here until it reaches there and then you lose so we'll put that back at zero for now so here we have the hero pieces we have the mayor and as you can see you put the red stand you match the stand to the color of the background so the mayor is red so she gets the red stand and we'll go ahead and just put her we'll put her at the precinct for right now we have the professor purple background so purple stand and he will go in the institute the explorer and green background green stand so we'll go ahead and put her see where do we want to put her um we'll go and put her in the crypt right the inspector which actually she should probably go in the precinct uh the mayor should probably go in the mayor in the mansion we have the scientist blue black blue background blue stand and she will go in the laboratory the courier here pink background pink stand and he will go let's see here we'll put him at the shop and then we have the archaeologist yellow background yellow stand and i think he would go best at the museum and we have one boat and that'll go on the waterfront we also have villager pieces no one actually plays as the villagers but when each hero reaches the villagers they can use one of their actions to bring the villagers along with them so here we have elizabeth and she belongs in the tower so let's see where is right there's the tower we have dr cranley who belongs at the precinct we have dr reid who belongs at the camp and as you can see these villager pieces get the clear stand we have malet maliva who belongs at the shop we have fritz the hunchback who belongs at the institute we have professor pierson who belongs at the museum we have lucy who belongs at the mansion we have wilbur and chick who belongs in the dungeon we have rheinfeld who belongs at the hospital there and we have maria who belongs at the camp we also have this frenzy marker which i think once this hits it gives off the monsters frenzy attack or whatever so for right now we're just going to put that on the bridge so here we have draculas coffins and there's a broken side and then an unbroken side sorry about that broken side and unbroken side one of these goes in the graveyard one let me double check this a minute so one goes in the graveyard one goes in the dungeon one goes in the crypt and one goes in the cave we also have the bag which contains the item tokens and these are just items which you can place on the board and collect as you go there's 60 item tokens here all right we have the soul sign i'm not sure exactly where that goes for right now we'll figure out whenever we play it later we have the scarab markers which there are six of those put those off to the side right now we have a cure not sure where that goes either we have the dials for frankenstein's monster and his bride which i guess can go off to the side here and we have a hunted emblem i guess this goes into play whenever uh one of the heroes becomes hunted i have not read the entire instructions yet nor have i watched the entire gameplay video but here we have three dies safe in their baggy and now we'll get into the monsters first up is frankenstein's monster the bride there she is the creature from the black lagoon looks like Dracula starts off at the laboratory i want to say the mummy starts off at the museum maybe so the each monster has his own card i should have checked this one first sorry about that guys each monster has his own card and on these cards tells where each monster goes so the creature from the black lagoon should place the creature on the board at the lagoon so the lagoon is right there okay place Dracula on the board at the crypt so he's gonna go there play frankenstein on the board at the graveyard okay place the invisible man on the board at the end so he's going to go at the end place the bride on the board at the dungeon okay where's the dungeon oh dungeon's up here yep okay and then we place the wolf man on the board at the mansion so as i said we have the creature from the black lagoon which belongs at the lagoon uh Dracula belongs in the crypt uh frankenstein at the graveyard uh his bride in the dungeon the mummy belongs at the museum and the wolf man belongs in the mansion now go and show you each of their cards as you can see the cards show where each of their weaknesses are so the coffins go in the cave the dungeon the crypt and the graveyard which is where i've got them and then the back shows what the monster set up okay so that's Dracula Dracula is seeking blood destroy his four coffins so you can subdue him dark charm place the current player's hero in Dracula's space for the mummy his uh scarabs go on there once you collect them the mummy has risen decipher the tablet so you can return him to his tomb fortify the curse flip the lowest scarab face down okay uh entomb the mummy in the mummy space use uh plus nine to defeat him at at the museum use whatever that is to move the scarabs make as many moves as the item strength frankenstein and his and the bride must be educated so they can live peacefully here comes the bride move the bride one space toward frankenstein and frankenstein's space use yellow or in the bride space use blue increase the monster's humanity by the item's strength and move the monster that many spaces so that's where their dials go right there when the monsters meet if both dials show the monster's faces they are defeated otherwise increase the terror level place frankenstein at the graveyard and place the bride at the dungeon the creature strikes from the depths locate his water retreat watery retreat so you can oust him rock the boat move the boat one space backward so the boat can travel along these waterways as well at the camp use yellow red or blue to move the boat to the next x matching the item's color in the creature space use yellow red or blue to defeat him the wolf man is tormented by his form develop an antidote and minister it to him every person in the wolf man space is hit at the laboratory place blue on a spot below that matches the item strength if all spots below are filled take the cure in the wolf man space use the cure and plus six to defeat him the invisible man has gone mad collect proof of his misdeeds so you can catch him move the invisible man two spaces toward the closest villager at the precinct place yellow red or blue on a spot below the matches that matches the item's location the invisible man space use nine plus nine to defeat him and there you have it guys there's the board setup and all the pieces to the game so we're going to take a break we're going to play the game and i'm going to return with a review of the easiness in which this game is played all right guys so my family and i played this game last night and we really liked it my kids loved it my wife liked it it took us a little longer than an hour because we had to read all the instructions and the directions and learn how to play it started off pretty rough but once we got the hang of it as things went on it was okay there were a few problems it doesn't really clarify in the instructions how to attack the monsters or what to do exactly if the monsters attack it it does say you discard a one of your items if they attack to defend yourself but it doesn't really say if it has to be a certain number attack points on the items and when you're attacking a monster like to win the game it doesn't really tell like how many attack points a certain item has to have in order to defeat the monster also we had some issues learning how to control the boat one of the one of the cards does say that you know the boat moves one space or whatever but do we use that whenever we land on that location because it is one of the location cards do we start the boat off at the dock and can one of our one of the heroes move alongside the boat and control the boat or what so it doesn't really clarify that i'm gonna have to go back i'm gonna have to watch watch some of the gameplay videos on youtube i'm going to need to reread very thoroughly the directions one thing i've found with these games is the directions could be a lot clear and a lot more in depth so we know for sure that we're playing it 100% accurately other than that is a very fun game i really enjoyed it my kids enjoyed it my wife enjoyed it we're gonna turn this into a regular family game night game so i hope you enjoyed this video we'll see you next time geeks if you enjoyed that video make sure you hit the subscribe button right there so you stay up to date on all thanks geek culture also go ahead and check out one of these two playlists on the side for more videos just like the one you just watched i'm shana for comic n tv the only place on youtube where all geek culture collides take care geeks