Reiner Knizia's Modern Art: The Card Game app good for
Ver y happy to rediscuter this gamme i use d to play years ago.
Like most Reiner Knizias games, this one is entertaining. Reasonably easy to learn, with a clean interface, Ive been passing a good few hours with it already. Perhaps a little less depth than some of his other games, but fun nonetheless.
This is an interesting game that requires quite a bit of strategy to win. The graphics are good enough, as in the other games by the same developer, but he should definitely start adding multiplayer to his games.
Worthwhile adaptation of the board game. Barring a couple of weird end-of-game bugs, its pretty good, if dated.
Some bad moments
This is NOT an adaptation of the Modern Art game where the players bid for cards in various types of auctions! It just looks like it, because its actually based on that games much less popular cousin. Dont get burned like I did!
Modern art was reworked and released as Masters Gallery it was basically the same game but there is no auctioning. I like that version better as there are better auction games out there. This version concentrates on the card playing which, to me, is where the fun is. I always thought that the auction mechanic in Modern Art took away from what was otherwise a fun card game. I am happy to see that they used the streamlined version in this app. Im sure there will be people who know Modern Art and will be mad that there are no auctions (maybe they will add that option in an update) but I am super pleased with the app as is. It is a great little card game, is easy to learn and has a high replay value. Now if they would release Lost Cities I would be in card heaven.
Although Id only played the auction variant I like this version for its speed. Im very impressed with Skotos ability to put out great card games. Take note other devs!!
Gamecenter could make this perfection, but in game help makes this easy to learn.
I had a bit of trepidation trying this, as Modern Art is my all-time-favourite board game, and knowing that they changed the auction rules (the core of the game) worried me.
Well, its certainly not the original, but the new rules are actually an improvement in my opinion-- things flow very quickly, and while you may lose some of the tension of the originals bidding strategy, it more than makes up for it by the fact that you cant get screwed by not getting the right double-auction cards. That, and you can finish a game in a couple of minutes!
All in all, its quite faithful to the game-theory spirit of the card game, but with some interesting new decision points and decidedly faster play. Yet another winner from Skotos...
I didnt know about this new version of Modern Art and I like it. The original had an auction mechanism to get cards and it melts your brain. This plays much faster and retains all the good stuff of playing your cards right to jockey artists into position for scoring. The nuance comes in timing your plays so you can get maximum value from your cards as artists wax and wane in popularity.
The implementation here is very good. The rules could be explained a bit better but youll figure it out after a couple of plays (and reading the rules!).
Wish list:
1. Please make it WAY more obvious visually when our card play is out of turn (i.e. when triggered by opponents play). In the haste of fast play I often dont notice when Im playing a card thats not my turn and lose the special effect of a card. Either make the current player indicator WAY more obvious or otherwise signal that the card were about to play is out of turn.
2. I often have to tap the Play button several times before it works. It visually reflects a tap (button looks pushed) but nothing happens. Please improve the response.
3. Please make the current round indicator more obvious. How about a line of circles with the round numbers in them and the current is highlighted. Gives a linear visual cue as to progression in addition to just a number.
Everything about this game is near perfect for the ipad, except one big one. The game crashes a lot. It frequently crashes in the middle of a game and then will not allow you to continue. It also takes two tries to load the game and get it to play. The first try crashes. Otherwise, the implementation of this game is superb and the game is a lot if fun to play. Fix the crashing and Ill raise the rating. Its pretty frustrating as is. (Ive tried to reboot the iPad and it still crashes.)
