Here I Stand Review

Before commencing with this review, I wanted to spend a moment dwelling on why I'm writing it. As a general rule of thumb I only write reviews for actual review copies but there are exceptions: games that I think have been criminally under- or over-rated and, in one case, because a game was a gift from a friend and they specifically asked me to. But I can think of no more compelling reason to write a review - actually a whole bunch of reviews - than to celebrate GMT Games' fantastic generosity to gamers who've fallen on hard times during the global recession, offering not only free copies of games but huge extra discounts in their yearly sale. There's little I've seen during my years of gaming that better highlights the incredible spirit of kindness and camaraderie that permeates the board gaming community, and after being a beneficiary of the scheme myself, I felt GMT deserved the spotlight for a bit. So, in recognition of their outstanding services to their customers, over the next few months I plan to review every GMT game I own. Unfortunately I already did the Twilight Struggle Deluxe edition a few weeks back: it's my favourite game and if you've not read the review or played the game I urge you to go read it. Next on the list is the multiplayer card-driven game Here I Stand.