Hasbro's Risk and its focus on Europe
Risk is a board game that allows its players to control certain parts of the world and fight other players via game pieces for control of different regions. This is a fun strategy game that I myself have played several times. Something that I never took into consideration, though was the Euro-centricity throughout the entire game. It is known or can be assumed that the game is inspired by some of the themes in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The most direct relation that is important is the constant fighting for ownership and control over the land and people in different regions, with the goal to take over the world. The map for the game is just a regular map of the world but dividing the continents sans Antarctica into 42 regions. We can already begin to see the game placing a focus on European areas with the number of armies each continent gets. South America get two and Africa gets three, while North America and Europe both get 5. Asia tops it off at 7, but that is be...