Franchise Wars

Franchise Wars sounds like a strategy game about competing brands, and that is about as much certainty as the name allows. By our assessment, the title points to conflict and management, but without clearer public substance there is no reason to pretend it is more specific than that. The likely appeal of a game like this would be planning, rivalry, and systems-heavy play; the obvious risk is vagueness, because names like this can cover a lot of very different designs. It sits in the broad territory of strategy and competition games, where the real question is whether the mechanics give the concept any shape. Right now the name does the main work, and that is all a short honest card can safely say.