In Mission: Red Planet, you head a mining corporation financing an ultra-secret project: the exploration of the Marian underground. Spaceships are ready for take off. You have recruited the best specialists in all areas of expertise: recruiters, scientists, and even saboteurs. Everybody knows that this will be a difficult venture: you will need to lay down the best strategy and rely on the finest intelligence. Watch out for meteorite fields, mining incidents, radioactive rocks and your competitors…

Mission: RED PLANET is a majority control game, a character selection games, and an exploration game, with a balanced mix of bluffing and strategy.

In order to charter shuttles to Mars and take control of the regions where the most interesting minerals will be found, you'll have to make the best use of your nine characters' powers.

• The Recruiter is hiring new space adventurers by allowing the recycling of the characters you already play,
  
• The Explorer allow you to move up to 3 of your astronaut on Mars,
  
• The Scientist can make mysterious discoveries,
  
• The Secret Agent can force the launch of a rocket,
  
• The Saboteur can blow a rocket up before it leaves the launch pad,
  
• The Femme Fatale can replace an enemy astronaut with one of yours anywhere you already have at least one,
  
• The Travel Agent allow you to place 3 astronauts in a rocket,
  
• The Soldier can kill an enemy astronaut on Mars,
  
• The Pilot can change a shuttle's destination.

Contents: 1 game board, 20 destination tiles, 13 resources tiles, 70 point markers, 24 events cards, 34 shuttle cards, 5 sets of 22 astronaut tokens in 5 different colors, 5 sets of 9 character cards in 5 different colors, 1 turn marker, 1 medal. Box size approximately 27 x 27 x 8cm

3 - 5 players
Ages 10 & up
Playing time: 60 minutes
Publisher: Asmodee
Authors: Bruno Cathala & Bruno Faidutti