The Complaints in Spain Stay Mainly in Pandemic Iberia

As I noted in April 2016, Z-Man Games plans to hold the 2016 Pandemic Survival World Championship in Barcelona, Spain, and in an entirely not coincidental turn of events, Z-Man will also release a special version of Pandemic to coincide with that event. Here's an overview of Pandemic Iberia, coming from designers Jesús Torres Castro — editor of the Spanish gaming blog Jugamos Tod@s — and original Pandemic designer Matt Leacock:

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Welcome to the Iberian Peninsula! Set in 1848, Pandemic Iberia asks you to take on the roles of nurse, railwayman, rural doctor, sailor, and more to find the cures to malaria, typhus, the yellow fever, and cholera.

From Barcelona to Lisboa, you will need to travel by carriage, by boat, or by train to help the Iberian populace. While doing so, distributing purified water and developing railways will help you slow the spread of diseases in this new version of Pandemic.

Discover a unique part of the world during a historically significant time period: the construction of the first railroad in the Iberian Peninsula during the Spring of Nations.

Z-Man Games notes that Pandemic Iberia, due out Q4 2016, is a "Collector's Edition" and as such it "will have a one-time only print run". The publisher has also released this teaser video that highlights a few differences of this design from the original game: