PANDEMIC (English language version)

'Pandemic' is a cooperative board game designed by Matt Leacock and published by Z-Man games in 2008. 'Pandemic' is based on the premise that four diseases have broken out in the world, each  one threatening to wipe out a region.. The game accommodates 2 -4 players, each playing one of six specialist roles: dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations specialist or quarantine specialist.

The game is unlike most board games in that the game play depends upon cooperation rather than competition. Thus through the combined efforts of all players, the goal is to discover all four cures before any of several game-losing conditions are reached.

'Pandemic is considered one of the most successful cooperative games that has reached mainstream market sales, condensing the type of deep strategy offered by earlier cooperative games into a game that can be played in a limited time by a wider range of players

(Source: Wikipedia)