Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3420 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Hasbro

Manufacturer's Description
Face off in this classic battle of Good vs Evil! Your favourite characters from the Star Wars have come together for the ultimate encounter. Yoda and Obi-Wan stand side-by-side against the powers of Darth Sidious and General Grievous. The Force is strong with Anakin Skywalker, but which side will he choose? Use the Force to seek out and battle your enemy. If you can find and capture your opponent's Lightsaber, you will control the galaxy. Play the classic Stratego rules or use special powers to add to the strategy. Recreate battles featuring characters from the latest movies or use classic ones from the original trilogy. Combine both trilogies to create the ultimate battle that is the Star Wars saga.

Customer Reviews

Give it a chance!
I'm a Risk fan, but don't get many opportunities to play. I find this version to be a fun and fascinating variation. It integrates very well with the movie theme and provides a dramatic twist where one side gets to automatically take random territories at a certain point in the game. ( It's order 66 if you remember that from SW Episode III. )

The rules are pretty well laid out and easy to understand if you already know the risk rules. All the new rules are all in blue so you can skim quickly through them. If you aren't familiar with Risk, I recommend skipping all the blue rules to play a classic game first. Just keep in mind that it will be more fun with all the rules.

Some new variations from the original include:
1. Cards with special thematic actions you can take for an advantage
2. Powerful Anakin cards which become useless to the republic player after Order 66.
3. The ability to turn in collected cards for space ships that lend bonuses to your rolls (for instance, roll an 8-sided die rather than a 6 or re-roll any ones.)
4. Special thematic characters that the Republic can catch (and the separatists have to hide) to earn bonus cards.
5. The dramatic Order 66 dynamic which gives the Seperatists a chance to convert territories (and armies) to their side. The longer they can hold out against the card advantage of the Republic the more damage they can do.
6. A two player game is actually fun unlike most other Risk variations.

The low point of Star Wars Risk: Clone Wars is the ugly, ugly board. You might expect something gorgeous since it's based on such a visually oriented movie franchise, but the board is definitely function over form. At least it doesn't get in the way of the game play.

I highly recommend this game to Risk fans as a more dramatic and shorter variation. After playing a few times and when everyone gets the rules, you might even get in a game in under 3 hours. That's very short for Risk.

For those who compare variations, I find the theme and artistry of the Lord of the Rings variation to be far superior and it introduced some of the game play ideas that this game use. However, I find Star Wars Risk: Clone Wars to be much more fun overall.

I've heard that the more complicated "hardcore" variations of Risk like Godstorm and 2210 A.D. are better games, but I haven't played those.

Later this year (2006), there is supposed to be a Risk game based on the Original Trilogy of Star Wars movies. I'm very much looking forward to that.

Starwars Risk
Bought this for my son (5 years old) who is a mad Starwars fan. I have never played the original Risk, but this one is a lot of fun and ties in with the films really well. We had to play the game twice before my son and I fully understood the rules.

Excellent for his maths as i make him work out the scores, troop numbers etc.

Only gripe is the length of the games, normally it takes about 4 hours to complete a game. Still better he spends 4 hours on this than his XBox or PSP.

Well we liked it!
I bought this on behalf of my 10 year old who loves Star Wars stuff and he loves this game. It did not take too long to understand the rules, especially if you know the story of star Wars 3. It would appeal to anyone who likes strategy games.