Rather, the closest inspiration for Risk: Star Wars Edition is probably The Queen’s Gambit, a classic (2000) original design Star Wars game set during The Phantom Menace. (There have been Risk Star Wars games in the past that hewed to the original Risk model – this just isn’t one of them). Indeed, while a name like “Risk Star Wars” may lead one to believe that this is Risk with a Star Wars theme, it has pretty much nothing in common with Risk beyond the presence of five six-sided dice (which are not used in the same way as Risk dice). While Loopin’ Chewie is a re-skin of an existing game, Risk: Star Wars Edition is not. So you’ll have to decide whether your kids will get that much more of a kick out of Star Wars. But what about Loopin’ Chewie compared to Loopin’ Louie? Other than the attraction of the Star Wars license, Loopin’ Chewie is, while great for kids in its own right, pretty much inferior to the original, which permitted four players (instead of three), features a Louie figure that’s better done than Chewie, and with retails for less than the Star Wars version. My five-year-old has loved it, and while the two-year-old doesn’t understand what’s going on and can’t really play, they still have a lot of fun watching Chewie fly around and mashing the lever. Loopin’ Chewie is firmly in the kids’ game camp, but it’s done very well at my house in that role. Failing to keep Chewie at bay will result in a stormtrooper being knocked down, and the last player with a trooper left wins. Depending on how the spacecraft is hit, it will go a little bit over the troopers, fly way up to come down at some indeterminate point in the future, or (for maximum entertainment value) possibly do some flips in the process. Hit the lever and the right time, and the Falcon will pop up and over the stormtroopers. Each player is attempting to protect their own base and cadre of stormtroopers from the menacing Wookie. A purely dexterity game, the main draw of Loopin’ Chewie is that the motor at the center of the game will flies Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon around. Loopin’ Chewie is close to a straight-up re-skin of Loopin’ Louie. Loopin’ Chewie and Risk: Star Wars Edition are both available in mass market stores, but both have roots in games that have some real following among more serious hobby gamers – Loopin’ Louie and The Queen’s Gambit. One of the games I’m looking at today falls in the first category, one falls in the second, and – lucky for me – neither of them falls into the third. Some of them are new games, some of them are re-skins of existing games, and some of them are pretty obviously terrible – but some of them are pretty good! Tabletop gaming has (thankfully) not been immune to this phenomenon, with a variety of specialty and mass market Star Wars games released in 2015, with more scheduled for 2016. The crescendo of hype leading up to the release of The Force Awakens ( a wave we here at Strange Assembly have taken part in) has included Star Wars branded versions of pretty much every product imaginable.
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