CompleteMartialArts.com - Star Munchkin
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List Price: $24.99
Our Price: $15.28
Your Save: $ 9.71 ( 39% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Steve Jackson Games
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Amazon Minimum Age: 192
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Toy
Brand: Steve Jackson Games
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9781556346637
Feature: Includes 168 Full Color Cards.
Is Autographed: 0
ISBN: 1556346638
Is Fragile: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Steve Jackson Games
Manufacturer: Steve Jackson Games
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 144
Model: SJG01411
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
Studio: Steve Jackson Games
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Features
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Includes 168 Full Color Cards.
Complete Stand Alone Game.
Can Be Combined With The Other Munchkin Games.
For 3-6 Players (2 Can Play, But More is Better).
Playing Time: About an Hour.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Munchkins are back--but now they're in space! Now they're Mutants, Androids, and Cat People. They grabbing Lasers, Vibroswords, Nova Grenades, fighting Fanged Fuzzballs, Bionic Bimbos, and the Brain In A Jar. This is a complete game using the best-selling Munchkin rules (with a few new twists like Sidekicks). This game be combined with Munchkin! And, of course, it features the twisted humor of Steve Jackson and the wacky cartoons of John Kovalic. Star Munchkin comes with 168 cards, rules, and die. For 3 to 6 players. The game takes about an hour to play.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun for a group
Comment: This game is more fun the more players you have. It is fully compatible with all the other Munchkin games.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Forgiving version
Comment: Star Munchkin was the first Munchkin game I've played. I would say it's much more forgiving and not as broken in comparison with some of the other Munchkins. It's your standard card game D&D sandbox. Lots of parodying and silliness. Definitely for players that like to collaborate and backstab people. Some strategy involved, but largely luck and ganging up on people.
I think it has a lot of replay value and can be pretty fun. Just like in a MMO, you collect items and fight battles. Not a very unusual game which I would normally rate at three stars, but the high replay value makes me give it an extra star. Note these cards are basically normal playing cards, so they will get worn and damaged like normal playing cards.
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Summary: Possibly the best of the series...
Comment: Like the others of the Munchkin Series, Star Munchkin features wacky and lovable art while lampooning roleplaying games and gamers. Obviously the most distinctive feature of the game is its science fiction-oriented comedy. The art and flavor text of the cards take jabs not only at Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Gallactica, Red Dwarf and others, but also at general science fiction themes.
Game play is slightly friendlier than the original Munchkin. The traps and class abilities of the original allow for much more fierce competition, a dynamic that is somewhat muted in Star Munchkin. Despite my love of sci-fi, the mechanic of the game that has made this my favorite is the "-aser weapons." We're familiar with lasers, and phasers, but Star Munchkin has allowed us guns that are razors, spraysers, masers, dasers, and so on. Any weapon ending in "-aser" can be combined with any other weapon ending in "-aser" allowing the bonuses to stack. This is worth several laughs around the table when you are wielding a "maser-daser-shmaser-bobaser-banannafanafofaser-laser."
Star Munchkin is great game play for anyone who enjoys either science fiction or roleplaying. Everyone else may enjoy the fun of the game, but will likely miss the genre specific jokes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Game from an award winning Series!!!!!
Comment: Munchkin won best original game in 2001. And Star Muchkin (The game you are looking at) won it in 2002. And Munchkin Fu won in 2003!!! (Do I have to say anything else!???) Out of the 3 I'd say Star Munchkin is my least favorite. I didn't say I didn't like it though. I still LOVE this game just not as much as Munchkin and Fu. But w/ the Star Munchkin expansion it is even better w/ even more laughs. I would recommend all or any of these games to anyone!!!
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Summary: My least favorite version
Comment: This is a very subjective review.
The game system is pretty much the same as all the other Munchkin games. Get to level 10, get the treasure, stab your buddy etc...
The only reason for the lower than usual review is I'm not enamored with the genre, sort of like Munchkin bites, it's just not my kind of theme. If outer space antics are your style then you will enjoy this game much more than I did.
My son has Every verison of Munchkin (except blender) and this and Munchkin bites are the two I pass up whenever possible.
The game likely deserves another star but I just don't enjoy it enough to give it.
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