Star Wars The Clone Wars - A Pandemic System Game

This is a good game for people who are fans of the Star Wars franchise. Players work together as Jedi masters, to save the galaxy from evil the miniatures and the little components are very well done and impressive. The artwork is good and the car quality and the quality of the board and pieces are good. Sometimes players might lose, and I think that this is probably a game best played with an adult and a child, and then afterwords the children can play on their own, but this is also a good game just for adults

The Covid-19 virus has killed some of my enthusiasm for the Pandemic system. But as a fan of the Clone Wars TV show, it is fun to try an contain the separatist movement through the galaxy.Still haven't won a game yet.

I tend not to like cooperative games, but I love Star Wars. In the case of this game, my love for the theme outweighed my natural bias against the mechanisms. The pandemic bones are clearly here, but I like what this adds to the formula. I like the straightforwardness of completing missions. The easiest way to do it is to work together, but that means no one is keeping the droids in check. The villains keep slowly turning up the heat, so being slow and methodical does not work. One of my big complaints about co-op games is when I can spend a whole turn doing stuff only to have the game undo it all. Since this is focused on completing missions, it rarely feels like that happens.The theme is where the game shines. Changing the pandemic disease cubes to droid armies ... MoreI tend not to like cooperative games, but I love Star Wars. In the case of this game, my love for the theme outweighed my natural bias against the mechanisms. The pandemic bones are clearly here, but I like what this adds to the formula. I like the straightforwardness of completing missions. The easiest way to do it is to work together, but that means no one is keeping the droids in check. The villains keep slowly turning up the heat, so being slow and methodical does not work. One of my big complaints about co-op games is when I can spend a whole turn doing stuff only to have the game undo it all. Since this is focused on completing missions, it rarely feels like that happens.The theme is where the game shines. Changing the pandemic disease cubes to droid armies works well. I like that all of the missions come straight from the Clone Wars series. While this game does not create Star Wars stories quite as well as Rebellion, it can still get fun instances like Darth Maul and Mace Windu clashing on Coruscant.I like how the first couple of turns everything feels manageable, and then by turn four it suddenly does not. This game is tense and walks the thin line that is right between "We don't have a chance" and "We can do this." Generally, I find co-op games more annoying than fun. Having missions to complete is very concrete so it feels like progress toward a goal is always possible. I think this game is especially fun for a cooperative game.