In this game, players pick either the Light or Dark side and create a squadron of character miniatures. The game offers fans highly-stylized miniature sculpts as well as card artwork to collect. The goal of the game is to collect the most location cards in the area of play. Each character will have three unique action cards featuring various abilities which can be used with different strategies during the game. This game support two players, ages 7 and up, and plays in 20 minutes.
The game comes in two configurations to start: Star Wars Rivals Series 1: Premier Set and Star Wars Rivals Series 1:Character Booster Packs. The Premier Set features 4 exclusive locations and characters, which include Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. It comes with the necessary tokens and cards to play as well as instructions. This set will retail for $19.99.
Star Wars Rivals Series 1:Character Booster Packs offer up more characters from either the Light and Dark side to play with. Series 1 booster packs contain one random character card, their action cards, and location cards. There are over 20 characters collectors can pull from these boosters plus chase hologram characters with special abilities. Boosters come 16 to a box, four boxes per case, and will retail for $4.99 each.
Funko Games also recently announced Disney Animated, a new cooperative board game by Prospero Hall (see "'Disney Animated'").
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