In 2004 (now 10 years ago) Eden Studios has published a nice and non-collectible card game based on the universe of "Army of Darkness". Being long out of production, I bought it on Ebay. It is possible to retrieve it without particular economical effort (and in particular I have found in the UK).
We start to describe the packaging: a small box that shows the movie poster on the cover and a quick explanation of the game in the back.
Once you've opened the box you will face a lot of beautiful cards which show pictures of characters and scenes from the film: groovy!
Rules of the game are quite simple. You can play from 2 to 4 players that choose a character, catch some cards and then start the game turn consisting of the following steps
- draw a card
- play one from your hand
- attack someone!
The game's purpose is to recover the Necronomicon and hold it for at least 2 turns (the one in which you recover it and the next one).
In the meanwhile we must fight against monsters (or against other players!) using a 6 faced dice (since you are forced to attack, it will be something that will happen many times).
Winning fights lead to draw a card, losing it to discard one. Cards in hand are even life points, so once a player finish his card... he have to turn side ! From "Good" the character will become "Evil" and viceversa: these cards have two faces, each one with a different version of the character.
Here are the character cards "good" version
turning cards they become "Evil"!
To a lover of the universe Evil Dead these cards are hilarious, especially the "events" and "items" ones, substantially cards that enhance the characters in their attacks. Note that each card contains a quote from the movie!
I have not played it yet but I think I will soon :) Next review will be about to the tabletop game, and it will require a little more study since that game is much more complicated: D
See you next time !
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