STAR WARS MONOPOLY

In a period of civil war, everything is at stake. Battles can be won or lost, heroes born or defeated, and all property goes to the highest bidder. Further your empire, amass your starships and build your spaceports, for now you must race to control the galaxy as a force of light or darkness. It's not a question of chance... it's a matter of destiny.

Featuring:

• Great classic MONOPOLY game play set in the Star Wars universe.
• The best selling board game combined with the most popular films of all-time.
• Choose from eight 3D full motion characters including Luke, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and R2-D2.
• Original, all-new dialogue narrated by the original voice of C-3PO - Anthony Daniels.
• Over 150 film clips from the Star Wars trilogy.
• Incredible new 3D board and graphics.
• Build your galactic real estate empire - from Tatooine to Endor, from the Death Star to Dagobah.
• Up to six players can compete at the same time.

~ from the back of the box

It's Christmas time. To me that means board games - or more specifically losing at them. How can the luckless losers like me win? Cheat, that's how. Or if you have a moral compass you can always play the digital versions like Star Wars Monopoly.

THE DAEDALUS ENCOUNTER

The Daedalus Encounter was always a game that interested me. I saw it sitting on the shelves of my local PC World looking very much like a movie complete with the ever-enticing circle of red that is the BBFC 15-certificate. Being a snot-nosed 12-year-old and too young for such an 'extreme' game, I instead went for Bullfrog's fantastic Magic Carpet. I've since picked up this sci-fi adventure only to find how good a decision I'd actually made.