Richard Garfield's King of Tokyo: Power Up! Expansion 1
Price
£9.02 £12.99
 
4.2 out of 5
There are 16 customer reviews for this product

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In Stock
  • Age range: 8 and up / Number of players: 2 to 6 / Play time: 30
  • Manufacturer: IELLO
  • 56 Evolution cards, 7 counters, Pandakaï monster board, cardboard figure & plastic stand, Rulebook

 



Richard Garfield's King of Tokyo: Power Up! Expansion 1 is available in Activity & Entertainment

Please Note: You will require Kings of Tokyo in order to play this expansion   With King of Tokyo: Power Up! ? an expansion for the King of Tokyo base game ? after choosing a monster each player takes the eight Evolution cards associated with that monster shuffles those cards and creates a personal deck. At the end of a player's turn if she has three hearts she draws one Evolution card and adds it to her hand; this is possible even in Tokyo (when hearts are normally useless) and even if the hearts are used for some other action such as healing. A player can reveal and play an Evolution card at any time. Some Evolutions are temporary allowing a one-time bonus while others are Permanent such as Gigazaur's Tail Sweep which allows him to change one die to a 1 or 2 each turn. Each Evolution card also identifies whether a monster is a Mutant Invader or Robot and while not relevant for Power Up! this species identification could come into play in future expansions. The rules for King of Tokyo: Power Up! contain a few variants: Players start with a random Evolution in play or draw two cards and choose the one they want or draft a set of Evolutions prior to the start of play. However you play the goal of the game remains the same: Score 20 points or be the last monster standing amid the rubble of what was once Tokyo.     Age range: 8 and up Number of players: 2 to 6 Play time: 30  

Product Group Toy
Item Model Number IEL51073
64x64
Entertaining expansion to superb game, 4 Jan. 2013
King of Tokyo is a superbly entertaining game in it's own right... I mean how could a game that asks 'who can be the best giant monster at bashing foes and stomping a global capital' not be awesome?This first expansion adds some clever monster specific traits and bonuses to the game, though some can be a little unbalanced. Overall it's a fun addition to shake up the system, but the basic game is more than capable and simpler.

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64x64
Adds fun and depth, 15 Jan. 2014
This expansion means each player will have distinct powerups to "evolve" to, which adds welcome depth and variety to an already fun game. You would have to play a lot to feel you'd exhausted the different permutations.As you'd expect, some of the evolution powers are significantly better and more interesting than others, although you can mitigate this effect by playing the variants (see below).The price was £12.99 when I bought mine, the current price is a tad high for what you get in my opinion.There are three variants for the new evolution rules included, but they are fairly obvious (start with a free evolution; take two evolution cards and pick one when you evolve; draft the evolution cards for advanced players)

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64x64
A small, subtle but really positive change, 8 Jan. 2015
It is a little bit expensive for what it is, but I think it makes some important changes to the game that means that one really good turn can't win you the game in quite the same way.(Previously one good round of damage in Tokyo and the writing was on the wall now in trying to survive you can still progress, so it stays fun - a big change to my one problem with the original game)

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