Bratz Game Hits the Card Gaming World

For most people, a Bratz game using collectible cards is the last thing they would expect to show up in hobby shops and department stores around the world. Collectible card games (or CCG's as they’re often called) have traditionally been a genre that has targeted a largely male audience. The younger boys are targeted with the simpler, more cartoony games such as Yu-Gi-Oh and Duel Masters, to teenagers and adults with more complex and deeply strategic games such as Magic: The Gathering and the Vs. System, which also appeal primarily to the geeky sorts. So how does a Bratz game, which is targeted exclusively at girls, and predominantly girls of the preteen and early teen age groups, hope to break into a world of boys who would not touch high fashion with a ten-foot pole?

You simply do away with the conventions of card gaming. Gone are the complex rules and geeky mechanics of a normal collectable card game, replaced by simple gameplay and of course the focus on fashion that you would expect from a Bratz game. The Bratz Fashion Party Fever card game is easy to learn and fun to playmaking it the perfect card game for girls of all ages. There are rules for cooperative play, in which all players work together, or competitive play, where the players work against each other (and the clock) to reach their goal. The goal is simple: throw the best dance party possible for your Bratz characters.

The Bratz game is played with three types of cards: Party Power cards, which are the special twists you can throw in to effect how the game is played (and throw an awesome party,) Fashion cards, which are the outfits you will be using for your party, and of course the Bratz characters themselves. Each Bratz character needs to have an outfit that includes each of the four types of Fashion cards (top, bottom, shoes, and accessory) for the dance party, and the outfit must contain elements from each of the three fashion styles (Rockin', Stylin', and Funkalish'.) Once you have dressed your Bratz character in her perfect dance party outfit, it’s time to send her out onto the dance floor and roll a die to see how many points you score.

There are elements of cooperation built into this Bratz game (of course, it takes more than one person to make a perfect party.) You can borrow outfit pieces from other players to finish dressing your character for the dance party. Of course, anyone you borrow Fashion cards from scores points from your character as well! Be careful, though, because the clock advances throughout the game, and once the clock reaches midnight, the Bratz dance party (and the Bratz game) end, and the player who has scored the most points by sending fully-dressed characters out onto the dance floor, and by matching their characters' Fashion Passion Prisms, wins! Of course, when there is a good time at a great party, everyone is a winner in the end.

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