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| From: Activision
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £31.15
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 84
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 023272005788
EAN: 0023272005795
ASIN: B0014FY9XY
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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A missed opportunity October 7, 2008
I bought and played the Wii version of the game and I have to admit I was hooked to it. The game play is great fun - especially if you become disciplined enough to learn the combo's to use your force powers.
Intelligent use of your surroundings makes the fighting easier and far more believable that you are a Jedi Master. There was nothing better than walking across a bridge with 5 or 6 enemies running toward me, deflecting theit pitiful shots deftly with my saber then simply picking them up with the force one by one and throwing them over the edge!
Unfortunately there is a big BUT!
1. I cn understand their not putting in a 1:1 use of the wiimote to light saber. I think in this game it would be nigh on impossible to accurately do all the fighting without simply flailing. But we all thought it was coming and now we feel let down! Let's hope the clone wars game addresses this.
2. There is no imagination on the levels you simply keep going back to the same levels over and over again but taking a slightly different route through them. A Star Wars game without Hoth!!! Unheard of!
3. It's too short. I don't do replying games just to find some bonuses I missed the first time round.
4. It's too easy! I didn't die at all until the very last level and that was because I walked off a bridge... something you couldn't do on any of the other levels.
5. Fighting the bosses was annoying. I have no problem with a boss being easy if you're skillful. You just give the boss more energy so it takes longer and make his strikes more powerful so you pay for mistakes. But being simply unable to fight cos you're constantly being knocked over, running to a health bonus hitting them once then being constantly knocked over again is just annoying. I'm a Jedi - I don't run!
This needed some RPG input to give us a feeling of more control of the game. Why they didn't learn from the success of Knights of the Old Republic et al...
This game does have some great points. I enjoyed playing it through once, but mines already gone to the second hand shop after only 10 hours of play. What a shame!
 Under 6 Hours of Gameplay October 7, 2008
I don't have much to add to what's been said already.
This game is OK- poor camera control, average graphics, a lack of the promised lightsabre control with the Wiimote, linear storytelling... all of these have been discussed at length.
I finished the main game, in no particular rush, in 5 hours and 45 minutes. Surely that alone is enough to convince you that this is one to pick up second hand (if at all).
 Pretty Good - But It's not what you may think October 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Before people say anything else, I will say, this is a damn good game. For the Wii, the graphics is good. The Force Powers work well, and i mean well, who would have thought throwing stormtroopers could be so much fun?
The Lightsaber fighting works well, and duel mode is good fun. Imagine Tekken, but full 3D arenas you can run around, amazing force powers, good selection of characters and plenty of things to throw. There's also the ability to be become "Unleashed" which really hypes up your force powers and allows you to pick up massive things with the force (like a full TIE fighter on the TIE Construction Yard arena) or smash down the walls (On the Jedi Temple Arena).
HOWEVER, if you want next-gen graphics and the new powerful game engines, this is not the game you want. With the exception of tactics, the NPC's show no sign of intelligance. Glass may crack in the correct way, but it doesn't truely break. Trees don't chop like trees, and many things aren't interractive.
So, overall, it's good, but don't buy it if you want the next gen graphics. It's a waste of money if you do.
It's a wii bit short and repetitive. October 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
But you get to use the FORCE.
It really _is_ like being a Jedi/Sith...
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...except without the years of dedicated practise.
You get to pick up giant rocks or pieces of Death Star, throw them into a mass of Stormtroopers listen to their screams as they're crushed. Then invisibly pick up one of the stragglers, choke him a la Vader to within an inch of death then pick up one of his mates who you've just _electrocuted_ bang them together in mid air like a couple of rag dolls before throwing another into...
well you get the idea.
And you get to beat up Rancors and a Bull Rancor and AT-STs and...
Still it wouldnt have hurt to add a few more set animations on death scenes, would it?
In summary then...
YAY!!!!
and oh hmmm
but mostly yay.
weavehole
Disappointing October 6, 2008
As another reviewer said "Wasted Opportunity".
Basically this game DOES deliver, it gives you some real good saber-swinging hack and slash. Some great scenes, good story and real good ideas.
Bad points: terrible camera angles limit the scope of the view, using the saber is often more luck that skill, game is VERY short (4-6 hours play time), plot barely hangs together and you get very little idea of characters and motivation without buying all the toher media formats available (books, comics etc). Disappointing graphics.
Good points: lightersabers... yummm. Awesome force powers. Some good cut scenes. Duel (2-player) mode is a cool gimmick but you won't come back to it much (due to terrible camera work, again). You get to play Darth Vadar for five minutes.
Overall, great 50p/play arcade game, terrible 30-40 console game.
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