I have a difficult time really putting how shitty this game was into words, let me run down a bulleted list of what I thought was retarded:
- All boss fights have a scripted ending which requires you to hit a sequence of buttons, or swing the wiimote/nunchuck around like a moron for Wiitards such as myself.
- Cutscenes fucking everywhere, this is a short game and these scenes seem to attempt to make it seem as if it's not.
- As mentioned above, this game is pathetically short. I got it on the Wii (the longer version) and it still took me all of 4.5 hours to beat, start to finish.
- All starwars lore is decimated by this shitheap on so many levels it is not funny (will post major spoilers in white later)
- Fighting was hit and miss
- Camera was Sonic Adventure II bad, forcing the camera behind walls and into models on many occasions
- Obviously bad game design, lots of bugs
- Death is meaningless
Ok, with those basic grievances out of the way, let's get down to the detail. Fighting on the Wii version consists of swinging the Wiimote around to swing your lightsaber (certain directions do certain kinds of swings, but this was obviously a Wii port so the detection was pretty annoying) and using the nunchuck to use force. You can combine them for combos but this is pretty much never necessary. I literally got half way through the last level with like 4 deaths total before I figured out that swinging the wiimote in different ways did different hits, that is how easy this game is.
Bugs were somewhat frequent, a lot of them involved the so called amazing physics that I honestly barely noticed. I pushed so many enemies through walls that it got tiring. Most of them were killed by the push, but occasionally I'd get live enemies stuck in walls and had to run past them. Once I got an enemy that I had to kill to advance stuck and had to reload. I also noticed a lot of really awful boss design. The bull rancor boss will instantly take off 90% of your health if it hits you when you're near a wall. It will bounce you off of the wall and beat the shit out of you, usually resulting in an instant death. It wasn't intended either, the animations just looked a bit fucked up when it happened.
When you die, you just lose force points. Force points are basically experience and you can use them to make your force powers stronger, but really the only one you need is lighting/aerial lightning because it's the best way of consistantly dealing damage to bosses. Push, choke and repulse can be fun but you don't need them to kill the easy normal enemies and they don't effect many of the bosses.
As for the story, spoilers below, highlight to read
Ok, so you start on a super star destroyer (never mind that the SSD class ships weren't finished until after the first death star was destroyed) and your first missions are going around and killing Jedi. You literally throw the first one into fucking space, with him not wearing a spacesuit. He somehow survives and comes back later. You also kill Shaak-Ti who was supposed to have died in the purge but whatever. It really gets fucked when the emperor discovers you and Vader stabs you through the heart and throws you out a window, into space. You somehow survive and Vader orders you to create the rebellion in order to distract palmpatine. You run around talking to senators and shit, then you form the alliance on Correlia then the tatters of continuity finally fall apart as Vader attacks and brings all of the rebel leaders to the death star. You survive being thrown off a giant cliff and faceplanting in the snow and your pilot bitch rescues you so you can run off to the death star and save the rebellion, because Vader is a dick.
Finally, you get to the Deathstar (which is a clusterfuck of a level full of jet troopers that are much harder to kill than the final bosses) and then fight Darth Vader, who you of course defeat (some random puke can kick the shit out of vader, lol), you then have a choice, kill vader and be evil or attack palmpatine and be good. Good is the cannon ending, where you actually beat the emperor then your pilot smashes into the throne room and gets the rebel leaders out while your character sacrifices himself to cover their retreat.
Yeah, some random guy that is never mentioned in the EU before somehow magically formed the rebellion then beat the strongest sith lord to ever live, lol.
It might be worth a rent, but do not buy it. Don't play it if you like the star wars EU because honestly this game just stomps all over it.
- All boss fights have a scripted ending which requires you to hit a sequence of buttons, or swing the wiimote/nunchuck around like a moron for Wiitards such as myself.
- Cutscenes fucking everywhere, this is a short game and these scenes seem to attempt to make it seem as if it's not.
- As mentioned above, this game is pathetically short. I got it on the Wii (the longer version) and it still took me all of 4.5 hours to beat, start to finish.
- All starwars lore is decimated by this shitheap on so many levels it is not funny (will post major spoilers in white later)
- Fighting was hit and miss
- Camera was Sonic Adventure II bad, forcing the camera behind walls and into models on many occasions
- Obviously bad game design, lots of bugs
- Death is meaningless
Ok, with those basic grievances out of the way, let's get down to the detail. Fighting on the Wii version consists of swinging the Wiimote around to swing your lightsaber (certain directions do certain kinds of swings, but this was obviously a Wii port so the detection was pretty annoying) and using the nunchuck to use force. You can combine them for combos but this is pretty much never necessary. I literally got half way through the last level with like 4 deaths total before I figured out that swinging the wiimote in different ways did different hits, that is how easy this game is.
Bugs were somewhat frequent, a lot of them involved the so called amazing physics that I honestly barely noticed. I pushed so many enemies through walls that it got tiring. Most of them were killed by the push, but occasionally I'd get live enemies stuck in walls and had to run past them. Once I got an enemy that I had to kill to advance stuck and had to reload. I also noticed a lot of really awful boss design. The bull rancor boss will instantly take off 90% of your health if it hits you when you're near a wall. It will bounce you off of the wall and beat the shit out of you, usually resulting in an instant death. It wasn't intended either, the animations just looked a bit fucked up when it happened.
When you die, you just lose force points. Force points are basically experience and you can use them to make your force powers stronger, but really the only one you need is lighting/aerial lightning because it's the best way of consistantly dealing damage to bosses. Push, choke and repulse can be fun but you don't need them to kill the easy normal enemies and they don't effect many of the bosses.
As for the story, spoilers below, highlight to read
Ok, so you start on a super star destroyer (never mind that the SSD class ships weren't finished until after the first death star was destroyed) and your first missions are going around and killing Jedi. You literally throw the first one into fucking space, with him not wearing a spacesuit. He somehow survives and comes back later. You also kill Shaak-Ti who was supposed to have died in the purge but whatever. It really gets fucked when the emperor discovers you and Vader stabs you through the heart and throws you out a window, into space. You somehow survive and Vader orders you to create the rebellion in order to distract palmpatine. You run around talking to senators and shit, then you form the alliance on Correlia then the tatters of continuity finally fall apart as Vader attacks and brings all of the rebel leaders to the death star. You survive being thrown off a giant cliff and faceplanting in the snow and your pilot bitch rescues you so you can run off to the death star and save the rebellion, because Vader is a dick.
Finally, you get to the Deathstar (which is a clusterfuck of a level full of jet troopers that are much harder to kill than the final bosses) and then fight Darth Vader, who you of course defeat (some random puke can kick the shit out of vader, lol), you then have a choice, kill vader and be evil or attack palmpatine and be good. Good is the cannon ending, where you actually beat the emperor then your pilot smashes into the throne room and gets the rebel leaders out while your character sacrifices himself to cover their retreat.
Yeah, some random guy that is never mentioned in the EU before somehow magically formed the rebellion then beat the strongest sith lord to ever live, lol.
It might be worth a rent, but do not buy it. Don't play it if you like the star wars EU because honestly this game just stomps all over it.