Customer Reviews:
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 The Stars are Shining in This Game! January 3, 2009
Mom of Four Sons (Dallas, Texas)
My sons love Star Wars! They really enjoy unlocking characters to play with by beating levels throughout the game. Unlike their Lego Star Wars, they are able to use Wii controllers to stab or hit the enemy. In Lego Star Wars, there are only two moves that you can really do. In this Star Wars game, you are able to control the light saber more and do many additional moves. My sons love the Wii-to-tv control of the light saber. They enjoy this realistic aspect of the game.
 Good story. Bad game December 31, 2008
I. Lopez (Vancouver, WA)
As a Star Wars fan, I really wanted to like this game. Sadly, I was disappointed. There's really nothing to it once you get the controls down. It's just a typical hack and slash. I had hoped for something that required a little bit of skill, but ultimately, it's a "button pusher," or in the case of the Wii, wildly swinging around the controller.
The lightsaber battles are pretty weak. If you're hoping for skillful openings and finding and taking advantage of your opponents weakness, it's not here. Press some buttons, swing your controller a bunch, and press more buttons. Close your eyes if you want to. Give the controller to your two year old. It doesn't matter.
The storyline was great - but as you might guess, it didn't live up to the book version. I'd definitely recommend picking up the audio book version read by Jonathan Davis. That was worthwhile. But for the game, I found myself forcing through the terrible game play just to get to the next story cut scene.
One particular disappointment - you go through the game collecting bonus items, some of which unlock characters to play as during the duel mode. The only problem is, you need two players for the duel mode - they don't allow you to play against the computer. A lot of good that does a guy with an uninterested wife and a two year old kid.
It's sad that they didn't give this game much thought. I can't understand why Lucas Arts wouldn't use the Knights of the Old Republic game engine for this story. That would have made the game a million times more playable.
The bottom line is this: if you're a Star Wars fan, it's important that you know that there is worthwhile storyline here that you are going to want to know about - pick up the (audio) book. Once you've gone through the book, this might be worth picking up used if you're interested in seeing the story line played out. But for this Star Wars fan, it was a game that bored me halfway through and has utterly no replay value.
If you haven't played it yet, get Knights of the Old Republic. It received game of the year honors for good reasons. And then wonder why they aren't using this game engine to advance important story line instead of this boring hack and slash game engine.
 Great, but not lasting December 31, 2008
Star wars is really fun game. I mean the whole game is killing stormtroopers with a lightsaber. I mean who wouldn't like that?? I love this game and got it for Christmas. Unfortunately it is super short and I beat it in 6 days playing a total of 5 hours!! The problem with it is that there are barely any missions and when you die you somehow comeback as if nothing happened. Those are basically the major flaws in the game I would reccomend this game to anybody but if you want to save cash then just rent it. It isn't a piece of junk but still isn't something you'll play for a while.
Great, but not lasting December 31, 2008
Star wars is really fun game. I mean the whole game is killing stormtroopers with a lightsaber. I mean who wouldn't like that?? I love this game and got it for Christmas. Unfortunately it is super short and I beat it in 6 days playing a total of 5 hours!! The problem with it is that there are barely any missions and when you die you somehow comeback as if nothing happened. Those are basically the major flaws in the game I would reccomend this game to anybody but if you want to save cash then just rent it. It isn't a piece of junk but still isn't something you'll play for a while.
Great Star Wars Game! December 31, 2008
This game is very fun! You can use an assortment of force powers, including lightning, push, and repulse. The story is great. I recommend this to Star Wars fans!
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