Revenge of the Sith

[Kaftan Barlast]

Its a game based off a movie.  Of course it will be bad.

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Im with MR. Rabbit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s

 

 

[Musopticon?]

Gee, good for you to notice.

[Kaftan Barlast]

cHips = 1337

[Musopticon?]

No understando

[Child of Flame]

???

[Cantousent]

Good God, he was one of the leads in the CHiPS T.V. series. You can see the California Highway on his shoulder, for crying out loud. I didn't much care for the show when it was first on television and I don't doubt I won't care for it now.

[thepixiesrock]

And now PLEASE. How bad are the spoilers for this game?

 

There are some spoilers so if you don't want to be spoiled at all then you should wait to see the movie, but they leave some things out.

[Darth Jebus]

I wrote this in the "Let's Face it" thread.

 

Do. Not. Buy. This. Game.

 

I repeat.

 

Do. Not. Buy. This. Game.

 

I made the mistake of buying this game on Friday night. I only bought it because I had a few old games to trade in so I didn't have to pay full price for it. Let me just start by saying that if you are trying to remain spoiler free for EP III then playing this game is like getting all the answers to your final exam before taking it and then getting your professors personal notes on the subject as well. Seriously. It's basically the entire movie. I know the title of is Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, but I read somewhere (I think on here) that the game was not actually going to follow the movie, but rather would take the player to different worlds and trying to accomplish different missions that coincided with the movie while the events of the film played out in the background. Similar to Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. And then all of the events would coincide with the epic lightsaber duel between Anakin/Vader and Obi-Wan.

 

This is not true.

 

It follows the movie almost to a T. Literally. As the opening crawl and the first few minutes of the film all play out. And also, again kind of like LOTR:TTA, a cut scene of the movie will play as you complete a level and just before you start a new one. This is also the point where your game saves. And this can be kind of annoying because this is ONLY TIME your game saves. So, if you die while trying to fight your way through a level, you better keep choosing the "CONTINUE MISSION" option, because if you decide to quit, you have to start ALL THE WAY OVER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL. No matter how much progress you've made. That can get exceedingly frusterating. And to be honest, that's one of the main reasons I didn't like LOTR: TTA.

 

Being spoiled by the KOTOR games, I had forgotten how annoying Star Wars games can be. Not only is the AI spectacularly stupid, but your enemies are so damn annoying that sometimes you want to put your fist through the television set. This is mainly because in combat (which is real-time of course) if your character gets knocked off his feet, it can be extremely difficult to get back up and flip out of the way. Your enemy will just continue to pound on you even if he is about to be incinerated by one of his own gunners standing behind him shooting indescriminately at anything that moves. Including his own men. This happened frequently. Especially on Mustafar.

 

And another thing about combat, you don't have the multitude of Force Powers that the commercials would have you believe. It is nowhere near the Obi-Wan video game where, even though that game sucked, it was fun to use the legion of force powers you had at your disposal. In this game, you primarily have Force Push, Throw lightsaber, and when your playing as Anakin/Vader, Force lightning.

And you also pick up objects and throw them at your opponents. But this feature really only works on droids and Clone Troopers. When your fighting against other Jedi they will flip out of the way or they won't take nearly as much damgage from throwing objects at them.

 

Also, throwing your lightsaber or other objects requires you to aim at your target. This is horrifyingly annoying because of the terrible camera view. It's not third person from behind like most action games. It's third person from where ever the hell we feel like putting the camera. Sometimes its at your side, sometimes it's behind you, sometimes it's in front of you, and sometimes it's at a funky 45 degree angle ensuring that the player as absolutely no chance of killing anything whatsoever.

 

And if you don't aim PERFECTLY AND PRECISELY , you not only will not hit your target, but you'll waste valuable Force points as well. The good thing about this, though, is that your FP build up rather quickly so it won't take long to have a full blue bar of FP to utilize. It's just too bad that you don't have alot of Force powers to use. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to use Stasis Field or Force Wave to combat a room of bad guys standing in my way. But that would have made this game REALLY easy.

 

The only real fun parts of this game that I found were playing as Anakin. If the movie shows him half as dark as he is in this game, we're in for a real treat. Anakin in this wipes the floor with anyone standing in his way. As the player controlling him, you have to fight Dooku, Mace Windu, a score of Jedi when you march on the Temple and a few Jedi Masters as well. They are all no match for Anakin.

 

Also, it's just fun being so dark.  You not only see Anakin mowing down a bunch of innocents, but you as the player, have to do this, too. You get to kill a bunch of cowering Seperatist leaders on Mustafar who tremble as you approach.

And the sound quality is great. It rattles and rolls as this happens so you feel like you're in the movie. That was a plus.

 

Playing as Obi-Wan wasn't nearly as fun IMO. He wasn't as fast or as strong as Anakin and didn't have the deadly combos that Anakin did. And BTW, the combos are pretty easy to execute. Just hit the x button repeadedly for fast attacks, the y button for charging attacks, and the b button for slow but really strong lunging attacks. Very similar to Jade Empire in this regard. And yes, you can flip around all you want this game. That was cool.

 

I didn't experience any framerate issues in this game but I have to say, though the characters look like the actors from the film, the graphics looked kind of blockish. Maybe it was just me but I can't remember anything visually from the game that stood out. Nothing that makes me want to write about it. The combo moves looked good during combat but there wasn't any real texture to anything I was seeing. It really just kind of underscored the feeling that this game is little more than hack and slash action. No real story at all. Which is kind of unusual because the game is based on a movie. It takes no time at all to wrap this game up as it's just basically kill as many bad guys as you can, beat the end boss, and then move on to the next round. The only thing in this game remotely resembling an RPG is the leveling up aspect of it. But even this is really shallow. You gain experience depending on how well you dispatch your enemies. During combat, you'll get an indicator that will tell you if you've done fair, good, impressive, or masterful in how you killed a bad guy. This determines how much XP you get which you can then spend on your ability skills or Force powers.

 

All these little missions you've been hearing about in the commercials are nothing more than, "Find a way across the bridge", or "Defeat Clone Gunships", and then the game proceeds to tell you EXACTLY HOW TO DO THIS by highlighting a panel on the wall that you have to cut through which will then expose a cable or something that you cut, which then activates the bridge. Mission accomplished. There's some secret areas you can try to find, but unlike Jedi Academy, you don't get any goodies. You just get an increase in FP and health.

 

Finally, one real nice touch to the game was the really cool nod to KOTOR. When your playing as Anakin slaughtering Jedi in the temple, the music that plays is the Onderon combat music from KOTOR 2. In fact, alot of the music used in ROTS is from KOTOR 2. And they mix it in seamlessly with John Williams score. It was just really cool that the devs of this game, possibly on orders from LA, decided to highlight the kindred spirit between Revenge of the Sith and The Sith Lords.

 

Nicely done as it seems to basically say, Star Wars is ONE UNIVERSE. Interestingly, the only time the KOTOR 2 music seemed to play was when you were playing as Anakin. I could be wrong on that, but thats when you really seem to notice it.

 

But other than that cool tie-in, the game leaves alot to be desired.

[Kor Qel Droma]

i've noticed a disctint lack of ass kicking playing as Obi-Wan as well...

[Drakron]

...Finally, one real nice touch to the game was the really cool nod to KOTOR. When your playing as Anakin slaughtering Jedi in the temple, the music that plays is the Onderon combat music from KOTOR 2. In fact, alot of the music used in ROTS is from KOTOR 2. And they mix it in seamlessly with John Williams score. It was just really cool that the devs of this game, possibly on orders from LA, decided to highlight the kindred spirit between Revenge of the Sith and The Sith Lords.

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That's not a nod, its recycle resources.

[metadigital]

...Finally, one real nice touch to the game was the really cool nod to KOTOR. When your playing as Anakin slaughtering Jedi in the temple, the music that plays is the Onderon combat music from KOTOR 2. In fact, alot of the music used in ROTS is from KOTOR 2. And they mix it in seamlessly with John Williams score. It was just really cool that the devs of this game, possibly on orders from LA, decided to highlight the kindred spirit between Revenge of the Sith and The Sith Lords.

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That's not a nod, its recycle resources.

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One person's homage is another person's blatant IP plagiarism. "

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

Recycling of resources, when it doesn't make plausible sense is laziness. Using recycled resources where it does make sense is a nod.

[Drakron]

One person's homage is another person's blatant IP plagiarism. "

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Star Wars games tend to use the movies soundtrack, KotOR was the first Star Wars game I remenber that actually had some unique score.

 

LucasArts makes the music scores (like pretty much all publishers do) and been recycle the same music for years.

[Drakron]

Recycling of resources, when it doesn't make plausible sense is laziness.  Using recycled resources where it does make sense is a nod.

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Yep, of course its expansive to record music and quite franky Star Wars game musical scores are bland you need to be a real fanboy to notice the difence of one game music to the next.

 

I expected that Ep. III game would use the movie musical score, perhaps it was not ready and they simply had to use somethng.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

It would be funny if the EP 3 movie music score has the music from KotOR 2 in it.

[Drakron]

It would be funny if the EP 3 movie music score has the music from KotOR 2 in it.

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Funny seeing those KotOR fanatics saying KotOR is cannon because the music was in the movies.

[213374U]

It would be funny if the EP 3 movie music score has the music from KotOR 2 in it.

It doesn't.

[6 Foot Invisible Rabbit]

That is sad.

[jaguars4ever]

Personally, I was I little dissapointed with the anit-climatic feel of Ep. III's Battle of Heroes.

 

Also: They could have at least included the epic Duel of the Fates at somepoint. With it's deput in Ep I and it being played in Ep II, I assumed it was going to be a running theme. Guess not.

[Nur Ab Sal]

I have a question to console gamers: is master Cin Drallig as tough as LA was boasting? Give me a long description of him please.

[Cloris]

I have a question to console gamers: is master Cin Drallig as tough as LA was boasting? Give me a long description of him please.

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Let me try this spoiler quote function and see if I don't screw it up...

 

 

He is bloody tough!!! I think that battle is three or four stages (I have only played through once, though, so I'm not sure). It's almost like you can tell that they modeled him off of the fight choreographer.

 

The most quietly creepy part of the game, for me, happens with either him or his student, I can't remember which. It's in the martial study room if I remember correctly.

 

 

 

Cloris

[Sarjahurmaaja.]

Force Lightning is

[213374U]

Cin who?

[Baley]

WOW this is the top 20 UK:

 

1) Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

2) Lego Star Wars

3) FIFA Street

4) Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition

5) World Snooker Champ. 2005

6) Gran Turismo 4

7) Pariah

Spinter Cell: Chaos Theory

9) T_T Superbikes

10) Brothers in Arms

11) Guild Wars

12) Doom 3

13) Super Mario 64 DS

14) The Sims 2: University

15) The Punisher

16) Championship Manager 5

17) The Incredibles

18) Robots

19) Jade Empire

20) World of WarCraft

 

Damn...Lego SW should be first

[Musopticon?]

So the general brits lack taste, eh? No news to me. :D