mrv3000 | (no subject)

Because you ALL need a review of a game that's already 2 years old. Admit it.

The Good

The cinematics between the game play are really amusing. It's the story of Star Wars from the movies, but tweaked a bit. Like Luke accidentally cutting off C3PO's head when he first gets his lightsaber. HEH!!
You can swap out playing any character in your group, which means you can be Leia or Luke or R2D2, etc. And everyone has different powers and abilities to get you through the level.
You can attack people in your party. There's something extremely amusing about Luke punching Obi-Wan. (ETA: Especially when I don't mean to do it. Like I'm really trying to swap characters but hit the wrong key - *POW* I laugh every time. :D)
ETA: Another good thing I just thought of - this thing is LONG. Seriously hours upon hours upon hours of game play. The levels themselves are extensive (like I mention below, it takes me a good 40 minutes to an hour to play one, but I'll admit that might be partly because I don't always know where to go), and there are 99 levels - covering all parts of Episodes IV, V and VI. Incredible. ETA2: Okay, wait. Maybe not 99... LOTS OF LEVELS.

The Bad

The PC platform controls are barely playable. I realize this isn't a game created for this platform, and you really do want to play it in a game console, but come on, Lucas Arts! It seriously couldn't have been that hard to have a workable mouse, letting the player use the mouse-keyboard combo like most shooters. The keys are annoying and really hard to get any sort of fine-tuned movement in the character.
No saving the game in the middle of a level?? (If there is, I haven't found it.) Basically, you have to be willing to commit to an hour of gameplay at a time (especially first time around - if you know where you're going, you probably would blaze through) otherwise you completely lose everything by quitting. That's just silly.

The Would Be Good If I Could Figure It Out

You can customize your character, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out. There's an area to do it in, but I've no idea what I'm doing, how to save something, or how to even exit the bloody area. I found that mashing the keyboard repeatedly finally works.

Overall, I would recommend this game but NOT for the PC. Seriously - avoid it like the plague on the PC platform as it'll only frustrate you.