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| Jedi Power Battles,
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| Games,
Richard Young,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F3
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I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war. I will however condone gratuitous lightsabre action galore! And so, Star Wars fans, in Lucasarts latest Playstation offering, one takes on the role of a member of the Jedi Council, fighting against the evil Trade Federation and its many robots of doom. Looking similar in many ways to the Playstation’s earlier Phantom Menace game, Jedi Power Battles dispenses with the dialogue and puzzles and focuses purely on sabre play. Imagine Double Dragon or Fighting Force set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
You have the choice of playing any of 5 characters from Episode One; Obi Wan, Qui Gon, Mace Windu, and the blink-and-you’ll-miss-them council members Adi Gallia and Plo Koon. Basically, the idea is to leg it around the large and pretty 3D environments, biffing everything in sight with your trusty beam of light, and occasionally use the force, which mysteriously appears as luminous blue tokens dotted around the place. Sounds great, and it is
sort of. Problems are evident in the form of a slightly unresponsive and finger-knotting control system, and the game is bloody hard, even on the easy setting (maybe I just lack patience, a common failing for the average apprentice Jedi, so I hear). At a couple of points in the game, some of the graphics have the painful habit of not actually appearing until you get closer to them, which means sometimes you will be running down a corridor, and suddenly a battle droid will appear in front of you. Not good. That said, it is lots of fun to take out several droids with one swing of your blade, and there is a reasonable amount of variety in the gameplay and levels (which roughly mirror the events of the movie). It’s almost unfortunate that as well as being a superior title, Lucasarts’ Phantom Menace game has less cumbersome and more enjoyable lightsabre battles. For pure Force inspired action, give Jedi Power battles a go, but don’t expect an easy ride, young Padawan.
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