Sunday, May 22, 2005

Star Wars Episode III

A Special Star Wars themed post today as I went to see it on friday. This is the first time I have ever reviewed a movie so it might not be to good but I'll give it a try. There are a few small spoilers in the review :D.

Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith- Movie
Finally the one we have all been waiting for is here and it does not dissapoint like Episode I did.
The Movie starts with Anakin and Obi Won on a mission to save the kidnapped Chanceller Papaltine from Count Doku, this scene shows how good friends Anakin and Obi Wan has become, this first sequence has some funny moments in it as well. The movie starts off well and fast and it maintains quality throughout the entire movie. Action is constant and fights include Anakin and Obi Won Vs Count Doku, Mace Windo Vs Palpatine, Obi Won Vs General Devious who is the droid General and wields FOUR! lightsabers, Yoda Vs Palpatine and inevieatable Obi Won Vs Anakin. Anakins journey to the dark side is very well done and the movie gets very emotional at times, sound track is awsome as usual. Most of the loose end have been tied up but some have not and Star Wars fans will notice a few things do not make sense like for example Lea says she remember here mother but she dies during child birth.
All in all a fantastic movie. Go see it now!
Rating 9 out of 10

Star Wars TV? and of course the classic Star Wars Gangsta Rap .
What about Sonic in a Star Wars Setting in another classic flash animation.

Darth Maul Advertising milk.

Yes after reading a few reviews and seeing it got much better ratings then the XBox and PS2 versions I decided to buy the game for DS.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith- Nintendo DS
*Gasp* A decent Star Wars handheld game? What next? Fifa being a good game? Na thats just stupid. The game has two gameplay types on foot and ship fighting.
The on-foot style takes the style of Streets of Rage where you can move your character up and down the screen and fight the on-coming enemies, you can either choose Anakins path or Obi Wons path, each path has 13 missions, the action on foot is pretty good and lots of fun as well as providing a decent challenge, you have different light saber combos depending on what charater you have and which direction you are pressing when you are slashing, you can also block either high or low, time it right and you can reflect any laser blasts right back at the enemy. You have the force which has a gauge, you can either push the enmies back, lift them up for a short second or throw a fallen part of a droid at enmeies. Finally you have special moves which you can use by doing a simple combo or touching the touch screen, at the end of each level you can power up your character. The downside is that this bit is a port of the GBA game and there has been no graphical improvement or addition to gameplay what so ever, this fact lets the game down as the DS is obviously a superior system in power.
The second bit is ship fighting which is exclusive to the DS version, the developers Ubi Soft Montreal have managed to get a very smooth running 3D battle engine going here which might be improved and used in future Star Wars game, these section are thrown into certain parts of the game, controls are easy but the missions are very basic and involve you to destroy a few ships and thats it! A few missions like destroy a building would have been great.
In the multiplayer menu there is a Skirmish option where you can play CPU controlled oppenents in dog fights, you have a great selection of ships like Darth Vader Tie Fighter, X-Wing, Millenium Falcon, Jedi Starfighter I & II and so on. You can also select a pilot which are of course charcters from Star Wars, each pilot have their own level of difficulty. Skirmish is a great time waster.
Their is a Special Mission option which I haven't unlocked yet, that will add to the length as well as the two diffulty settings. The Star Wars style of music is present in this game at brilliant quality, in fact I believe that this game has the highest quality of music seen in a DS game so far, it really is that good and sets a good atmosphere to the game.
This is a fun game which Star Wars fans should buy if they want a decent Star Wars game but I can't forgive the on-foot section being a direct GBA port with nothing improved.
Rating- 7 out of 10.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tutt tutt! Film review rules 101 state that, "Thou shalt not use spoilers!"... But we'll forgive you this time ;-)

You also forget in your DS review that there has been a decent handheld 'Star Wars' game before: the old GB Mono 2D platform game got many rave reviews at the time! Mind you - that was some years back, so again, we'll forgive you ;-)

I still protest that Ep.1 was unfairly slated and that Ep.2 has been the worst film so far: take in mind that I saw TPM for the first time about two hours before seeing Ep.2 and so I managed to avoid the early hype and lowered my expectations accordingly...

...anyway - back to those flaming essays!

Keep up the good work around here - about time I had another website for my favourites list...

11:58 pm  
Blogger shinshade said...

lol, Episode 1 was decent but not as good as the others, I really liked Episode II but episode III was da bomb. I never played the mono GB Star Wars games.

I watched Ep I & II in the past week before I went to see Ep III, now to see the rest :D

You still got essays to do?
I'm all finished not one essay to do :D I'm so proud of my self.

12:09 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah! Y'see our university is a little bit special in so much as we start the year in October instead of September.

That means that we don't finish semester one until late January (rather than at Christmas) and don't start the second lot of modules until February.

Therefore, I have exams until the 6th June, one of which is a seen exam that I need to prepare two essays for (31st May) - which, as you can imagine, is a bit of a b**ch!

The original GB Mono game got great ratings (91%, 9/10, etc) although I felt it was over-rated! Couldn't get into the love story in Ep.II - stunnted and too dull for words; the rest of it wasn't too bad. Might watch the 3rd film later this week - who knows... depends on how those essays really!

6:10 am  
Blogger shinshade said...

Your uni is srange :D

8:14 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You better believe it! My BT broadband account hasn't been upgraded yet and it's almost 8pm!

They better do it overnight or they'll feel my wrath at 'customer support' in the morning!

7:49 pm  
Blogger shinshade said...

lol I feel your pain, my connection was not upgraded, I phoned AOL and they said it was not ready and they will e-mail me when it is.

11:16 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Man cannot live on 512kb alone" (John 3:16)...

2:27 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

24 hours late - but it's done! 1Mb connection is mine MWAHAHAHA!!! One problem though - Ol' ShadowSkill1700 has 2Mb connection - gah!!!

7:00 pm  

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