**Official Thread** The Clone Wars video games-Lightsaber Duels and Jedi Alliance for Wii and DS

First, here's the official site from Lucasarts



What we know so far:



Lightsaber Duels for Wii is a fighting game based on the Wii's duel mode from The Force Unleashed (it's being made by the same studio, Krome) Hopefully, it will be better than Masters of Taras Kasi which was an abysmal failure . If you have played TFU?s duel mode on Wii, you?ll know what to expect; the controls and gameplay are very similar although, according to IGN, Lightsaber Duels is more approachable to nongamers and gamers alike (which means your mom can play too).
From IGN?s preview:
Before we go any further -- no, this isn't one-to-one lightsaber control, nor do the controls require complex movements. That's far from a bad thing. Instead, flashy combos are born from straightforward combinations of broad movements, and depth emerges from the ability to anticipate, parry, evade and attack in different ways. It's a cliché, but this is going to be a title that anyone can pick up and play, yet that will have plenty of depth for those prepared to learn its intricacies.

Sounds good. Here?s the full article: http://wii.ign.com/articles/898/898724p1.html
Also, each character plays much uniquely than in TFU, for example Ahsoka jumps around the battlefield, whereas Obi is more balanced. The stages change during gameplay to add variety, such as on Teth, the battle shifts from the main monastery to the big hall (where Ventress loses her skirt in the movie), to the bridge.
Lightsaber Duels follows the story of the TV show, while Jedi alliance is a stand alone story. LD is also one of the best looking games on Wii. Running at a solid 60 frames per second. Although the game doesn?t support motion plus, Krome promises that they?re working on a 1 to 1 lightsaber game for 2009 .

10 charaters at least
1. Anakin
2. Ahsoka
3. Obi-Wan
4. Mace Windu
5. Kit Fisto
6. Asaaj Ventress
7. General Grievous
8. Count Dooku
9.??? (Plo Koon?)
10.??? (Luminara?)



Jedi Alliance is being developed by Lucasarts Singapore for DS and chronicles the Jedi?s ongoing battle against Dooku, who has formed an alliance with Dathomir?s Nightsisters. Jedi Alliance introduces a unique Jedi pairing system; the player plays as two Jedi at once(or with a friend in co-op) forming different combos and using unique abilities depending on which pair is being used.
The game is controlled by using only the stylus much like the recent Zelda game for the DS. You simply tape where you want to attack the enemy(tape the leg to chop off a leg etc.). The available Jedi are:
Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, Plo Koon, Kit Fisto and Mace Windu

Both titles are multiplayer and push the graphical abilities of both systems. Both arrive on November 11th.

Hope you enjoyed my write-up.
This thread has been approved by the omnipotent and hard working SoloCommand, who doesn't get nearly enough credit.

 

pretty neat. For the 1-1 lightsaber game theyre gonna need to include a new wii-mote that has a better motion-detection capability. Hopefully it will be molded like a lightsaber too

 

What makes this official?

 

the two "**" make it official.

 

I'm interested in seeing how the DS game turns out. The concept seems really neat.

 

Exactly.

 

Didn't we already have an official thread on these games?

But I think it was lacking the **'s

So lets just pretend it never existed.

 

Very much liking this. It means that my getting TFU on the 360 won't take away any future Jedi on Jedi vs. action.

 

There's a new preview of this at Palgn.com Sounds hopeful.

 

I hope this game does well so we can get a more realistic Star Wars fighting game along the same vein as Soul Calibur. I'd love to see a game with a huge cast of movie, novel, video game, and comic characters. As long as they don't try and make it in continuity it should be fine.

 

No, it most definetly did not. It was a forgetable Tekken clone that tried to cram a storyline inside the events of ROTJ so there was a continuity reason for Han Solo to fight Darth Vader in a boxing match. Sorry, but that game failed on so many levels.

 

Since we're getting closer to the release date....


Bump.

 

New news about the Wii game on TOS.
With some nice pictures.
And a new trailer for Jedi Alliance, too.

 

Plo Koon is confirmed to be in this game! Screenshots on IGN confirm this as he dukes it out with Mace Windu!
Here

 

Shots of the new "Jedi Hunter" droid may be found here.

 

The TFU duel mode was horrible, maybe I missed something, I played it with a friend for an hour or so, and there seemed to be no way to break a block or get out of force lightning, and there was no real depth to it at all.

 

Um, you can block lightning the same way you block blaster fire. Hold the A button and keep the remote in blocking position. (Sideways and horizontal).
The lightning will be blocked and you will get no damage. You won't be able to do much untill your opponnent stops the lightning or runs out of Force though. The point is that it works

 

So, I went to buy the Wii game at Wal*Mart this morning.

*NOT ARRIVED YET*

No bigge, I thought, then I went over to HBC.

*NOPE*

I waited around all afternoon waiting for this darn game, and it never showed up! I was at the point where I would.ve bought the DS one if they had had it.
Mind you, they had the movie out everywhere, just not the games.


GRR.

 

At least someone else didn't get them in either. Same here. Went to Wal*Mart to get both and they didn't have em. Checking tomorrow definitely.

Got the 2-Disc DVD though (Cheers!)

 

Got duels and the DVD at Best Buy.

 

I saw Lightsaber Duels at Target, but I can only get one game before Christmas, and I decided to get Tales of Symphonia.

Is Lightsaber Duels any good?

 

Folks, I can tell you right now that Lightsaber Duels is at best a rent. Don't waste $49.99 on it. I got it today. It's decent, but it just screams "cash-in" all over it after you've played it. It's a very short game, and there is no online multiplayer for it. I'll bet you anything that this game will be down to $30 in two months. It's almost worth $30, but definitely not $50. The fighting is pretty shallow, and there doesn't seem to be much strategy involved at all. I honestly had a lot more fun with the duel mode in TFU for the Wii.

Now, the game you REALLY want is the Jedi Alliance game for the DS! I got that today as well, and let me tell you that it is a superb game! You can tell a lot of love went into making it because it is really well done! This one doesn't seem like a cash-in whatsoever. It's insanely fun. And it more than makes up for TFU on the DS!

So between the two games, LS is pretty lame, while JA is the much better Clone Wars game!