Star Wars Reviews

The gown itself is luxurious and well-made. My granddaughter wore hers for Halloween and plays in it often. The headpiece is another story. It is Huge! The child's father (six foot 2inch and 200 pounds) found that it was too big for him and would not stay on his head. When we finally got her to hold it on her head long enough for the costume contest, the pointed plastic piece on the bridge of the nose caused great plain so we glued cotton balls on it but they did not stay. The very top of the headpiece was crushed slightly when it arrived--thus the low durability rating. Overall, the child loved the costume and hated the headpiece while Grandma thought it was a bit pricey! (But she was the most beautiful child in the contest -- even though she did not win!)

This is a great toy for a lot of kids, I've seen teenagers playing with lightsabers and I don't find a problem with that at all. The handle is a bit wide and hard to put your fingers all the way around, but other than that, there are no plastic things sticking out that give you trouble to hold it, the button that turns it on isn't accidentally being turned off. I think it is a great toy for children 4 and up, even adults can play with these things, me and my roommate do.

We bought our son two of these lightsabers for Christmas. By February, one of them no longer worked. We tried new batteries, etc., and nothing got it going. We figured it must have taken a rough hit. Then the lightsabers sat in a drawer for a month (nobody ever wanted to fight using the broken one). When my son got them back out, in March, the second lightsaber was also broken. This time we knew our son hadn't done anything to it because it hadn't even been used! Within a few months they both just died for no reason.

This is a really cool example of a 3-d puzzle-- but it does have faults. It is not durable. Mine falls apart if you touch it. I didn't put it together quite how you were supposed to, which is another fault. Once you put together the puzzle, it is very hard to assemble the parts. The base is not stable, and it doesn't stand up on the bottom like the pic shows on the box. On the other hand, it looks really cool and stands about a foot and a half high. The sound system is great. To sum it up- if you don't need perfection and like either Star Wars or 3D puzzles to display (not play with!) then this is a great buy.

Ok, this game has some style. First of all, I love the way you can ride different vehicles then the first game. Also, there are many levels and they are from the movie. The controls are great and are very user friendly. Also, the graphics are unimaginable, but have not changed from Rogue Leader.
Overall, this game receives:

Graphics: 4 stars

Gameplay: 5 stars

Sound: 5 stars

Story: 5 stars

The other game is good so this one must be good too.

The gown itself is luxurious and well-made. My granddaughter wore hers for Halloween and plays in it often. The headpiece is another story. It is Huge! The child's father (six foot 2inch and 200 pounds) found that it was too big for him and would not stay on his head. When we finally got her to hold it on her head long enough for the costume contest, the pointed plastic piece on the bridge of the nose caused great plain so we glued cotton balls on it but they did not stay. The very top of the headpiece was crushed slightly when it arrived--thus the low durability rating. Overall, the child loved the costume and hated the headpiece while Grandma thought it was a bit pricey! (But she was the most beautiful child in the contest -- even though she did not win!)

The Unleashed line of toys continues with this figure of Darth Sidious. His face doesn't really match the one seen in RETUN OF THE JEDI, but the amount of detail and action in the sculpt help make up for it. The figure comes with two pairs of hands. One normal, the other features blue lightning bolts shooting out from his fingertips. I found it was best to display the figure with one regular hand and one hand with lightning. If you attach both hands with the lightning at the same time the amount of lightning looks a bit ridiculous plus his face can get obscured from certain angles.

Drawbacks - You'll have to find a safe place to store the hands not attached to the figure. The lightning bolts seem pretty sturdy, but I'm sure if they got bent they would break. On my figure the paint job on the pair of hands that have lightning is rather sloppy.

I recommend this figure, but it doesn't reach the high standard set by other figures in the series.

Not quite as good as X-Wing or TIE Fighter, but nevertheless, an excellent all-around game. If you liked the first Rebel Assault this one is much better.

I am going to reveal the ending, so do not read ahead if you still want to play this game.
Many others have already posted their opinions here, so I will not go through the whole game in detail.
But as many others have said, the voice-acting for the Obi-Wan character is ridiculously, unintentionally humorous -- the actor sounds like a guy with a head cold trying to imitate Ewan McGregor doing Obi-Wan, exaggerating the distinctive traits McGregor's Scottish accent -- so even lilts in his voice are thrown into hyperdrive. (as exaggerated as the honker the graphics dept. gave to Qui-Gon Jinn -- yes, the bridge on Liam Neeson's nose may be somewhat big, but since when did he have Karl Malden's nose?)
The game is unfortunately lacking in the graphics department -- sometimes you can't see features on faces.
But onto the ending. The game is fun, with a handful of challenging levels -- mostly due to the swarms of droids that come your way and droids taking stance behind high-powered laser cannons.
But it's marred by a disappointingly quick and all-too-easy ending. The moment arrives -- you finally meet Darth Maul. Just like in the movie, you stand behind the laser wall and watch as Qui-Gon is struck down by Maul.
And finally the wall opens, you hold your breath, ready for a tough battle -- one that you may have to play repeatedly until you put together the right string of moves and blocks to take him out before your health runs out. But it's not to be.
Darth Maul is ridiculously easy to defeat. I beat him on my first try and in less than a minute. And you have to fight him twice -- as once you take him down the first time, he gets a new, full meter of health. So in less than a minute, I drew down two full health meters. I felt cheated, to say the least.
I remember fighting against Mace Windu to have to reach the next level, and I had to go toe to toe against him some 20 to 30 times before I finally beat him. I was expecting at least a battle on that level of difficulty, but it ended up being the easiest level of the whole game. All I had to do was slash at him and use some force saber twirls and Maul was done.
How in the world could the game's makers create such a lackluster, lifeless, no-threat ending battle? I was left extremely wanting, and if it were a movie, I would have angrily asked for my money back. I cannot say enough how disappointing the ending was. Even more now, the Darth Maul character cries out for a game of his own. One can only wish -- for this Maul must have been a clone or imposter to go down with nary a fight.

I bought OBI-WAN the day it came out expecting something out of this world...no pun intended. The graphics are mediocre at best. The PS1 and N64 could run similar graphics without all the rich detail in the background. The sound, however, is another story. I have the system hooked up to a 5.1 Yamaha Digital Dolby receiver and the sound is incredible. The sound actually travels fully around you. Whether it's Qui-Gon speaking to you or a battle droid firing, you can tell from what direction it's coming from. The gameplay was simple enough and easy to learn. Both my nine year old son and I were able to finish the entire game in just about 20 hours of playing, leaving only the finished levels to do over or battle eachother one-on-one in the Jedi arenas, which is fun at first but gets real boring real fast. I definitely recommend you rent this one before buying...I wish I had.

This game is very nice. The controls aren't hard at all and the force powers come easily so that you'll be force pushin' and pullin' between lightsabers swings amongst a drove of battle droids on a whim. The graphics aren't bad and it's all a lot of fun, including facing other Jedi from the council inbetween missions. There is also a great multiplayer feature which adds years to it's playability. However, the game towards the end over all seems rushed. Darth Maul appears in the end and the game does nothing to maybe hype him up before that, as to build some sort of tension or fear. After that, he was easier to defeat than Mace Windu. The game, which focuses on Obi-Wan' path to become a Jedi Knight, has a horrible ending that looks sad and does nothing to tie it all togethor, but insteads brings in Anakin who is unheard of in the movie. For that, this game falls short of greatest, but is still a fun game. As far as the dissapointing ending and the last two levels (which seemed to drop the difficulty level a few notches)the multiplayer makes up for this. If you're wondering whether or not to buy this game, do it. It has many nice features, the multiplayer, and the incredibly sweet force slow-mo feature.