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Star Wars Starfighter: Specail Edition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 70
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I this game stinks compared to Rogue Squadron 2. Rogue Squadron has better graphics, entertaining, and more fun then Star Wars Star fighter. If you are a true star wars fan and want a great flying game by Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2.

Maybe great, but.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 66
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sure the graphics and gameplay may be souped up from PS2, but want me and most other people seemed to be more excited about is Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2 on GameCube. The consoles cheaper and the game (RL) is a better game.

Based on the original...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 44
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't belive there have been playable demos of this game yet, but the original (on PS2) was a nightmare. The only good thing is that part of the problem was the terrible grpahics, which can be fixed on the xbox. The only problem is that the gameplay will need to be more diverse and entertaining, and most starwars fans will be looking to Star Wars: Rouge Squadrine 2 by the time this comes out, which plays like a masterpeice. If they do improve the title, it still might not be too good.

The first really bad XBOX game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I actually have bought and played this game, and it's awful. The gameplay and controls are difficult, the flight physics are a joke. You can actually fly into walls several times and come out okay. The graphics are about what I'd expect two or three years ago. If this is the updated Xbox version, I feel very sorry for the PS2 people. On top of all this, the level design and story [disappoint]. Don't waste your money. ANY other fighter game would be better.

...--this game is horrible!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't good at all. After getting my XBOX, I found I really liked playing Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II on my friend's Nintendo's Gamecube. That had great (and familiar) graphics, fantastic action gameplay, and a good score. This game, however, is just the opposite, with the exception of the graphics. And while the graphics are decent (as they should be given that this is the XBOX), they aren't as good as in Rogue Squadron II, and they're certainly not enough to compensate for the lousy gameplay and annoying score
First, the gameplay is absolutely horrible, with the exception of the first board in which you are flying through a cavern, which is somewhat fun for only a little while, until you get out of the cavern. Basically, there really is no 'flying'. Yes, you are supposedly flying, but it pretty much always feels like you are simply suspended and can only rotate your view from one point in the air. This awful perspective is even more pronounced when you are in space and there aren't as many visual points of reference (to at least maintain the pretense that you're actually moving forward and not suspended in one point of the air). Shooting down enemy fighters isn't fun and doesn't seem like it would be realistic, especially since, again, it's all about adjusting your view rotationally (as if you were suspended in the center of a sphere looking outward) and not about moving forward or accelarating, even though you are supposedly doing these things. Furthermore, your thumb gets tired after so much rotational adjusting to get your enemies in sight. And it's not the type of tired that is fun either. Lastly, with the freighters in space, it's very frustrating, because all you do is slow down so you don't crash into them (i.e., your feeling of being suspended in one point is even more pronounced) and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot some more; basically you shoot ad infinitum until they blow up. For these reasons and more, the gameplay is horrible.
Beyond the gameplay, there are other things that detract from this game. The plot isn't well defined at all. Sometimes it seems that all you do is go around, from level to level, shooting aimlessly (of course it wouldn't feel so aimless if there was better gameplay). The levels are most of the time confusing in their objectives and visual appearance, as are the characters, ships, and enemies (especially, I guess, if you are like me and haven't read any of the post-Return of the Jedi science fiction that's out there. But you shouldn't have to in order to enjoy a game like this.) The objectives, and especially the 'bonus goals' for each level, are often too difficult, even on the 'Easy' level.
Finally are the little things. The score is annoying, much worse than on any other XBOX game I own. The character Nim is as annoyingly bad for this videogame as Jar Jar Binks was for The Phantom Menace movie. There's probably some other stuff that I'm leaving out as well. THE BOTTOM LINE IS: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME. I now own about nine or ten XBOX games, and this is by far the one I dislike the most. ...

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is probably the worse game I have ever seen, there is not planning in it and it looks like it was rushed to get (more money) from suckers like me. It's hard to play and the graphics are pretty much nonexistant. I expect more from Lucus and Microsoft.

pong was a lot better (this game is a joke)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: June 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is the worst i mean realy the controlls (witch are allready hard because of the controller) are way to hard, next the missions are pointless realy the first trainging missions were to hard to understand so you dont know what to do and then there is the ...multiplayer, i have never played anything that was that boring in all of my life. basicly DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!! it is extreamly terible and i think pong is more intertaining

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The sequel is almost to market: wait for it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Honestly, unless you're LucasArts completist collector, there's no longer any reason to buy this game. With the pending sequel, JEDI STARFIGHTER, many of the things that annoyed people about STARFIGHTER SE (like its highly inadequate multiplayer environment) are going to be addressed--and, we hope, resolved. GIve this one a miss.

It was......well......boring!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It hurts to write a bad review for a star wars game, being as big a fan as I am. However, this game did not live up to my expectations. First complaint are the dull, boring ships you fly. Maybe you're excited about flying Naboo fighters but I'd prefer a TIE Fighter or X-Wing anyday. Then you get these weak missions that if you put it on Easy it's no challenge, if you put it on normal you'll be dead before you knonw who's firing at you. I also didn't like the open space part of it. My favorite aerial game is StarFox where you're always flying forward and into action and this fly everywhere stuff didn't excite me.

However, I'm not saying you won't enjoy this game. You only won't enjoy it if you share my sentiments listed above.

Not really special

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 20
Date: November 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Whats so special about this game? Well, nothing really. Its not bad. I mean I really liked the PS2 edition. I was really hoping they would improve on the Xbox version alot and they, uh, didn't. It's fun with good graphics and controls though. If you own the original then you might want to just skip this one. If not then go ahead and buy it.

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