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Obi-Wan

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 38
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played the X-box, and it's great. But Obi-Wan for Xbox is just...[bad]. Lucasarts have already done 10 Episode 1 games and all of them, except racer, were failures and should been avoided.
Obi-Wan are an exact copy of Episode 1:Phantom Menace (PC,PS). What they'we done is just highened the graphic one level. You play 1 level, and you put it away. Play other games like Mario or Sonic or something, becaous those games will be listened forever as the best games ever.

Underwhelming

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: December 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played a demo of this a few weeks ago and found the game to be rather lame. The animation had to be the worst part. I thought it would at least be a beefed up fighting/quest game taking advantage of the xbox's power but came away from it utterly disappointed. Obi-Wan's movements are rather choppy, almost robotic and not fluid in the least bit. Like what was said earlier, not just the plot but the actual gameplay and movements are almost identical to TPM for the psx and pc, with better graphics and shading. From everyone I've talked to, Obi-Wan is shaping up nicely to be one of the worst xbox titles out there. Beware of the dark side of the force, as well as crummy games from Lucas Arts.

This Game is Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rarely do I ever write an article about anything. However, this game was so ... terrible that I had to take a stand. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. It is a waste of time and money. This game is just another sorry effort by the folks at Lucas Arts. They are fraudulently using their brand name to sell a shoddy product. Controls are horrible, and the graphics under-utilize the power of the Xbox. Fusion Frenzy is a better game than this one. I had more fun playing my old Atari 2600 games than I had with Obi Wan. If you did buy this game, return it. Buy yourself something more useful, like a paperweight.

VERY RUSHED, AND POOR EXECUTION

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...THE MULTIPLAYER ARENS ARE SMALLER THAN A BATHRROOM. THE GRAPHICS ARE HORRIBLE, (I THINK DOOM IS MUCH BETTER) AND THE PHYSICS ENGINE IS JUST UNBELIEEABLE. THE GAME CRASHES ...OFTEN ...ANYONE, PLEASE RETURN IT AND DONT BUY IT. IF U SEE SOMEONE GETTING IT, SAY THE FOLLOWING, "PLEASE, SIR, STEP AWAY FROM OBI-WAN BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE. THANK YOU, AND DON'T BUY THIS HORRIBLE GAME.

Lucas Arts Does it Again..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I promised myself I wouldn't buy Lucas Arts games anymore.. but of course I was a sucker for this game when it came out on Xbox. I've tried twice to play this game and both times grew bored of it within 15 minutes. Compared to other XBox games I have this game doesn't even come close. Game control is tedious at best and load times are terrible. The graphics are decent I guess.. but based on games like Halo, they really aren't up to par. To top it off, for whatever reason, Lucas Arts has made Obi-Wan's voice sound like a bad William Shatner impression! Honestly, anyone who says this is the best game for XBOX hasn't bothered to play Halo, Max Payne, Madden, NHL Hitz, etc..

SAVE YOUR MONEY! Rent this game.

**May the Force Be With You**

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

I forced myself to continue playing this game in hopes that towards the end, it would get funner...it never did. To be completely honest, I actually dreaded playing this game every day. Besides the below average graphics, and awkward controls, the gameplay was far below par. The graphics would be sufficient at times, but at no time were they spectacular, or even better than average. I found the game to glitch, and pause for no reason in the middle of battles, and if I ever tried to do more than one thing at once. The controls were very hard to get used to, and it was nearly impossible to do more than one thing at once. Granted it is hard to make it possible to have all the powers a jedi knight has, there were too many things to do with the controllers, especially considering you cant use more than one power at a time. The gameplay was oftentimes confusing and extremely frusterating. The only way I could even come close to recommending this game is if someone had a guide to let them know the missions they were to accomplish. Sure the game would give a brief description of what to do, but in no way was it enough information to get the job done. Also the fact that the player is only given four chances of continuing a level before they have to start over again was extremely frusterating. The levels were long and drawn out, which would be fine, but the way the continuations worked, I would find myself gettin to the end of a level, and then not having any continuations left (which was extremely frusterating to say the least). Overall, I would not recommend this game to another gamer, but with a guide, or level maps, it has the possibility to be BEARABLE.

What kind of cruddy game is this?!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite possibly the most horrific game to hit the X-Box yet! I've seen some crappy graphics, but this takes the cake! The many horrors of this game are terrifying, and that's just the begining! First of all, the graphics are so bad, the characters' lips don't even move and This game's structure is so bad you'll die for no reason, and this game has a tendency to glitch like crazy during two-player mode. This game is a compleate mess. Lucas Arts must have put it together in one weekend. They just slapped a title on a piece of pitiful junk! They just needed some game out just to have it out. This is a sorry excuse for a game and a waste of money, money that could have been spend on something more useful, like toilet paper. I recommend KOTOR or just plain anything else expect this.

Fun game, marred by disappointingly easy last battle

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

It is so awful, that it even puts the Xbox to shame

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Repetitive gameplay, horrible framerate, out-dated engine, ugly graphics, frequent pauses, it is the worst game to hit the Xbox. It is just terrible!

Yoda himself couldn't save this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was a woeful attempt (at best) to capitalize on the release of Episode II. LucasArts could and should have spent much more time developing this game. The best part of the game is the training mode. It is all downhill from there. The graphics are Genesis like (my apologies to Sega). This game completely missed all that the X-Box is about. The X-Box is the best console available, period. Yet, Obi Wan is a COMPLETE failure. The music is horrendous. The plot is sketchy. The player control and camera angles are horrific. And, again, the graphics are just short of atrocious. I could have made a better video game with a paper clip and stick of chewing gum. Thankfully, I rented Obi Wan before considering a purchase. I played it once and returned it. It was that bad. I have only purchased two games for the X-Box: Halo and Outlaw Golf. World Series Baseball and Knock-Out Kings are also Excellent and Hunter the Reckoning and UFC aren't bad. But, getting back to Obi Wan, it is a cataclysmic stretch to say that this game is worth purchasing (new or used). RENT IT FIRST!!! My guess is that you would rather have rented the Little Mermaid but give it a try before purchasing the game. TRUST ME. You will be glad that you saved your money for something else. There is a reason there are 1000 used copies for sale on E-bay.

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