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Great PS1 game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In the opinion of this 43 year old, this is the only Play Station game worth playing. It's fun and very challenging, but if you play it with your children, you'll have a lot of fun.

It's the only PS1 game I've played that was fun for me!

Oh what an awesome game...which was sadly overlooked.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Oh yeah, Jedi Power Battles. It's a shame they didn't continue this series. The combo systems were amazing and the ultimate saber does what all light sabers would do "in real life" namely drop fools with one swipe. None of this hit-em-4-times-before-they-drop crap. Admittedly the two player mode gets tough when you've got to jump on a billion different moving platforms but it still doesn't take away from the overall awesomeness of this extremely fun but sadly overlooked action game.

The worst Star Wars game ever to come out

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for a brilliant Star Wars game, you're in the wrong place. This is the worst Star Wars game ever.

Multiplayer is tedious and frustrating, because if one person dies by falling off a cliff, then the screen moves so that the other player is inevitably doomed. This is due to the fact that the producers forgot to make it split-screen.

That's excluding the fact that there is really no fighting/action and that falling off of cliffs is the entire purpose of the game.

There are only ten levels, and rather than making the enemies harder or the action more intense, the producers decided to make more cliffs for you to fall off of! Yipee! And on top of that... there is a little battle droid waiting at the other end of just about every cliff you're supposed to jump over. He shoots you with his blaster when you are almost there, causing you to freeze in mid-air and fall into the abyss you were just jumping over. He is, in the later levels replaced by another droid doing the same exact thing. He's just doing it with a rocket. Brilliant!!!

3D??? This game would be better off 2D, because the position of the camera doesn't follow the player, but moves from one point to another to give you the worst angle possible for any action game.

The combat is limited, because you cannot jump and attack at once, and if you jump over a droid, it is turned around before you are, and ready to shoot you without a moment's delay. Or, if you prefer, it will just shoot you while you are jumping over it, because it always remains on target. This will leave you constantly pressing one button to attack from beginning to end.

As for upgrades and force moves that you aqquire; by level five, you have been given every force move in the game. Yes, I mean it, all three of them. There were more Force moves than that in the Star Wars games for Super Nintendo.

It goes as FAR from the movie as it can without calling itself, "Star Wars; Jedi Cliff Jumping." None of the jedi were ever in a Naboo swamp fighting armies of Gungan's just for the thrill of it. None of the Jedi would have spent their free time jumping from one flying cruiser to another killing random people in Courascant. And not one of the Jedi would have been stupid enough to jump from balcony to balcony to get to the Queen, when it was obviously easier just to use the stairs.

I could go on and on about how much I liked this game, but instead, I'll just list the pros and their corresponding cons.

Pros

1. Co-play

2. No blood

3. Good cheats

4. You get a battle tank

5. You get a STAPP

6. It's challenging

7. You get force moves

8. Based on a Star Wars movie


Cons

1. Co-play sucks

2. Almost no fighting

3. To get cheats you have to perfect the whole thing

4. The battle tank is in just one level

5. You can't ride around in the STAPP

6. It's tedious

7. You master all three Force moves by level 5

8. Doesn't really follow any Star Wars movies

9. Graphics suck

10. No split-screen

11. Only two vehicles

12. Only two weapons (including the grenade)

13. The fighting is boring and tedious

14. It may as well be 2D

15. Your force power is limited

16. And it's just no fun

If you're looking for a Star Wars game for Playstation, "Star Wars Demolition" is pretty cool, and hey, they actually remembered to make that one split-screen.

If you're looking for something with exciting combat on Playstation, keep looking, I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

And finally, if you are looking to conduct an experiment on how long it takes to die of boredom, then this is the game for you.

Sorry to be the naysayer, but this game really sucks.

IM a sleep

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: January 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

very boreing. it turned out when i have to potect anikin i hit him with my light saber when he ran away. be obi one and dont stop pessing sgaue and you will bet darth marle

it`s pretty good, but not the best.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I`m a huge starwars fan, and hardcore gamer, I have a, N64, Gameboycolor, Nintendo DS, and a PSone, I own all the starwars games for the N64, this one was not quite ranking with the others, but it is a good game, it may start out boring, but it gets better, on one level ou can control

an AAT, on onother a STAP, the game has five characters, and 3 unlockable ones, the game has 10 levels, (I`m still on the fifth one, tattoine) rebel assault II is a better game.

PROS
the game is challenging
you can control vehicles,
5 characters
10 levels
and has good graphics.

CON`s
2nd level boss is very hard,
game starts out easy, but gets harder
not many vehicles to control
force runs out fast
health also runs out fast
unstable controls

but overall I would probably rent it a couple of times, then maybe buy it. hope this helps.

Poor game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but this is the worst game I have ever played period. I'm not a bad gamer, but couldn't even get passed the first level. It sucked. I sold it to some unfortunate for $2 and was very happy with the money. Yep - it truly stinks. I'm ashamed to say that originally I bought the game in the UK for what worked out to be $45. Oh, and the music and sound fx get on your nerves as well.

Nothing spectacular here

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles (2000.)

INTRODUCTION:
Even long after the Galactic Civil War Trilogy of Star Wars films had ended, the series itself did not. The Expanded Universe was born, and from it came books, comics, and plenty of video games. With the arrival of a new prequel trilogy covering the Clone Wars era, it was only natural that lots of Star Wars games would get released. Unfortunately, the market was being so flooded with Star Wars games, that many of them just weren't that good. Following the release of the Episode I film, Jedi Power Battles was released. One of the systems the game got released on was the first Playstation. How is Jedi Power Battles? Read on to find out?

OVERVIEW:
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles was released in 2000. The game can be one or two player cooperative, features 3D platform-style action, and was released for the Playstation, Dreamcast, and Game Boy.

REVIEW:
In 2000, when this game came out, the thirty-two bit gaming thing was on the way out, and this game demonstrates that very well. Just one look at the graphics goes to show that the Playstation One was nearing its end - these graphics look atrocious! The Playstation is about the only system I know on which the graphics of 3D games seemed to get WORSE as time progressed. The gameplay itself isn't a whole lot better. Most of the buttons let you do different attacks with your character's lightsaber, and there are run and jump buttons for when you need them. Unfortunately, the configuration is godawful. You can't even configure the control to your liking - TOTALLY UNFORGIVABLE in a game like this. You can choose from a few different control styles, but there is absolutely no excuse for not including custom configuration. The fact that the controls are often unresponsive doesn't help things either. And the game's problems don't stop there. The game is frustrating. Not terribly difficult (except for in a few parts), just frustrating. You must complete an ENTIRE LEVEL before you can save, so if you make it to the end of a level and die just prior to completing it, that's just tough - you're gonna have to play the whole thing over again. The game isn't all bad, though - you've got your choice of several different Jedi Knights, and there are plenty of unlockable characters and areas. Sadly though, all of the characters play almost exactly alike, and no matter who you play, you play as if you're undergoing Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon's story from Episode I. Weak. They should have had a custom path and storyline for everyone. Overall, there isn't really anything here to draw in gamers, except for the most die-hard of Star Wars fans who want every game to bear the name. But still, there are better games out there. When this game was released, it was almost instantly obsolete due to the rise of more powerful gaming consoles.

EDITION NOTES:
This game is long out of print, and you can't find it new in stores anymore, but used video game stores have an abundance of copies these days. If you're hunting it down, I suggest checking one of them out.

OVERALL:
Overall this is a good game, but it falls flat when you compare it to other games of the same day and age. And besides, there are better Star Wars games out there, as any fan will tell you. If you're a die-hard fan of the Star Wars franchise, or you want every Star Wars game, then by all means get it (it's pretty damn cheap if you can find it), but don't expect anything spectacular. It's good, but it sure as hell ain't great.

very boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is Very boring, all you do is kill the andorids in your way (which is Easy to accomplish) and then your faced with a big robot(and you think that is the end of level 1 it NOT) then you kill more andriod then your faced with a bit space ship. This game reminds me of the old Mario bros games, where you walk foward and get to the end. I was excpeting this game to be more like Spyro with hiden rooms, challanging villians and clues to figure out this game is so NOT like that!!

Also my biggest Pet peeve about this game is you can not Save it at any time. You have to complete the Whole level before it will let you save your game. After playing for 3 hours and not finishing level 1, I unfortunatly died and was NOT allowed to save my progress. I had to start ALL over from the begaining. It took me another 4 hours to finish level 1 (after starting over from the begaining 50 times) When I finally finished level 1 I was FINALLY allowed to Save my game which SUCKS. If you get tired and want to save the game and come back later you CAN'T you'll have to finish the level before you can save it.

completely and utterly the worst video game ever made EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a major star wars fan and a gamer. I have liked most sw games but this one i sold for $2 and was very VERY happy. the game starts out vey interesting indeed. you are a jedi and you can kill things, which is fun. the only drawback is that the game sucks after 2 minutes. i dont think that i have ever after seeing 10 people try it (all good gamers) finish the first level. there was something we like to call the "LEAP OF FAITH" whis is in said level. put simply: you cannot do it. ever. in the world. ever. even if god himself is trying to make this game not suck.

This game stinks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: August 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In this game you are always running around hacking up things with whats supposed to be a lightsaber but looks like a colored stick! The farthest I have gotten is tattooine and I beat the poop out of Darth Maul but then the whole game gets frozen and I cant beat the stupid maggot thing again! I already know you can be darth maul but he is the same as Obi Wan except he looks like Maul and he has a one bladed saber like on Tattooine!

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