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Just a quick caution.....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was really excited about this game; it sounded really cool.But after I had played it for 45 min.,I died(like I had so many times before), and so did the game.It caused MAJOR problems for my computer, and it took a while to fix it. Don't buy this unless you are abseloutely sure it will work.

Please don't buy this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

To tell you the truth, I actually kind of liked the movie, StarWars Episode 1, but mainly for its' special effects. Special effectsare the only redeeming quality of this bomb of a game. You have a very bad perspective with a very short viewing distance. Enemies can shoot you from far off, while you can't even see them. On top of that, this game is way to short and repetitive with bad acting and the same boring story from the movie. Discourage George Lucas from making games like this anymore by not buying this game. Then maybe the new Jedi Knight: Obi Wan game will be as good as Jedi Knight. Hopefully. END

Don't Buy It

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a low-quality game with bad controls, terrible camera angle (you can't see far enough ahead), decent (but blocky) graphics, Excellent sound, A limp plot, and all around bad game. If you're a fan of Star Wars, you can find many better games for your money.

A waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am disappointed with this software. 7 of ten trials to run it have frozen my system. I have a very capable computer with a an 866MHz processor, 256MB ram and 32MB Gforce nvidia AGP CARD. The game should certainly work but it always ends up frozen. All other games work wonderfully. Many times you can't even start the game as it freezes in the introduction. Take heed!

i love star wars

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge star wars fan, but even I found this game to be a dissapointment. The Graphics and sound are well done, but the game has caused me more frustration than enjoyment due to poorly implemented controls and camera angles. If you're looking for pretty graphics (and star wars, of course) then buy this title, but don't expect to get very far without hours of frustrating game time.

OK Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is ok. When I first played it I thought it was excellent, but after I borrowed it from a friend I realized how lame some parts of the game were. Playing as the queen is just bad, VERY bad. Panaka is ok, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon are pretty cool because they have sabers. But the queen? Maybe someone else like Padme or even Jar Jar. The fact that the Jedi could deflect lasers blasts was great. This feature could have been awesome if Lucasarts hadn't of made it so difficult to deflect laser blasts. Another problem are the stupid droids. The battle droids sometime don't attack you when you are 3 feet away from them. Realism is another factor. In the movie, we didn't see R2-D2 until the queen left theed. In the game we see him opening doors for us on the Trade Federation Ship. Even though this game has some really messed up parts in it. There are still some good parts in it. Sound is excellent. THe duel with DM is good too. All in all, The Phantom Menace is a pretty good game if your a star wars maniac, but if your are a simple star wars fan like me it's really nothing special. Jedi Knight is better anyway.

fair-de-middle-in

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's a game. But the acting is no worse than the movie so I give it one extra star because you can do stuff, not just sit there and watch the lousey acting. "Qui gon, I have a bad feeling about dis" Well, it's kinda fun, I guess. You get to whack things with yer light-saber which sounds much like the movie and the other sound effects/background ambience are excellent in my opinion. Music even better. Gameplay OK. Graphics are not the best for now but very good for 1999. You want a good Episode I game, try Racer.

Poorly Executed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game had a lot of potential, no matter how lame the movie may have been. The graphics were good (especially the lighting efects), but the polygonal characters... frankly, they stank. I know Lucas Arts can produce MUCH better titles than this, after having played Jedi Knight and Pod Racer I know it's possible. But this one was rushed to the point of releasing on beta level! The sounds were great, just as most of the other Lucas Arts games are. They are usually pulled straight out of the movie. The most annoying aspect of the game was the camera angle. What were they thinking! You could barely see in front of you. It would have been better for a completely overhead view, than that annoying angle, in which you couldn't see twenty feet. Anyway... I'm not even going to waste my time writing about a game I was sorely disapointed with.

An OK game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 35 / 43
Date: March 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The Phantom Menace. Sometimes this game seems like an excellent one, while at others it is downright boring and silly.

The graphics, while not the best, are certainly the best i'll ever see on my fast-approaching obsolete computer. They are still pretty impressive though, as are the reflections, particle trails, and other little graphical effects. The sounds and voices are all pretty good too.

While the first few levels and the last few levels are pretty much fun, the Tatooine levels are boring and silly. Also, after playing the jedi for half of the game, you feel immeasurably weak when you are forced to play as panaka or the queen with her wimpy "droid stunner" gun.

The first time you play this game, it is pretty fun and challenging. Most of the puzzles aren't too difficult, but then you get to those jumping puzzles like the one on level three, and due to the awkward POV and controls, it takes twenty minutes to cross that little bit of water. This becomes a constant problem later...little jumping puzzles that take a vast amount of time and get very annoying very fast. It's also annoying running around tatooine, running when people try to kill you but not allowed to kill them, and trying to trade things back and forth.

Fortunately, the darth maul fights are pretty cool.

The second time you play the game, it's extremely easy, and I don't think I died once, and I beat the game in one sitting. Boring, fast, this game is fun the first time but has no replayability value. Add to that the lack of variety in enemies (100's of battle droids with once and a while a destroyer thrown in), and the lack of multiplayer, and you get a game which is decent but not worth the original $50 price.

Now that the price has gone down, if you like these types of games, I'd recommend trying it, but if you prefer shoot-em-up action games, stear clear of this one.

It was ok in some parts, others better, but some bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The game was ok, but in some parts it was to challengeing and others just to easy.When you are a jedi there should be more things to do besides swing a light saber. The force rarely does any good. The force push only knocks down little enemies and the mind trick dosent even work a lot of the time.There are to many unimportant parts that make no diffrance in the game. It needs to stay closer to the movie.

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