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GameCube and Star Wars: Disturbance in the Force?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: May 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Can anyone tell me DEFINITIVELY why LucasArts, et al., are NO LONGER making games for the GameCube? Legos Star Wars and Sith are being made for GameBoy Advance/DS, but not for the 'Cube. What's up with that?

I've heard a number of things:

* Star Wars titles never sold very well at all for Nintendo, whose strength still lies in its Mario and Pokemon franchises, among several others. But not Star Wars games. And in 3rd place in market share behind both Playstation and Xbox, making a 3rd version of any Star Wars game was a guaranteed money loser. (Not so for GameBoy which still owns the handheld domain.)

* The new Star Wars games require more buttons on the controllers. The others have them, GameCube does not.

* GameCube has no game playing interactivity, though I fail to see this as a showstopper.

Your thoughts? I really want to play Star Wars games like Battlefront but unless I move to another platform I am SOL. Any guesses if Nintendo Revolution will address these shortcomings?

AWESOME STAR WARS GAME!!! BEST YET!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you buy just one Star Wars game, make it this one. The action is intense (much like the films), and you can unlock the lightsaber and play in third-person mode with a cheat code!!!! Once you get the lightsaber, who needs all the other weapons?!
Kyle Katarn is the best non-movie character aside from Dash Rendar from "Shadows of the Empire". His further exploits in this game take him on a mission in which he locates an Imperial remnant base and takes on a new dark lord.
Will he renew his Jedi training to defeat this new enemy? Buy this guy to find out. You WON'T regret doing so!!!!!!

this rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game rocks i love it
great graphics multiplayer, weapons storyline, and more.
lightsabre battle are kewl. great music

Excelent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The swordfight, Oh the swordfight! I hope that Knights of the old republic allows you to fight like that too. This thing alone makes this game a blast.

Looks pretty good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game looks like it will be a worthy counter-part to the one for PC. You will have a large array of weapons, items, levels, & characters. The reason why I'm giving it only 3 stars is because one of the best features of the PC version is the ability to play multiplayer via the internet with other gamers such as yourself. Overall though, it looks good!

Time to get behind the Katarn. "Perhaps your not as strong as you would have thought."

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Perhaps Kyle Katarn's game isn't as strong as we would have liked. Some of the things in this game just show the short-sightedness of the developers. Like the angle of the camera in the Imperial station on some planet's name I can't remember. The angle of the camera made Kyle's hips look very big. And when I mean big, I mean BIG! Or the stupid suit Galak Fyarr is wearing when Katarn meets up with him! What is that a criptonite suit to destory Kyle like Super-Man? The puppet like movement of the characters' lips stinks. The physical animated movement in the characters isn's fluid. The sloppy mistakes that they {the development team} made will make you laugh all the way form Japan to America. The graphics in the game definitely need to be worked on. I mean, it says right on the box that this game optimizes the GameCube's performance. I don't think they know what the GameCube is capable of! Over all I might sound really tough on the game, but do you want a real review of this game, or not? Now to get to nicer aspects of the game. The game is suprisingly fun to play, especally the multiplayer aspect of this game. Though, I'm going to have to warn you in single player jedi master mode, when you get to the end, you'll run in to this nasty over grown ex-jedi lizard named Dasann. And boy I'll tell you, I had to trick Desann into killing himself by barbequeing a pillar with his lightning so that it fell on his head! What a grueling thing it was! Oh, now to the multiplayer part of the game. If you think that fire arms are just for the bad guys, your wrong! In the game you will have a great variety of guns, not just lightsabers. By the way if you don't laugh in the multiplayer part you'll lose 50% of the game, and 50% of the fun. In all I recommend this game for the laughs and injoyment. Remember: "Be a customer. Not a comsumer! Period."-Jake Smithers

Not a spectacular port

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Jedi Outcast originally started out as a PC game, an awesome one at that. In fact, it even won a few "Game of the Year," awards from different magazines and reviewers. Then, Vicarious Visions gets the rights to port it over to the GameCube and Xbox. As you will soon see, that transition from PC to GameCube was not very well done.

First, the good. The storyline is pretty good, if not a little shallow, and the sound is authentic and true to the Star Wars license. The puzzles are kind of cool and its fun to go back through the levels to see what different ways you can dispose of an enemy (should I chuck them off the cliff or should I choke them and use them as a shield.)

Now the bad. We'll start with the graphics. The graphics, even for 2002, aren't very well done. The game is very dark and it's hard to see where the heck you are going. Also, some of the environments are very "blah" and uninteresting. A few of the outdoor levels, like the end Yavin 4 levels, are pretty and detailed (rain will sizzle on your lightsaber) but really, the whole game should be like that. Also, there is a problem with framerates, especially in the multiplayer mode. If you get too many people on screen, you'll get considerable lag. Sometimes, the framerates will drop even without very many enemies onscreen. Doing tricks, like running along the wall, will also cause slowdown. The cutscenes use the in game engine are often full of artifacts(pixellations). You can even find artifacts in the few CG cutscenes.

Now for the controls. The controls are clunky at first, but you can generally get the hang of it. The GameCube controller, though, isn't very well adapted to rapid tapping of the shoulder buttons, but it works. Also, sometimes the controls are little slow to respond.

If I were to make this game better, I would make the controls more fluid, smooth out the graphics and add dynamic lighting, and I would make it so that the player actually felt like a true Jedi, which this game partially succeeded in. Overall, I give it a 7/10.

Way Cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have no idea how but I managed to score a brand new copy for the GameCube for only 40 buck! And I will never sell my copy it rock so hard, the single player mode can be incredibly hard if you dont know what you are doing. But the multiplayer is insanely fun. and with this game becomeing harder to find every day I consider myself quite lucky. Here is a tip that I found quite usfull when hunting for this game. Go to gamestop, funcoland, gamecrazy, or EB games as early as possible on tuesdays. Because on tuesdays they put out all of the used games that they have collected over the week. I found that 100 percent of the stores I went to had a used copy of this game. So its really not that hard to find if you know were and when to look.

Review of Star Wars Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

INTRO: Jedi knight 2 is the 3rd installment of the Dark Forces Series. You return as Kyle Katarn and the help of some others friends to battle the Dark Side

THE GOOD: This game is perhaps the funnest game i own.The story mode is fantastic, and the the graphics and enviroments are stunning, but, for me the best part about this game is the Jedi Arena mode. It is eather multiplayer or single player and you can chose from a large varaity of players such as Kyle, Luke Skywalker, Stormtrooper, Lando Calarisian, and many many others. You can also chose from many diferent enviroments ranging from the death star to the Star Destroyer, and even the streets of Bespin.

THE BAD: There really isnt much bad to say about this game. The only bad things are that some of the puzzles are very hard and soemtimes when your stuck in one of the puzzles you feel like u just wanna blow up some stormtroopers. Also the first two levels u dont have the force or a lightsaber. It can also be a bit hard to figure out the controls because, after all, this game was ment for a PC.

OVERALL: Overall, this game was incredible and if you love star wars you will love this. By far the best installment in the Dark Forces Series.

larry

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: November 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played this for the computer. If this one is as good and has all of the levels as the computer then this game is just right for you gamers out there.

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