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After playing the game for about 4 hours, I thought I'd add my initial impressions.
Possible touch on things not already mentioned here.
There's quite a bit to do with Kinect Star Wars and it's deeper than I anticipated.
The Presentation, from being greeted by 3PO and R2 with their clever commentary and jokes, even looking for you when you leave the play area, to the great camera angles during cut scenes, the menus, the familar faces that show up, the feel of 1st person view space combat, it all has that star wars feel for me.
The main game Jedi Destiny is controling really well for me so far, jumping, dodging, dashing, and force powers work when i want them to. The lightsaber combat is simplified and a little slow, but still fun. It just takes a little getting used to. You play a padawan after all and Jedi don't flail like madmen anyway. Sometimes the game is on rails, like when running away from enemy fire and just jumping(the camera angle changes too) and other times like when i walked into a room full of droids, I had to jump around, block, dodge, dash all while taking them out with slices or the force. It felt off rails. The cut scenes are frequent to give you a bit of a rest, and well done, but could be a little smoother animation wise.
There are various platforming/puzzle areas of the game to break up the action a bit. They are relatively easy but may take a few attempts to clear.
The vehicle bits are cut in appropriatly to mix thing up and although simple, easy to control, and immersive. I felt like i was out in space, pretty epic, star wars feel there.
There are two difficulties to choose from if easy feels, well, too easy. The hard difficulty will see you dying and having to restart from a checkpoint instead of just respawning. You need to mix up your attacks more and the enemies aim is better. Jedi destiny is relatively short 4-6 hours, and i assume this depends on the difficulty you play at. I'm really liking the toughness of jedi knight difficulty. It makes you mix it up more.
The graphics in jedi destiny could be better but are still good.
Pod Racing on the other hand looks beautiful and is fluid and easy to control.
There are different speeds in quickplay that the game runs at, so if it seems to slow be sure to change this up. There are also 3 settings for driving assistance, choose what is appropriate for you. And you can turn off the green path line. I'm really enjoying Pod Racing, its fast and furious out there.
There are 2 modes A story mode and quickplay. The story mode has you upgrading your pod. Also you can use attack and defense weapons such as flame throwers, and laser droids (like luke practiced his saber skills with). shields and repair kits, buzz droids you can unleash on your opponents. They all go up in levels the more races you win as well.
There are quite a few pilots to choose from, with more to unlock. To get buzz droids off your ship you throw wrenches at them, you can even wipe your goggles dry when water etc. gets splashed on you and covers the screen. Weapons are activated with a quick raise of your left or right hand.
Throughout the story bits you'll see some familiar faces such as watto, and sebulba and some racers from episode one. It takes place 10 years after though.
Rancor Rampage controls well, you can walk, charge, smash, jump, eat people, take out tie fighters etc. A good way to let off some steam. The levels are pretty large and you can unlock different rancors by leveling up. When you walk faster so does the rancor. Turning takes some getting used to, and I wish there was a quick (for a rancor at least) turn around move.
Duel of Fates is one on one lightsaber action. something to play for a quick fix. You defend by blocking or dodging, or parrying, then clash and attack. There is a pause after the clash before you attack which takes a little getting used to. Then you attack until the meter runs down. You can also throw objects at your opponent with the force. This mode gets more fun the more i play it and better i get. If there are only 5 enemies that is pretty weak/short. But you do get to fight Dooku and Vader for sure. Anyone know if there are more opponents? After fighting Dooku, I was a little bummed he didn't talk at all.
Dance Mode is a funny parody mode, that controls like Dance Central, you have different characters to populate the scene with and 3 difficulty modes. 15 songs that are pretty funny so far. Dancing like that isn't really my thing, but its fun to watch, and a kind of robot chicken/family guy bonus mode. That you shouldn't take seriously.
Overall the game is deeper than i expected, with lots to do for everyone, and everyone will have their favorite mode. The action can be intense and is well presented. I'm finding it to control very well for kinect and is the most fun I've had with a kinect game. Maybe people complaining about the controls need to calibrate, or spend a little more time figuring out how to play exactly?
It's not perfect and doesn't have everything in the star wars universe, but what it does have is really fun, and works pretty well. Hope there is DLC and they make more games that expand upon the force and lightsaber combat, or blasters with han solo and the rebel alliance. And more vehicle combat, with a bit more complexity such as something as simple as leaning to dodge asteroids in a falcon segment. Lots of possibilities for dlc or new instalments.
have fun!
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