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Star Wars - Phantom Menace - Lucas Arts
Playstation £44.99
The long awaited PSX version of the PC adventure game will be a fairly precise
replica with perhaps some more size and scope thanks to the larger and faster arcade
engine of the Playstation. In what will be a 3D-style action/adventure in the style of
Tomb Raider or the first person levels of the Nintendo 64's Star Wars - Shadows of the
Empire, you assume the part of many of the movie's characters, each character arising
depending on the situation. However, you'll be playing as a Jedi more than any other type
of character during the game's 12 levels, mainly because the Jedi plays such a huge role
in the film.
Some of the action will take place on Tatooine, where
two Jedis, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, start their search for young Anakin Skywalker. Players
will take on several roles, four different lead characters, in fact. And though most of
the time will be spent playing Obi-Wan or Qui-Gon, later in the game, new roles will
include Captain Panaka, leader of the Queen's guard, and Queen Amidala, mother of the
wayward Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader if you hadn't already worked that one out).
In the film, the two central Jedis find Anakin quite
quickly. But in the game, it's a different story. Searching for him is a large proportion
of the game, enabling players to spend more time in locations such as Watto's junk shop on
Tatooine, the courtyards of Theed Palace on Naboo, the streets of the Mos Espa
marketplace on Tatooine, and the teeming capital city of Coruscant.
LucasArts, the company behind the man/legend George Lucas, has confidently announced that
it will take players between 20-40 hours to get through the game from beginning to end,
and added that lots of gameplay will venture into new situations not found in the movie.
In Tomb Raider-esque style Mini-quests based on tiny plot devices of the film and puzzles
will need to be solved throughout the game, making up the game's centre around which the
overall structure will revolve. But, in a new and innovative approach untried since Abe's
Oddyssey, The Phantom Menace also challenges players to interact with inhabitants, talking
and negotiating to search for clues and gain much needed items of equipment.
There will, of course, be combat elements against battle droids and alien enemies in which
you will get ample opportunity to weild your light saber or other blaster. While, most of
the time you'll use a light saber, the Jedi's trademark weapon, a surprising amount of
additional weapons will be picked up along the way allowing for bigger and better
firepower when you meet with level bosses or unfriendly automatons.
Star Wars Phantom Menace is due for release on the Playstation May 19th 1999. We
recommend you pre-order your copy now before the rush.
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UPPERS
Good plotline, nice graphics
You get to shoot a blaster on your Playstation!
Its Star Wars
DOWNERS
Release date coincides with movie so
there'll be a mad rush to buy the game.
THE LAST WORD
He doesn't like you. I don't like you either.
I have the death sentence on twelve worlds.
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