The Star Wars Kid in Me is Happy, Sad
By Shaun Hatton - July 23rd, 2008
Used to be I’d buy a Nintendo system just because there was a must-have Star Wars game for it. Super Nintendo had Super Star Wars. N64 had Shadows of the Empire. GameCube had Rogue Leader.
Wii? It has Star Wars Lego. I already have that on the GameCube and the DS (worst game purchase decision ever, as it’s a buggy piece of crap).
Being a Star Wars nerd through and through, I was of course very excited about the Wii’s motion controls being used for an awesome Star Wars duelling game – and we’re getting that, sorta, with the upcoming Clone Wars game. But wait! Just a day before showing off that game at E3, Nintendo announced Wii MotionPlus, which is a little dongle for the Wii Remote which will allegedly give the controller true 1:1 motion controls.
Me? I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m still a little stung from… oh, every third party Wii game having faulty controls that work properly half the time. Luckily some games have given the option of other controller support or they would have been a total lost cause (Mortal Kombat Armageddon, I’m looking at you).
Now the whole downside to Wii MotionPlus is that it likely won’t be used for this upcoming Clone Wars game! But is it really that big of a deal when I can just play Jedi Academy multiplayer over and over again without the fear of breaking all the lamps in my house? I guess not.
I mean, how stupid would LucasArts have to be to NOT publish a 1:1 lightsabre-heavy Star Wars game?
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I’m planning on getting a Wii… almost solely for the joy of having sword fights :)
Indeed. The Wii MotionPlus add-on looks very promising - however I’m not going to get my hopes up too much because I may be heartbroken by overhyping it to myself.
The Wii is definitely a great system, though. Lots of family fun to be had.
There is good and there is good.
This is definately good.
Great piece as well.
Cheers. Master Jedi-Robe
http://www.Jedi-Robe.com
I’m afraid this may fragment the user base of Wii owners between those who purchase this add-on and those who don’t. So, if I don’t buy this for my Wiimote I won’t be able to play Red Steel 2? Thats lame!