[beatspete]

Previously there has been a star wars game for pretty much every episode, i never played any of the Xwing series, but i have star wars racer, and i was wondering, what sort of game could they make from the current film?  Would another lightsabre based game go down well?  There wasnt much space combat in AOTC, so that rules that out...
any ideas?

pete

[TurboNed]

http://www.lucasarts.com

For those wanting details in the post, there's at least two games.  Star Wars: Bounty Hunter based on the exploits of Jango Fett, and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds expansion - Clone Campaigns (gone gold already).

EDIT: Oop, and there's this too.  http://www.lucasarts.com/products/starwarstheclonewars/

Something simply called Star Wars: The Clone Wars, takes place right after the movie.

  --TurboNed

[delta_7890]

I'm VERY much looking forward to Bounty Hunter myself.  I'm a major Fett fan, and though I'd like to play as Boba, I can do with Jango.  (Bsides, once I see Episode II, I'll probably end up loving Jango just as much as Boba.  From what I've heard so far, Jango Fett is a true badass.

[Nico]

bah, PS2 and gamecube. Curse LucasArt.

[Grey Wolf]

I saw an ad on TV for a game called "Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter" or something to that effect.

[beatspete]

I should really have done a search for the answer to my question, but thats not the spirit of conversation.

pete

[TurboNed]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
I saw an ad on TV for a game called "Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter" or something to that effect.

Yes, you did.  Quite a well done ad too.  It's the sequel to Star Wars: Starfighter which was designed for PS2, ported to XBox (and Gamecube maybe?) - then finally PC (at least I'm pretty sure we got a version of it).

Jedi Starfighter will probably get the same treatment, but don't look for a replacement to FS2 there.  It's an arcade-type game to the core.  The "Star Fighter" series is the "Rogue Squadron" game for the prequel trilogy.  The only hope we have for another decent space sim from LucasArts is from them and Totally Games with a continuation of the X-Wing series.  Too bad TG is working with LA on a WW2 sim, eh?

  --TurboNed

[TurboNed]

Originally posted by delta_7890
I'm VERY much looking forward to Bounty Hunter myself.  I'm a major Fett fan, and though I'd like to play as Boba, I can do with Jango.  (Bsides, once I see Episode II, I'll probably end up loving Jango just as much as Boba.  From what I've heard so far, Jango Fett is a true badass.

Jango's definitely a good bounty hunter, but he's nothing compared to what Boba's gonna be.  As you'll see (and is made WAY more clear in the book), Boba's whole reason for existing is to be a better bounty hunter than his father.  He was trained from childhood to be better.  Jango's good, but he's nothing like the awesome bounty hunter we all remember from ESB.

  --TurboNed

[Sandwich]

Although I wished they would have made it an RTS... to make up for the retarded Force Commander...

[DragonClaw]

Yeah, they need a half-way decent fully 3D RTS...

I personally don't like the Galactic Battlegrounds game... its too cluttered and unorganized for me, and what really bothers me is that the game doesn't allow a 3D camera(good thing too actually, everything is out of proportion)

But, in truth, LucasArts sucks at RTS =P

[Zeronet]

uh! Galatic Battlegrounds uses the "Age of Empires 2" engine.

[Thorn]

I say they pay Relic to make an RTS for them... They know how to make an RTS....

[DragonClaw]

Originally posted by Zeronet
uh! Galatic Battlegrounds uses the "Age of Empires 2" engine.

I know that! But AOE2 wasn't as cluttered and messy as SW:GB.

I go with Thorn, get a company who knows how to make an RTS to do it.

[aldo_14]

what about;

star Wars:  Knights of the Old Republic

It's a 3d adventure / RPG thing, taking place 4000 years before The Phantom Menace

www.bioware.com  (not sure if screens are up)

[Dark_4ce]

I wanna a game where you're a clone trooper battling it out on some weird planet in some huge ass war. Something on the same scale as Medal of Honor: Allied Assault! Think about it, you're waiting on the republic transport ships as its making its decent to the battlegrounds, you look out of the open sides and see many other ships flying nearby. Suddenly one gets blown up and plummets to the ground in flames... Then you're ship lands and you're greeted by thousands of blastershots from an emerging droid army in the distance, next to you you're fellow clone gets shot down and you slowly progress forward amongst other troopers blasting into the fray! Man that would be cool! Then there'd be more individual missions like infiltration and such. But it would always happen with a group of troopers instead of you alone, against the galaxy!

[beatspete]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
But it would always happen with a group of troopers instead of you alone, against the galaxy!

So long as they're AI is better than that in freespace...

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Dark_4ce
But it would always happen with a group of troopers instead of you alone, against the galaxy!

I HATE those games... you're always vastly outnumbered, the fate of the world/galaxy/universe is on your shoulders, and you single handedly pull it off.

One of the reasons I liked Freespace so much.

[aldo_14]

Chaos is good..........  I want to fight in a gigantic battle, with all shorts of insane stuff going on....that's why I liked Serious Sam

Like Starship Troopers (the film, not the game) -  loads of eneimes to kill, just holding down the trigger and trying to survive the next encoutner.  I think the Serious Sam mod for that sounds particularly interesting.

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by aldo_14
what about;

star Wars:  Knights of the Old Republic

It's a 3d adventure / RPG thing, taking place 4000 years before The Phantom Menace

www.bioware.com  (not sure if screens are up)

Go Bioware! They're making two games I plan on getting. Neverwinter Nights and the aforementioned SW:KotOR. BTW, the link I put for SW: KotOR goes directly to the official site.

[delta_7890]

What about Star Wars: Galaxies?  That game is looking VERY cool.