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Released 05 May 2005

Format PS2, XBox, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS

Developer Lucasarts

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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

Review
Ditching Rogue Squadron’s frantic space battles, this latest Star Wars offering focuses on lightsaber duels, allowing gamers to play out their Jedi fantasies. But in reducing the final Wars movie to an old-fashioned hack ‘n’ slash brawler, Sith pales in comparison to recent LucasArts offerings.

In terms of presentation, it’s flawless, with the bombastic score intact and razor-sharp graphics that look exactly like the scenes and characters from the film. Moreover, the swordplay animations are among the best ever seen in a video game, due mostly to the considerable input of Nick Gillard, the prequels’ stunt-coordinator.

In the end, though, Sith is a triumph of style over content. And while there are a zillion-or-so lightsaber attacks to learn as the game unfolds, it’s only a matter of time before you grow weary of chopping battle droids into scrap metal.

Reviewer: David McComb

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Average user rating for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith

Not bad

It is ok. I like the duel mode the best but otherwise it was not that hard. ... Read More

caps_fan2490 About me

13:08, 14 March 2009 | Report This Post

Not bad

It is ok. I like the duel mode the best but otherwise it was not that hard. ... Read More

caps_fan2490 About me

13:08, 14 March 2009 | Report This Post

RE: RE:

liked it but the graphics were a bit dodgy and it had the same annoying voice overs when ever you did something. The lightsaber battles were pretty good specially when i defeated anakin with obi wan, but they should got the original voices in the game like they did with the SP2 game. ... Read More

anakin solo About me

14:39, 15 March 2006 | Report This Post

RE: RE:

L: Darth Sidius2 acording to my sources this is an unchallenging game as BobaJango said and is very easy but none the lesss it is quite a good game sp; Trust your "sources"! ... Read More

BobaJango About me

18:52, 10 February 2006 | Report This Post

RE: RE:

acording to my sources this is an unchallenging game as BobaJango said and is very easy but none the lesss it is quite a good game ... Read More

Darth Sidius2 About me

10:48, 02 February 2006 | Report This Post

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Certain good bits here and there but all in all, a predictible and un-challenging game! ... Read More

BobaJango About me

18:43, 31 January 2006 | Report This Post

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