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Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for PlayStation 1 Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By hyper-active astro-turf bobFrom bobville Review Date 07/25/2000 Overall Rating  2 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Jedi power battles has all the key elements of a great game. Unfortunatley, Lucasarts still managed to mess up the ways they used these elements in a way that only lucasarts can. One example is the level 'courescant'. It has plenty of different enemies and flows properly, but is sooooo long that the player loses interest. The end result is a tedious experience for the gamer.Sound John Williums is truly a musical genius. All of his music has been sucessfully recreated in the game. All of the lazer and lightsaber sounds sound perfect, too.Gameplay Gameplay is always the one thing that matters when you judge weather or not a game is good. Unfortunatley, gameplay seems to be the one thing that Lucasarts has overlooked. One of the main problems with the gameplay is the fact that jumping is absolutely impossible. This would be able to be overlooked if jumping didn't play such a major role in the game. There are some very fun parts in the game, such as controllingthe tank in the third level, but no way do they make up for the countless hours of missing a jump and going all the way back to a mid-level checkpoint, only tohave to try all over again. All of the force powers, combos, and items are good, but one flaw with them is that no matter how much you use them against Jarjar,he won't die! of course,I think Lucasarts did this on purpose, Because if you could kill Jarjar,everyone would kill him and no one would ever finish the level. But still, Jarjar being immortal is a really scary thought. PLEASE TELL ME THAT HE ISN'T IMMORTAL IN THE MOVIES!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Sharkboy007From San Jose, CA Review Date 07/22/2000 Overall Rating  4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This game is both fun and frustrating. Better than The Phantom Menace, and good for some overall fun. The best mode is 2 player, and I really liked that you had to cooperate in order to get through the levels. What sucked was that often times, one of the players will themselves offscreen, with only five seconds to get back onscreen before dying. I liked that each character had a force power specific to them, as it made each character actually different, and not the same character with a different skin. The special item pickup was lame, being limited to only one type of bomb per character. Why can Qui-Gon only use an energy bomb and not a thermal detonator? You throw both of them, so it's not like it's a training issue:) And, as hard as this game is sometimes, it would have been nice to have a save feature halfway through the levels. And, not having both players lives dependent on the same continues would have been great.Sound It's Star Wars. Enough said. The sound is actually the best part of the game, with every element from the music to the sounds of the lightsaber sounding like it's movie counterpart. Enough so that it makes me want to watch the movie when I'm playing it.Gameplay The gameplay is promising, at best. The targeting system was a good idea, but poorly implemented, although it was far easier to target and attack than not. Another frustrating thing was that you would be attacked from multiple sides by enemies, but could only fight whatever was in front of you. You would have to stop fighting, turn around, and then resume. Often times, this would result in losing health because the enemies have no problems attacking and moving in any direction at the same time. This may be something a padawan rookie might have problems with, but these characters, with the exception of Obi Wan, were all Jedi masters. It would seem a master would have no problems with issues such as these. Jumping was horrible, with a player wasting his precious few continues trying to make it across a jump. The camera angle is simply atrocious, and should have been more behind the character, ala Tomb Raider. The continues idea was easily the worst idea implemented in the game. Be prepared to spend a lot of time in the same area if you play with someone who isn't that good.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is great, much better than the Phantom Menace. You should definitely rent it because it's not for everyone.Sound Sound was very good. The selection of songs was great.Gameplay Gameplay was very good. The game is really fun. The combos and force moves really add another dimension to the game. While I thought the levels could get repetitous, the gameplay was very solid which made you forget about the monotony of some of the levels. Overall, gameplay was a plus.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Ryan BoringFrom Taylor Az. Review Date 07/09/2000 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Over all the game was amazing! Most of the people I talked to about the game said it was bad to the bone. When I played the game it was even better. At first I was A little nervous obout Buying the game because of the reviews I have seen. When I bought the game I immediately realized this was something new compared to the first episode 1 game.The only bad part of the game is the difficulty is the same on bolth modes of one player and two player. So no matter what it is easeir with two players.Sound The music was the unforgetable sound track from the movie. Wicht was excellent. The sound effects were astounding! They maybe mainly only grunts and lightsaber sounds but they still are amazing. I liked the explosion sound effects.Gameplay The gameplay was great! You can do several cool moves. I especialy liked how they all of the jedi knights have differnt and similar moves. For some reoson I hardly ever use thier force abilities. The ability to get combos makes it even better. I liked the double jump alot with out it most of the jumps would be impossible. The only bad thing I found about the controls is it seems like you move your light saber sort of slow compared to attacks from enemeis.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Admiral ThrawnFrom Outer Rim Review Date 07/09/2000 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary It's quit a nice game, if you have played Episode 1: TPM the game, you are satisfied that it is not as bad as that ***** game. If you like killing lots of droids and play together with one of your friends, side by side attacking Maul, just like in the movie you will be just like me be very happy with this game.Sound If you like the sound in Episode One: TPM, you will like the sound of this game too. Every surrounding has it's own sound. I liked the lightsaber sound very much. I would liked to have a new Star Wars music, but it seems I'll have to wait till 2002 when Episode 2 is released here.Gameplay I jumped many times just beside the bench or platform but after a few times I knew where to jump from. It is not a game in which you have to fight yourself to the end. If you block the droids their shots, you don't need to slash them more then once (which is strange, I thought that in the movie, which I've seen about 50 times, all the droids where destroyed in one hit.) Maybe they shouldn't have followed the story line of Episode 1 but made a whole new story, in which you start as a trainee, together with a Jedi Master and that you first could train to control the Force and the kinds of sword slashes.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Lots of fun. Especially with two players. It can get really frustrating at times (as I'm sure you've heard), but after you take a break from it, you'll be back in a few minutes.Sound Great sound, of course... it's a Lucas Arts game after all!Gameplay I've heard people say controls were a problem, and that's what I thought at first, but if you take the time to get used to them they really aren't that bad. You have to block, deflect laser shots, and then go in for the kill. It requires more than just running and button mashing like other games of the same genre (ahem... Final Fight). The force moves and combos are cool, the levels differ in variety, and it all adds up to fun. My only complaints are the terrible jumping system, and the fact that it does take more than one slice with a light saber to off some damn droid!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Where should I begin? After playing Jedi Power Whatever for three days straight, I can safely say that I lost 10 years of my life due to frustration. In fact, if I had to sum this game up in one word, it would FRUSTRATING. The controls were lousy, and the jumping was atrocious. Each of the "Jedi" knights have different light saber combos that can inflict multiple hits on enemies. This would make sense if the heroes were equipped with broomhandles. I always thought that light sabers could cut a Greyhound Bus in half with the greatest of ease, but almost all of the enemies require more than one swing. The only semi-good Jedi in the game is Plu Koon, and I never even heard of him. The other four Jedi's all suck. Also, I couldn't figure out why there where five Jedi in the game. You have to beat every level with each character. Who wants to beat this game five times? All of the levels (10 regular levels & 4 "secret") were too long and extremely tedious. I also didn't like the fact that you were given a set number of lives as opposed to an unlimited amount. On the longest level of the game, it took me over an hour to finally reach the "boss". I then ran out of lives and had to start all over again. Don't bother renting this game because you'll just get angry and smash something. You can have more fun playing with yourself.Sound The sound of the actual light saber in action was straight out of a movie, and the theme music was exceptional. But who buys a game for its sound?Gameplay The gameplay was relatively smoother than most games I've played, but that's nothing to brag about. My Jedi's also had a problem looking at the enemy I wanted to attack. This can be bad if you're using a combo on something across the screen and the enemy behind you knocks you off a cliff. I also didn't like the fact that the R1,R2,L1,and L2 had to be used so much. It's not very comfortable.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By ScottFrom Shreveport, LA Review Date 07/06/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary oDespite all of it's flaws and irritations, this is just a plain fun game (especially with 2 players). I'm a huge Star Wars fan and was really excited about this game. I mean who could ask for more from an Episode I Star Wars game. Jedi, Lightsabers, playing as Darth Maul (yes, it can be done!) This is one of the better Star Wars video games and is definately worth a look if you like Star Wars and if you like challenging games. I must stress that the game is fun, but it is very difficult and frustrating at times. (I'm sure everyone by now has heard about the jumping difficulties and instant death quirks.) But, if you can get past all of that (and get past the Coruscant level without throwing your Dual Shock through your TV) you will be in for a great game.Sound John Williams is a master. This soundtrack absolutely rocks. The lightsaber sounds and the laser blasts make it sound like you are in the movie. The voice acting wasn't very good. Thankfully dialogue is minimal. However, I thought it was really cool that they were able to get Jake Lloyd and Ahmad Best to lend their voices to the game (even though Jar-Jar is kind of annoying.)Gameplay Frustrating at times (example: Coruscant!), but very, very fun. Some of, okay a lot of the jumps are just plain tough. Sometims it looks like you are going to land safely from a jump and then you see yourself falling to your death. Sometimes the hit detection is not the greatest either. Some of the bosses are kind of cheesy. But this game is just so much fun. Combos are cool. Most of the force powers rock. (A couple of them kind of suck.) Powerups are plentiful and nicely spaced. Lot's of hidden stuff to find. (Ultimate saber mode anyone?) Hacking up battledroids, deflecting blaster shots, fighting Darth Maul, fun, fun, fun. The experience points, leveling up, new combos, hidden characters, etc. really gives nice replay value.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary An overall great game! I loved it. Control is not so good but music is great!Sound Wonderful! John Williams is brilliant! I would love to get the soundtrack!Gameplay Hard to control, and to remember all the combos, but when you do it is great fun!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Anthony Jedi Op: PerswasonReview Date 06/24/2000 Overall Rating  3 of 5 Rate this review? Summary At first I thought..What a great concept. It's a shame it had to end up average. Bottom line: Avid fans only.Sound The sound won't let you down. Star Wars and bad sound should never be in the same sentence.Gameplay TThis was unpolished: Jumping was difficult, You had to remain stationary while blocking and if you were attacked from behind turning around was difficult also. Not to mention that if the Jedi Knights have lightsabers why does it take 2-6 strikes to destroy each droid?Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Reviewed by Ivan Trembow of www.mastergamer.com, home to hundreds of brutally honest video game reviews.For some reason, I was actually looking forward to Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles despite LucasArts' horrible track record. I was disappointed to find that it's what I should have known it would be all along: Yet another unexciting Star Wars game. Jedi Power Battles uses "classic" gameplay mechanics that were never really that classic in the first place. Here's the basic flow of the gameplay: Move to the right, kill a few enemies; move into the background, kill a few enemies; move to the right, kill a few enemies, and so on. There isn't enough variety in the game because even though the setting constantly changes, the basic flow of the gameplay doesn't. There's not much difference between the first few levels and the last few levels in terms of what you actually do. More than half of the enemies in the game can be avoided simply by running like hell until the screen won't scroll to the right anymore, at which point you have to kill a couple before you're able to move on. The enemies almost always chase after you mindlessly rather than shooting, even if they have a clear shot at you. No game with jumping control this bad should have any platform elements, but sure enough, Jedi Power Battles does. It sometimes seems that your character jumps in a randomly-chosen direction when you press the jump button, regardless of what you're pressing on the d-pad. Also, sometimes the game is so dark that you can't see a gap in the ground until you fall into it. Of all the games that LucasArts could have drawn inspiration from, they seem to chosen the original Turok and its nonsensical platform elements. One particularly annoying thing about Jedi Power Battles is that the playable characters don't automatically line up to face the nearest enemy. You can make them do this by holding down R1, but you shouldn't have to. It's annoying to have to spend most of the game holding down R1 when there's no good reason your character shouldn't automatically use a little bit of common sense and face the nearest enemy. Jedi Power Battles often forces you to use trial and error in figuring out where to go and what to do next. Are you supposed to jump into that big hole in the ground? Well, jump in and find out. If you move on to the next area of the game, then you were supposed to jump into the hole. If you die, then you weren't. There's not much to like about Jedi Power Battles, and that statement comes from someone who is a big fan of Star Wars. The character models are small and not adequately detailed, the boss designs often require you to use a certain tactic repeatedly until the boss finally explodes, and even the music leaves something to be desired. Star Wars' trademark dramatic music is great when it's used sparingly, but overbearing when it's used for most of the game. The only really cool thing in the entire game is the ability to deflect shots back at enemies with your lightsaber, and this isn't anywhere near enough to carry the game on its own. If your favorite scenes in The Phantom Menace were the ones where the heroes repetitively killed battle droids, you'll love Jedi Power Battles. Everyone else should steer clear. Sound see summaryGameplay see summaryWould you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By will casey WillFrom Florida Review Date 06/20/2000 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary This game is good.Not great, and not bad. It's just plain "good" It is for the die hard Star Wars fans who just want to slice droids in half. I thought this game was fun, but very very frustrating! You will die MANY times in this game even on the easiest setting. You will die more from falling off cliffs, then by the enemies. But the game does have many "good" things about it. Like it has a 2-player co-operative mode that is fun. Overall, I would rent this game first, then if you like it buy it. Sound I love the sound of a lightsaber cutting something in half. Unfortunatly thats about the best part about the sound in the game. There are hardly any voices. And the Tusken Raiders sound like there constipated.Gameplay The controls are basically easy to learn and get familar with. The "O" button is jump, and the X, square, and triangle buttons control the movements of your lightsaber. And your character will have a certain special attack that they can execute.When you start, you choose one out of 5 jedi knights to use throughout the game, or you can change your character after each mission. As you progress through the levels, your character's stats will rise up, allowing you to do more combo attacks and have more force power. There are 10 levels in Jedi Power Battles (plus some hidden levels). And each level is way to long in my opinion. Plus, there is a boss at the end of each level to make it even harder. So you can play one level forever then die at the end boss, then you have to it all over again. But still, it is set up very nice. Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Zach Page ZachFrom Hudsonville, MI Review Date 06/12/2000 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Fun, Fun, Fun!!! You control a Jedi- out of five, and each one has it's better skill. You only have a lightsaber, but when you are shot at, you can deflect the laser back at the droids, quite easly to, a good game and very fun too.Sound Awesome!!! John Williams (the awesomest composer in the world) is back composing the new movie as well as all of the Star Wars games, the music rocks, feels just like the movie, also the lightsaber sounds really, really real - right in sink with every slice!!!Gameplay The game play is the best part of the game, the game actually makes you feel like a Jedi!!! Very fun, it is a veiw like Jackie Chan Stuntmaster, and kind of like MGS, and like the old Streets of Rage game for the Sega Genesis. A great game, and not that easy to beat!!! (I would wait until it costs from 20 to 30$, it's not quite worth 40$.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Doug TurnbullFrom Virginia Beach Review Date 06/07/2000 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Not as bad as the publications say, its got its plusses and bonnusses. Fun combat, decent combat animations, the jedi models are done well. Graphics are so/so, but who really cares? The important thing is the game makes you feel like you are a jedi hot in the action of the movie. However it would be cool if there were more jedi v jedi battles, and you werent fighting the same old lackys over again. Jumping puzzles can be a pain. ESPECIALLY on 2 player mode. But overall its a fun game, better on 1 player than 2.Sound Music is cool starwars music, otherwise no complaints but nothing earth shattering...Gameplay Gameplay is so/so. You fight the same guys over and over again with some variations. More "darth-maul"ese battles would be cool. That can get old, but the jedis do some slick moves and some entertaining combos. The jumping stuff can be a pain occasionally, especially on two player mode, where you'll find yourself continuing a lot on later levels due to falling deaths. Some say the game is too difficult, but I say its a challenge, even if sometimes frustrating.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By PeReZ M.PerezFrom Cheyenne, Wy (yechhh) Review Date 06/04/2000 Overall Rating 4 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Contrary to what you've probably read in mostly all of the major videogame magazines, I have to say that this is actually a decent game. I enjoyed it very much where as they said it totally sucked. Being that I was rather unimpressed with the Episode I game, this was quite a surprise. Check it out if you're a Star Wars fan.Sound Orchestrated music straight from the movie. Really nice.Gameplay Although the control is rather loose I got used to it rather quickly. It's your basic beat-em up so it was easy to pick up. The jumping is rather annoying though.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By Daniel TranFrom California Review Date 05/28/2000 Overall Rating 5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary When I had first played this game at my freind's house, I could not wait to rip open the plastic wrapping, and pop it in the playstation. When we first started to play, I thought the graphics were amazing, and the gameplay was extremely realistic. I loved this game!Sound The sounds were taken directly from the movie. The sounds of the lightsabers clashing, and the the lasers, and the lightsabers deflecting the lasers were amazing. They chose the perfect music to put in the backround for that game. It is exhilerhating, and keeps you on the edge of your seat.Gameplay The gameplay as I said, is extremely realistic, and the game was put together very well. This game is really entertaining, and could be played for hours and hours before boring someone out. The graphics were amazing, and overall the game was put together extremely well.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Well, what can i say? when you combine star wars and a fighting game, with a plot line exactly to the real movie, you've got a great game! the control is a little bit weak, but this game rocks! the best part is in battle, and when your guy swings around his sword cutting off machines' heads just like in the movieSound the sound si right on. thats the thing with star wars and bond games- the gameplay is good, sometimes very good, but since both have incredible music themes and songs and they have to have good graphics to be one of them, it saves their games.Gameplay The gameplay is great. the controls could be better, but they're still pretty good. I love running around with a lightsaber and another player with you cutting off droids' heads and all that s***. its great!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Rating Reviewed By aj aj retelleFrom Loudon,NH Review Date 05/19/2000 Overall Rating  1 of 5 Rate this review? Summary Overall,this game reeked! When you find yourself in a combat situation,your character has to complete a string of moves correctly or they don't attack an enemy and take damage. The positive part was you can choose from multiple Jedi knights. Qui-Gonn,Obi-Wan,Mace Windu,and other members of the Jedi council. Honestly,the best part about this game was the Williams' soundtrack.Sound Sound was the best part of the game.Gameplay Gameplay was awful. For example,when you jump from a ledge to a platform,it looks like you landed on it but you still fall to your death. The only thing that could have made this worse was if Jar-Jar was the lead character. Oops,I don't want to give Lucas any ideas.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary got to give it a five. it's star wars. fast paced and exciting.Sound really good background music. the gay grunts and groans when you get hit or you hit someone else are annoying.Gameplay only two problems...depth perception and too much jumping.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Okay, all the big game rating sites and magasines completely trashed this game, although not as bad as they did the previous LucasArts Episode one game, Phantom menace. I think that they were correct on many points but that they really cut the game short on many countsSound SLASH SLASH *fizzle* BANG.What more do you need? Anyways, in Conclusion, this game is nothing special, but it is not a fluke. It is a thoroughly enjoyable game, thanx to it's combo and leveling up system. I would, though, recommend renting this one, instead of buying it. Gameplay Okay, so it's not perfect. Big Deal. It is fun as hell, a decade better then the Phantom Menace and the added two-player support adds this game to the miniscule collection of decent multiplayer games on the PSX. But, as I said the gameplay is fun, but nothing special. It is buggy as hell, and many times frusterating when you fall through a floor BUT if you are willing to overlook these faults you will enjoy this game.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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