Topic: Exclusive Star Wars Game Revealed for Wii and DS

[NWR_Neal]

This is why it pays to read the manual: an advertisement on the back of the LEGO Indiana Jones instruction booklet reveals Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16067

 The Wii and DS are getting an exclusive Star Wars title this fall according to an advertisement on the back of the LEGO Indiana Jones instruction booklet. The game, entitled Star Wars: The Clone Wars, looks to be modeled after the upcoming animated movie and TV series that takes place in between Episodes II and III. In addition to featuring mainstay Star Wars characters like Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the movie and TV series will explore the minutia of the Clone Wars saga with new characters like the young Jedi Ahsoka, who Anakin is responsible for training as his padawan learner.    

The Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie itself is scheduled for an August release, and the advertisement says that the game is coming this fall. This would put the game's release close to another Star Wars game headed to both the Wii and DS: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is slated to release in September.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Tartakovsky's Clone Wars > any Lucas Clone thing Wars Stars

[Jonnyboy117]

A little birdie told me that this may be a Smash Bros. clone.

[DAaaMan64]

Hmmmmm thats kinda cool. I want a DS smash bros that has nothing to do with Naruto.

[UltimatePartyBear]

A little birdie told me that this may be a Smash Bros. clone.

That could be really great.  Especially if Yoda's final smash involves smashing spaceships into the ground.

[NWR_insanolord]

If they make it good (big if) a Star Wars Smash Bros. clone (ha ha, Smash Bros. Clone Wars) could be really good on the DS, but unless the Wii version included lag-free online play I don't see me getting it.

[SixthAngel]

Tartakovsky's Clone Wars > any Lucas Clone thing Wars Stars

Agreed.  It makes me far more hopeful of this game.  It won't be stuck in the movie's plot and every character becomes 100% more awesome then in the new movies.

[ShyGuy]

Yoda, The emporer, The Fett, and Vader better be the top tier. Maybe Mace. No items, Ban the Hoth level from tournament play.

[TheFleece]

Tartakovsky's Clone Wars > any Lucas Clone thing Wars Stars

A little birdie told me that this may be a Smash Bros. clone.

Hmmmmm thats kinda cool. I want a DS smash bros that has nothing to do with Naruto.

YES YES and YES!!!

[KDR_11k]

I'm not sure that's a good thing, Smash Bros can do a lot of stuff because it's not entirely serious. Star Wars is usually very serious (IOW I don't expect Ewoks to be usable as melee weapons).

[UltimatePartyBear]

I'm not sure that's a good thing, Smash Bros can do a lot of stuff because it's not entirely serious. Star Wars is usually very serious (IOW I don't expect Ewoks to be usable as melee weapons).

You say that like you haven't seen Clone Wars.  It's full of insanely over the top action.

[Arbok]

So it's Clone Wars... does that mean no Boba Fett, no Emperor, no Chewbacca, no... Vader?

Seems like most of the really cool characters in the series don't show up until at least Revenge of the Sith, which takes place after this.

I'm not sure that's a good thing, Smash Bros can do a lot of stuff because it's not entirely serious. Star Wars is usually very serious (IOW I don't expect Ewoks to be usable as melee weapons).

Hell, I'd love to be an Ewok...

[UltimatePartyBear]

Chewbacca could show up.  Boba Fett's a kid and Jango's dead, but an ARC trooper might fill the void (They're clone commandos that lack the conditioning and limitations that make most of the clone troopers controllable; basically one-man armies).  There's no reason the Emperor couldn't be playable, he'd just lack that title.  This setting also gets us the Clone Wars version of General Grievous, which is much better than the movie version, and the Clone Wars version of Count Dooku, who can beat the Clone Wars version of Grievous without breaking a sweat.

Of course, it's just a game, so I wouldn't have any more problem with characters who shouldn't be alive at the time being playable than I do with the characters in Smash Bros.

[Shecky]

this looks nothing like a Brawl clone

Trailer

looks more like a standard fighter, with lightsabers.

[Enner]

Grievous needs more lightsabers. More I say!

[ShyGuy]

I heard that Grevious was originally intentioned to be Darth Maul's brain in a robotic body.

[NWR_insanolord]

Wow, how very un-Lucas to say "No, that's not a good idea, we can do better.". I'd have taken Grievous with Maul's brain if it had meant that he rethought Jar Jar.

[KDR_11k]

Grievous with Maul's brain would make more sense, how a mere mortal manages to kill that many Jedi and effectively use their lightsabers is beyond me.

[Kairon]

Grievous with Maul's brain would make more sense, how a mere mortal manages to kill that many Jedi and effectively use their lightsabers is beyond me.

1. Jedi get killed all the time. They're very much mortal, especially the ones who aren't awesome
2. Grievous was trained by Count Dooku.
3. Grievous has FOUR ARMS!!! That means 4 LIGHTSABERS!

[UltimatePartyBear]

I think the in-universe explanation is that the art of lightsaber-on-lightsaber combat has been effectively lost over the hundreds (thousands?) of years since the Sith were last a credible threat, so hardly any Jedi know how to fight someone else with a lightsaber.  Dooku was the last great master of such combat, and he trained Grievous.  That and having four arms made Grievous more than a match for all but the most powerful Jedi, who could call on the Force to help even the odds.  Obi-wan's highly defensive technique was theoretically the best counter possible.

Nerd out.

[ShyGuy]

Wait, if the lightsaber combat skills had been lost, how are Yoda, Mace, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Qui-Gon able to kick butt?

[NWR_insanolord]

Not to mention Luke whose only lightsaber training was how to block blaster shots and yet still managed to be a match for Vader.

[animecyberrat]

Exactly, it was explained that the Jedi didn't need raining to use a Lightsaber, they had the force which they could use to "sense" their enemies reactions. With Grievous they could not because they can't sense droids and his "human" side was long lost to his techno side so it is likely that he didn't "exist" as far as the force is concerned. Anyways that was how it was explained in one of the books I read. Not Grievous himself but about the Jedi. Plus he had 4 arms, and Yoda was a master, but Obi and Ani both had trouble with Dooku so he must have been out of their league so if he trained Grievous he would have an advantage over the lesser Jedi.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

Who decided that the prequel universe was so darn interesting that it deserved this much exploration?  Could it be the same guy that thought it was a good idea to make the entire prequel story arc hinge on a dispute over the over-taxation of specific trade routes?

[Kairon]

the entire prequel story arc hinge on a dispute over the over-taxation of specific trade routes?

Taxes have HUGE effects. Just look at the Revolutionary War...