Huge heads, brand-new playable characters, old and modernised controls
Image credit: Lucasfilm Games/ Aspyr
That excellent disruption in the Force you simply felt wasn't a million voices weeping out in horror. It was, in truth, me sobbing out in fear a million times. You see, Aspyr have actually simply revealed that they're porting Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles to PC and Steam. I have a complex relationship with Jedi Power Battles, in the sense that I believe I still have scars on my thumbs from when I played everything night on a broken PS1 controller. I have actually felt sorry for this video game. I ‘d close my eyes after each six-hours session and see fields of lightsabers flickering and dancing like luminescent leeches, chasing me through the Dagobahnian jungles of my dreams.
Jedi Power Battles isn't even all that fantastic. Initially released in 2000, it simply occurred to come along at a time when myself and a pal were consumed with Jedi Knights and the 7 lightsaber duelling kinds. It was a godawful duration in my life, nestled directly in between my liverish profession as a Trekkie and my later on, more forgiveable spell in the mazes of Tolkien and Warhammer. I had a devoted Jedi name, I believe. Evaed Paleee? It is extremely crucial that I do not remember this age in terrific information, so I'll be seeing the listed below PC port trailer through squinting eyes and parted fingers. Here you go:
)(occasion)” title=”Click to play video from YouTube”STAR WARS ™: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles ™ – Announce Trailer Watch on YouTube
A fast introduction: Jedi Power Battles is a beautiful, relatively penalizing 3D platformer-brawler that follows the occasions of the Phantom Menace film, other than that I do not keep in mind Liam Neeson toppling into pits rather so frequently, or Ewan McGregor being not able to hack through a Pilot Droid's lower arms, or Samuel L Jackson getting released by a little green guy. The very best aspect of it is that you get a lot of perfectly animated Jedi movesets to, as the case might be, argue about till 3am, at which point it belatedly strikes you that you've never ever been kissed in your entire teen life, which your bed room gives off death.
What are Aspyr finishing with everything? Well, you can anticipate an option of modern-day or traditional controls, secret locations opened from the start, Vaselined visuals, charming flourishes such as Big Head mode, and an overall of 13 returning and recently playable characters, consisting of the Rifle Droid and Tusken Raider. It's out 23rd January. Here's hoping they offer it a bit more time than they did the current Battlefront port, which was a planet-sized disarray.
If you're thirsty for more of my midlife remorse, or desire my ill-informed take on film choreography, I went wish for Eurogamer about JPB a year or two back.
