At first glance, Star Wars Battles looks like a bare Battleship clone with a Star Wars skin, but there's more fun to it than that! Of course, the homebrew game begins with the series' main theme and signature text crawl. After you've positioned your crafts on the grid, each called shot fires a pair of lasers at your opponent's squares, complete with the appropriate sound effect.The game really gets interesting, however, when you register a hit. Instead of automatically knocking a piece off your opponent's ship, the game takes you to a dual-screen shootout between your X-Wing and a rival Tie-Fighter, asteroids drifting in the crossfire. The champion of the duel determines whether the shot counts or not.
All it needs are some StarFox-esque scripted chatter during the combat -- we've already come up with a few possible examples:
- Han Solo: "You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"
- Gold Five: "It came from... behind!"
- Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trap!"
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3-21-2008 @ 9:39PM
xeleion said...
"Do a barrel roll!"
You can't deny that it would apply during those battles. :)
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3-21-2008 @ 11:00PM
Roto13 said...
I actually have electronic Star Wars battle ship in my closet.
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3-22-2008 @ 3:29AM
Croove55 said...
Test post- sorry guys. :(
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3-22-2008 @ 10:20AM
Tom said...
I believe that any sci-fi game with flying objects should be required by law to have somebody scream "DO A BARREL ROLL!!" at you. By law. That game actually sounds cool. I'd buy it.
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3-23-2008 @ 12:42AM
Amanda said...
I like this game but the AI can be annoying at times. Also the novelty of the dogfighting bits wears off quickly...
Quality music though! :D
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