I ordered a Nintendo DS though the Nintendo VIP stars catalogue and got my Nintendo DS and T-shirt (the real reason I bought it ;p) soon after. Since then I haven’t played on it much (up until the French holiday where playing with it kept me occupied) so I thought I might as well see what games there are available for the all new Nintendo DS. I popped into Game a few days ago and took a look at the DS section. I was disappointed to say the least. There was more of a selection for Game boy Advance SP than there was for the Nintendo DS – and the games available for the DS weren’t all that gripping. I had seen Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith previously a few days before with Jenny and upon seeing the DS game and there being no alternatives I bought it.
I have since completed it a week later, the graphics aren’t bad, but they could have done so much better with the graphics capability of the DS, but instead they ported the Game boy Advance version and added some touch screen addons and the 3D X-Wing fighter missions which are also available in death match mode on multilayer (which would be cool if I had two DS’s let alone two copies of the game). I knew what the graphics would be like before I bought the game, so this didn’t put me off much, with the 3D modes being awesome in my eyes and beyond my expectations.
The game play is standard beat them up, you have sword they have guns, you kill them; and it follows the Movies story line pretty much exactly with a lot of the diolouge being quoted from the film script.
The multilayer would have been better if you only required one person to own the game, that way I would have been able to play with at least 2 other people. Instead I have been sort of forced to play the multiplayer – single player mode – which is basically against AI and is fun for a while. I wish more games would only require one game card on multiplayer unless its technically impossible to only do so on one card. Because otherwise I’m left paying for a multiplayer function I cant use and am made to advertise the game to friends in the hope they will buy it so we can check out the multiplayer. No thankyou.
All in all the single player mode of the game is great, while the multiplayer is lacking in my eyes, the 3D X-wing fighter style is nice and so I give this game a rating of 7 out of 10.
