Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
- Compete against a friend with in-level challenges for rewards and points to be spent to upgrade your character and unlock bonus items.
- Play as your favorite Jedi heroes including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano, Mace Windu, and Kit Fisto.
- Slice and dice your way through Separatist droids with your lightsaber and Force powers and use your agility to perform amazing leaps and navigate levels filled with interactivity.
- Turn your enemies into weapons as you commandeer droids and use their unique abilities to blast enemies and solve puzzles as a Jedi.
- Be part of an elite clone trooper squad with unique gameplay that puts firepower at your fingertips.
Product Description
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes lets Star Wars fans young and old live out the sweeping galactic adventures of the Clone Wars. For the first time ever, players can fight as their favorite Jedi and clone troopers from the preeminent animated television series – from familiar faces like Anakin Skywalker to new heroes like Clone Captain Rex. A brand-new storyline, which bridges the gap between season one and two, takes the player on a multi-faceted adventure to stop a mysterious techno assassin’s destructive plot. Built around two-player cooperative action, the accessible controls and family-friendly gameplay bring Star Wars fans across generations together like never before to fight the evil Separatists and restore peace to the galaxy. Experience an all-new and exciting Clone Wars storyline that bridges the gap between season one and two of the TV series as you learn more about the mysterious bounty hunter Cad Bane and hunt down the all-new ... Click Here For More Info >>
Unfortunately, what seems like a natural opportunity to extend the experience of the Clone Wars cartoon series turns out to be wasted in every way. The controls, level design, camera direction and AI in this game are all so painfully bad that I’m actually a little surprised it got past the quality control department at LucasArts. The forward progression that you are constantly prompted to (by Yoda who for some reason freezes your screen about every 15 seconds in the first level to explain obvious things to you, i.e. you have a lightsaber that you can use) is confusing, the camera betrays you regularly by shifting its position and zooming at unexpected moments (which makes aiming all but impossible for the shooting sections), and the special abilities such as “droid-jacking” are essentially useless because they’re so weak and frequently hard to perform. The game does a lot for you, trying to make jumping and combat easy by letting you button mash, but for a game that seems like it wants to play itself for you it’s surprisingly difficult to manage your character in or out of combat. And don’t expect your computer controlled padawan to help you in any of the battles, mine just stood there looking dazed half the time and died repeatedly during the first boss battle without even attempting to fight.
Rating: 1 / 5
This has got to be the most disappointed XBOX 360 experience I’ve had. First of all, as noted by other reviewers, the graphics and gameplay are disappointing. This is really no improvement upon the old Revenge of the Sith game, and in many respects is inferior. I like that you can choose your Jedi from the outset rather than having to unlock them through gameplay, but that really isn’t enough to redeem the price paid for the game. And unlike Revenge of the Sith, there is no battle arena where you can choose your Jedi and Sith and go at it.
I can’t say anything about the Clones. It seems like a nice twist, getting to play a Clone, but I can’t actually do that as I can only make the first two acts of the Ryloth campaign work. Once I finish II and click on III, nothing happens. Nothing. I have tried contacting Lucas Arts but they’re apparently in a Galaxy far far away, because they don’t answer. I tried the phone support, but they don’t list this game. If you go to Yoda’s 24-hour help desk, there is no actual 24 hour help desk – nobody there. If you find a way to post a message, nobody gets back to you or acknowledges that you left a message. If you try LucasArts technical support, nobody checks the forum. I’ve had a message up there for two days now and nothing. In a word, there is no possibility of technical support for this already inferior product. I don’t know if anybody else has had this problem, and I’ll probably just have to take it back to Best Buy, but it would be nice to know that if you had problems there was actually some sort of technical support offered. LucasArts apparently doesn’t care – and therefore, they can kiss my dollars goodbye.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this to play with my 5 year old son. He absolutely loves it. It has all the clone troopers, Jedi, battle droids, blasters, thermal detonators, etc. he desires and he’s ecstatic to blast away with them.
As has been mentioned before, the controls are a bit sloppy and imprecise and the camera angles can be frustrating (especially on 2 player when the camera stays with whoever has fallen behind rather than the player who is advancing ahead – this can make jumps and ambushes annoying).
Ultimately this is a game that seems to have been designed for children. Even the hardest difficulty should prove easy enough for most kids, not to mention gamers. If your kid is a Star Wars nut, they’ll enjoy this game fully. If you’re looking for a Star Wars fix as an adult, probably best just to rent this one.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game is BAD. Really bad… it reminded me of the early PS2 ‘generic’ platform titles. The game looks ugly, the sound is bad, and it seems ‘broken’ – the controls just do not work.
Rating: 1 / 5
I rented and stopped playing it after about an hour. The controls and game play were simplistic and boring. It felt like I was playing the asteroids game on an old atari. Your character is really tiny on the screen and you either move the control stick to crudely aim or move to slash at enemies. Pretty shocking at how basic this game was for the 360; felt more like a really cheap demo than a full fledged game. I definitely wouldn’t buy and certainly won’t be renting again.
Rating: 1 / 5