• Publisher: LucasArts
  • Release Date: May 4, 2005
  • Also On: DS
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critics What's this?

User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 60 Ratings

  • Summary: This third-person action/adventure game delivers the ultimate Jedi action experience as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi join forces in fierce battles and heroic lightsaber duels until one's lust for power and the other's devotion to duty leads to a final confrontation between good and evil. In the Star Wars: Episode III video game, players control all the Jedi abilities of both Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, including devastating Force powers and advanced lightsaber techniques involving robust combo attacks and defensive maneuvers. As Anakin, players unleash the power of the dark side in ruthless lightsaber and Force attacks. As Obi-Wan, players struggle to save the galaxy from darkness by focusing the power of the light side into swift and precise lightsaber attacks and using the Force to control enemy actions. [LucasArts] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 34
  2. Negative: 6 out of 34
  1. The game can be completed in 5-6 hours, although finding all the secrets—which allow you to increase your health and force meters—can take considerably longer.
  2. The game is short and easy, so you can get to each movie sequence pretty quickly. That also means that, once you've seen the clips and desire good gameplay, you don't have anything to look forward to except more of the same.
  3. Really one of those games that can be compared to a roller coaster in many ways. It has a lot of upsides and a lot of downsides, but in the end it just depends on whether you like roller coasters.
  4. 45
    Whether it comes on the Xbox or PlayStation, just avoid the game and try something that looks better, plays better and sounds better. Try "Lego Star Wars."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 38
  2. Negative: 8 out of 38
  1. CesarR.
    10
    This game is one of the cullest games ever made. This game is sweet!! = )
  2. JimH.
    8
    This game is nowhere near as bad as the critics say. Never, and I mean NEVER has lightsaber fighting been this fun. Cool combos, a good deal of enviromental destruction, and 2-player duels give this a pretty good replay value. Uhm, the bad stuff. Wow. Some of the enemies are just... idk... the jetpack/flamethrower clones are just way way too hard to be another regular troop. By the end, you're gonna see them almost as much as a normal clone. Oh well. I give this a 7.5, but seeing as how Metacritic only has a 7-8 score, I round it up to an 8. Expand
  3. It's alright. Not the best game I ever played but somewhere in the middle.
  4. FredF.
    3
    How can a game be so boring? I've played this game for 1/2 hour and turned off my PS2 to watch TV.

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