While there's nothing glaringly wrong with the game, there are certainly lots of little things that could have been better. It just follows the same tried-and-true action/adventure formula. There's certainly nothing innovative here. However, as good as the game looks and sounds, the game falls in the middle of the pack when it comes to gameplay. There's the hum of the lightsaber, the clomp of droid feet and the 'p-choo' of the blasters. The sound effects will be familiar to any of you who know anything about the Star Wars movies. Everything is crisp, clear and mixed well, making for one fulfilling aural experience. As I mentioned before, there are several lines of dialogue directly from the movie. Gamers have come to expect top-notch sound from LucasArts games, and The Phantom Menace certainly isn't one to disappoint in this arena.
THE PHANTOM MENACE PC GAME CUT SCENE MOVIE
The cutscenes in The Phantom Menace are really choice and the game is almost worth playing just to relive scenes from the movie in computer graphics form. The characters are somewhat stiff and the natural environments are rather blocky, but everything is well detailed and there are a lot of little graphical touches (like lightsaber burn marks, superb explosions and reflective surfaces that will mirror the onscreen action if you are close enough) that provide much needed eye candy for some otherwise repetitive backdrops. This can be handled by visiting Watto's junk shop and returning with the proper item. For example, one mini-quest involves getting a T-14 engine part from Watto so you can get the Queen's starship up and running again. However, The Phantom Menace does include a few larger quests that actually require you to travel around to different parts of the level to complete. Most of the puzzles involve finding the right button to open certain doors, pushing blocks around so you can get to places that would normally be out of reach and those ever-frustrating jumping puzzles. While The Phantom Menace is touted as an 'adventure' game, it's actually an action game heavy with traditional adventure game elements.
It's a fairly large game overall and it should take you at least thirty hours to complete.
You'll even get a chance to take on big, red and ugly himself: Darth Maul.
The rest of your adventures will take you across the galaxy, to Tatooine, Coruscant, the Theed Palace and other locales from the movie. Things go badly aboard the ship (if you're the kind of person who considers a big cloud of poison gas bad), and you're forced to fight your way out of the battle ship, onto a troop transport and down to the surface of Naboo. You'll start your adventures just as the movie started: in a conference room aboard a Trade Federation battle ship awaiting the arrival of the Neimoidian ambassador. The movie's plot is reprised over twelve different levels, though the action of the movie has been extended with additional NPCs, more places to explore and much more combat. There are even a few heavy weapon emplacements that you can jump behind to take out wave after wave of battle droids. Of course, the primary weapon of the Jedi is the lightsaber, but there is also a hefty compliment of other armaments (like blasters, missile launchers, thermal detonators and Gungan energy balls) that you'll come across as you explore each location. While most of the game puts you in the robes of the two main Jedis, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, you'll also get to play as Captain Panaka, leader of the Queen's guard, and even Queen Amidala herself later in the game. In the game you play as four of the different lead characters. It's actually pretty neat to think of the game as the scenes between the action that you saw onscreen. The cutscenes use dialogue from the movie and the action/adventure sequences you play are a mix of scenes from the movie and the parts that might have happened in between. The game follows the plot of the movie very closely, almost scene by scene, as the idea behind the game is to allow you to re-experience The Phantom Menace entirely in game form. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a third person over-the-shoulder adventure game that puts you in control of the good guys from Lucas' latest in the Star Wars franchise. Now that my ass is covered by that disclaimer, I guess it's safe to continue. If you are adamant about not knowing anything at all about The Phantom Menace before you see it in the theater, we recommend you don't read this review until you've seen the movie. Caution : Spoilers ahead! This review contains information about the characters and locations in the movie, as well as a good bit of the plot.
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