USAopoly USODC129000 Star Wars: Dark Side Rising, Mixed Colours

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Weekly Sales Analysis, 7 April 2012 - Kinect Star Wars at VGChartz on www.vgchartz.com (archived from the original on April 18, 2012) Lulppold, Ross (2 April 2012). " Star Wars Kinect 's I'm Han Solo Dance Is Truly Amazing (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. AOL. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 . Retrieved 15 December 2016.

Adding another layer to this part of the game is that each Rebel agent has its own unique ability. Some of them can heal other agents, some allow you to manipulate the dice in the form of re-rolls or bonus results and some do more esoteric things like removing operations counters from the Death Star. The catch here is that some of these abilities are not free; requiring the player to commit one or more dice from their pool to the agent to activate. The final mode might be the most controversial. Galactic Dance Off is a clone of the excellent Dance Central games, but with the action moved to classic Star Wars locations such as Jabba’s Palace or the Bespin carbonite freezer. Fellow dancers become exotic aliens, or established stars like Han Solo or Princess Leia. Even the songs get reworked with Star Wars-related lyrics, so that the old Christina Aguilera hit goes from Genie in a Bottle to Princess in a Battle, with Leia urging Han to man-up and join the rebel alliance. a b Shoemaker, Brad (5 April 2012). "Kinect: Star Wars Review". Giant Bomb. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012 . Retrieved 5 April 2012. The Official Xbox Magazine rated the game at 4.5 of 10. The reviewer cited control issues with the Kinect motion sensor, comparing it to a lumbering sandcrawler. For the Force powers, the reviewer compared it to The Force Unleashed, although noted that it was slower here without the use of a controller. The review team also cited issues with the other game modes. [5]

Reynolds, Matthew; Mansell, Tom (23 February 2012). " Kinect Star Wars Xbox 360 console hands-on preview - video". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 . Retrieved 16 December 2016. Kinect Star Wars dances up UK chart". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. 10 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020 . Retrieved 15 December 2016. Microsoft Xbox 360 still number one on www.winbeta.org (archived from the original on March 9, 2016) This is unfair. Plenty of games out there from Wingspanto Tang Garden have wonderful components and it is legitimate for the quality of the design in a board game to be part of its appeal. I would advise interested parties happening upon Star Wars: Dark Side Rising not to be put off by the flash because there is a very solid, co-operative game underneath. Even Forrest-Whittaker-eye isn’t enough to put off Big Daddy Vader.

Talking of starship combat, it’s now time to talk about perhaps the greatest Star Wars board game in existence: Star Wars: Rebellion. Endorsed by Dicebreaker’s very own Wheels, Rebellion is an asymmetric board game featuring miniatures that allows players to experience the conflict between the Empire and Rebel forces in an incredibly well realised fashion. The game is controlled entirely by the Kinect periphery sensor. The vehicle portions are on-rail, and the players control their chosen character through hand gestures and body movements. As the game progresses both sides gain new skills to give their characters and further their individual objectives, eventually leading to some grand standoff between Rebels and Empire that you get to play out. These alternative story elements - as well as the strategic mechanics offered by the gameplay - are what make Imperial Assault one of the best Star Wars board games out there. The use of Star Wars characters and locations manages to give Kinect Star Wars atmosphere, and the game is cleverly balanced to appeal to both the thirty/fortysomething nostalgics who saw the original trilogy on first release, and the younger fans who came in with the prequel trilogy or Clone Wars. It also shows how far Microsoft has come in terms of making Kinect controls more sensitive, and more suitable for more demanding games. Most of all, Kinect Star Wars is a great game to dip in and out of, and a fine one to watch, making it a natural hit with families or groups of friends. This might not be the motion-controlled Star Wars game that so many of us think we want, but who cares? The bottom line is that Kinect Star Wars delivers a lot of Star Wars fun.

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a b c Jensen, Jeff (5 June 2011). " 'Star Wars' at E3: Your first look at 'Kinect Star Wars' -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2011. As well as detailing the aliens, vehicles, and technologies from the films, it also added a number of new ones as well. All of this was then used as reference material for the start of the original Star Wars expanded universe, including the Thrawn trilogy novels in the early 90s and the video games of the era. In the game, players must work together to recruit rebels and prevent the construction of the ultimate weapon, the original Death Star. Each player starts with an individual board that indicates the Rebel cell they are leading: Intelligence, Leadership, Support or Tactical. The player boards depict the Base of Operations — Tatooine, Alderaan, Yavin 4, or Lothal — and team leader (starting character asset) for each player: Captain Cassian Andor, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Hera Syndulla.The menu screens between modes have their own storyline. Luke Skywalker sends R2-D2 and C-3PO to retrieve files from the Jedi Archives on Coruscant. In the temple, they meet the "Commander," who "supervises" their mission. The player is the commander and each mode appears as a separate file from the archives. There have been some incredibly cool Star Wars tabletop games in recent years, which have mostly had one thing in common – they’re incredibly complex and tough to get to grips with. So what if I told you that Dark Side rising is not only an accessible, easy to learn game but one that actually very decent? I know, I was surprised too. One thing jumps out immediately about Star Wars: Dark Side Rising, and that’s the giant bust of Darth Vader looming over the middle of the table like an asthmatic Pop-Up Pirate. It’s massive. Despite our collective mothers warning us against judging books by their covers, things like this tend to set off something of a warning siren in my head. Like the 50-year-old executive with the Lotus, it makes you wonder what the flashy ostentation is making up for. Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is a co-operative card and dice game inspired by the events leading up to and through Star Wars: A New Hope. Kinect Star Wars Review by Cohen, Corey on www.oxmonline.com ( April 9, 2012) (archived from the original on April 11, 2012)