Wiimote to become lightsaber in new Stars Wars game

Wii News | Star Wars fans will be happy.

Late last month, we reported that a brand new Star Wars game for the Wii and DS based around the upcoming Clone Wars film was in the pipeline. Today, LucasArts have confirmed that this is absolutely the case. As it turns out, the Wii version has been dubbed Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels and will feature the Wiimote as a makeshift lightsaber.

Australian developer Krome Studios are in charge of the big project, which will draw heavy influence from the animated film and TV series.

Game producer Ken Fox has told IGN that while the Wiimote won't completely dictate the movement of the lightsaber, it will be close.

"We've tried to make the lightsaber control as intuitive and fun as possible. It's not a lightsaber simulator, but when you swing your Wii remote left to right; your character does the same," said Fox. "I wouldn't describe what we're doing as one-to-one in the way that you might picture, but we really tried to make it feel like you get to swing your lightsaber 'manually'."

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance will be the DS game, with development being headed by LucasArts' team in Singapore. The press release hints at two player co-operative play, telling players to "experience the awesome power when two Jedi join forces to fight as one". The stylus will also act as some sort of lightsaber input device.

Both of these games are due out in time for Christmas next year.

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38 Comments

?oe?oe

3 years ago

You can always rely on style on Wii:

Christmas next year? I would've thought it would come out the same year the film comes out. Typo? Unless they are actually trying.

Tristan

3 years ago

Geez. Monsieur Fox really likes the word lightsabre. In the quote it's like he's got tourettes and it keeps flying out of his mouth, completely uncontrolled.

DrTim

3 years ago

Good on Krome for getting another awesome project to work on. Hopefully it will be as good as TFU (as far as I have seen, I haven't actually played the Wii one yet).

matrix-cat

3 years ago

I'm predicting it won't work properly. Still, I'd forgive them if they made Vwing noises come from the Wiimote speaker.

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Wtf? It's based off a cartoon? Damn so it's basically a kids game. How sad! The closest you'll get to a real light saber imo would be at:

www.globalgear.com.au

or more specifically:

http://www.globalgear.com.au/category164_1.htm

G3ck0

3 years ago

I hope it has more than 9 attacks. Most games have the 8 slashes and a stab. I hope this has like at least 15 different slashes and a stab, then it will feel like it is 1:1

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

And Force Unleashed, KOTOR, the film tie in games are all based off Star Wars which is a kids movie, so what's your point? Star Wars titles (at least the fighting ones, KOTOR was an exception) have always been all ages accessible.

Edit: well... that was annoying, I can't do my normal K o T o R (sans spaces).

GooberMan

3 years ago

Uhm, surprise?

Xtra

3 years ago

Is Nintendo going to release a protective silicone sleeve so you don't cut the curtains and put a hole in the flat screen?

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Uhh no, actually the first 3 movies are rated PG (actually all 6 are now that I checked), so not 'all ages accessible' that would actually have to be a G rating, a 7 year old could not goto the movies and buy a ticket to go see it without parental supervision so it's not aimed at their demographic. And none of the star wars movies are cartoons, so completely off point you are. Just because a kid can watch it and get enjoyment from it doesn't mean it's a kids movie or aimed at kids, unlike this game which actually seems marketed towards kids unlike KOTOR, Force Unleashed etc. I thought the game would atleast be based off the orignal works and not some funky looking new cartoon.

?oe?oe

3 years ago

Star Wars has always been marketed towards the kids and scifi geeks. PG or not, kids wanted their parents to take them to the cinema and watch it. I can't believe your argueing with the PG arguement. Laughter is spilling.

This game is based off the new CG movie, which whattadaknow it is rated PG!

ugh the boot

3 years ago

^ Hahah! Yea cuz sci-fi geeks and kids are the same demographic?! WTF!??!

What i'm trying to say is basing this game off some new cartoon based movie is more likely they are aiming it at the newer fans which would be a lot more kids. Imo if they wanted to attract the old-skool fans who would be a bit older they would base it off the original live action movies.

I love Star-Wars, and i'm not going to give this game or the movie a second look.

?oe?oe

3 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

^ Hahah! Yea cuz sci-fi geeks and kids are the same demographic?! WTF!??!

Um... no. Something can be marketed towards two different groups. See Pixar for example.

It doesn't matter. Star Wars is a cash cow, and many people will taste its milk in different glasses.

teashades

3 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

Sin Ogaris wrote

1: Anyone is allowed to see a PG movie, it is not a restriction, just a recommendation. You don't need to be with a parent or guardian. Star wars was my favourite movie series as a young child.

2: Star wars ep 1, 2 and 3 pretty much looked like cartoons to me.

ugh the boot

3 years ago

heh that's actually pretty funny.

Maybe i'm not enough of a geek or a kid to appreciate this new Clone Wars Animated Film but I also was a HUGE fan of Star Wars growing up but I remember a few of the events and themes were actually quite disturbing to me as a kid that's why I always thought the movies swayed on the more mature side of things e.g. in Empire Strikes back at the begining when they had to cut open that dinosaur/ostrich thing they ride on to keep Luke warm....yea that was disturbing for me when I was young, along with Luke's arm getting cut off.

If this Wii game was actually based of any of the 6 live action movies I would actually be very interested in purchasing it if it turned out decent but this cartoony game....seriously even if it got 100% from every site I wouldn't even give it a second look. Also I hate that art style...i've seen it before just can't put my finger on where.

Vervain

3 years ago

teashades wrote

ugh the boot wrote

Sin Ogaris wrote

1: Anyone is allowed to see a PG movie, it is not a restriction, just a recommendation. You don't need to be with a parent or guardian.

If I remember correctly the same goes for the M ratin. It's only once it gets up to MA that they actually start forcing ou to go with a parent or guardian. Although most parents wouldn't allow their 7 year old child to go to an M rated movie alone.

Zarnoss

3 years ago

I remember hearing something about episode 3 got a M rating here because of the burning and dismemberment at the end.
Although all the others surely got a PG as there was nothing that horrific in them except for some tauntaun gizzard spillage and a chopped off arm.
I was the same ugh when i saw that gut slicing at the movies when i was real young, i was like man that looks real.(as real as an alien animal can look at the age of 9 i guess)

Also I'm a bit mixed on the new cartoon, as I love the look of everything besides the main characters which look like total arse to me.
Yeh lets give them stupidly blocky heads for no god damn reason.

Sin Ogaris

3 years ago

ugh the boot wrote

I don't doubt you that the new game is playing on newer fans... which would explain why it's called Star Wars: Clone Wars (the tv show title) all I was inferring was that Star Wars was always a kids venture, there's a reason why the biggest fans are in their mid twenties to early thirties, it's because they grew up watching the movies... as kids.

Force Unleashed is going to be all ages, I can gaurantee it. KOTOR, like I said, is an exception. But it isn't exactly based off the popular settings that the mainstream public know about.

Although that being said there is also a reason why the film trilogies gradually got darker (Hell, why any film/book/tv/etc series tends to darker and more adult as they progress) as a series tends to age with its audience. A good example is the Harry Potter films/books. As the characters mature so does the settings and events this correlates with initial fans who may be quite young when they pick up the first book but as they follow the story with each successive title, they're getting older as well and as such are getting interested in different things. Of course this whole idea is a moot point as you can easily get all the books now for an 8 year old and stuff. So yeah, I rambled good and completely lost whatever point I was intending (what a joke, as if I had a point).

So yeah, to each their own. I personally would prefer this over Force Unleashed but then again, I think that FU looks like a $120 tech demo. Or what some might refer to as... a steaming pile of dog crap.

Ep 3 was rated M, there was a big hooha about it's violent nature.

STANKY J

3 years ago

now if only theyd make a caravan of courage game

ugh the boot

3 years ago

Hmm well put, basically what you're saying is Star Wars was created as a kids venture but has evolved to keep the original fans satisfied so this latest in the series is almost like the venture restarting. Yea I can dig that. I always thought the latest 3 movies were definately bordering on the darker/mature side and is far from something that's used to 'attract' kids but definately something that kids can still watch especially if they're familiar with the world/characters.

Yea I though Ep 3 was rated M but couldn't find any evidence of it (even ezydvd.com.au lists it as PG). The cartoon angle isn't doing anything for me, I would actually do anything for star wars to continue in it's live action format.

teashades

3 years ago

I think what everyone is forgetting here whilst there is an argument about the look of the game and the animated film, is that this is a star wars game.... for the wii. It is definitely going to suck. There have been some very good star wars games, but for every one god one, there is a bucket of shovelware. And shovelware is the wii's best friend.

Besides that, using the wiimote as a lightsaber would be awful. It would be glitchy as hell and you would be doing the same thing over and over to register your movement... The motion controls only ever work as a random shake, like in twilight princess, and a pointer, like in metroid prime. I can't think of a single game that involved motion controls where you have to act out specific movements and its gotten it right. Even wii sports and warioware you can just cheat and keep sitting doing basic moves so it thinks you have done the right thing.

Benza

3 years ago

Clone Wars cartoons by Gendy Tartavosky are the best thing to come out of the Star Wars universe. Grevious slaughters 4 jedi in his first apperance, Mace Windo punches an army of droids to death. Theres a storm trooper with the same gun thats attached to the Millenium Falcon.
It has Speeder bike Jousts for gods sake.

A game based on the Gendy Tartavosky cartoons would be the GREATEST THING EVER.

The new clone wars cartoon is suposed to treat it the same way without the involvement of Gendy Tartavosky, so I've got my doubts of it being the same quality. But it will still probbably be awsome.

Ugh, buy the Clone Wars dvds before you form an oppinion on the star wars cartoons. Or search for em on youtube, they're absolutly epic.

Lord Haart

3 years ago

Sorry, but not 1:1 = not win.

If it isn't 1:1, then this is just The Force Unleashed without force powers.

A13x

3 years ago

It's not really possible to have 1:1 with lightsabers... even if the motion sensors could accurately replicate the way the controller is being held, what would happen when say, you clash swords? There would be no way to physically stop the controller's movement in its path as the player swings, so while the on screen one should collide with the other lightsaber, if it was to replicate the controller's position, it would simply pass straight through, same problem with hitting walls etc.

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