New Wii lightsaber game this year Comments by Tom Bramwell

IT. WON'T. BE. AS. GOOD. AS. PEOPLE. THINK. IT. WILL. BE. IN. THEIR. HEADS.


If it is, I will eat my copy of Red Steel.

There really needs to be a full-on, four-remote General Grievous mode, for people with four arms.

"Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels"

Ah, a gimmicky beat em up then? Can't wait for that.

Die By The Sword, or Bust :P

Anyone who expects 1-to-1 motion in a lightsaber games ever is kidding themselves. At fast speeds the sensors in the wiimote can not acurately track movement.

"It's not a lightsaber simulator..." EPIC FAIL right there. Why is it not a simulator? Surely it can't be THAT hard?! What a missed opportunity this will probably turn out to be.

The best "lightsaber" control I've seen on the Wii so far is the baseball game in Wii Sports. Provided you hold the bat realistically, it moves almost exactly with your movement. Why can't they just copy that and improve on it?

Razorus

Here's a link explaining why it would be all but impossible to do on the Wii

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvIlKSA0...

3min 30 secs informs you of positional orientation or lack of.

4min 25secs give Virtual light saber (with 4 led "sensor bar" as opposed to the normal two)

@Razorus - yeah, I agree. Mimics it so closely it's ridiculous.

But even if it didn't - someone sell me a game that costs a bit more and comes with a lightsabre add-on for the wiimote that has more sensitive motion controls. SOLVE the sensitivity problem, developers, don't whine about it!

Given Samurai, Red steel and dragon quest swords. I think it's safe to say that this will not end well.

Same people who are doing Force Unleashed for the Wii then? Bah. Probably just a rehash using the same engine to cash-in on the movie/tv series (and Force unleashed was an afterthought on Wii as it is).

If they can't replicate the sabre well then they should concentrate on using the pointer for force moves and make the sabre a secondary weapon. It would be great in a Star wars game if you could target, pick up enemies and throw them around as you do with the Blox in "Boom Blox".

'No More Heroes' - style sword control (with its stance detection, swing-sensitive attacks and what-not), coupled with some of the major-player force powers operated by the nunchuck (e.g., Force Push - as I believe those who have mastered the technique are prone to call it - operated by literally pushing the nunchuck foward) and an FPS view would be satisfactory.

I'm on holiday tomorrow.
lol, nice one.

"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," producer Ken Fox told IGN.

So its crap then. why fucking bother, this is not the game wii owners are looking for.

bastards.

Man, this sounds bad.

Come on guys, you know why it wouldn't work if they did an "accurate" light saber sim. Take a look at any Wii game where you control a sword in this "true" fashion - its clunky, unresponsive, & basically crap!!

Like or or lump it, the tech just isn't good enough yet. Its will be one day, but not yet. I for one welcome the decision to make this game they way they are. Approximated moves make it easier to do stuff with the Wii remote, & won't detract from the gameplay. It worked well enough in Zelda. besides, I'd rather have a star wars saber game with approximated controls than not have one at all.

Besides, I think the reason they won't do an accurate saber sim is they can't get it to work well enough. I'd put money on it was the first thing they tried, & did their best to get it to work, but it just wasn't good enough, hence the direction they've taken.