Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Game Review

At first I enjoyed this game but the more it went on the more I started to get more and more sick of it. I could see why I could never get far into back when I first played it. It's a typical movie tie in game where it's action scenes from the movie dragged out to be a video game level. It also shoves in scenes from the movie and expects the person who is playing to know what is happening which is typical of the tie in games from the era. It's also so weird seeing scenes from ROTS without any of the context leading up to them and the lack of music from the movie was greatly disappointing since ROTS has the best score in the series. Also the lack of checkpoints meant I had to use the save states on the emulator a lot since the game really can be punishing.

Other issues include playing as Anakin sucks and there is so many difficulty spikes and the game has so many moves and systems it never bothers to teach you properly. The whole game feels like well you know a typical movie tie in game and was rushed to meet the date of the movie. The game is super buggy and some of the Anakin levels caused the emulator to crash so I am glad the game has a level skip cheat in the game, and on top of that the crashes happen on the hardest of levels. That and while playing as Obi Wan does feel better and more fun to play due to his slo mo combos and that he fights weaker driods and clone troopers instead of super durable melee enemies like Anakin, the game tends to feel a lot easier when playing as him to the point where I'd rather play as Obi Wan instead of Anakin. Just to give another example of how obviously rushed this game is, the Clone Assassins enemy only shows up once, and maybe that is for the better since fighting them isn't very fun.

I can sort of see why this was never re released as other PS2 era SW games despite it being decent enough at times. I feel like the 2 player dueling mode might be better than the base campaign in that the feeling of competition actually lets the player learn the mechanics better. There is a decent combat system here and the animations do look nice but everything is poorly presented to the point where it can come off as a traditional brawler but the buggy nature of the game, the difficulty spikes in the campaign, the awful checkpoint system and the game poorly presenting it's mechanics and and systems holds it back a great deal.

It's worth checking out as a Star Wars fan, a Prequels fan and a fan of Star Wars games but if you aren't a fan of any of those things, skip this, and if you want a lightsaber combat game that trancends being a licensed game, Jedi Outcast and Academy are far better.