LucasArts 'excited' about lightsaber game

From the first moment Wii was revealed it's the game that we all envisioned – a motion sensitive lightsaber simulator where players could take on the likes of Darth Vader and Obi Wan Kenobi.

There have been titles that have promised to fulfil the dream, but none – perhaps due to the inherent limitations of the Wii hardware – have ever quite delivered.

Can the arrival of Sony's apparently very accurate Move and Microsoft's Natal change that? MCV asked LucasArts CEO Darrell Rodriguez that very question...

[whateva]

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[Meryl]

please put up the sword animations as well, this really is the best example:):)

[Shepherd 214]

Releasing a Battlefront 3, a Kotor 3, or a Jedi Knight 4 is what you should be excited for LucasArts, you people are becoming useless with your Force Unleashed junk. It was a solid game, but Fracture? come on now. And all they care about is their MMO the Old Republic now.

[cayal]

If they could make it work with no lag I would actually consider Move/Natal for this.

[Meryl]

they won't bother with natal it's too laggy, ps move is very accurate and fast too, you only have to look at their sword demo to see this, now jedi lightsaber battles can be finally realised

[trounbyfire]

about the MOVE set up is that you have the PS EYE as well so if you thrust your hand forward you get force push and a grabbing motion could draw your opponent or object closer to you. Using MOVE to select an object an throw it around. you can hold the light saber any way you want like backhanded.

"""one thing it has to slice threw whatever it touches no matter what it is so the AI has to be really good. imagine taking out a boss buy cutting off his limbs or stabbing him. Force push him into a wall then spear him threw the heart.""""

(yes MOVE still tracks you body, head, and arms when you us MOVE)

really the "ipad"...I am hoping that apple goes bankrupt and stop ripping people off. you can buy all the parts for an ipod original for less than 50 dollars but they charge $223.00 way more because its apple.

[ReBurn]

Not sure how you got to Apple from a lightsaber game. Anyway, instead of complaining that Apple is ripping people off why don't you just spend the $50 on the parts and make your own iPod? If you can, then it is nothing more than just the sum of its parts and people are being ripped off. If you can't, then perhaps there's more to it than you realize and maybe worth the cost.

[Kratos Spartan]

ipad is mentioned in the link. Reading is fundamental ;-)

[table]

This is where Natal fails in my opinion, it leaves too much to the imagination. On the move you will have an object to swing with button feedback, Natal lacks this sort of interface. Apparantly it can trace objects? That wont be any good without a simple button feedback. It has the same problem in other genres, for example driving games; why would I want to pretend to have a steering wheel when I could actually use one. After all this there still remains the problem of lag and innacuracies. I'm sorry but so far Natal looks to be at best for casual games only.

[ReBurn]

I think that we're going to see both Natal and Move reserved primarily for the casual space. I know people want to believe that somehow these technologies will somehow bring better games than what we've seen with Wii that somehow appeal to self-styled "hardcore" gamers. But I think that third party developers are still going to struggle with control paradigm and there won't be enough compelling reasons beyond launch software for people to invest in the add-ons.

[ATLGAMER]

Lacks any type of substance and still does not have any real killer apps....

[ThatArtGuy]

I would like a sequel to X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter!

[ReBurn]

A lightsaber game would be great. I would also like to have a proper follow-up to the Jedi Knight series.

[Games4M - Rob]

This would be grest with Move, and it would suck with Natal unless they release some kind of lightsaber peripheral - which kinda defeats the purpose of Natal

[CARRIERHASARRIVED]

Trust me, they'll defeat the purpose of Natal before we know it. No controller will not work with games that require you to move a character about in a 3D space. Think of playing something like Oblivion, or any game for that matter. You can't just move your body around and travel for miles, your living room is only so big. They'll be forced to implement some sort of controller solution or there won't be any way to move your character around in a practical way.

[R_A_LEE20]

Many people don't realise that there is a lightsaber game coming. And its called The Force Unleashed 2.

Think about it:

#1 - The games coming out this Autumn - Around the same time of release for Natal & Move.

#2 - The Force Unleashed 2 was unveiled many months after the announcement of Natal & Move and the release of Motion Plus.

#3 - The first game was all about using Lightsabers & The Force.

#4 - Its likely that the game will use all three forms of motion control: Natal, Move and Motion Plus.

Just wait until E3 and we will be seeing the Lightsaber game we want so much.

[CARRIERHASARRIVED]

I can see it work perfectly fine with the Move. natal, however, is missing that physical "I've got a light sabre in my hand" feeling. There's also no analog sticks anywhere in the Natal design that I've seen, so how would one move around at the same time?

[Kakihara]

If they make it first person rather than third person it could be the fulfillment of a lifelong fantasy for me. Give the player the ability to cut the slave outfit off of a photo realistic Princess Leia (or Olivia Munn in the same outfit) and I'll have to get some new fantasies in order to be able to distinguish dreams from reality.