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Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles gets PC port, proving that the farce remains strong with this oneBig heads, new playable characters, old and modernised controls
Big heads, new playable characters, old and modernised controls
Image credit:Lucasfilm Games / Aspyr
Image credit:Lucasfilm Games / Aspyr
That great disturbance in the Force you just felt wasn’t a million voices crying out in terror. It was, in fact, me crying out in terror a million times. You see, Aspyr have just announced that they’re porting Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles to PC andSteam. I have a complicated relationship with Jedi Power Battles, in the sense that I think I still have scars on my thumbs from when I played it all night on a busted PS1 controller. I have bled for this game. I’d close my eyes after each six-hours session and see fields of lightsabers flickering and dancing like luminous leeches, chasing me through the Dagobahnian jungles of my dreams.
STAR WARS™: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles™ - Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube
STAR WARS™: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles™ - Announce Trailer
What are Aspyr doing with it all? Well, you can expect a choice of modern or classic controls, secret areas unlocked from the start, Vaselined visuals, cute flourishes such as Big Head mode, and a total of 13 returning and newly playable characters, including the Rifle Droid and Tusken Raider. It’s out 23rd January. Here’s hoping they give it a bit more time than they did the recent Battlefront port, which wasa planet-sized shambles.
If you’re thirsty for more of my midlife regret, or want my ill-informed take on movie choreography, Iwent long for Eurogamer about JPBa year or so back.
