Just like the tank missions, insanely populated battlefields are the order of the day here, so you'll need all the firepower you can get. Apart from the standard allotment of blasters and missiles, it's strapped with a crazy-cool concen-trated laser beam that can rip right through enemy hulls like no one's business.

In these situations, you'll get to ride a Republic Gunship, which is both nicely hooked-up in terms of armaments and is as swift as a hungry bat. You'll spend a good bit of time off of the ground, and in the air. The battles you'll engage in when piloting said tank are unrelentingly thick in terms of headcount, so its high mobility and respectable offensive power will definitely keep it out of the scrap heap, provided you're careful, of course. It's a quick little number, with the ability to tear speedily through enemy ranks, as well as pummel them with fire from its heavy blaster and concussion missiles.

Much like in Rogue Squadron, you'll get to use different vehicles in different scenarios, with some sections calling for a bit of hands-dirtying third-person Jedi lightsaber action.įor a majority of the time, though, you'll be behind the wheel of a zippy fighter tank. It was a time of great unrest for the Galactic Republic (no thanks, in large part, to Jar-Jar Binks), which equates to a whole mess of tanks, walkers and heavily-armed Jedi, among other units, being deployed to bring down the house.

And the shallow but fun Live games put this prettier version of CW a few parsecs beyond its PS2 and Cube cousins.Īs the title would imply, The Clone Wars takes place during that nigh-legendary spot in the Star Wars continuum, which is currently located just after Episode II. But kudos to the cool multiplayer modes in which Windu has the decency to stay in his damn seat. You've gotta move his hardly animated ass across a battlefield while armies of clones and droids pause to stare curiously at his clunky movement. Just when you're enjoying a tense tank fight, for instance, out pops Mace 'lifelike-as-Legos' Windu. Too bad, then, that some of the other segments look and play like a hodgepodge of aborted Star Wars projects tossed aside in the final moments of the 32-bit era. Plus, slick visuals give the game cinematic grandeur. Of these, half are such a pleasure to handle that even the ubiquitous escort assignments don't feel like mundane babysitting gigs.

From assault walkers to Wookiee pack animals, impressive ground-based toys abound. Feed me to the Sarlacc pit for heresy, but I actually prefer Clone Wars' terrestrial take on dogfighting to the traditional but tedious X-Wing loop-the-looping.

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