| Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels | |
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| Developer | Krome Studios |
| Publisher | LucasArts |
| Director | Steve Stamatiadis |
| Producers | Don Meadows Ken Fox |
| Designer | Kev Harrison |
| Programmer | Chris Lacy |
| Artist | Furio Tedeschi |
| Composer | Kevin Kiner |
| Series | Star Wars: The Clone Wars |
| Platform | Wii |
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| Genres | Fighting,adventure[1] |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels is afightingvideo game developed byKrome Studios and published byLucasArts for theWii. The game is based onStar Wars: The Clone Wars,[2] and is the secondStar Wars fighting game released, followingStar Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi (1997).[3] The game was released on November 11, 2008 to coincide with the start of the series' first season.[4] A companion game,Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Jedi Alliance, was released on theNintendo DS on the same day. The game received generally mixed reviews.
The events of the game's "Campaign Mode" take place during thefilm and select episodes from the first season of thetelevision series, specifically "Duel of the Droids", "Cloak of Darkness", "Shadow of Malevolence", and "Destroy Malevolence", finishing with a scenario original to the game which involves Anakin Skywalker infiltrating a factory to hunt down and kill one of the newest Separatist Jedi hunting droids, EG-5.
Many of the series' voice actors reprise their roles as their respective characters, includingAshley Eckstein,Matt Lanter,James Arnold Taylor,Matthew Wood,Corey Burton,Nika Futterman,Tom Kane,Phil LaMarr, and Terrence Carson.[citation needed]
Lightsaber Duels makes use of theWii Remote to simulate lightsaber combat. Players also use the Nunchuk to utilizeForce powers to enhance their strength and manipulate objects in the duel arena while playing as aJedi orSith. Duels are fought one-on-one, with four levels ofdifficulty themed after the ranks of the Jedi Order for single-player battles against an opponent controlled byartificial intelligence. Each character has different attackcombos, triggered by inputting a series of several Wii Remote gestures without interruption.Quick time events can also occur during a duel that a player can win by performing the correct gestures to deliver extra damage to the opponent. Duels are fought as abest-of-three series, implemented with dualhealth bars that deplete one after the other, similar toKiller Instinct, although the winner fully replenishes their current health bar when a round ends with one of the loser's health bars being fully depleted.
In "Campaign Mode", the player can only fight as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano, each in their costumes from the series. They battle against Asajj Ventress, Count Dooku, and General Grievous, plus a Jedi Hunter, named EG-5, a droid that is programmed to use a lightsaber.
In "Challenge Mode", the player is given the choice to play as any character in the game currently unlocked, and enter a series of duels in which specific goals are set. If they are met, a blue Jedi crest will appear at the end of the duel. Each character has four challenges. Some challenges are more difficult than others, but they unlock characters and some battlefields as well.
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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels received mixed reviews according to review aggregatorMetacritic.
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | 56/100[5] |
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| Eurogamer | 2/10[7] |
| Game Informer | 5/10[11] |
| GameSpot | 6.5/10[8] |
| GamesRadar+ |   [10] |
| IGN | 5.3/10[6] |
| VideoGamer.com | 5/10[9] |
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