a b c Jensen, Jeff (5 June 2011). " 'Star Wars' at E3: Your first look at 'Kinect Star Wars' -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2011.

Whilst it doesn’t delve deeply into the Star Wars universe or offer players a more in-depth experience of galactic rebellion it really is entertaining to play a few rounds of in an evening. With three different types of dice used across the turn it is a game that is heavily based on chance, which may not be for everyone, but is part of what makes it enjoyable as each roll becomes a make or break moment, with the promise of glory on the other side. Particularly if, like me, your first few attempts end in crushing defeat. a b Walton, Mark (3 April 2012). " Kinect Star Wars Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016 . Retrieved 17 December 2016. For a tabletop experience brimming with tension and fan service - in this case, the board game recreates a key element of A New Hope’s plot - then Star Wars fans could do a lot worse than giving Dark Side Rising a go. As well as detailing the aliens, vehicles, and technologies from the films, it also added a number of new ones as well. All of this was then used as reference material for the start of the original Star Wars expanded universe, including the Thrawn trilogy novels in the early 90s and the video games of the era.

The final mode might be the most controversial. Galactic Dance Off is a clone of the excellent Dance Central games, but with the action moved to classic Star Wars locations such as Jabba’s Palace or the Bespin carbonite freezer. Fellow dancers become exotic aliens, or established stars like Han Solo or Princess Leia. Even the songs get reworked with Star Wars-related lyrics, so that the old Christina Aguilera hit goes from Genie in a Bottle to Princess in a Battle, with Leia urging Han to man-up and join the rebel alliance. The menu screens between modes have their own storyline. Luke Skywalker sends R2-D2 and C-3PO to retrieve files from the Jedi Archives on Coruscant. In the temple, they meet the "Commander," who "supervises" their mission. The player is the commander and each mode appears as a separate file from the archives. Destiny may no longer be actively supported by Fantasy Flight, but it’s liked enough that it could see a fan-supported afterlife similar to the one experienced by departed living card game Android: Netrunner. Regardless, there are still plenty of ways to get your hands on cards and dice for the time being, so Destiny isn’t quite dead and gone yet.

To use these dice, the symbols rolled must be matched to one or more cards in the system the player is active in. Matching all the symbols on a Rebel agent allows the player to recruit that agent while matching all the symbols on an Imperial troop allows the player to damage, and possibly defeat, that troop. Doing the latter also rewards the player with a powerful one-time Alliance token, each of which can be cashed in for a different effect. The component quality of SW:DSR is undoubtedly high. After finishing their training, the two Padawans and Yoda found Trandoshan transports invading the planet with Battle Droids and Trandoshan warriors. After dispatching some battle droids, Yoda and two Padawans flew two speeders across the jungle and the lake to reach the Wookiee village. After reaching the village, Yoda left the Padawans to fight the Trandoshans and battle droids on his own. After dispatching some B1's, B2's, Droidekas and Trandoshans, the Padawans were reunited with Mavra and made their way to the beach to take out a Trandoshan base. After dispatching many Trandoshans, droids, and missiles, the three made it to the base. Zane went inside to blow up the main reactor while the Padawans fought more Trandoshans and droids, and even facing two Trandoshan sword-wielding sport-hunters, Zane set the thermal detonator and they only had a few seconds until the base's utter destruction and the Trandoshans retreated. Of course, some of them are undeniably awful - Trivial Pursuit DVD: Star Wars Saga Edition has incredibly strong 2005 vibes, and 1977’s Escape from Death Star set a poor standard from the off. Others are simply straight-up copies of existing board games, such as the many, many versions of Star Wars Monopoly out there. However, some are prime examples of how to make excellent movie franchise board games to fill in gaps in the narrative or to let players live out their Jedi or Sith fantasies.Talking of starship combat, it’s now time to talk about perhaps the greatest Star Wars board game in existence: Star Wars: Rebellion. Endorsed by Dicebreaker’s very own Wheels, Rebellion is an asymmetric board game featuring miniatures that allows players to experience the conflict between the Empire and Rebel forces in an incredibly well realised fashion. Kinect Star Wars is a pleasant surprise. It has its share of issues and, inevitably, some parts of the game work better than others. Yet, it’s a very entertaining Kinect experience, an enjoyable Star Wars experience, and generally more fun than we expected. If you take a po-faced attitude to gaming or Star Wars, and you’re looking for a deep Star Wars adventure that lets you wield the force and a lightsaber with flawless motion controls, Kinect Star Wars isn’t it. But if you’re happy with a lighter, more family-oriented title that you can trot out on a Friday night with Star Wars-loving friends and on Sunday with Clone Wars-crazy kids, then Kinect Star Wars will do very nicely.

The reviewer did notice the respectable graphics during the Dark Side Rising campaign, and the review team enjoyed Galactic Dance Off. [5] Overall this section of the game is a very satisfying game of risk, reward and resource management. Using your re-rolls, abilities and alliance tokens in the right combinations to make the most efficient use of your turn isn’t easy but sits nicely on that line between mechanically accessible and good strategic depth. Kinect to launch on November 4 in North America, 15 launch titles on www.vg247.com (archived from the original on September 8, 2015) Assuming that the player whose turn it is has any agents left in their team by the time Vader has done his business, it’s time to roll some dice. Star Wars: Dark Side Rising comes with a set of colourful, custom dice that represent the four key areas of the Rebel Alliance (Tactical, Intelligence, Support and Leadership). Each colour of die has a different combination of symbols on with the dice representing different areas being better or worse at different things. This is unfair. Plenty of games out there from Wingspanto Tang Garden have wonderful components and it is legitimate for the quality of the design in a board game to be part of its appeal. I would advise interested parties happening upon Star Wars: Dark Side Rising not to be put off by the flash because there is a very solid, co-operative game underneath. Even Forrest-Whittaker-eye isn’t enough to put off Big Daddy Vader.Kinect Star Wars dances up UK chart". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. 10 April 2012. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020 . Retrieved 15 December 2016. Xbox 360 tops all console sales in April in US on www.gamesindustry.biz (archived from the original on June 27, 2015) How about taking your Star Wars immersion a little further by playing one the tabletop roleplaying games based on the franchise? There are a selection of Star Wars Roleplaying titles to choose from - including a The Force Awakens starter set designed for beginners - but our money is on the two RPGs that focus on the quintessential elements of the Star Wars experience: Age of Rebellion and Force and Destiny. However, they aren’t as many games that appeal to the family crowd as you’d expect. They’re either quite complex or are so simple that they might as well be Monopoly. What you want is a game that elicits the thrill and excitement of the movies whilst still being straight forward enough to let a disinterested sibling or parent also have fun. Star Wars Dark Side Rising is one of those games; mechanically interesting enough to appeal to none Star Wars fans, but yet interesting enough to keep wannabe Jedi engaged.