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-THQ Wireless (2005) -Played on a Sanyo 8300
The Jedi foolishly fight to save the Republic. My Thoughts: You read that right. I played a Star Wars cell phone game on a Sanyo 8300, which is a Sprint phone. Either Cingular’s exclusivity agreement is ending, or someone made a sneaky Separatist deal. While it is nice to see a Star Wars game on a phone that isn’t Cingular, it’s too bad that Revenge of the Sith is not one of the good Star Wars mobile games. In RotS, you take control of four Jedi and battle as many droids or clones that a Jedi can handle. Each Jedi has specific stages though, so you can’t have Yoda fighting Anakin on Mustafar. The game begins with Anakin fighting Dooku and gaining control of Grievous’ cruiser. In the proceeding stages you’ll also play as Obi-Wan, Mace Windu, and Yoda. At the beginning and end of each stage is a small bit of dialogue that advances the story. The action on screen, however, remains frozen until the dialogue is over. So when Palpatine tells Anakin to kill Dooku, you don’t see anything but the still image of your last attack. The same goes with Mace being blasted out of senator's the window. You see all the dialogue, but don’t see Anakin arrive or the other characters move about once Palpatine has been “defeated.” By far the best part of the game is stage nine where Anakin, now Darth Vader, must assassinate all the Neimodians on Mustafar. This stage features very minimal resistance and the Neimodians are all running around wildly with their arms raised.
There are a couple other force powers available such as force push, but they don’t need to be used. In fact, in stages five through nine you don’t even have to use any moves. You can have the Jedi just jump until he gets to the end of the stage with out ever swinging the lightsaber.
Sadly, the mobile version of Revenge of the Sith earns every bit of its “ROTS” abbreviation, but huge Star Wars fans will probably buy it anyway.
-Shawn
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Star Wars: Revenge of
the Sith
Summary:
Only
five of the stages feature boss battles. Normal attacks have no effect on the
bosses however, so the only way to defeat them is by using the special attack
which dilutes energy from the Jedi force meter. However, the bosses take more
than one hit from it go down. What you need to do is use a special attack and
leave the battle to backtrack through the stage and find any power-ups you
didn’t pick up, or fight droids that have re-spawned to refill the force meter.
You can then go back to the boss, who has just been waiting, and use a second
force attack. I’m not sure if this was an intentional design choice, or just
something that happened on accident, but either way it’s a poor way to have to
play the game. The final duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin is very difficult
because the only one to fight is Anakin. This means Obi-Wan needs to build up
his force meter by performing many useless melee attacks.
The
graphics are decent as the characters are recognizable enough. The stages repeat
the same background over and over, though. The animations are pretty limited for
all the characters as well. They have about two frames for awkward walking, a
single frozen frame for dashing, a getting hit frame, and a few for swinging
around their lightsabers. When you can hear it, the sound is atrocious. The
controls are a little sluggish and all the Jedi play the exact same way. It
won’t feel any different whether you’re playing as Obi-Wan or Yoda. The droids
are comprised of an assortment of battle droids, super battle, destroyers, and
crab droids. And taking out a destroyer droid is no different than a normal
battle droid. All it takes is one hit from your trusty lightsaber, even with the
destroyer’s shields. They certainly weren’t that easy to dispose of in the
movies. 
Score: