Pros: Light saber looks good........thats it.
Cons: Everything but the saber lighting.
The bottom line: If you want an expensive coaster (that works no better than those free AOL discs) than by all means go ahead and by Obi-Wan.
If a PC title is scrapped then it should be pretty obvious that the game is horribly flawed. I mean, What kind of quality control does a pc have? Especially when patches are released every few days. (WW Online ring a bell?) And since I am such a nice guy i'll spare you the review here and say to just stay as far away from this crap is possible.

Gameplay is focused on Kenobi and fighting his way through his life as a Jedi. Walking is (painfully) dictated using the left analog stick and the right stick is used for light saber strokes. You also have the powers of the Force but they lack the kind of.......effect..i guess......that was in Jedi Knight for pc. Basically, its as boring as hell to throw an enemy off a ledge or slam him into a wall, and that should not be.

The story as i said revolves around Obi Wan Kenobi, and while you get to see parts of the movie Episode 1 in cut scenes. These are acted out extremely poorly and the horrible voice acting only makes things worse. If you thought the one droid saying "Roger, Roger" was about as annoying as a joke as it could get, (if it was even suppoed to be a joke) than have a roll of paper towels ready as your TV screen will be covered in spit by the end of the second "Roger".

The only good thing i can say about the graphics in this game is that the light saber doesn't look half bad. The characters however, all move as stiff as hell and look so bad i couldn't even tell it was Obi Wan until someone said his name.

The control is damn bad too. a way to strafe without locking on to anyone and without doing a gay-@$$ cart wheel that makes you overshoot how far you needed to walk over, would have helped the game a great deal. Walking around corners is annoying since you can't even see whats around the corner until Kenobi beaten down. (and hopefully dead, dead so he wouldn't have to live through this hell of a "game").

The sound is your standard Lucas stuff. zing, pow crackle and all that crap.

The AI is the worst the XBOX has ever seen. The fact that Qui Gon leads you into traps and doesn't really help you when you need it, (I'm surrounded by 3 and Qui Gon screams HURRY!! Your Jeopradizing the mission!) pales only in comparison to the complete idiots that are somehow fighting the Jedi Council. A standard event happens when 7 or more enemies huddle into a corner (Yes, sigh, in the middle of a fight...) making them easy victims to my saber throw.

Multiplayer in this game is based on a 1 on 1 fight that lacks any depth or fun. It sure does look cool though if you can use the time slow MAx Payne Rip off while your dodging your enemy. But since that when you hit an enemy his attack animation isn't stopped and you both will get hit, leads to more punches accross your friends face than the punches that were pulled at the movie for sucking so bad.

In the end, This proves that what doesn't make it to a PC is worse than crap, I wouldn't use this DVD to scrape Dog $#!% off my shoe unless I used it to clean out my cats litter box first. Stay far away from even looking at this game box as it will blind you with its badness. (Instead why not hock a big fat green one on the damn box and any idiot who tries to sell you this.)



I would like to say that I actually had high hopes for this game. This is what disappointment (Of this degree) can do.