Star Wars The Clone Wars Adventures. Before I begin, let me just start by saying that I know this game is done. Sony Online EntertainmentStar Wars The Clone Wars Adventures. Before I begin, let me just start by saying that I know this game is done. Sony Online Entertainment announced the game has been shut down for good, most likely due to the cancellation of the show it was based on. It was shut down on March 31st, 2014. This review is meant as more of a history lesson, telling you how good or bad the game really was, and if you should play it should someone make an emulated version of it. I played this game quite a bit back when this show first came out, and I will tell you exactly how it was. So, was this game an amazing MMO that should have been Star Wars the Old Republic, or is the Old Republic actually a better MMO then you would like to think? Let's find out. For starters, the gameplay of this game sucked. It was good for children, but not for people like me who were just turning into teenagers at the time. Why did it suck you may ask? Well, let's just say that the game took no real risks. It instead created mini games that delivered absolutely nothing that we have not seen before. You start out in the Jedi Temple, which acted as your online hub. From here, you could visit any mini game you wanted. There is only one other MMO I can think of that does an online hub like this: basically every single MMO out there has one! Admittedly, there isn't much more they could have done to make it original, but come on! As for the mini games, oh my gosh were they terrible! For starters there was a dueling mini game. At least that's what they called it. I like to call it: Dance Dance Revolution: Jedi Duel Edition. No, you were not matching the rhythms to the music, but you were matching the button prompts to whatever chain of buttons appeared on screen. In the end, it still felt like a rhythm game, or a quick time event (don't even get me started on those). It ultimately got to the point where it didn't even feel like you were dueling someone else, but instead you were playing a bad rhythm game or quick time event. There's also a starfighter pilot mini game, but all I can say about that game is this: you would be better off playing Star Fox 64 for Nintendo 64. That's basically what this mode was, just a crappy version of Star Fox 64. I thought it was the best of all the mini games, but that still doesn't excuse that the game was little more than a rip-off of a much better game. There was also a mode that I forget the name of, but it was supposed to simulate real battles in the Clone Wars. However, this game was also nothing special. It was literally the same as every other tower defense game that you could already find on just about any random games website. However, the worst part of all about this gameplay is that you could play for free, but only for the first couple of levels of the mini games. You had to pay a lot of money to become a Jedi member just to play the rest of the levels. This is no fun at all, and is just an example of a free-to-play game that should have been pay-to-play. Not that you would want to anyway. If you haven't noticed all of the mini games are little more than complete rip-offs of games that are much much better. Overall, the gameplay of this game is just terrible. As for the graphics, believe it or not, they are quite the opposite. The graphics of this game were much better than the gameplay. They were really close to the animation of the show this game was based on, but not quite. Still though, it's hard to argue that the characters and settings looked nothing like how they did on the show, because they actually look very close. For the graphics alone, this game might have been worth giving a try. As for the overall presentation, I'd say it was mostly average. Much like the gameplay of this game, the presentation did not try anything new. It instead delivered exactly what we have come to expect from the MMO genre. The menus are all what you would expect, and so was the overall quality of the game. In the end, the presentation was not bad, but it wasn't good either. It instead brought us what we have come to expect from the genre, without trying anything new. So that's my review of Star Wars the Clone Wars Adventures. The game may be down now, but I wouldn't be disappointed. There was literally nothing this game did that no other MMO, or even other video game couldn't do already. The kids would probably have been all over this game, but as for teenagers like me who have played thousands of other video games, this game offered absolutely nothing we haven't played before, and was not even worth trying in this respect.
Gameplay: 3/10
Graphics: 8/10
Presentation: 5/10
Overall: 5/10… Expand
