iPhone App: Star Wars: Trench Run
= 3 stars
Destroy the Imperial Death Star in this action shooter simulation.
The Good
- Actual footage from the first Star Wars movie.
- Gameplay is largely based on the classic Star Wars arcade game (think of the vector graphics as a wireframe for this game). It’s all rendered in expected computer game graphics.
The Bad
- Ultimately fails due to lackluster game play. The X-Wing doesn’t feel like it swings far enough in any direction. Most silly is your fighter’s slow cruising speed in the trench — you rather saunter along at what feels like 20 miles per hour, and the final encounter with the exhaust port (set on easy) is laughably slow. It seems the game makers should have referred to the classic arcade game, or at the very least, the original movie, for pacing. The vector arcade classic is inexcusably better.
Conclusion
Close to being a great game, but unfortunately ends up being something the original movie certainly wasn’t — boring. Someone should just port the classic Star Wars arcade game.
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You need to go to settings and change the difficulty from EASY to Hard or Jedi, and THEN tell me it’s “saunters”. It doesn’t. Trust me, it kicks ass.
I tried it on several difficulty levels. Boring is not the same thing
as easy.
I just call ‘em like I see ‘em. Not reviewing apps to be a cheerleader.
ah, I can accept that
so what would you like to see in the game? Be specific — levels? if so, which? ships? if so, which? features? if so, which?
One thing I’d like to see us add is Y-Wing choice, change Ties to X-Wings if you fly as darth, “fly fast” mode with X-Wing by closing x-foils.
I’d love to add back the surface attack, but I had some other level ideas that haven’t been done before
Just all depends, as usual, on budget.
Thanks for your time in reviewing the app, I really appreciate it,
John
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