Wii ‘Lightsaber Game’ Finally Revealed by LucasArts
Posted by jtheplay on June 25, 2008
After being one of the initial areas of speculation following the reveal of the Wii remote all the back in 2005, and after being rumored significantly for roughly a year now, LucasArts has finally officially announced Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels, a game that will be more appropriately known as ‘the Wii Lightsaber game’.
The game will naturally feature players holding their Wiimotes like the hilt of a lightsaber and wildly flailing around their living rooms in some attempt to capture the elegant and fierce rhythm of lightsaber battles found in the Star Wars movies. Naturally, fanboys everywhere are rejoicing.
Should the game mechanics be pulled off just right we could be rewarded with a satisfying realization of all the Wii’s potential. The game is being developed by Krome Studios, the same developer who is crafting the Wii, PS2, and PSP versions of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed .
The game will be set in the Clone Wars era, specifically based on the Clone Wars animated series and feature characters exclusively from the series and time period (meaning no Vader). You can find a trailer for Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels (out this holiday season) below.
