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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (video game)

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Star Wars Episode III:
Revenge of the Sith
Publication information
Developer(s)

The Collective, Inc.

Publisher(s)

LucasArts

Release date

May 5, 2005

Genre

Action

Modes

Single player, multiplayer

Rating(s)

Entertainment Software Rating Board

Platform(s)

PlayStation 2, Xbox, GBA, Nintendo DS, Mobile phone

Chronology
[Source]
"At last… a test for my training!"
―Serra Keto[src]

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was a 2005 video game based on the movie of the same name. It centers around Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker as the Clone Wars come to an end. There are seventeen levels, interlaced with over twelve minutes of footage from the movie. It was released on May 5, 2005, for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Additionally, a version was made available for mobile phones on April 2, and a version for the PlayStation Portable was cancelled and never released.

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[edit] Storyline

The game follows the movie storyline very closely, incorporating footage from the movie into the game and blending it well with the game portion itself. It involves playing through the events as either Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, with radically different events taking place in either. As Obi-Wan, much of the game is centered around destroying General Grievous, while the Anakin levels chronicle his fall to the dark side and extermination of the Jedi Order. This includes Anakin's attack on the Jedi Temple, which culminates in a duel with Cin Drallig. The game ends with the duel on Mustafar between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan. There are two different endings to the final battle. The Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions of Episode III are much the same to the console versions, except as a side-scrolling action game. The DS version also features uses for its touch-screen capability. The game was also released on the mobile phone and followed the storyline of all other versions.

[edit] Multiplayer mode

The game also features a multiplayer duel mode, in which two players face off against each other. Players can choose Obi-Wan, Anakin, Count Dooku, General Grievous, Mace Windu, Cin Drallig, or Serra Keto. Darth Vader, and "Ben Kenobi", from Episode IV can also be unlocked for this mode.

Each battle can be won with either the best of one, three or five rounds, depending on the options chosen. In addition, all characters have equal health and energy, with all status upgrades acquired by Anakin and Obi-Wan eliminated to balance the fight against the other opponents. However, all of the upgraded techniques and Force Powers are available and each of the other characters has special abilities and maneuvers.

In addition to the original costumes found throughout the Single Player campaign, each character has a different costume that is used when each player chooses the same character. Some of these costumes depict Sith versions of certain Jedi characters.

[edit] DS Starfighter

In the DS version there are 3D starfighter battles incorporating the touch screen to manage your shields and view Radar and scores. There are three missions for each Anakin and Obi-Wan in single player, and a multiplayer providing 6 maps and 17 ships:

[edit] Levels

[edit] Bonus levels

In addition to the main story levels, there are bonus levels and characters the player can unlock and play as, such as Yoda, General Grievous, an IG-100 MagnaGuard and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. Most of these levels consist of the player mainly fighting wave after wave of enemies. An added bonus level is the player taking on the role as Darth Vader during his final encounter with Obi-Wan/Ben Kenobi in the original Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

[edit] In-game characters

[edit] Playable characters

[edit] Non-playable characters

NPC OOM security battle droid

[edit] Behind the scenes

[edit] Differences between the movie and the game

Most differences are about character deaths. Due to the fact that the game was released prior to the movie, many of the most important character deaths were changed so as to not spoil the movie. For example:

Dooku in the game.
  • Count Dooku was killed when Anakin impaled him. In the movie, he was beheaded.
  • Obi-Wan and Grievous ended up in a room overlooking the sinkhole after fighting in a cave; concluding the chase with the General on his wheelbike, being pursued by the Jedi Master on Boga. This was instead of the chase concluding on Grievous's landing dock with his starfighter as in the movie.
  • Grievous doesn't cough in game, and he is killed when Obi-Wan stabbed him in the chest, and Grievous's armor short-circuited. In the movie, Obi-Wan used the cyborg general's own blaster to incinerate him with his gut sac exposed after Obi-Wan lost his lightsaber.
  • Mace Windu, instead of getting his hand cut off by Anakin Skywalker and having Palpatine throw him into the depths of Coruscant with Force Lightning, dueled him and lost, being stabbed through the chest and kicked out of the window.
  • In the game after Anakin defeats Mace Windu he has a victorious smile on his face. But right when the level is complete he is seen kneeling and crying "What have I done?"
  • After turning to the dark side, Anakin often laughs evilly. In the film, he is quieter and prone to outbursts of anger instead of hubris.
  • Cin Drallig was killed with a saber impale variation of performed by Darth Vader. In the movie, he was killed when Vader cut his chest.
  • On his mission, Vader kills Poggle the Lesser by using a piece of the door and a Force push to crush him.
  • Nute Gunray escaped Darth Vader's slaughter. He tried to escape in his ship, and then to kill Vader, but Darth Vader destroyed the ship, sending it plummeting into the lava, and then exploding, killing Gunray.
  • When Darth Vader was defeated on Mustafar, Obi-Wan picked up his lightsaber and left without saying anything.
  • In the bonus level when Vader confronts Obi-Wan on the Death Star, Vader is able to cast Force lightning. That was not possible because of Vader's mechanical arms. Anakin, in the game, can also use Force lightning as soon as he turned to the Dark side, but in the film, he didn't learn that power at all though it could have been possible. There are also TIE Interceptors in the background. However, that variant of TIE Fighter did not yet exist.
Anakin Skywalker battling B-1 battle droids.
  • Palpatine's robe turns red to black to red again during the fight with Mace Windu. This is because in the movie clips, it's red, but in the game parts, it's black - the same one he wore while captured by Grievous.
  • Mace Windu and Anakin both wear Jedi robes at the start of their fight, then they lose them, and at the end Anakin has his back on.
  • Padmé Amidala is never seen other than a brief appearance of her head, which is part of a clip from the movie, in the last two levels of the game and is otherwise only mentioned in the PS2 and Xbox versions of the game during the fight on Mustafar. She appears fully in the GBA and DS versions.
  • Yoda was never shown dueling with Palpatine.
  • Nute Gunray and the others don't know they are being betrayed until Darth Vader arrives in the room, but in the game they realize Sidious' betrayal as soon as Vader lands, when he kills Neimoidian Guards and fights his way through the whole base to get to the council room.
  • Since Grievous got stabbed by Obi-Wan in the game he, of course, did not drop his lightsaber like in the movie. Also, in the movie Commander Cody handed Obi-Wan's lightsaber back to Kenobi seconds before Cody received Order 66 and tells troopers in turrets to fire at Obi-Wan. Instead, Obi-Wan Kenobi tells the clones to continue to higher levels. The clones reply by saying they no longer serve him and start firing at the Jedi Master.
  • Little explanation is given as to why Anakin joins the dark side. Padmé and trying to save her in child birth, why he's frustrated with the Council, and why he needs Palpatine aren't shown in the cutscenes.
  • The in-game dialogue and cinematic cut-scenes were written by Dark Horse assistant editor Jeremy Barlow.
  • Although Count Dooku is mainly played by Corey Burton, Christopher Lee recorded one extra line for Count Dooku for the opening cutscene for the level "Settling the Score": Just because there are two of you, don't assume you have the advantage. This line is never spoken by Count Dooku in the film.
  • In the GBA and DS versions there are missions involving Anakin fighting battle droids and an AAT on Coruscant right after he was appointed to the Jedi Council and once again after he decided to rescue Palpatine. Another mission involves Obi-Wan escaping from the clone troopers through the caves on Utapau and fighting several IG-Magnaguards on the way. There are also some minor differencies like the fight with a Vulture droid aboard the Invisible Hand and an escape from the Hailfire-droid on Mustafar.

[edit] Non-canonical ending

The mission "Revenge of the Sith" gives the player the opportunity to play as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader during the duel on Mustafar, with the objective of defeating Obi-Wan Kenobi. The duel plays out the same until the very end, where Vader avoids Obi-Wan's blade in his leap behind Obi-Wan to the lava river bank and stabs Obi-Wan with his lightsaber, killing him. He than kicks Obi-Wans body near the lava. Vader then greets Palpatine as he steps out from his shuttle.

After being presented with a brand new red Sith lightsaber and hearing Sidious say that he has "brought peace to our galaxy", Vader activates his lightsaber and stabs Palpatine. The clone troopers aim at Vader for killing Lord Sidious, then lower their weapons as Lord Vader then says "No...the galaxy belongs to me!"

It is unknown if Sidious killed Yoda in this non-canonical ending, or if Yoda survived the duel. There is also no mention whatsoever in the game of the confrontation between Yoda and Sidious. However, it is possible Yoda was killed by Palpatine as he declares that "There are none left to oppose us." This alternate ending is named in the game as "Ultimate Revenge Of The Sith" as the Sith finally won against the Jedi.

[edit] Music

No original music from the film is used, since recording of the soundtrack had not been completed when the game's production ended. This is also the case in Lego Star Wars: The Video Game. As a result, music from all of the other five movies is used. The cutscenes also use music from the other media. In the levels "The Final Lesson" and "Assassination on Mustafar," music from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is also used. This music can also be found in some multiplayer duel levels. Music from Episode III was not added in the 2006 "Greatest Hits"/"Platinum Hits" release of the game on PS2 and Xbox.

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] External links

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