Xbox Game: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

I bought this game yesterday with so much excitement I couldn't wait to get home to play it. I popped it in my Xbox and watched the opening movie which (was pretty cool). Then it came time to saddle up for the first level.

The graphics were not ground-breaking. They were good, but certainly not on the "amazing" level. I was extremely disappointed to find out in the first few seconds of game play that the player doesn't control the camera like they do in many other first-person games. I'm forced to compare all of these types of games to my A+ "Splinter Cell" (it really doesn't matter which version of the game). Because you have no camera control and the camera doesn't follow directly behind you, you are frequently running in directions without having a clue what's ahead of you (read: you could be running into enemy fire or a wall. In fact, this occurs more often than not. It is unbelievably frustrating and in my opinion the game should never have left the manufacturer with this kind of camera problem.

The second thing that really bothered me was the long delay that would occur quite often with regard to controlling my character. An enemy would start a combo on me and you literally have to wait until the entire combo has landed before you recover any kind of usable control over the character. Several times I'd simply be trying to back up, move out of the way, or use a force push but alas, nothing at all would happen and I would have to wait until the enemy was done.

I actually finished all 16 levels in about four hours of play, which was extremely disappointing. There should have been more involved with each level instead of just "fight off these three dozen droids, flick that switch, move this big object using the force (which you do by pressing a single button before the cinematics take over for you to complete the job)".

The one really cool thing about the game is the spoilers. You see some brief scenes from the real film, and also some scenes that were written specifically for this game. This is both good and bad, I suppose, but it sure made the game a lot more entertaining.Overall I give the game a 6 out of 10 rating.