Star Wars The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance Review Nintendo DS

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
Nintendo DS
LucasArts
£24.99

NOT set in any of the films, this title sees the Jedi on the trail of a missing consignment of lightsaber crystals.

Needless to say, this doesn't go as planned and they find themselves in conflict with a band of force-using women called the Nightsisters.

It's set before the final 'prequel' Revenge of the Sith, so all the Jedi are still around, allowing you to play as Anakin Skywalker with Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Ahsoka Tano with Mace Windu.

The developers have done their best to make the story as immersive as possible, with tons of cut scenes and dialogue somehow fitted onto the DS cart.

In a way it's better that the story doesn't take place in the films, making it more fresh and possibly better written than some of the turgid nonsense in the prequels.

The stylus controls work reasonably well in what is a fairly complex game for this method , although the combat is sometimes a bit hit and miss, as you try and hit the tiny opposing enemy in the right spot.

LucasArts has also stuck a fair amount of additional content and bonuses in which reward repeated play, adding to the longevity.

78 per cent

Ben Hurst