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Nice game, but not for very long

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game has nice graphics and good user controls. The biggest bummer is that you cannot save your progress. So every time you start the game you always start on the same starting level. This gets old. Only if you finish an episode (multiple levels - which can take over and hour) can you then "skip" forward to the next level upon start.

6 Year Old Can't Put it Down

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my son's 6th birthday. He has not been able to put it down. It is a very basic play concept which made it easy for him to pick it up and run with it. I do think an adult would be bored quickly.
We have not been able to find out how to unlock the later levels but hopefully, he will as much fun when we do.

JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED !!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're like me and your favorite parts of these Star Wars movies are the space fighting scenes,then this game is for you.My only dissapointment was the streaming star effect when you use the lightspeed feature.I went to the movies 5 times as a kid to see that back then.Oh well,but this is still awesome!!!!

The bestd graphicson GBA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like this game because have a solid graphics, good entretaiment is a good opcion for a saturday night.

Fun game, but a little hard.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Over all, this was a fun game. But as my title says it was hard. I think that most people will get stuck on leval 2 as I did. (Hint: if you get far enough before time runs out you beat the leval.)With 14 fun levals it's a good game.

A great shoot-em-up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: November 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game so that I could fly my favorite ship from the Star Wars trilogy and blast tie fighters. I got what I was looking for. This game offers up some great action, awesome scenery, and spectacular space battles.

The view is third person from behind your vehicle, and the action is fast and furious arcade style. Controls are easy to master. You can move your vehicle in any direction, speed up, slow down, and fire primary and secondary weapons. A small target crosshair in the distance aids in lining up shots.

While most of the game features the Millennium Falcon, there are other vehicles you have to pilot. Luke's landspeeder, an X-Wing fighter, and a speeder bike. The first level starts us off with the Millennium Falcon approaching Tatooine, and you have to shoot down tie fighters that are coming after you. The remainder of the game showcases Luke's landspeeder navigating the streets of Mos Eisely spaceport, the Falcon traversing a desert canyon while shooting down probe droids, the attack on the Death Star, the asteroid field, a strange level where the Falcon chases Boba Fett's ship though Bespin's cityscape, the escape from the super Star Destroyer, the chaotic battle over Endor, a speeder bike chase, and the assault on the second Death Star.

The space battles are intense, with waves of tie fighters coming in, and flybys over Star Destroyers and the rebel fleet. This game is a great 3D shoot-em-up. Some of the other levels are obstacle courses. The Death Star trench is filled with crossbeams and turrets, making it a pretty challenging obstacle course to maneuver through. The asteroid field is what one might expect. Avoid the asteroids while shooting at the tie fighters. The final level has the Falcon maneuvering through the interior of the second Death Star. The reactor core and its defenses make for a nice end-game boss.

Visually, the game is impressive. The scenery is absolutely fantastic. Especially the spaceport, forest, and space-going vistas above planets. Tie fighters look like little blips when they're far away, but they look great up close when they fly by. There are normal tie fighters, tie bombers, and tie interceptors. Out in space, there's some notable pop-up. I was surprised when the first Star Destroyer just sort of popped onto the screen. When you get closer, the Star Destroyers look fabulous. The scenery in the spaceport and forest is great, sporting some nice detail. The Falcon looks good, as does the X-Wing.

This game performs just as well in the sound department. All of the familiar themes from the movies are present, and the game does an admirable job with them. The effects are awesome. Tie fighter laser blasts sound exactly like they're supposed to. So does everything else, from the Death Star's turrets to the Falcon's engines as it speeds up. A Chewbacca roar accompanies the selecting of an option. Han Solo says "You're all clear, kid!" when you approach the exhaust port, and Lando Calrissian says "Here goes nothing" as you enter the interior of the second Death Star. A nice touch.

This game is pretty hard. It's not a game you can zip through on your first try. It takes some getting used to, and it takes practice. You're given a limited number of lives, and a few continues. Four-character passwords are given out at the end of each episode. The first level is pretty easy; then the challenges begin. Be prepared to crash into walls many times before mastering the obstacle courses.

There are few details I really like about this game. In some of the levels, you don't crash if you fly into the floor (like, while flying over the surface of the Death Star). Instead, the game just places a limit on how low you can go. You also don't have to worry about crashing into a canyon wall or a side wall of a trench. In some of the levels, your vehicle only takes damage from hitting obstacles (as opposed to an instant death). I like this as well. Of course, a head-on crash with something usually results in an instant death; but not always. I was ramming head-on into trees during the speeder bike chase, and I was only taking damage. Speaking of which, this is the best speeder bike level I've seen in a game. It looks great, plays great, and is a lot of fun.

Completing the game gives a password that unlocks a bonus game. It's an old-fashioned, side-scrolling shoot-em-up where you fly the Falcon and shoot down tie fighters. Pretty cool.

I have just a few complaints with this game. The Star Destroyer pop-up leaves something to be desired. Would've been nicer if you could see it approaching in the distance. The Falcon's dogfight with the tie fighters after the escape from the Death Star is conspicuously absent. And there are some cheap shots near the end as prevalent tie bombers fly into view from behind. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you'll crash into one of them.

All said and done, I had a great time with Flight Of The Falcon. It's a fun shoot-em-up with great graphics, beautiful scenery, awesome sound effects, and some engaging game-play. The faults here are few, and the strengths are many. My verdict: thumbs way up.

THIS GAME SUX

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I got this game because I usually liked flying star wars games, such as rogue squadron. I turns out that this isn't nearly as good. It's boring getting past the first level, and there are about 4 levels to get through if you want to get the password. I say save your money and you'll be happy.

Portable Star Wars games always fail to please...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: May 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars video games are infamous for their "hit or miss" reputation. For every Rebel Strike, there's a game like the old NES Star Wars to bring the series' video gaming reputation back down to nothingness. In late 2003/early 2004, Lucas Arts decided to try their hand at making a new portable Star Wars game. Read on for my review of Flight Of The Falcon

PROS:
-IT'S A PORTABLE SHOOTER. There really aren't enough portable shooters these days, so it's good to finally have another one added to the rather small library.
-THERE ARE PASSWORDS TO SAVE YOUR PROGRESS. The passwords make the game a bit easier, and they make it good for if you want to play the game while traveling.

CONS:
-THE GAME IS PAINFULLY REPETITIVE. Essentially, you just point and shoot all the game through. There are different craft in the game, but basically it's just you manning the guns the whole way through.
-THE LEVELS ARE TOO LONG. There are passwords, but they only save your progress at the beginning of a level. The levels are huge, so this doesn't do much good.
-IT'S NOT WORTHY OF THE STAR WARS NAME. Some movie-making companies go the extra mile to make sure that their movies become gaming masterpieces - and unfortunately, the Star Wars film series doesn't get that same luxury.

OVERALL:
In the end this game is painfully generic. If you're interested in it, rent it or borrow it from a friend, but don't waste your hard-earned cash buying it - you'll be disappointed if you actually purchase it. If you want a good Star Wars game, check out any of the ones in the Rogue Squadron series - don't bother with the portable entries.

fun flier for the patient

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game for anyone who appreciates old arcade games. It's very simple: you fly and shoot things. The story line follows the original Star Wars trilogy, with a number of missions derived from scenes in the movies. You pilot more than just the Falcon, which I suppose is good for variety, but actually disappointed me slightly (only because I love the Falcon and wanted to go through the whole plot as Hans Solo).

I've only had the game for a day, and I still have not passed the first episode. The game is challenging, but personally, I find I learn very quickly, so what seems impossible at first soon becomes manageable. To me, the challenge is welcome, I know this is not something that I will beat in a matter of hours.

While I enjoy the game, I do have a few complaints.

First, as everyone else has mentioned, is the fact that you are only given passwords after each episode. Given that there are only 3 episodes, this seems like a poor design. I don't think that battery save would add to the game, because part of the difficulty of arcade style games is that you can't just stop and start where you please. Starting over is frustrating, but adds to the challenege. What's most frustrating about this game is the length of the episodes. It takes me an almost an hour to get to the end of the first episode, currently, so if I get a game ver in the last level, it's another hour before I can try it again. I feel like the best compromise would perhaps be to have some midpoint in the episode where you were given a password.

The other difficulty is in some of the graphics rendering. I think that most of the graphics are fine, even in the timed missions, but the problem is that many objects become at least partially transparent when you're very near them. This is not good when you're trying to avoid crashing into the objects. I don't know how many times I've thought I was clear of the turret on an Imperial Cruiser and then had my ship explode. However, I find that this is easy enough to adjust to. (But in the fast missions, I do find myself holding the screen closer and squinting a lot.)

So, it is a game with problems, and it certainly is not a game for those spoiled by frequent saving and long storylines, but for those who want some simple action *without* the baggage of a huge story arc, it is a good game. Just look for a used copy.

This Game Stinks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games I've ever played. For example if you don't beat the whole episode and you lose all your continues you go back to the beginning. The game is also almost impossible and you don't even get to be out of your ship! If you want my advice, DON'T BUY THIS GAME!

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