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Beware the dark side. Beware this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a sucker for Star Wars, having been programmed to love it at an early age. The screenshots of this game look great, almost like a cut-down "Rogue Squadron," but once you see them in motion, they're a lot less interesting. Worse, the gameplay isn't tweaked at all, you're just running down the clock or shooting x number of enemies until the green bar at the bottom of the screen goes away.

This is yet another lost opportunity for a portable Star Wars game. It's particularly disturbing because this one had so much potential, being set in the "classic trilogy" and featuring Han Solo and Chewbacca.

Pocket Studios, the developer, is on my enemies list now. Not only did they ruin this game, they also bungled their rendition of Midway's Arcade Classics (Defender/Robotron/Joust/Sinistar), which Digital Eclipse could have ported in their sleep. Won't someone *please* give my childhood memories to a company that is less likely to ruin them?

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!

Run don't walk away from this lemon of a game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because most Star Wars games are decent. It looked decent on the back, sort of like an updated version of the old vector arcade Star Wars, except using the Falcon instead of an X-Wing.
The first level was not bad, the 2nd is almost impossible. The worst part of he game is there is no battery save and on top of that if you dont complete the entire "movie" sequence of levels, you have to start at the very beginning. One of the worst titles I've ever picked up on GBA, definitely a rent, i'll be trading mine in for sure. Reeks up there with "Disney Party"

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.

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.

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.

Cool Pocket Star Wars Shoot-em-up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought it because it was Star Wars. I had to. Any chance to shoot TIE Fighters with the Millenium Falcon is okay with me.

The graphics and sound are remarkable considering this is on a hand-held system. The detail is excellent and I especially like hearing Chewbacca roar when you make menu selections.

The 3D rendering can get a little confusing and this is where it takes lots of patience and practice. There are a few levels you have to do while dodging structures (e.g. Mos Eisley, the trench run) and it does get difficult. Sorry, but you're not going to beat this game the first dozen times you play it. To me, that makes it a challenging game, not a bad game.

The one I'm not too crazy about is that you don't get a password until you pass quite a few levels. Basically, you have to go through the whole plot line of "A New Hope" before you can get a password and save your game. Otherwise, if you die and go through all your continues, it's back to the beginning, buddy.

In conclusion: buy it if you're a Star Wars fan--you'll have fun no matter how far you get in the game. Not a fan--save your money because you'll likely get frustrated.

Thanks for reading.

Pushes the hardware too far...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While it looks good on the outside, I do suggest not judging this book by its cover :). I rented this game (thankfully) and have to say that it's the first time I've seen a game push a piece of hardware too far.

The GB Advance is not a 3D machine, although the developers of 'Flight of the Falcon' tried their best to recreate the 3D rich Gamecube Star Wars games. The result? A game so difficult not due to its design, but by the limitation of the hardware!

A perfect example is the second level, where the player is racing through the Mos Eisley spaceport in Luke's desert speeder. The objective is to beat the clock while dodging buildings and other obstacles. The developers ignored the hardware limitations and created a level that's nearly impossible to traverse because the system can't render a sharp image until it's nearly on top of the player. It became so frustrating that I had to put it down and return it to the video store (thankfully I rented this one).

A better alternative would be the Wing Commander Prophecy game. It's not perfect but does a great job of implementing a 3D space shooter on the GBA platform.

Stay Away from this Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The first level wasn't that hard, but the next three were impossible. And it can get really frustrating. You need to clear the entire movie scenes with space shuttles before getting a code to be able to save the game. It looked pretty interesting on the cover, but when I played it it was as boring as can be. Beware of this game, beware of the fighters.

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