Jedi Power Battles Is Coming Back In Style

If you’re done with Star Wars Outlaws and inactive request a gaming hole successful the postulation far, acold away, past bully news: perpetual re-porter of classic Star Wars games Aspyr is backmost with a precise peculiar blast from the past successful the signifier of Star Wars: Episode 1 – Jedi Power Battles, giving the 2000 crippled a caller and amusive update.

Announced this morning, the recently remastered merchandise of Jedi Power Battles–which saw players instrumentality connected the relation of aggregate Jedi from The Phantom Menace and combat their mode done an alternate riff connected the events of the movie, slashing their mode done Trade Federation ships, the swamps and cityscapes of Naboo, and the deserts of Tatooine–will deed consoles and PC aboriginal adjacent year. The caller merchandise comes with a raft of additions based connected the aboriginal Dreamcast larboard of the game, pursuing its archetypal merchandise connected the archetypal Playstation, including a grooming and versus mode. The Dreamcast mentation of the crippled besides included aggregate gameplay tweaks and fixes, including, for example, really letting the unlockable concealed quality Darth Maul usage some ends of his double-bladed lightsaber. A beauteous large woody considering this came retired successful the aftermath of The Phantom Menace!

Speaking of unlockable characters, the caller larboard volition fto players utilise 13 further characters–including some primitively concealed unlockable characters successful the archetypal game, similar Padmé, Captain Panaka, a conflict droid, and the aforementioned Maul, arsenic good arsenic caller characters made playable for the archetypal time, similar a destroyer droid, aggregate alien beings similar a Weequay, Tusken, and an Ishi Tib.

The available Phantom Menace-era Jedi playable from the Playstation and Dreamcast versions of the game–Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Mace Windu, Plo Koon, Adi Gallia, and Ki-Adi-Mundi–are of course, on for the thrust too, with a peculiar enactment to update their archetypal lightsaber colors to their canonical blades if you privation to bash so. Power Battles released astatine a unusual clip for Star Wars continuity, with small established astir the prequel Jedi rather yet successful the aftermath of Phantom Menace, including immoderate of their trademark lightsaber design. Mace primitively wielded a bluish lightsaber in Power Battles, for example, earlier his iconic purple leaf was introduced in Attack of the Clones. Adi Gallia had a red lightsaber, which is fascinating successful hindsight! Hell, Plo Koon could adjacent usage Force Lightning, which was wholly good for a Jedi to usage arsenic agelong arsenic they were Plo Koon and they called it “Electric Judgement” instead. Hypocrites!

While it mightiness beryllium conscionable a small precocious to celebrate Phantom Menace‘s 25th day year, it’s bully to person a mentation of Jedi Power Battles playable connected modern hardware, considering the crippled hasn’t been ported successful the astir two-and-a-half decades since its archetypal releases. Fingers crossed this 1 won’t person the aforesaid benignant of motorboat woes arsenic Aspyr’s ports of the Battlefront games did earlier this year, astatine least.

Star Wars: Episode 1 – Jedi Power Battles will merchandise connected Playstation 4 and 5, Xbox Series S and X, and PC via Steam connected January 23.

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