LucasArts: Wii lightsaber experience this fall

[halojames]

Ever since the concept for the Nintendo Wii surfaced and its motion sensitivity detailed, one of the biggest prospects for the technology was the hope of wielding the remote as a lightsaber in a Star Wars videogame. After a lot of silence, the dream is slowly becoming a reality, with LucasArts’ Jim Ward commenting at a recent Q&A session.

Here’s what the LucasArts employee was heard uttering at the Hollywood & Games Summit:

N’Gai Croal - “What would it take to make a lightsaber game for the Wii?”

LucasArts’ Jim Ward - “We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there - (the entire concept is)…in place! There’ll be some stuff out this Fall - it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

For a short insight into what gamers might be able to expect from the firm’s next Star Wars title, check out the following YouTube video in which an Apple Mac program is used to re-create the motions of a lightsaber through the Wii Remote.

[linkon64]

awesome!!! i hope they also make a nother rouge squadron game for the wii.

[t-nodz]

I hope it's really deep.

More than just the movies.



Perhaps an all-new story.

[halojames]

i liked jedi knight acadamy fun online i hope its that type of game make your jedi go through a new type of story

[slipknot1564]

that would be awesome dude that would be crazy like move it to block and attack and stuff now i am so hyped up i am going to explode lol

[linkon64]

i think it would be freaking awseome to use 2 wiimotes for 2 lightsabers!!! and then if you were really good tape 2 wiimotes to your feet and 2 in your hands and then you could play as general grevious !!!!! of course thats not going to happen.

[wiifro]

who knows....it could happen

i hope the way they make the lightsaber is that u cant just make little preset movements already incripted into the data....i hate how with the wiimote if u would have a sword in redsteel you cant only go diagonal, side to side or up and down...it gives you no freedom at all....they should give u more freedom so however you use ur wiimote would be like in the game

ya its hard to understand....but im sure u know wat i mean

[linkon64]

yah i know what you mean. but it would probably take a long time to get it to work right and get out all of the bugs.

[halojames]

they probly been working for a while

[linkon64]

i wish they would have made battlefront for the gc or wii. both 1 and 2 are fun games.