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- Reviewed on: 11/21/2000
- Updated on: 05/17/2006
- Released on: 11/19/2000
- Originally published on GameSpot: Star Wars Demolition Review
Every year for the last several years, there have been at least a few games vying for the "vehicular combat" crown. This year, the main stars of the vehicular combat stage, Twisted Metal and Vigilante 8, haven't made any sequential appearances, but the makers of the Vigilante 8 series have kept busy with Star Wars Demolition, which may appear to some as a "Vigilante 8 with Star Wars skins."
The premise of the game is that the Empire has finally made podracing illegal, so Jabba the Hutt has turned to vehicular combat as an alternate source of entertainment. Contestants and vehicles arrive from all corners of the Star Wars galaxy - two rebels in a snowspeeder, a wookie in a battle tank, an Imperial officer in an AT-ST, a rancor steered by one of Jabba's henchmen, the well known Boba Fett (who gets by just fine with just armor and rocket pack), and more. And while last year's Episode I: Racer brought you to a number of new locales, Demolition sticks with better-known places such as the swamp planet Dagobah, the ice planet Hoth, the desert world of Tatooine, and the second Death Star.
There are four different modes of play in Star Wars Demolition: battle, tournament, high stakes, and hunt a droid. Battle is a standard one-round fight against computer-controlled opponents. High stakes is a variation in which you bet money on the outcome of your battle and keep fighting until you've either reached 10,000 credits or had your bank cleared out. Hunt a droid makes you destroy as many Imperial probe druids as you can within a three-minute period. But tournament is the main draw of the game. In it, you play four rounds of battle against an increasing number of opponents.
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