On this occasion however I was rebuffed by a member of staff, despite my protestations (and lies) that the game was broken and wouldn't install. I knew it was a long-shot, given it was a PC game and WH Smith often refused to accept returns in case you'd simply copied it at home before returning the disc, but I'd had success at least once before. I couldn't get past the tree-stump jumping puzzles, and I was deeply regretting the £30 (£35? £40?) of hard-earned pocket money I'd spent on it. Overall, The Phantom Menace is a game that should entertain any fan of the. The result was the expected enjoyable 15 hours or so in front of my computer - but not without a little disappointment. I assume it continued to follow the film's plot from there, but I never found out as at that point I got stuck. Having never played a Star Wars game I didn't like, I inserted Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace into my CD-ROM drive with great anticipation. You had lightsabers, which you used to swish through clunky droid combat, before heading down to the jungle surface of Naboo for some jumping puzzles in which you had to leap between tree stumps.

A top-down, 3D action game which stuck close to the plot of the movie. So I bought the Phantom Menace game without reading any reviews from the local WH Smith. I didn't notice any plot issues or the dull dialogue, though I did find Jar Jar faintly annoying my mind was instead entranced by the Darth Maul lightsaber fight, the pod race, the CGI spaceships. I was 13-years-old when it came out in 1999 and enough of a Star Wars fan to see it twice in its first day, once in a daytime showing with a friend and a second time in the evening with my family. In STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace you have the opportunity to play through key scenes of the movie. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.Ĭonfession: I liked the film. Depending on who you ask, The Phantom Menace is either a misunderstood masterpiece or a steaming mound of bantha turds. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. A look back at the first prequels video game legacy.

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