Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, iPod touch
Destroy the Death Star from the comfort of your iPhone
Wanna blow up the Death Star? There's an app for that! At least there should be soon.
StarWars.com has word of the upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch game "Star Wars: Trench Run," letting players do the cool stuff Luke Skywalker did in Episode IV (minus the whining), namely: blow up the Death Star.
Developers say "Trench Run" uses simple motion controls, relying on a player's command of the iPhone's accelerometer to avoid walls, other ships, gun turrets, and inexplicable solid beams laid across the trench (video). Manage all of that and they can take their shot at the Death Star's exhaust port and send the Empire reeling. Why did they never cover that port, anyway (YouTube)? If blowing up a space station the size of a small moon isn't a player's cup of tea, they can engage in dogfights with TIE fighters over the Death Star instead.
The game's pitch promises music, sound effects, and clips from the movie for immersive gameplay, varying degrees of difficulty (from Easy to Jedi), and Leader Boards to let pilots see how they rank with other would-be Jedi from around the world.
As exciting as blowing up the Death Star may be, the game screams for in-app purchases. Can pilots buy "Battle of Hoth" expansions down the road? And fly against the second Death Star? Can we?!? I mean... can they?!? Please?
Until then, "Star Wars: Trench Run" has a price set of $4.99. No word on when the game will hit the App Store but it needs to happen soon. The Death Star must be stopped!
[via starwars.com]
StarWars.com has word of the upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch game "Star Wars: Trench Run," letting players do the cool stuff Luke Skywalker did in Episode IV (minus the whining), namely: blow up the Death Star.
Developers say "Trench Run" uses simple motion controls, relying on a player's command of the iPhone's accelerometer to avoid walls, other ships, gun turrets, and inexplicable solid beams laid across the trench (video). Manage all of that and they can take their shot at the Death Star's exhaust port and send the Empire reeling. Why did they never cover that port, anyway (YouTube)? If blowing up a space station the size of a small moon isn't a player's cup of tea, they can engage in dogfights with TIE fighters over the Death Star instead.
The game's pitch promises music, sound effects, and clips from the movie for immersive gameplay, varying degrees of difficulty (from Easy to Jedi), and Leader Boards to let pilots see how they rank with other would-be Jedi from around the world.
As exciting as blowing up the Death Star may be, the game screams for in-app purchases. Can pilots buy "Battle of Hoth" expansions down the road? And fly against the second Death Star? Can we?!? I mean... can they?!? Please?
Until then, "Star Wars: Trench Run" has a price set of $4.99. No word on when the game will hit the App Store but it needs to happen soon. The Death Star must be stopped!
[via starwars.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Paul said 12:25PM on 10-24-2009
"Why did they never cover that port, anyway ?"
Well, duh. It's an exhaust port. If you cover that up you'd likely get moisture build up and mold.
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Zinger314 said 12:47PM on 10-24-2009
There's moisture and mold in space?
Paul said 1:14PM on 10-24-2009
Not *in* space, no. But you might be interested in this http://www.mold-help.org/content/view/468/
I was actually joking, in case you didn't get it ...
Zinger314 said 1:36PM on 10-24-2009
Sarcasm is lost over the internet. :)
Charli said 9:03PM on 10-24-2009
i had something going about farts and gas build up...
Otsego_Undead said 12:28PM on 10-24-2009
"it's a trap!"
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tinleyharrier said 1:48PM on 10-24-2009
This game actually looks pretty decent. Whatever happened to Touch Fighter BTW?
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snugs said 2:10PM on 10-24-2009
That's no moon...
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cowfodder said 3:29PM on 10-24-2009
And here I thought this would be an article detailing how to take down At&t's network using an iPhone (other than just using safari like everyone else.)
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fatback said 2:46PM on 10-25-2009
I used to play the arcade sit down version - anybody remember that?
Talk about full circle
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Sean said 5:22PM on 10-28-2009
How about a port of the Star Wars game from the Atari 5200?
Alex said 5:11PM on 10-24-2009
I expect a $4.99 Wamprat app shortly after this one.
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