a b Shoemaker, Brad (5 April 2012). "Kinect: Star Wars Review". Giant Bomb. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012 . Retrieved 5 April 2012. The game is strongly co-op based, and needs good teamwork to make sure you keep an eye on those conditions while still building up your own side of things. Your turn will start by choosing one of the three sectors positioned around Vader on the central board. Choosing the right sector for that turn is an increasingly important step, given that it limits you to which characters and assets you can use and determines which enemies you’ll be up against. Before you can do anything else, you’ve got two dice to roll. The first determines which component of the Death Star will make some progress towards being operational. If you complete the component, the tile is flipped and that section is ready to go. If you roll that one again on a later turn, then it activates and provides additional bonuses for the enemies nearby which, as you can imagine, isn’t ideal. It brings the random nature of the dice into the game which, I’m sure, will irritate some, but I found it worked really well and gave some brilliant tension to these rolls, especially later in the game when more parts of the Death Star are being completed and ready to activate. Kinect Star Wars 's Galactic Dance-off mode was the subject of both praise and criticism from reviewers. [19]

Feldman, Brian (2018-05-22). "The Untold Story of Star Wars' XBox Dance Game Star Wars Kinect". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29 . Retrieved 2020-10-10. In the game, players must work together to recruit rebels and prevent the construction of the ultimate weapon, the original Death Star. Each player starts with an individual board that indicates the Rebel cell they are leading: Intelligence, Leadership, Support or Tactical. The player boards depict the Base of Operations — Tatooine, Alderaan, Yavin 4, or Lothal — and team leader (starting character asset) for each player: Captain Cassian Andor, Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, and Hera Syndulla. The reviewer did notice the respectable graphics during the Dark Side Rising campaign, and the review team enjoyed Galactic Dance Off. [5] The use of Star Wars characters and locations manages to give Kinect Star Wars atmosphere, and the game is cleverly balanced to appeal to both the thirty/fortysomething nostalgics who saw the original trilogy on first release, and the younger fans who came in with the prequel trilogy or Clone Wars. It also shows how far Microsoft has come in terms of making Kinect controls more sensitive, and more suitable for more demanding games. Most of all, Kinect Star Wars is a great game to dip in and out of, and a fine one to watch, making it a natural hit with families or groups of friends. This might not be the motion-controlled Star Wars game that so many of us think we want, but who cares? The bottom line is that Kinect Star Wars delivers a lot of Star Wars fun. Xbox 360 tops all console sales in April in US on www.gamesindustry.biz (archived from the original on June 27, 2015)As a simplified overview of the gameplay, players must roll dice which match with the required symbols shown on the hero and villain asset cards. In this game, there is one way to win. You must defeat at least seven villains as a team (this number increases with difficulty). However, the villains can also win by one of three ways: power up the Death Star until it is operational, defeat a total of 10 heroes or defeat all heroes on any one player’s team.

In this mode, the player controls a Jedi and has lightsaber duels with Sith or other sword-wielding opponents. Whilst it doesn’t delve deeply into the Star Wars universe or offer players a more in-depth experience of galactic rebellion it really is entertaining to play a few rounds of in an evening. With three different types of dice used across the turn it is a game that is heavily based on chance, which may not be for everyone, but is part of what makes it enjoyable as each roll becomes a make or break moment, with the promise of glory on the other side. Particularly if, like me, your first few attempts end in crushing defeat. The final mode might be the most controversial. Galactic Dance Off is a clone of the excellent Dance Central games, but with the action moved to classic Star Wars locations such as Jabba’s Palace or the Bespin carbonite freezer. Fellow dancers become exotic aliens, or established stars like Han Solo or Princess Leia. Even the songs get reworked with Star Wars-related lyrics, so that the old Christina Aguilera hit goes from Genie in a Bottle to Princess in a Battle, with Leia urging Han to man-up and join the rebel alliance. Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is a co-operative card and dice game inspired by the events leading up to and through Star Wars: A New Hope. These songs were featured in the Galactic Dance Off mode, and are included here along with their real-world counterparts in parentheses:Dark Side Rising is a re-skin of sorts of the game Thanos Rising: Avengers Infinity War & The Batman Who Laughs Rising, almost as if this is a game that can be easily re-imagined to fit in various franchises. The thing that makes this version unique is the look of the game. In Thanos, you’re trying to prevent the Infinity Gauntlet from being completed. In Dark Side Rising, it’s the Death Star. The ever present Darth Vader just makes the game more oppressive. Assuming that the player whose turn it is has any agents left in their team by the time Vader has done his business, it’s time to roll some dice. Star Wars: Dark Side Rising comes with a set of colourful, custom dice that represent the four key areas of the Rebel Alliance (Tactical, Intelligence, Support and Leadership). Each colour of die has a different combination of symbols on with the dice representing different areas being better or worse at different things.

a b c Jensen, Jeff (5 June 2011). " 'Star Wars' at E3: Your first look at 'Kinect Star Wars' -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved 6 June 2011. In X-Wing players can choose from a variety of Rebel and Imperial vessels, including X-Wings (obviously) and TIE Fighters, before engaging in a head-to-head dogfight with their opponent - apparently in the middle of an enormous space battle, according to the game’s description. Each turn players secretly select a speed and manoeuvre to perform, with the aim of catching their opponent’s ship off-guard and successfully landing a shot. Every ship’s piloting dial, which is what players use to determine speed and manoeuvre, is different, with unique advantages and disadvantages to each one. Star Wars: Dark Side Rising is a co-operative card and dice game inspired by the events leading up to and through Star Wars: A New Hope. [1]

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Players must coordinate efforts to recruit iconic characters, such as C-3PO, R2-D2, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Admiral Raddus and Han Solo, and organize their cells to thwart the Empire's rise to galactic domination.