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By Mark Raby
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Violent shooting game offers shallow sci-fi experience.
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Star Wars: Imperial Academy
Is It Any Good?
STAR WARS: IMPERIAL ACADEMY enters a very long legacy of Star Wars video games, many of which are expertly crafted and provide hours of adventure. This game falls short of that legacy. It is nothing more than a basic point-and-shoot game, and although the scenes are meant to be action-packed and intense, after a while they come across as redundant. With barely any story attached to the experience, there is very little done to add flavor or context to the game. The end result is a game that just leaves players shooting storm troopers and enemy soldiers to no end. It is a shallow experience and really devoid of any real value. In any other Star Wars game, this type of gameplay would be just a small fraction of the entire game's experience, but on its own it fails to provide a lasting worthwhile experience.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : December 4, 2010
- Genre : Action Games
- Publisher : ngmoco, LLC
- Version : 1.1
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : June 19, 2019
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