H&G: LucasArts’ Ward Talks Wii Lightsaber Game…
June 28, 2007 · Print This Article
Wow looks like a lot of people are going to get their wish!! A Wii Lightsaber game…. how awesome would that be? I’d probably buy a Wii just for that game!
As part of the final Hollywood & Games Summit panel in Los Angeles, LucasArts’ Jim Ward has been discussing the oft-raised question of a lightsaber game for Nintendo’s Wii, saying that the company has internal prototypes running using the Wiimote.
In response to a question from session moderator N’Gai Croal of Newsweek asking: “What would it take to make a lightsaber game for the Wii?”, Ward, who is President of LucasArts and a Senior VP at Lucasfilm, commented:
“We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there.”
He added that the whole concept of a title using a lightsaber of Nintendo Wii was “…in place! There’ll be some stuff out this Fall - it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
It’s unclear whether Ward could have been referring to the TT Games-developed Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which will debut later this year on multiple formats including the Wii, or whether the company is planning further, as yet unannounced Wii-specific Star Wars games.
[...] TFU will be released for the PS2, PSP, and the Nintendo DS. However, there has been some talk at theforceunleashed.org about a lightsaber game for the Wii. Hopefully they were not referring to the LEGO [...]
man i wish so bad that the force unleashed would come out on wii, if there ever is a star wars game on wii (wich i hope there will be) i want it to be the force unleashed or some version of it, it would be the best thing ever!