the JEDI KNIGHTS have
served the Republic as
defenders of peace and
justice throughout the
galaxy
Young Padawan OBI-WAN
KENOBI who studies to
become a full-fledged
JEDI KNIGHT, must prove
himself to his master
QUI-GON JINN and the
Jedi Council.
As part of his ongoing
training, OBI-WAN is
commissioned by MACE
WINDU to investigate the
rise of a dangerous new
threat in the lower levels
of Coruscant....
A third-person Star Wars Legends Hack and Slash game developed by LucasArts, released in 2001 exclusively for the Xbox.
As a still wet-behind-the-ears Obi-Wan Kenobi, you've been tasked by the Jedi Council to investigate an upsurge of crime in the underworld of Coruscant. Your discoveries will lead you to infiltrate a sinister group supplying lightsaber-resistant cortosis ore to the Trade Federation, and finally progress to the events of The Phantom Menace.
Obi-Wan employs an innovative stick-based combat system, predating games such as Rise To Honor: by flicking the right stick, Obi-Wan can execute various lightsaber moves. Pulling the left trigger enables you to execute more powerful slashing techniques and use force powers such as Force Push, Force Pull and Force Throw to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. Beside the regular levels, each chapter starts with a one-on-one battle with a member of the Jedi Council, with more unlocked as the game progresses.
Not to be confused with the 2022 streaming show.
Star Wars Obi-Wan provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adapted Out: Outside of a mention in a loading screen, Jar-Jar Binks (and other Gungans for that matter) do not appear in this game.
- Adaptation Expansion: The game adds a lot of sidetracks to the story of The Phantom Menace
- After escaping from the Trade Federation command ship, there is a whole level set inside the landing barge where Obi-Wan has to sabotage the ship's systems to escape it and divert it from the main invasion force.
- Another chapter has Queen Amidala be kidnapped by Tusken Raiders while Qui-Gon Jinn is out bartering in Mos Eisley. Note that this would actually be the Queen's decoy Sabe (since Padme is safe with Qui-Gon), though the game doesn't reveal this.
- Boss-Only Level:
- The pratice sessions against the members of the Jedi Council consist solely of a fight against the Jedi Master in question.
- The final mission consist solely of the fight against Darth Maul.
- Cut and Paste Environments: The game ruthlessly reuses textures and room layouts within a level.
- Degraded Boss:
- A Trandoshan mob boss shows up as the boss of the first level, before similar tougher-than-average Trandoshan appear as uncommon enemies in the next few levels.
- Same with the Assassin Droid on the landing barge.
- Elite Mook: The later Naboo levels introduce Baron Droids, bulkier and meaner battle droids with more health and twin blasters. Supplementary material establishes them as predecessors to the Super Battle Droids seen in Attack of the Clones.
- Invincibility Power-Up: You can collect a spinning Force icon to make Obi-Wan invulnerable for a short amount of time.
- Shout-Out: Stick around until the end of the credits the first time you beat the game, and you'll be treated to Obi-Wan paraphrasing Ewan McGregor's opening monologue in Trainspotting.Obi-Wan: "Choose the Force. Choose a job. Choose the Dark Side. Choose the Council. Choose a flubbing big lightsaber. Choose protocol droids, holoprojectors, and R2 units. Choose Watto, Tatooine, and Alderaan. Choose fixed-interest credit payments to Sebulba. Choose a Corellian freighter that did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. Choose a Wookiee. Choose sitting in Jabba's throne room, watching mind-numbing dancers, stuffing green chubas into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, disappearing into thin air, nothing more than an embarrassment to the whiny kid you trained on the way to Alderaan. Choose your destiny. Choose the Force. But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose the Dark Side. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a lightsaber?"
- Video-Game Lives: You have five "attempts" per level. Run out and it's back to the Mission Select screen.
