Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes released

LucasArts has released Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and PC. Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes allows players to fight as both Jedi Knights and clone troopers through over 40 missions, all created from shared visual assets from the TV series that airs on Cartoon Network.

Featuring a brand-new storyline, players get the chance to take part in the key events that lead directly into the second season of the animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Jedi characters can slice and dice their way through enemies, commandeer droids and show off their combat prowess on foot and in a variety of vehicles. Clone troopers use a heavy weapons platform that includes rocket launchers, thermal detonators and even jet packs in levels built specifically put run-and-gun gameplay to the test.

The game also supports two player local drop-in and drop-out cooperative play on the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Look for the game in stores this week.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Announced

LucasArts announced this morning that it has tapped Australian game development studio Krome to create the next game based on the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series that airs on Cartoon Network. Based on the Cartoon Network series and working with the folks helped create it - Lucasfilm Animation, the new game from Krome will be called Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and will allows players to take up arms on behalf of the Galactic Republic, while pursuing the mysterious bounty hunter Cad Bane and combating the all-new Skakoan super villain Kul Teska.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes allows players to fight as both Jedi Knights and Clone Troopers through over 30 missions, using the same visual style from the TV series. The game will feature a brand-new storyline that puts players into the key events that lead directly into the second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Jedi characters will be to wield their hallmark lightsabers, commandeer droids and drive in a variety of vehicles. Clone Troopers fire will use their heavy weapons and devices - just like in the TV show - including rocket launchers, thermal detonators and jet packs in levels built specifically for run-and-gun gameplay. according to LucasArts.

The Lucasfilm Animation Singapore games will develop the DS version, which LucasArts promises will offer an expanded storyline, touch-screen controls for movement, attacks and puzzle solving and other DS specific features to be announced.

LucasArts also confirmed that the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of the game will support drop-in/drop-out, on the fly two-player online and offline co-op play. Obviously given that the show centers around Anakin’s team, this makes sense. 

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes will be released this September for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and PC.

Editor’s Note: story edited to include info on cooperative play.

LucasArts Details Comic-Con Line-Up

LucasArts will be showing off a number of games and giving gamers the first chance to play three of their upcoming at Comic-Con in San Diego – Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Fracture, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. LucasArts will also unveil Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game: Champions of the Force, a card game based on its Star Wars galaxies MMO.

In addition to getting their hands on the Wii version of The Force Unleashed game, attendees will get an exclusive chance to play through the demo of The Force Unleashed that is slated to release on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network before the game ships. Other playable games include Fracture (PS3, Xbox 360) and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the lightsaber dueling game for Wii and DS. No word on what versions of Fracture or Clone Wars will be available at the show.

Finally, the SWG Pc-based trading card game will make its debut at comic-Con. For the first time players will get to check out the game, choosing between the light and dark sides of the Force and building your own Star Wars Galaxies virtual card decks to fight virtual matches for the Rebel or Imperial factions.

For more information, buy yourself a ticket and head to San Diego!

Star Wars Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels Announced

LucasArts today announced Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a new game geared towards Nintendo’s Wii platform. The game will offer cartoon style computer-generated imagery from artists at Lucasfilm Animation and combat geared towards the Wii’s unique controls.

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels is in development by Krome Studios (Kao The Kangaroo series) exclusively for the Wii, promises Lightsaber battles steeped in the lore of Star Wars. The game will feature all the characters, locations, and epic duels from the all-new Star Wars feature film.

If you have ever dreamt of wielding a real lightsaber, this is probably the closest you are ever going to get. When I was a punk kid, My friends and I would use florescent bulbs to duel. This new game sounds much safer than that.. In fact, it may save some youngsters from taking the beatings that I endured for my stupid behavior. Besides, florescent light bulbs do not last all that long in a lightsaber duel anyway.

The world premiere trailer will debut on Spike TV’s GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley on Friday, June 20. You can also expect to see and hear more about it during this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit in July.