Star Wars: Battle Pod (Namco) - Arcade

NickSCFC · Last edited by NickSCFC on Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Every cinema has a little arcade, so hopefully we'll get to try this.

Your post has just made me realise that my local cineworld doesn't have an arcade.

It's terrible.

So much on rails makes it somewhat dull.

NickSCFC

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Your post has just made me realise that my local cineworld doesn't have an arcade.

Damn, there's one opening in Stoke in time for Star Wars and I was hoping they'd have one.

We've also got an Odeon that's still rocking Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade 8-)

They've got one at the Namco arcade in London. Stood inside it, thought it was claustrophobic and the projector didn't actually seem that good, so didn't bother paying for a go.

Was looking forward to it, and it did nothing but disappoint.

(also the video seems to be broken)

NickSCFC

So finally went hands on with this and I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed.

It's on-rails like the old Star Wars arcade, although that's understandable. My main issue is the screen, or projector, it's very difficult to see what's going on. If there's a purpose for curved OLED screens, then this is it.

I played this at an arcade last year and came away feeling ripped off. It didn't seem like it was actually possible to lose, and even if you beat a level without dying you can't continue without putting in more money. It was £2 a go as well.

NickSCFC

Lagamorph wrote:I played this at an arcade last year and came away feeling ripped off. It didn't seem like it was actually possible to lose, and even if you beat a level without dying you can't continue without putting in more money. It was £2 a go as well.

Similar experience on the Death Star trench run, got to "that moment" and could barely see a thing. This would be amazing with a curved OLED screen instead of that faded white projector screen.

There's been one of these in the Metro Centre for a few years, it's alright I guess

Star Wars: Battle Pod (Namco) - Arcade

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