Hi Tom.
As regards cannon this is unfortunately true. Much as I enjoy the super
starwars trilogy of games on the Snes, it is unfortunately truet hat a lot
of liberties were taken.
for example, the first level sees you playing as Luke sky walker wandering
through the dune sea of tatueen blowing up beasties with a lazer, and
finishing by fighting a worm boss who comes out from under the sand. You
then meet C3po who tells you r2 has been captured by the jawas, and you need
to rescue him from the sand crawler. This makes for two rather fun levels,
running around the sand crawler blowing up jawas, (including some very nasty
lava beasts, and don't ask me why! lava is in the sand crawler), then you
rescue r2 and have a couple more levels of mountainus terrain fighting off
banters until you get to obywan.
the games pretty much progress like that, inserting extra action levels in
the film's plot where there were none, and while some of these are cool,
such as ascending a large mechanical tower in the death star as Luke to
reach vader and palpatine, where the designers got the idea from i don't
know. Then againn, entering the unlock cheat to take on vader and palpatine
as wicket the E wock with his cross bow (which is actually really powerful),
is just plane fun, particularly because wickit is so small the emperor's
lightning always misses :D.
Getting back to cannon, startrek being an episodic voyage is indeed usefull
for sticking in other adventures with the main cast which is obviously an
advantage of a tv series format such as startrek that doesn't occur with
such a well put together story as lotr, since after all tolkien himself
didn't considder that he was writing fantasy in the way we would think of
fantasy, he saw himself as writing history, ---- just history that happened
not to be true, which is why lotr in particular is very hard to mess with
without getting people like myself up in arms, (some of the changes in the
lotr films, much as I did enjoy them made me want to give old jackson a
right good punch up the hootter).
Of course, I admit that for Lotr am a purist, and for most people changes
wouldn't matter half as much as they do to me, still I'd personally much
prefer a game set! in the world of middle earth than one which directly
retold the story of the main characters. After all with close to 18 thousand
years of history there is lots of room to set advetures and conquests. heck,
since the details he gives in the Silmarillion are fairly sparce, a game set
around one of those legends would be quite expandable too.
Beware the Grue!
dark.
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