Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures (video game)

Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures is a Star Wars themed massively multiplayer online game developed by Sony Online Entertainment. First announced on June 1, 2010, the game is part of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars multimedia project. Although the basic game is free to play, premium content, including lightsaber and character customization, can be unlocked through a monthly subscription-based "Jedi" membership. In addition, in-game items can be purchased using Sony Online Entertainment's virtual currency system.

In August 2010, Clone Wars Adventures entered open beta testing. Three playable species were available to play: Human, Clone or Twi'lek. The game was released on September 15, 2010. On the games release the Zabrak species was made available to accounts with Jedi membership. Due to the success of the game Topps released a trading card game based on the game Card Commander.

Gameplay
The game is a social/minigame hub for players to interact with their favorite characters from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series). When the user first start the game as a new player, they will begin on the starter planet of Ryloth. The player will be tasked to defeat a group of droids and then they would meet many of the iconic characters from the series to learn how to play a few of the many famous games in this game. Trophies are awarded depending on the requirements that are met by the players. Players are also allowed to customize their own houses, buy droids as pets, switch clothes or even-with the "Jedi" membership-Change their character's face or species. Many outfits for characters are Jedi Member only, or cost SOE station cash, which is real currency spent on in-game items, as in other SOE games. New content is released after each new episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series).

Combat Zones
On December 15 2011, a Thursday update was released, it featured a new combat zone based off the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Umbara arc. The Battle of Umbara is based off open world PvE combat with two abilities, a standard blast and for Jedi Members only, a force push ability. It had four challenges, an airfield mission, and three bunkers. In the 24th of August, a new combat zone was added in an update called "Skirmish on Carlac", this featured just like the Battle of Umbara combat zone, three camps and a captured village to battle in. On April 5 2013, the game was updated to have the planet Felucia as a combat zone. Unlike other combat zones, Felucia has no challenges. It introduced mission tokens, a special form of currency for buying certain things. This currency could only be obtained by completing missions on Felucia. Since Felucia has no challenges, there is a Separatist base, Yorn Nuro and his gang of pirates, a sarlacc pit, and the rancor, Scratch's cave. The enemies on Felucia are very tough and do much damage.

Battle Classes
As of September 28, 2012 they have added a new Battle Classes feature in the game, like many other MMOG, the player can play games and more to rank up and gain experience points. There are currently four Battle classes, Trooper, Mercenary, Sith, and Jedi. Trooper is given free to all players to start off with and if the player are a Jedi Member, they can get the Jedi Battle Class for free. The other two Battle classes, Sith and Mercenary can be purchased off the in-game store with Station Cash, though the players are Jedi Members, they can purchase the two battle classes for a discounted price. Later, they came out with specialty classes. These include scoundrel; which is leveled up by playing Card Commander and Card Assault, and Technician; which is leveled up at Technician Workstations.

Playable species
The following are species are available as playable characters:
 * Human
 * Clone
 * Pantoran
 * Togruta
 * Twi'lek
 * Zabrak
 * Trandoshan