Star Wars: Demolition is a vehicular combat game featuring locations and vehicles from around the Star Wars galaxy.
Plot summary[]
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Even with the advent of the Galactic Empire, Jabba the Hutt continued to prosper through his illegitimate operations on Tatooine. Always looking to gather more wealth, Jabba devised an even deadlier "sport" to replace the outlawed podraces.
Gameplay[]
Some chose to take part in the event of their own will, but many others were forced into participation by the crime lord. The participants and their vehicles were:
- Malakili - Rancor
- Wade Vox - X-34 landspeeder
- Tamtel Skreej - Desert Skiff
- Tia and Ghia - Snowspeeder
- Aurra Sing - Swoop
- Quagga - AAT
- Pugwis - Custom Podracer
- Wittin - STAP
- General Otto - AT-ST
- Boba Fett - Jetpack
- Darth Maul - Sith speeder
- Boushh - Speeder bike
- Lobot - Cloud Car
Each vehicle can pick up a weapon droid, either holding the following:
Each vehicle can pick up a droid as well, including:
- Astromech droid
- Tactical Droid
- Power droid
Game modes[]
There are four game modes of Demolition:
- Battle mode - In this mode you could choose up to four opponents to test your skills on and select which world in which to dispatch them.
- Tournament Mode - The Tournament Mode would start off with you facing one opponent, then two, three and finally four; the opponents are chosen at random as are the locations. To acquire a new vehicle, you need to pass the tournament with at least 10,000 credits, and if you are destroyed during a match, then there is an option to replay, but at a cost of 500 credits. If you are constantly losing, the tournament will end when you run out of credits.
- Hunt a droid - This is a mode which speaks for itself. Once you choose your location and vehicle and engage the droids in battle you will be scored on the number of droids dispatched within the set time.
- High Stakes - Each player chooses a vehicle, as well as the CPU. There are odds shown by calculation on win/loss records. They keep on betting until a player wins 10,000 credits or loses everything.
Multiplayer modes[]
- High Stakes - This is a mode where you bet 1000 credits (both players), the winner getting the credits from the loser. You continue until you gain 10,000 credits or when one player loses all of his credits.
- Battle Mode - This is a mode that includes vs. and co-op. In vs. mode, the game is over when one vehicle is destroyed. In co-op, both players must survive and destroy the enemy vehicles.
- Two Player Mode - In two player mode, some things change in tournament. For a start, you cannot be the same ship as your friend. Also, the tournament battle sequence goes 1 CPU, 2 CPU, 3 CPU, and then 3 CPU again. This is because every world can only hold up to five players at a time, including you and a friend.
Stages[]
The games ravaged a number of areas, with Jabba pulling strings to make each happen. The arenas were:
- Tatooine - Dune Sea
- Hoth (Non-canonical appearance)
- Naboo (Non-canonical appearance)
- Death Star II (Non-canonical appearance)
- Dagobah (Non-canonical appearance)
- Tatooine - Mos Eisley (Non-canonical appearance)
- Yavin 4 (Non-canonical appearance)
- Cloud City (Non-canonical appearance)
(Cloud City and the Death Star II cannot be played in tournament mode, although every other planet will appear at some point)
Planet inhabitants[]
- Dune Sea - Sarlacc, Jabba Desilijic Tiure, Sandcrawler, Banthas
- Hoth - Wampa, All Terrain Armored Transports
- Naboo - city locals
- Death Star II - TIE/LN starfighter's
- Dagobah - Dragonsnake
- Mos Eisley - town locals
- Yavin 4 - Whisper birds, wasps
- Cloud City - none
Special weapons[]
- STAP - Ion cannon
- Podracer - Speed boost (does heavy damage, capable of destroying most enemies in three hits; however, it was difficult to connect with)
- Rocket Pack - Disintegrator Rocket; homes in on an enemy
- Snowspeeder - Harpoon and tow cable
- Rancor - Grab and Slam (Rancor picks up enemy and slams them to the ground, creating a shockwave and dealing them massive damage. If no enemy is close enough, it will just raise its hands and perform the slam without the enemy, still causing the shockwave.)
- Cloud Car - Shadowball; disables opponent temporarily
- Swoop - Hyper-Rifle; when charged, fires in the direction of the nearest enemy. Projectile ricochets.
- Sith Speeder - Double-bladed lightsaber
- X-34 Landspeeder - Force attack (similar to Force crush, seems to push foes back a bit)
- AT-ST Walker - Mortar launcher
- AAT Battle Tank - Main cannon
- Desert Skiff - Deck-mounted laser cannon
- Speeder Bike - thermal detonator
Continuity[]
Leland Chee, the keeper of the Holocron continuity database,[2] stated that the game was "made purely for fun," not to fit within the continuity of the Expanded Universe.[3]
Credits[]
Cast | Uncredited cast | Crew | Uncredited crew | Special thanks |
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Appearances[]
Characters | Organisms | Droid models | Events | Locations |
Organizations and titles | Sentient species | Vehicles and vessels | Weapons and technology | Miscellanea |
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Locations
Organizations and titles
Sentient species
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Vehicles and vessels
Weapons and technology
Miscellanea
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Demolition official site on LucasArts.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- "Gamescape" — Star Wars Insider 50
- "State of the Arts" — Star Wars Gamer 1
- "State of the Arts" — Star Wars Gamer 2
- "State of the Arts" — Star Wars Gamer 3
- The Demolition Starts This Fall on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Demolish or Be Demolished! on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- "Red Five, I'm Going In" — Star Wars Insider 65
- "Voice of the Force" — Star Wars Insider 110
- 5 Classic Star Wars Video Games to Play This Summer on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Star Wars: Demolition on GameSpot.com (backup link)
- ↑ Leland Chee on LinkedIn (backup link)
- ↑ Holocron continuity database questions on StarWars.com Message Boards. Posted by Leland Y Chee on December 12, 2005 at 12:17 PM. (content now obsolete; backup link) "The short answer is, the stuff that fits. There has definitely been a greater effort to make newer games fit within the rest EU than in years past. Then again, some games are made purely for fun such as games like Demolition, Master of Teras Kasi, Yoda Stories, and Super Bombad Racing."
External links[]
- Star Wars: Demolition instruction manual on The Internet Archive (content obsolete and backup link not available)
- Star Wars: Demolition on Wikipedia
- Star Wars: Demolition on the Star Wars Gaming Wiki
- Unlocking new characters on GameSpot.com (backup link)