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Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles is coming to PC and consoles in January 2025

Another port by Aspyr

Marco Wutz

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The port specialists at Aspyr are bringing another classic Star Wars game into the modern age. Star Wars – Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles is coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch on January 23, 2025.

“Take back the Theed Palace in this fast and furious lightsaber action game,” the description reads. “You will have the power of the Force and your trusty lightsaber to help you ward off legions of battle droids, destroyer droids, assassins, and other creatures from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.”

Aside from the characters available in the original game, 13 additional playable figures have been unlocked in the new version for the 2000 game: “Play as Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon, Adi Gallia, or Qui-Gon Jinn facing off against droids and other familiar foes from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Or, play as one of the previously locked characters such as Darth Maul, Captain Panaka, Queen Amidala, Ki-Adi Mundi, and the Battle Droid, now available from the start!”

Jedi Power Battles will feature couch co-op for two players, allowing you to team up for the entire campaign as well as all of the mini-games. You can use the classic or modern control schemes, relive your childhood memories with all the iconic cheat codes, and discover surprises in New Game+ after your first completion.

Aspyr has a lot of experience porting older Star Wars games to modern platforms with projects such as the re-releases of The Force Unleashed, Knights of the Old Republic 2, the Battlefront Classic Collection, and Bounty Hunter. 

However, not all of these launches went well: Aspyr’s Battlefront re-launch was very buggy and did not include solid enough multiplayer infrastructure to handle the influx of players, making it a very frustrating experience for users. At least that won’t be an issue with Jedi Power Battles, as this title does not feature any multiplayer components outside of local co-op.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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