{"id":9789,"date":"2023-04-26T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-the-best-star-wars-game-in-20-years\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:37:54","slug":"star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-the-best-star-wars-game-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-the-best-star-wars-game-in-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review \u2013 the best Star Wars game in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X\/S, PC; Respawn Entertainment\/EA<\/strong><br \/>Respawn Entertainment\u2019s sequel is a huge improvement over Jedi: Fallen Order, and a virtual blockbuster without compromise<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars Jedi: Survivor\u2019s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader\u2019s Imperial inquisition in the last game (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2019\/nov\/15\/star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-review\">Jedi: Fallen Order<\/a>), fugitive Jedi Cal Kestis is now an agent for the Rebel Alliance, and his latest target is hidden inside a corrupt senator\u2019s luxury space-yacht. What follows is a 90-minute thrill ride as Cal pursues the yacht through Coruscant\u2019s tangled underbelly, slicing through stormtroopers and pirouetting across the city\u2019s impossible architecture.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s everything you want from a Star Wars adventure and a blockbuster video game: visually spectacular, mechanically sophisticated and riotously entertaining. Respawn Entertainment\u2019s first foray into Disney\u2019s sci-fi universe had moments of vision, particularly in its beginning and ending, but sandwiched in the middle was an uneven mixture of Uncharted-style platforming and combat inspired by Dark Souls, set in environments that only occasionally lived up to the promise of its introduction. Jedi: Survivor is an enthralling follow-up and a huge improvement. Not only is it a masterclass in cinematic action, but its eclectic mixture of mechanics is also much more elegantly implemented. The result is the best Star Wars game in 20 years, as compelling in the hands as it is magnificent on the screen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/apr\/26\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-best-star-wars-game-in-20-years-five-stars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f6a8fca010aa4a7d775e7099a48f0302e8eba7c6\/111_143_1340_804\/master\/1340.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b7adcc2d223495394fdda65998b0369\" title=\"Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review \u2013 the best Star Wars game in 20 years\" \/>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X\/S, PC; Respawn Entertainment\/EARespawn Entertainment\u2019s sequel is a huge improvement over Jedi: Fallen Order, and a virtual blockbuster without compromise<br \/>\nStar Wars Jedi: Survivor\u2019s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader\u2019s Imperial inquisition in the last game (Jedi: Fallen Order), fugitive Jedi Cal Kestis is now an agent for the Rebel Alliance, and his latest target is hidden inside a corrupt senator\u2019s luxury space-yacht. What follows is a 90-minute thrill ride as Cal pursues the yacht through Coruscant\u2019s tangled underbelly, slicing through stormtroopers and pirouetting across the city\u2019s impossible architecture.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s everything you want from a Star Wars adventure and a blockbuster video game: visually spectacular, mechanically sophisticated and riotously entertaining. Respawn Entertainment\u2019s first foray into Disney\u2019s sci-fi universe had moments of vision, particularly in its beginning and ending, but sandwiched in the middle was an uneven mixture of Uncharted-style platforming and combat inspired by Dark Souls, set in environments that only occasionally lived up to the promise of its introduction. Jedi: Survivor is an enthralling follow-up and a huge improvement. Not only is it a masterclass in cinematic action, but its eclectic mixture of mechanics is also much more elegantly implemented. The result is the best Star Wars game in 20 years, as compelling in the hands as it is magnificent on the screen. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X\/S, PC; Respawn Entertainment\/EARespawn Entertainment\u2019s sequel is a huge improvement over Jedi: Fallen Order, and a virtual blockbuster without compromise Star Wars Jedi: Survivor\u2019s opening sequence is spellbinding. Amid the sprawling megastructures of the city-planet Coruscant, a daring heist ensues. Having escaped the clutches of Darth Vader\u2019s Imperial inquisition &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/star-wars-jedi-survivor-review-the-best-star-wars-game-in-20-years\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review \u2013 the best Star Wars game in 20 years<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}