If you’ve ever wanted to defend your home planet from the evil clutches of the Galactic Empire, but haven’t felt like moving to Tatooine or Naboo, then you’re in luck. You can stay right here on Earth and defend your city from the evil clutches of Darth Vader thanks to the first Star Wars augmented reality game, Star Wars Arcade: Falcon Gunner. Here’s how it works.
The game takes the familiar opening footage from Star Wars, of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battling the TIE fighters of the Empire, and turns it into a shooting game. Using the iPhone’s cameras, it projects the current view of the iPhone as the backdrop, and projects the game footage over top of it. As you turn the phone and direct the shooting cross-hairs, you blast the TIEs out of the sky (or the wall of the bus station).
It looks like a blast, but… you’re waving and turning and gesturing in public when you play a game like this. I think it’d be kind of inconvenient to play in close quarters, unless you don’t mind elbowing people in the face.
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