When the CG animated series of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Universe with its action of Republic Heroes was released it was said, according to publisher LucasArts, that it gained the rates of being the number Cartoon Network show in 2008. This Republic Heroes part is supposed to make the connection between the first season and the second season of the show preserving at the same time the official texture of the series and determining the Clone Wars to be an experience worth playing. The story of the game is created by one the writers from the show and the creators of the series have designed character models with Krome Studios, the developer.
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The Star Wars’ Republic Heroes part presents the missions divided into two main types: Jedi missions and clone missions and eight choices for play Jedi who fights hordes of droids in order to destroy the bad forces of the galaxy. The combats are set on a natural background, where Jedi is able to flip around, to cut droids with his lightsaber, using at the same time Force powers to determine real damages. Another set of choices is when you can select to play as one of the 10 clone troopers, this feature gives the perspective of a third point of view shooter, while the action transforms in heavy gun shootings.

The burden of doing all the work by yourself is removed in that you are allowed to benefit from a cooperative play with two characters displayed on the screen, this feature being similar to the one present in another name from LucasArts world: LEGO Star Wars. The Jedi mission reviewed in these lines is the one that takes place on the planet Ryloth, a desert that is also present in the world of Clone Wars TV series. Fighting as the character of Jedi you have a lot of advantages of power features such as Force Push to throw droids aside. One of the most exciting ability is to jack droids, a Jedi can jump atop of a droid and with the lightsaber stuck in the droids he can actually control it for a period of time, this revealing another feature in the systems of weapons: used for puzzle solving.
When it comes to the clone missions, the rhythm gets changed dramatically as you realize that start running and blowing things around with maximum predilection. This time the action takes place on a besieged space station that has droids coming out from all sides of the station. The players are allowed to use multiple choices of weapons, they can hide behind objects existing in the setting and easily throw grenades. On a 360 version of the game, the controls system was very trustworthy synchronizing itself with everything that takes place on the screen, this makes Krome Studios to gain one point in their favor.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes will be available on PS3, 360, PC, Wii, PS2, PSP and the DS and though it presents some minor problems mostly related to viewing angles, audio bugs etc, the game has a title that will definitely arouse the curiosity in the fans of the genre and who look to expand their experience.

As in any other business, the games business sooner or later has to face an entire range of trading challenges, one of which seems to gather more ground, due to the influence of the digital era that brought an essential change in consumers’ thinking, this challenge being called the “Free trade”. The concept of “Free” has been and still is part of our everyday economy for such a long time, since many products that became widely spread on the market started to get a less priced value sometimes even reaching the zero level. This happens mainly to the products that one can not add further values or can not use the company’s image in order to support the product’s value. Producers can approach different methods to maintain a politic of high price, but sometimes at a cost that can involve moral issues thus emerging the effect that could be called ‘damage’. And exactly this situation may occur when it comes to networks supported by media. Media has always been seen as high-valued mean to promote the image of different segments of the market. We talk here about physical media that managed to create an artificial rarity which allowed the prices to be maintained on high levels.
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But the strategy of the physical media suffered the damages afore mentioned due to the appearance of digital technology, internet being the way through which the scarcity of information and media is pushed aside. There are modern technologies, such as BitTorrent, for instance, which displays hundreds of copies of the media’s results in a matter of short time and all these for almost zero cost, in this way changing the value of media in the consumers’ perception. This leads to the appearance of piracy that the industry fails to estimate its correct impact for the future times.

Due to the reasons of morality and law involved in using piracy, luckily a lot of consumers do not turn their faces toward piracy, though this is represented only for a short period of time, since the psychology of piracy is insinuating itself in the perception of the consumers. Lately a certain gadget for videogames consoles has been released in order to keep piracy away, but for other platforms piracy proves to be an easier way to perform and this is where “Free” concept starts to be in charge.

This “Free” concept is about preparing the games companies to recognize the decline of the media’ value in the perception of the consumers, and decide to cut this decline by releasing their products for free. The method they use is in the shape of boxed products giving away the up-front costs, relying on the capabilities of a game to get the consumers back in order to make some money via advertising, game time cards, micro-transactions or other services.

However there are some companies which do not plan to go through the transition, preferring instead to keep the traditional business model and at the same time struggling to find a way to replace boxed game incomes with ongoing income flows delivered by “Free” products. Yet the question still stands: Is “Free Trade” gathering ground on Internet ‘market’?

In the real world golf has its own definition and rules to play but in this island of fantasy Pangya is seen as a golf game that was invented to pay tribute to a hero who defeated a dark lord by hitting a ball into a hole. And because of this, Pangya: Fantasy Golf has nothing to do with an ordinary sports game, involving fantastical fairways and colorful characters. Pangya Island provides nine golf courses which support single player tours and some matches reserved for up to eight players, but it is better to give it first a try as a single player to enjoy the full length of the Story.
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The mode presents 3 click control system and later you’ll be able to unlock 18 of the players in order to use in other modes, accumulating plenty of Pang which you can spend to buy new outfits and equipment to customize your favorite golfers.

The world of Pangya is populated with magical natives, dragons, white bear, a young pirate girl, and a tennis player named Max who comes to play golf with you. And this is where the challenge steps in: to beat your opponent no matter if he or she happens to be an adoring fan, a criminal or a member of a rival island tribe. For the ones that have some experience in golf gaming Pangya shouldn’t present any problems, you can select clubs, aim your shots with D pad and since a map is present this will help you take different angles of shots, watch weather conditions and release the shot button in three stages: for swinging, setting the power and striking the ball.

Your advance in the Story mode gets you to elevated techniques such as topspin and backspin, power curve and shots that bear the names of tomahawk, cobra and spike. The reality of the surroundings is replaced by a world of fantasy revealing narrow columns of rocks, green lawns located on small islands, and obstacles such as windmills or volcanoes. The courses present a variety that you become accustomed to and even you are carried through courses covered in snow or volcanic ashes, the surroundings do have an impact on how you play the ball.

Next to the Pangya” Fantasy Golf you face a Pangya Tour mode that enables you to obtain course license in order to qualify for the tournaments. This Tour mode displays a lot of challenges that include scoring on specific holes, playing better approach shots of six holes and so on. Getting the license you are allowed to enter different tournaments giving you the chance to win currency and new equipment for characters. The animation is very well performed by hearing expressions of celebration and reactions to failure as well, thus making you feel important in the course of the game. Playing Pangya: Fantasy Golf can take days rather than hours, but if you are into this kind of golf games there can not be any reason not to try to enjoy the excitement it delivers.