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Diablo-styled Star Wars Uprising launches a day early

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Star Wars Uprising launches a day early

With the Star Wars hype train in final gear now, it’s about time we started getting some answers around canon. Disney ret-conned a lot of it when they took over, leaving this void between Return of the Jedi and the upcoming Force Awakens. Some books and comics are fleshing this out, but Star Wars Uprising is one of the first games to feature some canonically important information. And now it’s out a day early.

The Diablo-like action RPG has hit iOS and Android already, and you should be able to grab it on your preferred app store free of charge. Yes, it’s another one of those free-to-play titles which will probably require a ton of dedication to get through without whipping out your credit card, but the gameplay looks a lot more exciting than that Clash of Clan cash-in earlier this year. Uprising is a top-down, third person action game that you can play on the go, but that’s not the reason you’d want to play.

In amongst the character collection and role-playing lies only the second story aimed at clearing up events after Disney’s nuclear strike to Star Wars canon. Star Wars: Aftermath is a book that recently launched to help bridge the time gap between the two films, and Uprising will look to continue this. In the game, players travel to the Anoat sector of the Star Wars Galaxy – home to iconic locations such as Hoth and the cloud city of Bespin.

How those places have changed since the fall of the Empire will be interesting to see, and I do hope that Uprising tells a slightly compelling story at the very least. That’s going to be the main driving force behind what is probably going to be a particularly familiar grind fest. Star Wars Uprising will cost you nothing but a few hundred megabytes to download – will you be jumping in?

Last Updated: September 10, 2015

48 Comments

  1. 531MB install on Android… in app purchases from R13.99 to R1399…. hahahahaha

    I’ll check it out later and then probably kill it off like every other mobile game 😛

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    • Dutch Matrix

      September 10, 2015 at 13:48

      WTF do you buy in a mobile game for 1.3K????

      Reply

      • HairyEwok

        September 10, 2015 at 13:52

        Better training/weapons for your stormtroopers?

        Reply

        • SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad

          September 10, 2015 at 13:54

          + 1 to storm trooper aiming. R1 199.

          Storm Troopers start with a native -10 to aiming to reflect their abilities as potrayed in the original star wars saga.

          😛

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          • Admiral Chief Returns

            September 10, 2015 at 14:07

            Have you not heard of the inverse stormtrooper law? (derived from the inverse ninja law)

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 14:09

            There are LAWS that bind us all in the Jedi universe TOO?!

          • Admiral Chief Returns

            September 10, 2015 at 14:17

            There is no emotion, there is peace

          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 14:08

            Good thing that Android allows modded apk’s

            Seriously F2P is the evil of the industry worse than DLC

            If someone can justify why spending over R1000 for virtual currency makes logical sense then I’d do it, if its R1 – R20 in terms of microtransactions then fine since it’s little and most will bite but greed is in play with these Dev’s and even AAA games are making use of it on top of what you pay all with the excuse of for those that don’t have the time, then why is that person trying to play a game that requires time?

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 14:09

            It’s optional?

          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 14:17

            Honestly it’s not hence paywall

            I mean they might come out directly and say pay for so much to do so little but little things like things recharging at a slow rate or currency not generating at a fast rate kinda drives the experience of gaming to more grinding

            Plus the silly freaking top bar that shows you the gold and all the other things that reminding you that your not playing a game but grinding and once thats done you move onto the next grinding game

            I’m cynical I know but it’s the honest truth

            I’d rather spend R100 on a mobile game and know that it’s a game that doesn’t include it than get it for “free”

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 14:19

            Honestly it is. It is completely optional. 100%.

            People are just salty because on PC when they wanted things to progress faster they’d just type in cheats. But now since it’s social you have to pay for it. Boo. Hoo.

            Cry me a river.

            Haven’t ever paid a cent to any F2P title ever. Except DotA 2. But that’s because I firmly believe in supporting a title that has given me over 2.5k hours of play.

          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 14:47

            Valves’s method seems to work that I believe we can all agree

            But honestly I can’t see F2P microstransactions being completely being optional true, the idea the game feeds you is that yes you can play the game without it but honestly you can’t because you wanna level up or want something shiny sooo, spend real world cash in order to get it, that might sound like optional but its not at all, why should you have to spend large amounts for virtual items?

            The idea of social is complete utter rubbish why do I need to see if X friend built or done this same like the new nfs why do I need to uplike a friends photo or see that they finished this race, its all utter rubbish in order to target you with spam and adds and micortransactions, its sounds like paranoia but its the truth of how corporate greed works now

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 16:18

            Disagree 100%. I’ve never played a game on my iPad that required you to spend money in a F2P game in order to progress. I’ve finished games that were F2P without spending any money time, and time, and time again.

            If the game forces you to pay money in order to access core mechanics or gameplay or whatever it can’t even be called F2P anymore.

            If you *want* something, and you pay for it, that’s optional. You wanted the thing. So you paid for it. But no one forced you to. Like if you want KFC. And you go buy it. No one forced you to. You decided to.

            I hate this idea that gamers (casual or pro) are all fucking idiots who can’t make their own decisions. We’re all agents and we are all constrained in various ways. But F2P games that offer in game transactions don’t FORCE you to make use of the payment system. They merely offer a service and you, as an agent with free will, make the decision to use (or not) that service.

            So… optional. Like nothing you are saying here remotely convinces me otherwise.
            Unless I’m just completely missing your point and/or one of us is fundamentally using a specific word incorrectly (i.e. we misunderstand the definition of a word).

          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 16:55

            Each person to their own devices as such

            If you feel that F2P is perfectly with you then cool.

            But honestly tell me you never sat waiting for some mystical item to replensih or build at a abnomally long period while a we can build it quicker if you spend real world cash ?

            Also your saying your happy to sign into facebook and other social garbage in order to get a few free coins or whatever virtual currency.

            Not to argue but KFC really isn’t what I’d called a great defense since it’s physical worldly item that you pay for and get a physical meal also technically your forced to it because of Hunger no?

            Also are you seriously happy with games that cost you say R600 to R900 (excluding steam sales or deals) amd still expect you to pay for micro transactions like MGS V FOB’s ?

            I can agree your not forced to buy them, but are sublimely forced without you knowing it or put into a position where buying them are are reward, you may finish a f2p but honestly the game may never technically feel complete unless you have everything upgraded or so.

            This should actually be a Flame bait friday topic really?

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 17:07

            All of these other issues you’ve raised are certainly valid and important points concerning the F2P model. And ones that certainly deserve the FFD treatment, I agree. However, I honestly don’t think much of the above applies to the question at hand.

            The question at hand is simply: Are microtransactions in F2P games optional, or forced?
            And the answer (as you pointed out when you agreed that you’re not *forced* to buy them) is equally as simple. Yes – you’re never forced to buy it. You don’t need to buy it to finish the core gameplay experience as designed by the developers. So it is, essentially, optional.

            However, you do raise a very interesting point about players being subliminally influenced to spend money (whether to complete the loot table, to speed up long wait times, etc etc). This is a tactic I’m sure various F2P games employ to various degrees. And, much like advertising, isn’t always as obvious as we’d initially think. But you, at the end of the day, still decide whether or not you’d like to participate in this transaction.

            And that’s that for the question at hand. F2P games never force you to pay money. But they damn well do their best to encourage you to do so. And that’s a debate best left for Friday. 🙂

          • Admiral Chief Returns

            September 10, 2015 at 14:09

            Because of kids playing on the parents phones, with the credit card linked, and then pay pay pay pay pay to play play

          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 14:19

            Then kid’s parent’s sadly complain complain complain about how they left their kid unsupervised with their tab and hence they want their money back.

            Bu yeah your right it’s targeted at kids same like how R18 games are also targeted at them and their parent’s let them

      • VampyreSquirrel

        September 10, 2015 at 14:53

        NFI, but I’ll let you know what I find in the store to laugh at.

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      • HvR

        September 10, 2015 at 14:59

        1 000 000 Imperial credits
        5 000 000 Rebel Leas
        All the stormtrooper hats you can think off
        En grootste fokken pakslae van jou lewe wanner jou pa sy kredietkaart rekening kry

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    September 10, 2015 at 12:51

    It’ll be so exciting to play this on your Apple TV. *giggle snort*

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    • RinceThis

      September 10, 2015 at 13:06

      Hey! You leave Apple alone. they are the BEST!

      Reply

      • HvR

        September 10, 2015 at 13:06

        Ahhh go polish some aluminium

        Reply

        • RinceThis

          September 10, 2015 at 13:07

          I hope you said that in Merican accent! a loo minum!

          Reply

          • HvR

            September 10, 2015 at 13:08

            it is Apple we are talking about

            Ahhh looo mininimumm

          • RinceThis

            September 10, 2015 at 13:10

            OMG! That is the best AHH LOOO MINUMUMUPDATEPENDING I’ve ever seen!

          • HvR

            September 10, 2015 at 13:12

            Actually fun to say Aaaaahhh Loooo Minionminiumeatingbananaring

          • RinceThis

            September 10, 2015 at 13:16

            You go too far!

          • HvR

            September 10, 2015 at 13:17

            That is definitely what she said

          • Raptor Rants

            September 10, 2015 at 13:40

            NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

          • Dutch Matrix

            September 10, 2015 at 13:49

            Please crawl in a hole and die?

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            September 10, 2015 at 13:53

            bwhahahahaha

          • Admiral Chief Returns

            September 10, 2015 at 13:30

            Bananaring?
            xD

      • Corrie

        September 10, 2015 at 14:09

        At being overpriced?

        Then yes, yes they are :p

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        • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

          September 10, 2015 at 14:10

          Hey. It’s not their fault you don’t know how to figure brand impact into your pleb pricing equation. 😛

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          • Corrie

            September 10, 2015 at 14:21

            Har Har

            There products are good quality yes but are absorbed heavily with over inflated costs and with our lovely rand going bonkers because said government is ruining our economy with relationships that should not even exist then yeah.

          • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

            September 10, 2015 at 14:26

            So you attribute the “over inflated costs” to the “lovely rand going bonkers”? Which, in essence, means you’re saying that when the rand was stable and the exchange rate was low then apple was value for money? Because that was never the case.

            Value =/= labour + production costs

  3. Pariah

    September 10, 2015 at 12:53

    Nope.

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  4. Admiral Chief Returns

    September 10, 2015 at 13:04

    *sigh*

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  5. RinceThis

    September 10, 2015 at 13:06

    Meh

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  6. HvR

    September 10, 2015 at 13:06

    This is not the Star Wars game you are looking for
    http://ems12lead.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2014/02/obewan.jpg

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    • Brady miaau

      September 10, 2015 at 15:57

      ah, thanks.

      Reply

  7. Raptor Rants

    September 10, 2015 at 13:38

    Installing this…. RIGHT NOW

    Reply

  8. HairyEwok

    September 10, 2015 at 13:51

    Fallout shelter is still killing my phones battery, so this will have to wait for a wee bit, or at least until fallout 4 releases.

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    • Brady miaau

      September 10, 2015 at 16:28

      Have you tried un-installing it?

      Or am I missing the point?

      Reply

  9. SargonTheBatpandaOfAkkad

    September 10, 2015 at 13:53

    I STILL don’t have 200 peeps in my vault. I can’t give more of my time over to more mobile games. FFS. Just pull a Molyneux already and break my faith in mobile gaming! PLEASE! I NEED MORE TIME! 😛

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    • Corrie

      September 10, 2015 at 14:11

      Fallout shelter got really dull really fast once I unlocked everything and had like 100 dwellers and the constant deathclaw attacks I called it quits

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      • SargonTheRebornBatpanda

        September 10, 2015 at 14:15

        Deathclaw attacks don’t make it past my first room once they barely survive the vault entrance. Dudes in that garden be packing everything from Flamethrowers to Gauss Rifles. Deathclaws? Psssssht. Where the friggin heck are those Super Mutants? BRING EM ON!

        Nah I really enjoy it. It’s somehow soothing, collecting your resources. And I like sending multiple individuals on trips out into the Mojave… uh… I mean wasteland.. to do stupid things with horribly overpowered weaponry. Etc. Etc. It’s fun. I dig it.

        And yeah. It’s pretty chilled to unlock everything. But it’s not easy to get to 200 dwellers AND support them with power, water, food, etc. Rooms become expensive QUICK. I still only have a lvl 2 3x tile Nuka Cola plant. Upgrading it to Lvl 3 would bankrupt even Rift City.

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  10. GaaTY

    September 11, 2015 at 08:53

    I picked this up yesterday. I’m already hooked.

    Reply

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