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Some of you might remember my Free Realms First Impressions article from last year.
When I reviewed that game, I spent many hours playing my character - exploring, training, participating in minigames... Whilst it was clearly not for me, it had plenty of free content, items and professions to keep a young teenager busy before and if he decided to open his dad's wallet.
In that game, RMT signs and restrictions was but a minor playing annoyance (refer to the link above), but SOE has now taken The Clone Wars Adventures to a whole new level - and that level is not in terms of quality - but shopping.
You character customisation screen is as basic as you get (even more so than Free Realms). In this game, you cannot customise your hair style, clothes, face features... you are limited to choosing a clone trooper, a human or a twi-lek, your gender, and hair colour. In short, everyone is a clone in the Clone Wars adventures.
Unlike Free Realms, you are not spawned in a tutorial area or the main map to start exploring and/or using your skills - you are taken to "the varanda" - the hub of virtual shopping with flashy icons prompting you to click on them and purchase content.
You will here note some of the virtual shops that are available to you, as well as a part of your interface which allows you to access the Station Store or the "become a jedi" purchase screen. To become a jedi, essentially, is to subscribe to the game. Yet, as you will find, about 95% of the content and items this game delivers requires subscription. There are extremely few minigames which are available to non-subscribers. What is the price to be a "Jedi"? It starts at $5.99 a month.
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