The story revolves around Arden Lyn, a master of an ancient martial art known as "Teräs Käsi" (which is actually Finnish for "steel hand") hired as an assassin by the Emperor of the Galactic Empire to take out key members of the Rebel Alliance.
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"[5], The character Arden Lyn was created specifically for the game. Last edited on 21 September 2020, at 22:14, Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels, "Making Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, the weirdest fighting game ever", "That Time Star Wars Became An Awful Fighting Game", "Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi Review", "From fatalities to flip tricks: Josh Tsui's 20 years of Chicago game development", "Soulcalibur IV getting Vader and Yoda DLC", "Third Star Wars character joins Soul Calibur IV cast", "Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star_Wars:_Masters_of_Teräs_Käsi&oldid=979642448, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 22:14. Released Oct 31, 1997. The game includes twelve playable characters, four of which must be unlockable. Mara Jade - Unlocked by beating Tram Battle mode after entering a code. In weapons mode, the controls are configured with three attack buttons and a kick button, while in hand-to-hand mode a button is assigned to each limb. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll "[17] Sushi-X of Electronic Gaming Monthly actually cited the Star Wars license as the game's primary weakness, arguing that in the Star Wars universe any character without a lightsaber would be quickly dismembered by any character with one. [5][6] To create the character's reactions to hits, the motion capture data was supplemented with hand-drawn animation. [28], No one had programmed a game on the PlayStation [...] We were learning the hardware, how to make art on it, how to program on it while we were developing. Story. You can search for Story. The Emperor wanted retaliation against him and all of the Rebel Alliance and sought the services of assassin, Arden Lyn, to eliminate the Alliance's key members. The Emperor seeks retaliation against Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance and recruits the services of the mysterious assassin Arden Lyn to eliminate the Alliance's key leaders. Masters of Teräs Käsi takes place between the Star Wars movies, Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.The destruction of the Death Star at the hands of Luke Skywalker has severely crippled the Galactic Empire.
[5] Steve Perry, who came up with the concept of Teräs Käsi, said he did not speak Finnish but "wanted something with a certain kind of sound, and the Norse languages have the kind of rhythm I like. Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi received generally mixed reviews from critics. Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a weapon-based 3D fighting game developed and published by LucasArts for the PlayStation on October 31, 1997.. Set in the Star Wars universe (sometime after the first film in the original trilogy), players can duke it out with various characters from the series in locales from the films (such as Hoth, Dagobah, and Cloud City). Masters of Teräs Käsi takes place between the Star Wars movies, Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.The destruction of the Death Star at the hands of Luke Skywalker severely crippled the Galactic Empire.
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a fighting game developed and published by LucasArts, which was released for the PlayStation in 1997. Slave Leia - Unlocked by beating the game with Leia. It was "something that could have been worthwhile" he said.
As the game is non-canon, it also includes nods to other characters in the expanded universe (including Mara Jade and lesser-known bounty hunter Jodo Kast). [2] The character's design was initially much more androgynous than how she appears in the final game. Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a weapon-based 3D fighting game developed and published by LucasArts for the PlayStation on October 31, 1997.
Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a Star Wars Legends fighting game developed and published by LucasArts, which released for the PlayStation in 1997. An untitled prototype Star Wars fighter was under development at Studio Gigante in 2005, but ultimately was rejected. Development for Masters of Teräs Käsi was handled internally at LucasArts.
GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann felt that the game played like it was "stuck in slow motion".
The game features Legends-exclusive characters, including the Emperor's hand-turned Jedi, Mara Jade. [6] Some obscure characters, such as Jodo Kast, were included in the game for no more reason than that a member of the development team liked the character and was able to build a compelling model. Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi is a fighting game developed and published by LucasArts, which was released for the PlayStation in 1997. [3] The destruction of the Death Star at the hands of Luke Skywalker has severely crippled the Galactic Empire. To promote the game, Star Wars: The Official Magazine ran a contest in June 1998 in which a black PlayStation console with the Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi logo on the top was given out.[11]. Rounds are timed, and the player must win two of three rounds to be declared the winner of the match.
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi – Move List and Guide PlayStation. [2], Characters have an array of melee moves and also a few ranged attacks. In the game's story, which is set in the Star Wars universe, the Emperor seeks retaliation for the destruction of the Death Star and recruits the mysterious Arden Lyn to battle in the art of Teräs Käsi, an unarmed combat discipline, against leaders of the Rebel Alliance.
"[1] While promoting the game in an issue of Star Wars Insider, writer Jack Lyon stated: "Short attention span Star Wars freaks will surely dig Masters of Teräs Käsi, LucasArts' first fighting game.
Each of the characters can be classified by the weapon they can equip (with the exceptions of Arden Lyn, who does not equip any weapon, and Thok, who is always equipped with a battle axe).
Hoar is a Tusken Raider featured in the game Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi. [24], Since the release of Masters of Teräs Käsi some attempts have been made to re-introduce Star Wars to the fighting game genre.
[1] Development of the game took approximately 19 months according to lead artist Craig Rundels.
Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Choujou Daikessen, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Star Wars: Episode I - Jedi Power Battles. [5][6] A backstory was developed in which Darth Vader uses a mysterious master of Teräs Käsi, Arden Lyn, to eliminate high-ranking members of the rebellion in hand-to-hand combat. Set in the Star Wars universe (sometime after the first film in the original trilogy), players can duke it out with various characters from the series in locales from the films (such as Hoth, Dagobah, and Cloud City).
"[17] GamePro, while echoing Gerstmann's criticism that the force moves are overpowered and citing difficulty entering in combos, called the game "a near-perfect blend of Star Wars imagery and solid fighting-game physics." This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for: Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Industrial Light & Magic assisted with motion capture, used for character animations. send you an email once approved.
Internal company hopes were high during the development cycle. "Be the Jedi in Three New LucasArts Games". [1], With the exception of Thok and Arden Lyn, all of the characters can fight either hand-to-hand or with a weapon, and alternate between the two mid-combat.
any Giant Bomb content. Instead, each character builds up a "Force meter" as they fight. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi. They also shared Gerstmann and Douglas's opinion that the characters move too slowly. The game was first announced at E3 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. "Teräs Käsi" refers to a martial art used in the game; both words have been borrowed from Finnish (incidentally, also Estonian) and they literally mean "steel hand". While they acknowledged that the combination of hand-to-hand and weapons-based combat was innovative, they found the use of different control schemes for the two modes cumbersome. [22] In March 2004, GMR placed Masters of Teräs Käsi in its top five Star Wars game of all time. There are 13 characters to choose from, small for a fighting game's roster, but they include perennial favorites such as Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, and Hoar. Softimage was used for character creation.
[25] The idea of using Star Wars characters in a fighting game would resurface when Yoda, Starkiller and Darth Vader became playable characters in Soulcalibur IV.
"[7] A demo was released on disc in the third issue of Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine.
He cited sluggish movement, uninteresting combos and overpowered force moves as weak points of the game.
Jodo Kast is a bounty hunter who is often mistaken for Boba Fett. This is the only traditional fighting game developed for the series (not including the guest appearances in Soulcalibur IV).