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The lines won't be as long as for the movie, but there will be a good deal of Star Wars excitement on May 24 - five days after the movie comes out and the day the two new Episode I games are expected to hit store shelves. Star Wars: Episode I Racer is coming out for the PC and N64 and Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is coming for the PC and PlayStation. While the first is a game about speed and racing, the second is an adventure game based on the story in the movie, and the one where you get to play a Jedi.

As mentioned, you get to play a Jedi in the game - two, actually. Over the course of the game, you'll play four different characters from the movie: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Jedi), Qui-Gon Jinn (Jedi), Queen Amidala, and Captain Panaka. For most of the game (about a third of it), you'll play Obi-Wan; the developers might have wanted to divide the game time up more evenly, but again, staying true to the movie was of paramount importance, and a good bit of the time, the movie focuses on Obi-Wan.

As the film is only about two hours long, and two hours is a vastly inadequate amount of gameplay time for an adventure game, there are a number of things you'll find in the adventure game that weren't exactly in the movie. Without telling you how the first scene in the film - and game - opens,

Relive the movie as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Phantom Menace adventure game.

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