There's a lot more to this game than first meets they eye. A Transformers reference for a Star Wars game . . . wtf?
Anyways, as for the game itself, the controls seem pretty complicated at first, but once you play it for a short while it all becomes intuitive. You need the nunchuk attachment to your Wii controller in order to play this game. On the Wii controller you use the B button to block your opponent's attack, the A button to jump/evade, and to attack your opponent you swing the controller like you would a lightsaber! Duh. As for the nunchuk, it goes in your non-dominant hand and you use the control stick to actually move your character around, the C button to grab and throw environmental objects with the Force, and the Z button to channel the Force to enhance your lightsaber attacks as well as do force pushes, etc. By swinging your controller in certain combinations of directions you can perform combos. Combos gain you Force power that you can use to compliment your attacks, or Force shove, throw things with the Force, etc., and also when you've completed enough combos you will earn a "Charged Combo". Every character has a unique combo that takes off a good chunk of your enemy's power if you can execute the charged combo properly. The controls are pretty seamless in this game, they did a really good job of tweaking the controls just right. I had absolutely no issues with control/gameplay in this game. The graphics, although nothing groundbreaking, were also really good, as were the sound effects/voices.
The feature mode in this game is the "Campaign Mode", which is basically the fight by fight story mode of the game. The story actually starts in the middle of the Clone Wars movie (Anakin and Ahsoka's raid on the Teth monastery) and as you progress through the game the story moves through a number for the first season episodes. Again, I thought this was really cool. You don't unlock anything by beating this mode but it is the main mode of the game. Overall I think there were about eight fights in total in campaign mode.
The next game mode is "Challenge Mode". Each of the 10 characters in the game have 4 distinct challenges during a fight that you must complete in order to defeat the mode with said character. Each challenge has a pre-requisite difficulty level that you must attempt it on (there are four difficulty levels in the game), some of them have time limits, and they all have 1 or more objectives you must complete during the fight. The objective can be as simple as "defeat this character in under 3 minutes", or they can be more complicated like "defeat this character using all 5 combos and parrying at least 3 attacks". As you move along in this mode and complete challenges, every so often you will unlock some bonus material. Included in this material are the 3 unlockable characters, various alternative outfits for all the characters in the game, game levels to use in the various other modes of the game, and bonus gallery material on the making of the game. Challenge mode is easily the hardest mode of the game but also the most rewarding. I've managed to beat this mode on all but a few of the characters, some of the challenges are proving to be pretty elusive!
The next mode of the game is "Battle Mode". In this mode you pick a character to play with and then you just face 6 opponents in a row and random various locations. If you defeat this mode by winning all 6 fights with a character, at the end you will unlock an alternative outfit for that character you played with. This mode is by far the easiest of the three main game modes.
The fourth mode of the game is the "Freeplay Mode". Here you just choose your character, your opponent (and what outfit you want them to wear!), your level, and you are off to the races.
The last mode is "Quickplay Mode". This mode is almost the same as freeplay mode only more simple. You just choose the character you want to play with and the game chooses the rest.
The other thing you can do in this game is go to the "Extras" option on the main menu. Under this option the first thing you will come to is the "Options" option. This is where you can adjust the volume of the music and sound effects, toggle the subtitles, etc. The second option is the "Cheats" option, where you can apparently enter a cheat code. I don't have any so I don't know what they do! The next option is "Concept Art". This is where you can view all of the gallery material that you unlock during challenge mode. It consists mostly of game concept art on the levels, characters, outfits, etc. The fourth option is the "Movies" option. Here you can watch all of the cut-scene movies that you unlock during the campaign mode of the game. And the last option is the "Credits" option. Here you can view the game credits.
Overall this is a really solid Star Wars game for the Nintendo Wii. And that goes doubly so considering it was the first Star Wars game created for a very innovative new gaming platform at the time. They really did a good job of it. At first look you are kind of disappointed with the game because it seems so short. There are no levels to run through, it is just straight up one on one combat, which makes the game feel short. Plus the main mode of the game, campaign mode, only consists of eight fights! However, once you get in to the game and explore it to it's fullest, you soon realize that the game (with all of it's various modes) has a lot more to offer than it first appears. This is a really solid and welcome addition to the Star Wars video game library. Keep 'em coming George!