Star Wars: Trench Run (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Star Wars: Trench Run

Star Wars: Trench Run is a rail-shooter set during Star Wars Episode IV. The game depicts the final space battle of the Rescue of Princess Leia and the Battle of Yavin, particularly the fateful trench run Luke…

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What Star Wars: Trench Run is

Star Wars: Trench Run is a shooter game developed by Infrared5 and released in 2009. It was published by THQ Wireless. It is available on iOS and Web browser. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Star Wars: Trench Run is a rail-shooter set during Star Wars Episode IV. The game depicts the final space battle of the Rescue of Princess Leia and the Battle of Yavin, particularly the fateful trench run Luke Skywalker took to destroy the Death Star.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Star Wars: Trench Run is the 187th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Republic Squadron in 2009. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.

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How it was received

Star Wars: Trench Run holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Star Wars: Trench Run launched on 17 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

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