Are the fantastical sights--the speeding spaceships, the chattering robots, lightsabers in every imaginable color--even physically possible?

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Some of the screenshots get out there, featuring powdered wigs, lightsabers and superhero costumes.

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They made me want to fight with lightsabers, kill some Sith (or maybe some Jedi) and explore the galaxy.

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They are like lightsabers - they illuminate the spine.

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Other ideas range from the backstory of a young Princess Leia told in Heavy Rain style, to a crafting game called Saber Smith where all you did was build your own lightsabers.

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When it was first announced, journalists looked at the chance to swing lightsabers and force-choke stormtroopers with motion controls with cautious optimism, but as time went on, it became clear that this title was heading south.

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The next section is a hall of torches from every modern Olympic Games since 1936 -- a range of designs that include some that look like broom sticks (Atlanta, 1996), machetes (Sydney, 2000) and lightsabers (Tokyo, 1964).

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" Kinect Star Wars" tries to use the power of the Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 to put players into the action, using full-body motions to wield lightsabers, drive podracers and, unfortunately, dance for Jabba the Hutt.

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Timing and context is everything in sports, and changes to the game and rules and technology often render comparisons moot (how you compare between eras in a sport like tennis, for example, where players once used wooden spatulas compared with the carbon-fiber lightsabers they use now, is beyond me.) After a while, it becomes clear that these "greatest ever" debates are more about the provocations than the resolutions.

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