Hasta La Gadget!

Have you ever stared out into the vast distance and thought “Wow, that’s really beautiful, I’d like to stay and look at that some more. But I’d ALSO really like to go watch Star Wars“?

Everybody has.

But now, thanks to an upcoming Star Wars game for your iPhone, you no longer have to make a choice!

The preview video looks like you’ll be able to shoot fighters over the background of whatever’s on the other side of your phone. From the preview video, it doesn’t appear that the fighters will actually interact with the background (i.e. they don’t seem to fly behind a far off building or any other objects in the picture).

So, at first glance–calling this game “Augmented Reality” (as some are) seems somewhat desperate. For my money, true AR must showcase some kind interactivity with reality. This looks more like a motion-based, first-person shooter that you can use any background you want. I will happily be proven wrong.

According to Augmented Times (though they don’t quote a source), this is “probably” an official Star Wars game and will be available in the app store sometime in in mid-November under the name “Falcon Gunner.”