It’s no surprise then that the prolific developer did justice to the Lego version of The Force Awakens. Plus, it’s the only game to date where you can see Darth Vader interact with Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse.Ģ016 | TT Fusion | 3DS, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, X360, XBOĭespite dabbling in numerous other franchises over the years, the first three Lego Star Wars games are arguably still among the very best to come out of Traveller’s Tales. Even if you find the gameplay in Disney Infinity 3.0 to be too kiddie or easy, it’s hard for any Star Warsfan to resist the dozens of plastic toys released alongside the game. Toys and Star Wars go together like George Lucas and bad dialogue.
Disney Infinity 3.0Ģ015 | Avalanche Software | PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, X360, XBO Even if this revival isn’t perfect, at least it avoided the microtransaction mess that plagued its sequel. It’s one of the best looking games of the current generation, and the inclusion of Rogue One content a year after release kept the experience fresh. But Battlefront is still a fun multiplayer shooter to jump into for a few minutes or hours, and it captures the feel of the movies better than any other Star Warsgame before it. It’s true that it’s a little light on content, and it’s even missing features that were in its predecessors, released a decade earlier. Star Wars BattlefrontĪ lot has been said about the game Battlefront isn’t. Just be warned though: the later missions are extremely challenging. Factor 5 pulled some real magic out of the aging N64 hardware to make a game that still holds up 20 years later. And even today, the game looks and sounds phenomenal. While several games let players pilot an X-Wing prior to Rogue Squadron, Factor 5’s masterpiece just made it piloting these starfighters more fun with its more arcadey controls and missions. And while the quality of each table varies slightly, it’s always fun to play through scenes from Episodes IV– VII (and Rogue One!) or go for the high score while listening to “The Imperial March” on the Darth Vader table. The latest version of Pinball FX contains more than a dozen tables featuring characters from all three Star Wars trilogies. Pinball FX 3Ģ017 | Zen Studios | PC, PS4, Switch, XBO, Wii U And if you play through the final mission as Anakin, you get an ending very different from the film.
Revenge of the Sithis extremely faithful to the movie and adds in a fairly deep combo system, as you play as either Anakin or Obi-wan. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the SithĪside from the Lego games, there haven’t been too many video games that directly adapt the Star Wars films in recent years. It’s still fun replaying episodes and collecting thousands of studs, but the baffling inclusion of RTS elements brings this one down a few pegs. Traveller’s Tales had already cranked out three awesome Lego Star Warsgames at this point, so you’d think they could do even more amazing things with a game based on the popular Clone Wars cartoon. Just like the movies themselves, sometimes Star Wars sequels can’t quite live up to the hype. Super Star Wars and its two sequels at least hold up better than most other early ‘90s game adaptations.Ģ011 | Traveller’s Tales | PS3, PC, Wii, X360
It’s a little odd, but keep in mind this is the era when even TV shows like Home Improvement had video game adaptations with out of place enemies.
It tracks the plot of A New Hope pretty closely, but also takes some pretty big liberties, like adding levels where Luke fights giant scorpions and infiltrates a Jawa Sandcrawler. Super Star Wars is a bit of an oddity compared to later Star Wars games. And it’s been free-to-play for years now, so there’s no reason to skip over it. The type of commitment required for an MMO isn’t for every gamer, but for those gamers who really want to feel like they’re living in a galaxy far, far away, there’s no better option. What it is, however, is an MMO that takes its story very seriously. The Old Republic is not Knights of the Old Republic III, and some gamers will never get over that. It’s just too bad we’ll never get to see how the planned sequel would have turned out. But The Force Unleashed II is still a beautiful game to behold, and there’s something extremely satisfying about tearing into stormtroopers with Force lightning and dual-wielded lightsabers. Hopes were high for the sequel, but unfortunately it still faltered in many ways – primarily with a silly story about being a clone that lasts all of three hours.
The first Force Unleashed was a fun but flawed game.