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French: Dolby Digital 5.1 Rated 9.0 on Trustpilot Call us on 1-855-207-8365NOTE: With Rogue One on the horizon, we thought we'd look back at our favorite Star Wars video game stories. The Star Wars galaxy is a perfect fit for nearly any video game, thanks to its enormous and varied collection of races, careers, characters and settings. But which games set in a galaxy far, far away are the best of the bunch? We've broken it down - below you'll find the 9 greatest Star Wars games ever made: This side-scrolling Super NES adaptation of Episode IV takes some liberties with the story told in the movie. For example, there was never a time where Luke had to battle a "Sarlacc Pit Monster" in a bed of quicksand on Tatooine's Dune Sea, but that's how the first level of the game ends. Despite this, the game was able to do a great job in the constraints of the 16-bit era in recreating the look, feel, and sound of the first Star Wars movie. It still holds up today, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense, but at the time it was an incredible electronic use of the Star Wars license.
This 2006 real-time strategy game fit the Star Wars universe perfectly. Set in the time period between Episode III and Episode IV, Star Wars: Empire at War brought all the coolest toys from the movies and put them into the control of gamers. Arguably stronger as Star Wars fan service than it is as an innovative RTS, taking up the side of the Rebels or the Empire is cool enough in and of itself, and once giant space battles are factored in, Empire at War holds up against other RTS greats. Not to be confused with the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront coming November 17, the 2004 Star Wars: Battlefront might have fallen short on its single-player campaign, but it was able to shine in multiplayer. On PC, up to 64 different players could take part over LAN, and cooperation was crucial to completing objectives or defending a base from the onslaught of a huge walker. The huge amount of players on any given map, and the all-but-forgotten fun of setting up and running a LAN party gives Battlefront a spot on the list.
Rogue Squadron wasn't the first N64 Star Wars game, but it was the best. Shadows of the Empire may have its fans, but Rogue Squadron is one of the best of the best. It focused entirely on arcade-style air battles with the different ships at the Rebels' disposal. The fun of blasting TIE fighters in an X-Wing was made even cooler by the N64 Expansion Pak, which allowed the game to run at a then-staggering 640 x 480 resolution, which was twice the native resolution for Nintendo's machine. We called the graphics "amazingly sharp hi-res" in our 1998 Rogue Squadron review. In 1983, Atari Inc. released its Star Wars arcade game in two different configurations: an upright cabinet and a sit-down cockpit. The vector-graphics based game used real sound clips from the movies and put players in the role of Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin, in which the Death Star is ultimately destroyed. There are three missions to complete, culminating in Luke's pass through the Death Star trench to launch a proton torpedo into an exhaust port.
The colorful vector graphics combined with the cockpit configuration made this about as close as someone could get to flying an X-Wing for many years. Whereas the Rogue Squadron series gave Star Wars air combat in an arcade angle, the middle of the '90s saw games taking the concept the way of combat-flight simulation. Star Wars: X-Wing and its sequel Star Wars: TIE Fighter put gamers in the role of either a rebel or imperial pilot. The two games' emphasis on simulation within the fictional world of Star Wars have given them a special place in the hearts of even the crustiest of old-school PC gamers. The games are so awesome that the X-Wing and TIE Fighter games were recently re-released on the Good Old Games service. Lego licensed games are so well-received and so commonplace now that it's hard to believe there was ever a time when a Lego game seemed unusual. But in 2005, when the first Lego Star Wars game was released, it was just that. Its sequel, which followed the events of the original movies, worked out some of the kinks from the first game and solidified the Lego game formula for the next decade.
Adapting the games to tell a familiar story without using a single line of dialogue made for humorous pantomime versions of everyone's favorite Star Wars scenes, and the varying degrees of optional puzzle difficulty along with the ability to play as nearly any character from the universe in Lego form gives the Lego Star Wars games hours and hours of entertaining If Rogue Squadron sated our appetites for Star Wars ship combat, its sequel left us stuffed. The game opens with the attack on the Death Star from the original Star Wars, and there are 9 other regular missions and several secret missions on top of that. Sure, the story only takes around 5 hours to complete, but the carrot on the stick comes from unlocking those secrets and working tirelessly to achieve gold medal status, not to mention behind-the-scenes featurettes and a full-audio commentary to maximize the Star Wars geek-out possibilities. Knights of the Old Republic is so great that it can be referenced only by phonetically reading its acronym - people will still nod their heads at the mention.
Set 4,000 years before the Star Wars events of the movies, Bioware's RPG is the Star Wars game that perhaps best encapsulates the feel of being a Jedi - both light and dark side. The game is actually based on the old tabletop Star Wars Roleplaying Game from Wizards of the Coast, and its d20 mechanics are hidden beneath a glorious Star Wars facade. KOTOR is easily one of the greatest Star Wars games of all time and we gave it a 9.0 in our 2003 review of the Xbox version. Other excellent and beloved Star Wars games that didn't quite make our top list include games like Jedi Knight, Republic Commando, The Force Unleashed, The Old Republic, and Episode 1: Racer. Are there any other Star Wars games that hold a special place in your heart? Let us know in the comments below! And now that you've read about the greatest Star Wars games, why not take a moment to reminiscence on the worst Star Wars games? Yeah, we know you'd probably want to forget. Seth Macy is a freelance writer who just wants to be your friend.