Our Top 10 Star Wars Games

[Xan Krieger]

No Star Wars Empire at War? You can have dozens of Super Star Destroyers under your command, its great! D:

Not without mods. Though, I think I know the one you're talking about. In the base game, the Executor isn't even available, IIRC. Forces of Corruption changes Vader's space unit to the Executor... You can still spam out the Imperial Class Star Destroyers though...

Seriously though, it's a fantastic RTS.

Agreed, I love that game. It was probably the best Star Wars RTS *thinks back for a moment* yeah it was the best.

Also drop the side scrollers (they beat the shit out of me as a kid) and put in the Jedi Knight series (I <3 jedi academy) and X-wing and tie-fighter.

 

[killerbee256]

The gamyboy stars wars game is identical to the NES game of the same name that came out at the same time.

 

[Steve Waltz]

Man, Shadows of the Empire knocked my socks off as a kid. I loved it so back then.

 

[necromanzer52]

I always liked star wars:bounty hunter on ps2. It appears that one's not so popular.

 

[Kinitawowi]

The original arcade with the vector graphics kicks the arse of everything on this list.

 

[Nurb]

Nobody remember X-wing Vs Tie-Fighter? The first star wars space sim game that had teams of people on both sides doing missions against each other?

 

[ObserverStatus]

Jedi Academy is objectively the best Star Wars game ever made. I like this list otherwise.

Sometimes I really wish that Total Biscuit hadn't taught the internet to use "objectively" as an intensifier.

 

[Fanghawk]

Confession time: I hadn't tried Jedi Knight 2 or Empire at War before, and only played TIe Fighter for the first time for my Good Old Review, so I didn't have any nostalgic memories to draw from. But doing some of these as retro reviews when we haven't done four Star Wars articles in a row is a possibility.

 

[StewShearerOld]

The gamyboy stars wars game is identical to the NES game of the same name that came out at the same time.

You're kidding! Now I'm kinda tempted to pick up the NES game and make a review of it. Thanks for the info. I'll update the article accordingly.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I loved Commando, and am sad that Star Wars games have to either be X-Wing or Jedi. Empire at War was a fun RTS style game.

 

[StewShearerOld]

Haha. Sorry guys. I can't speak for Marshall, but in my case I never played Jedi Knight 2

You need to revise that. It'll be on sale sometime next month during the Steam Winter/Holiday Sale, probably have a 50% off Star Wars day somewhere in there.

There are few things more fun in gaming than plowing through a level in Jedi Knight (or its sequel, Jedi Academy) solely with Force Push, Pull, and Choke.

I actually found a hard copy at Goodwill for $3 a couple weeks ago. I've just been a bit tied up with work/others games. That said, I've heard a ton of great things about it and always wanted to play it. Mayhap I'll give it a try once I wrap up Star Control 2 (next week's review) and DA: Inquisition.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

X wing Tie fighter should be on the list replacing the NES game, Jedi Knight should replace crappy racing title and battle for naboo should be replaced with shadow of the empire. Hell this list is worthless without Jedi Knight.......

 

[Flammablezeus]

I'm genuinely surprised by the lack of Star Wars: Galaxies.

 

[ObserverStatus]

Jedi Academy is objectively the best Star Wars game ever made. I like this list otherwise.

Sometimes I really wish that Total Biscuit hadn't taught the internet to use "objectively" as an intensifier.

Sometimes I wish pretentiousness wasn't such a terrible, debilitating disease.

I know, right? Who says that art is objectively good based on their own operational definition of quality? As if their theory of what makes a game good is the only valid one?

 

[Squilookle]

As for X-Wing and Tie Fighter, this list was very much nostalgia driven (hence the "Our"). I had a blast playing X-Wing and am still enjoying working through it, but I just don't have the same level of misty-eyed fondness for it that I do for something like Rogue Squadron.

OK yeah fair enough, but... you can't pretend 'Battle for Naboo' gave anyone more jollies than freaking TIE Fighter!

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Battlefront just a Battlefield Star Wars Skin!? Bullshit!


Okay fine, but the third person made it so different. Which is why I am so disappointed that they decided to make the reboot a "revolutionary" FPS. Sad, now it really will only be a Battlefield re-skin.

 

[Loonyyy]

Haha. Sorry guys. I can't speak for Marshall, but in my case I never played Jedi Knight 2

You need to revise that. It'll be on sale sometime next month during the Steam Winter/Holiday Sale, probably have a 50% off Star Wars day somewhere in there.

There are few things more fun in gaming than plowing through a level in Jedi Knight (or its sequel, Jedi Academy) solely with Force Push, Pull, and Choke.

Always get Grip 3 before the Tibanna factory mission.

It's game-changing.

Also, cheats can massively enhance (Beyond ingame levels) force abilities, like Mind Trick becoming a possession style control. There's so much exploration and cool extra stuff you can do in that game.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

I'd really enjoy Empire at War if not for two features. Being unable to set commands when time was paused, and the fucking bullshit super easy to upgrade space stations which later upgrades took unreasonably large fleets of extremely high end battleships to even scratch, and constantly fucking spawned battlecruisers which spawned fighters, which was just plain bullshit.

I hated how, when as the Empire, a swarm of X-Wings could obliterate a full sized Star Destroyer. But when I tried that tactic as a Rebel, I got cut to pieces. Still, it was worth it to see the Death Star blow up planets.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

You need to revise that. It'll be on sale sometime next month during the Steam Winter/Holiday Sale, probably have a 50% off Star Wars day somewhere in there.

It's part of the Star Wars Collection on Steam, 14 games for $100. There was a special promotion about May 4th, where the collection was 75% off.

 

[Remus]

Shadows of the Empire was THE Star Wars game to play for one huge reason above all else - The Battle of Hoth! Shooting droids on Tattoine and watching yetis rip each other apart, or anyone that happens to be close, was fun too. But Hoth was the thing by which all future Star Wars games will, and still are, compared.