The Star Wars Video Game Curation List.

[Samtemdo8]

There has been many Star Wars games made ever since the first movie came out in 1977, and Star Wars has the unique position of being the only movies that broke the video game curse of "You can't make a good video game out of a movie and vice versa"

But while many Star Wars games have been made, only a select amount of them are actually great games because for every great Star Wars Game there is also plenty of bad and mediocre Star Wars games. So I am just gonna compile a list of games that imo are the best the series has to offer ranging from Masterpieces to just "good stuff" So here it is, my curation list of Star Wars games:

The Super Star Wars Trilogy on the SNES
Star Wars Arcade for the Sega 32x
The Star Wars X-Wing/Tie-Fighter series
The Star Wars Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games (the ones with Kyle Katarn)
The Star Wars Rogue Squadron Games
The Knights of the Old Republic Games
The Pandemic Made Battlefront games
Star Wars Empire at War
Star Wars Republic Commando
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade Cabinet
Star Wars Pod Racing Arcade Version
The Console Version of the Pod Racing Game

Honorable Mentions/Guilty Pleasures:
Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG
Star Wars Galaxies
Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (AKA Age of Empires with a Star Wars skin)
EA Battlefront games (The second game is far better now then it is at launch)
The Force Unleashed games
Battle for Naboo (plays like Rogue Squadron)
Starfighter and Jedi Starfighter
The Clone Wars Game made from 2002
The Episode III Official Video Game
A bunch of the direct movie based games released on the GBA and DS
And of course, the Lego Star Wars games

So there we have it, the definitive list of good to masterpiece Star Wars games.

UPDATE: I forgot to include Jedi Fallen Order and mabye Shadow of the Empire.

 

[Hawki]

There has been many Star Wars games made ever since the first movie came out in 1977, and Star Wars has the unique position of being the only movies that broke the video game curse of "You can't make a good video game out of a movie and vice versa"

Oh yeah, there's never been a good videogame based on a movie apart from Star Wars...

 

[Samtemdo8]

Oh yeah, there's never been a good videogame based on a movie apart from Star Wars...

Yes I get there are games that do exist, but Star Wars so far has been the most "consistently good"

For every one good Goldeneye 007 there's 10 good Star Wars games.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

For every one good Goldeneye 007 there's 10 good Star Wars games.

I genuinely really like the Speed Racer movie game. The PS2/Wii one, not the DS one. It's not top tier amazing, but it's decent fun and quite enjoyable. Has some pretty sweet original songs too

 

[Samtemdo8]

I genuinely really like the Speed Racer movie game. The PS2/Wii one, not the DS one. It's not top tier amazing, but it's decent fun and quite enjoyable. Has some pretty sweet original songs too

There's also Spiderman 2 the Game based on the Raimi movie.

And the Game adaption of the Godfather and Scarface I've heard good things about.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

There's also Spiderman 2 the Game based on the Raimi movie.

And the Game adaption of the Godfather and Scarface I've heard good things about.

Haven't played it but Escape From Butcher Bay has good rep.

 

[Kae]

The Star Wars Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games (the ones with Kyle Katarn)

I haven't played Mysteries of the Sith so I won't talk about that one, but while I'll admit that Jedi Academy's Campaign was underwhelming there's no doubt that the improvements to the combat system and the new force powers make for a much better multiplayer experience, and just for having the best multiplayer in the series I feel it should be included, I've even played it recently with a few friends and I was pleasantly surprised to see how well it holds up.

The Knights of the Old Republic Games

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I recently replayed (Last year) both one & two and I really don't think the first one deserves to be here, I get that the 2nd one is a buggy mess but an RPG is played for the story and the writing on the first one is lacking, the second one has issues, especially the ending but the writing is not only more entertaining than the first one but also more nuanced, though again I'll concede that it's an unpopular opinion.

Battle for Naboo (plays like Rogue Squadron)

It was the same engine, made by the same studio but a different team IIRC, it's OK, the level design in Rogue Squadron was better but it's not a bad game.

Shadow of the Empire.

It was good for it's time but it hasn't aged that well, parts of it, the flying sections are a simpler Rogue Squadron game basically and are overall still solid, but the on foot sections have very awkward controls, I still like it but I guess it should be omitted because it's mostly nostalgia talking, I would like to add to this same category of good for it's time but didn't age well the other Star Wars Jetpack game with awkward controls, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, it's fun, but it has some real problems, like the automatic aiming system which will sometimes target bounties you've already tied and end up killing them, a real problem because sometimes it shoots offscreen with one of the hands.

 

[Kae]

Yes I get there are games that do exist, but Star Wars so far has been the most "consistently good"

For every one good Goldeneye 007 there's 10 good Star Wars games.

Well there are over a 100 Star Wars games, let's not pretend it was the majority of them that were good, TBH considering the actual volume of games it's actually the minority that are good, and unlike most movie games, since Star Wars never really stopped being relevant it did mean that a lot of the games did have the luxury of a full development cycle, granted some of them managed to still be good despite time constraints such as Rogue Squadron 2 & KOTOR 2, but it's more the exeption rather than the rule.

If there were other movie franchises with the same output of games they'd eventually get games as good, in fact we do have some examples, like Alien, which has gotten a few good games, which makes sense because it has gotten a ton, with the most recent being Isolation, and of course as you mentioned James Bond has a few good ones, besides Goldeneye Everything or Nothing & Nightfire were also pretty good and of course we can't forget about Spider-Man games which has a lot of shit & mediocre games but also some fantastic ones and so on.

So anyway it was more games with actual development cycles and the fact that they never stopped making them, which ended up handing them to a ton of talented devs that some actual Star Wars secret sauce.