SWG - Has Star Wars been failed by Video Games? : Star Wars Galaxies Discussions

With Star Wars celebrating its 30th birthday this year, we're going to be facing a Deathstar-sized onslaught of nostalgic features, analysing the very life out of the series and scraping about for the last few titbits of unmined trivia. Empire Magazine has characterised the coming frenzy, producing 30 different covers for its July edition, each featuring a different character from the six movies. Not quite as grand as Loaded's famous 100 covers stunt, but impressive all the same.

As for videogames and their place in the canon, there will be enough 'best Star Wars games EVER' round-ups to satisfy even the most demanding fan of nostalgic list features. But beneath the arguments over whether Knights of the Old Republic is a better game than Battlefront, I feel there's a more question to be answered - have games ever really captured the essence of the movies? Have they addressed the underlying appeal, the elusive, indefatigable cool of Star Wars? I'm not sure. I'm not even sure anyone has really tried.


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