Best Star Wars Videogames of the Last 20 Years
Videogames based on movies often get a bad rap, but those based on the Star Wars universe have largely bucked the trend. Fans are spoiled for choice—there’s a wide selection of excellent titles across a number of genres. Here are the 25 best Star Wars games from the last two decades, as rated by the critics (and our unique Metascore).
Note: For the purposes of this list, we excluded Star Wars pinball titles and games with fewer than seven reviews. (And if a game was released on more than one platform, we included the version that received the largest number of reviews from critics.)
(#17) Set just prior to the events of A New Hope, this real-time strategy game pits the Rebel Alliance against the Empire in a race to win battles and complete story-related objectives on a three-dimensional galaxy map.
“Sure, you could find a deeper or better-tuned strategy game,” argues The A.V. Club, “but this one has AT-ATs.”