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.)
(tied for #15) Though its single-player experience was criticized for lacking substance, this first installment in the Battlefront series became well known for what Games Radar called a “remarkable online experience.” Up to 32 players could join their preferred Star Wars faction to battle each other via Xbox Live.
Writes Game Chronicles: “For those looking to relive your favorite battles from the Star Wars universe, this is the single-best compilation of battle scenarios going.”