You’ve undoubtedly already seen many lists of the best in the world today star Wars games set in the universe. Boring. I want to try something different and tell you which is the best star Wars video game is.
The lists bring you closer to excellent video games that feature characters and settings from the star Wars Universe occur. X-Wing, Super Star Wars, Pod Racer, etc. You know the lists. They are mostly very similar to each other.
I’m more interested in the best star Wars Video games, i.e. those that correspond to the look, the effect and the tradition of the star Wars Films do the most justice (but especially the original trilogy, which people know best and like the most). This is about the game that most closely gives the impression of falling into that star Wars to belong to the universe.
For me this game is Dark Forcesa first-person shooter released in 1995.
Sure, others come close. X Wing does a really good job, especially with its soundtrack (TIE Fighters less than it always was much to violet), while I believe that Republic Commando best captured the darker aspects of the prequel trilogy.
But Dark Forces just seems right. Like someone has the end of The Empire Strikes Back shaken and this game would have fallen out, as dark and real as one star Wars game can only be.
First of all, it looks right star Wars out of. It uses locations and design elements from the original trilogy, such as the interiors of Imperial facilities and spaceships (including the Executor), cobbled-together firearms and desert huts, but even where it has to create new areas, it borrows heavily from existing ones star Wars Subjects.
In Dark Forces — and this is a rarity in Star Wars games — you can never tell where the actual ones are star Wars Designs stop and the work of the developers of LucasArts begins. Everything you put in Dark Forces looks, from the walls to the guns to the spaceships, looks like it’s from Ralph McQuarrie designed and taken from one of the original films by George Lucas been taken over.
Does it help that it’s a first-person game? Perhaps. This way we get much closer to the light switches than in, for example Galactic Battlegrounds, so we can enjoy these little details. However, many others did too star Wars games, from Force Unleashed above Jedi Knight up to, well, Obi Wan same thing, but in all these cases this perspective only proved that it was not so star Wars were like it Dark Forces managed to be.
Yes, that’s Jabba. I never said this game was perfect.
The game also does everything right with the characters. You don’t play as a Jedi; it should be up Dark Forces II takes until LucasArts ruined everything and turned Katarn into one. In fact, the boring, smug space wizards don’t appear in the game at all; This game is populated by men and women and aliens and robots, as is the case for much of the original trilogy, where the forces of the Force are up until the end of Return of the Jedi are only used very rarely and mostly in the form of small tricks.
And they are interesting and great characters! Before he became a sentimental bearded man in later games, he was a strong, experienced secret agent and a member of a commando group. His main opponent is a gruff, fat Imperial officer. Nothing fancy, no obscure and implausible Sith, just a bad guy. Their allies aren’t randomly selected “expanded universe” fools, but people like Mon Mothma. General Madine is in this game as well as his magnificent Hair. And your sidekick Jan Ors is probably the coolest star Wars Sidekick of all time.
This video from PixieButt1 not only shows one of the early cinematic sequences, but is also very informative.
Few star Wars were able to resist the temptation to make any connection to the films. The X Wing Games relied on elements from all parts of the original trilogy, from trench runs to evacuations from Hoth to more Death Starswhile it Shadows of the Empire managed pretty well to sneak in the time between the films.
But this often seems forced and usually quite unnecessary. Finally saw We know what happened in the films, which is why it always seems a bit ridiculous when a video game twists events to fit them into its own story. Dark Forces On the other hand, he approaches the matter very coolly. It starts with Kyle being the guy who steals the plans for the first Death Star (below), something we can relate to and understand and say “Hey, that’s great,” but then it retreats into the shadows and no longer comes back to the major plot lines of the films, so it can do its own thing.
And that’s what Dark Forces does so well. It looked like star Wars off, it sounds like star Wars and it works like star Wars, but instead of trying to model itself on a specific film or scenes (which ultimately undermines the entire process), it does its own thing – and does so successfully. You’re never flying alongside Luke Skywalker or fighting Darth Vader (although that game couldn’t resist including a cameo from Jabba), but you still feel like you’re in the same world as them famous characters.
It’s a testament to the strength of its characters and design that Dark Forceseven though it’s an FPS from the 90s and has largely sunk into insignificance star Wars Still well received by fans outside of the video game scene. Kyle’s ship, the Moldy Crow, found its way into the very popular X Wing “miniatures tabletop” game, while the Dark Trooper’s design became canon in the Expanded Universe and was even honored with an action figure.
If you are Dark Forces If you are now playing or want to play again, you will be happy to know that it is available in the major download stores. The gameplay won’t keep you busy for too long as it rather Doom as Half Life is, but the cinematic scenes and the atmosphere are just as good today as they were in 1995.
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