Between the novel, comics and game it answered questions left hanging from the original trilogy, like ‘where did Luke get that green saber’ and ‘why does Dash Rendar have less personality than a frozen Han Solo.’ Star Wars: Yoda Stories It’s a passable third-person action game that hasn’t aged particularly well, but at the time it was a pretty big deal-Shadows of the Empire is the Star Wars movie that never got made, a multi-pronged attempt to build interest in the series in the mid-’90s. The proud history of finding ways to shoehorn new characters into every imaginable Star Wars sequence enters a new chapter in Shadows of the Empire, which opens with mercenary Dash Rendar fighting in the Battle of Hoth before variously rescuing Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. Better: the effort expended to realise a proper ‘Light Side/Dark Side’ system based on player actions. Presumably they switched to in-engine cutscenes for Mysteries of the Sith because there wasn’t any scenery left to chew. Your fond memories of Dark Forces II may not include the incredibly cheesy FMV, however.
While ultimately eclipsed by its successors, the techniques and powers introduced here are incredibly important to Star Wars games as a whole. Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces IIĪn epochal Star Wars shooter, Dark Forces II pioneered the combination of firstperson blasting and third-person, acrobatic lightsaber combat. The AI is superior to X-Wing Alliance, too, so it’s worth returning to on that basis alone. TIE Fighter boasts texture mapping, a huge array of multiplayer options and, via the Balance of Power expansion, substantial singleplayer campaigns.
Arguably the best of the series, X-Wing vs.
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