The 10 Best Star Wars Games
Happy Star Wars day! Want a trove of gamesreleased a long time ago, but in a galaxy just down the wayto help you while away the nearly 5,500 hours that stand between today and the ballyhooed debut of Star Wars The Force Awakens on December 18?, Here you go then, a compendium of gaming's brightest vamps on George Lucas's Campbellian space opera, now living in what Disney calls its "Star Wars Legends" line formerly the "Expanded Universe". That, if you hadn't heard, is Disney's controversial wave-of-the-hand relegation of everything not the films, TV shows or recent books to "maybe it did/didn't happen" status. So much for Luke Skywalker rubbing elbows with Kyle Katarn, or you usurping a 4,000-year-old Sith Lord to become one yourself. But never mind that, because games are innately anti-canonicalsubversion's in their DNA. And while some on this list were more genre acolytes than pioneers when they first appeared a decade or more ago, a few managed to be exemplars of the medium for their time. My only guideline in culling these 10 from the record books, was that they had to be playable on currently available platforms. So think of these as less a "best Star Wars games ever" lineup though they're nearly that than the best you can sample without having to track down the original hardware or software.