The High Republic is a brand new setting in the Star Wars universe, currently in development to help launch an upcoming series of books and comics. The new setting will take fans of the famous franchise to a time when the Jedi were spread out far across the galaxy, and the Galactic Republic was at its peak.
Many fans will be hoping that the High Republic will also bring with it some new Star Wars video games. With no announcements yet, however, here are the Star Wars games to play before the High Republic era launches a new chapter in the franchise’s history.
There’s no better way to immerse a player in the Star Wars universe than by placing them in the first-person perspective of a TIE fighter pilot, which is exactly what Star Wars: TIE Fighter does. The game is a flight simulator with Star Wars flavoring, taking place between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. TIE Fighter was released in 1994 to critical acclaim and was praised for improving upon its predecessor, Star Wars: X-Wing.
Star Wars: TIE Fighter received numerous award nominations on its release and has been retrospectively considered one of the best flight-based games of all time. For players who love Star Wars for the action, Star Wars: TIE Fighter is the way to go, placing the player against rebels, pirates, and even treacherous elements of the Empire itself. TIE Fighter’s longevity alone speaks to the game’s successful simplicity, and its ability to capture the feeling of the original movies is a great guiding light for any developer working on a Star Wars game in the future.
The LEGO games are known for their tongue-in-cheek take on famous franchises, but what few fans know is that LEGO cut its teeth on the Star Wars series long before taking on Indiana Jones or Batman. 2005’s Lego Star Wars: The Video Game helped establish the tone and key gameplay of the licensed LEGO games.
The game had a successful sequel, LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga packaged both games together. Players can see LEGO’s take on all the events of the first six Star Wars movie from the Trade Federation talks in Episode 1 to the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi. Traveller’s Tales is also developing Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which will attempt to recreate all 9 main movies in the franchise into the LEGO universe.
The 2005 Star Wars: Battlefront 2 took the Star Wars setting and seamlessly adapted it for a first-person shooter game, just as TIE Fighter took on the flight simulation genre. However, unlike later installments in the Battlefront franchise, Battlefront 2 would also include fully-fledged space battles alongside its campaign and classic multiplayer mode.
While more recent additions to the Battlefront franchise have been criticized for their abundance of microtransactions, 2005’s Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is a well-polished game that gives the player everything they need the moment they buy it. For fans of Star Wars who are interested in seeing the perspective of a clone trooper, Battlefront 2’s campaign follows one trooper of the 501st Legion, who witnesses some of the biggest events in the Star Wars timeline.
You can’t have a Star Wars video game list without Knights of the Old Republic. While TIE Fighter and Battlefront 2 successfully emulated the feel of the movies while transferring them to a new medium, Knights of the Old Republic was more ambitious. The game takes place 4000 years before Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star in Episode 4, and takes advantage of that distance to build a rich world of additions to its Star Wars setting. Indeed, the game was originally chosen instead of a proposed tie-in to Attack of the Clones because of the creative freedom it would afford the developers at BioWare.
That creativity shines through Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel developed by Obsidian Entertainment, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. The games’ distance allows them to create a Star Wars story which is far removed from the story of Luke Skywalker, something even recent installments in the movie franchise have struggled to pull off.
The first game also helped develop some of BioWare’s most famous design traits. This includes the studio’s standard dialog-based romance system, and the use of light side and dark side points as a morality system, which fans would later see return in some form as Mass Effect’s Paragon-Renegade system.
The KOTOR series isn’t just for fans who want a highly immersive story told in the Star Wars universe, but also for fans of BioWare’s classic style of RPG. For any player who’s finished every available Dragon Age and Mass Effect game and is dying for me, Knights of the Old Republic is a great next step, though its graphics may not stand up to more recent additions to the studio’s portfolio. Fans can also sink their teeth into Star Wars: The Old Republic, the franchise’s criminally underrated MMORPG which includes a ridiculous amount of storylines for each class and lets players take on different roles from smuggler to trooper to Imperial inquisitor.
Many fans will also be hoping that Knights of the Old Republic will provide the basis for a BioWare-developed High Republic RPG. Like the KOTOR setting, the High Republic could provide the distance and creative freedom to allow BioWare’s trademark storytelling style to shine. If any RPGs come out of the High Republic era, many fans will be hopeful that BioWare or Obsidian is allowed to retake the helm.
While fans may have to wait some time for a new Star Wars video game, the High Republic era is beginning now. The first short story in Phase 1, titled “Starlight: Part 1, Go Together” is set for release on December 15, and will hopefully launch a fascinating new chapter in the Star Wars series that could provide some great new settings for future Star Wars video games.
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