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The Future of Star Wars Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the tie-fighter-2-is-long-overdue dept.

Reuters has an interview with LucasArts President Jim Ward up, and it goes into a good deal of depth about the present and future of Star Wars gaming. He suggests that Jump to Lightspeed is doing well commercially, mentions that there will be a Star Wars RTS in the next year or two, and again comfirms that there will be new Star Wars properties on TV. From the article: " We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years, and I think there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original Star Wars games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year."

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  1. original ideas by timothv · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New and original ideas surrender, film at 11

  2. KOTOR and KOTOR2 by BWS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Star Wars games are like Russian Roulette with 5 bullets; You may get a lucky and get a good game, say SW: Knights of the Old Republic or Rogue Squadron; but most of the time you will get the bullet, AKA Star Wars Battlefront or SW: Rebel Assault I and II

    but I have high hopes for KOTOR 2 coming out..

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  3. Re:Is Lucas Arts now considered the worst game mak by GFLPraxis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    LucasArts? Worst Game Maker? Huh?
    LucasArts' recent offerings have been improving. Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast were fine games (though Academy had a marvelously short single player game). Battlefront is an excellent game. Star Wars Episode 3: The Game looks incredible.

    LA is certainly not the worst game maker. Not the best, definitely, but certainly nowhere near worst.

  4. Re:Hit and miss by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    By far the best SW game ever is Tie Fighter. It's still one of the best space combat sims around and it was really an excellent game in general. It's funny that the most fun I've had playing a SW game was playing as one of the bad guys. Flying your way up through the ranks and becoming the emperor's toady was just too exciting to pass up.

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  5. Sam and Max by bludstone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since lucasarts abandoned their best genre, adventure games, I see no reason to buy their crap anymore. Most of it is simply rehashed experiences that Ive already played, but now with BETTAR GRAPHIX WOO.

    Give me a break.

    Release Sam and Max 2, or a new Monkey Island, or tie fighter 2 (the first was just so damn good) and maybe MAYBE I'll give you another look.

    Im still bitter about the whole sam and max thing. I was so looking forward to that :(

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