Why Lucasarts' Star Wars Games Sucked

Not all of them, certainly, and particularly not the classic ones (Tie Fighter and Jedi Knight come to mind). But you have to admit, there have been plenty of crappy Star Wars games defecated by Lucasarts' corporate machine over the years. And the fear or such "mistakes" happening again still haunts fans to this day. So why would Star Wars: The Force Unleashed be any different? Well... what does your heart tell you?

What? No midi-chlorians coarsing through your veins? Too bad then, you'll just have to trust the game's producer, Cameron Suey, when he swears on Chewie's grave that The Force Unleashed won't suck - in an interview conducted by EuroGamer (via Kotaku). As far as we're concerned, we have no reason to doubt him, as we heard some great things about the game's Wii version demo'ed at GC 2008.

But still, why did those other Star Wars games suck, anyway? Because Star Wars is "such a great licence", it's "really easy to get excited about that and not set the bar high enough", Suey reckons. Whether it was this lack of ambition, or simply the usual greed that comes with all big licenses, it matters less now. We're just a couple of weeks away from the release of The Force Unleashed on September 19, and they'd better not fuck this one up!

Tags:  sci-fi, LucasArts