{"id":49249,"date":"2013-04-04T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=49249"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T20:18:29","slug":"lucasarts-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/lucasarts-games-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at LucasArts Games: Episode II"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the short time since we posted the first part of our LucasArts retrospective<\/a>, Disney has unfortunately applied the one thing that it knows about videogames to the company: full-scale layoffs and product cancellations. Nevertheless, this remains the perfect time to revisit the games of LucasArts.
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Making great videogames is no small task, and Disney has elected to punt on nearly the entire endeavor. “Disney Infinity” has slipped from June to the end of August and missed the proposed ‘Monsters University’ release tie-in. Considering that Disney has cleared the decks of several Lucas property-related productions in preparation for a new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, the closure of LucasArts is not a surprise.<\/p>\n

Unlike many developers, however, LucasArts was in business for over thirty years, and in that time made so many memorable games that I was forced to break the list in two even while glossing over several great games.<\/p>\n

The last ten years saw the company focus almost exclusively on ‘Star Wars’ titles, and just as I was tricked into thinking that ‘Attack of the Clones’ would be a great movie, the potential for great ‘Clone Wars’ videogames was, for me, never properly realized.<\/p>\n

Knights of the Old Republic<\/h5>\n

The best ‘Star Wars’ game has to be ‘Knights of the Old Republic’. LucasArts worked with BioWare to create a whole new era, and BioWare made players feel the power of the Jedi as an ever-present arbiter, even in a galactic war. Once again, however, the success of the first game caused LucasArts to greedily push forward too quickly with the sequel, which Obsidian was forced to ship basically without much of a third act story. The less said about the ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ MMO, the better.<\/p>\n