Taking place in the period before Episode One, it’s a confusing tale, but one involving the Star Wars staple of avenging death and shooting stuff.īeginning as a fresh-faced cadet, your trainer tragically buys the farm, leaving you a bitter man intent on vengeance. The concept is identical to that of those two games, and as such involves a succession of linear missions played out in a variety of craft, interspersed with cut scenes to 'progress the narrative'. If you’ve played Rogue Squadron or Battle ForNaboo, you’ll know the form, and in many ways this completes that particular trilogy, providing something of an attack of the clones itself. So where does Star Wars: Starfighter sit among the detritus of official merchandise? A year after it was released on PlayStation 2, it’s little more than a footnote, somewhere between a branded pencil case and a box set of the original trilogy. Then to top it all, George Lucas casually announces that the next film is to be called Attack Of The Clones, a name even Jedi Ewan McGregor has understatedly dismissed as 'not good'.

The mythology may have been irreversibly diluted by the glorified Muppet Show I that was The Phantom Menace, but that hasn’t A stopped games publishers A further cheapening it with a succession of substandard efforts. A quarter of a century after the original film mesmerised an unsuspecting audience, the Star Wars behemoth rolls on inexorably.

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