So I started thinking today with The Old Republic coming soon what the hell is Lucas Arts doing this generation? Every gen since...ever, we've had a plentiful number of great Star Wars and other Lucas Arts games. Now, there is next to nothing. Where did they all go? Is the CEO a complete idiot and not realize Star Wars equals money? The 2 Star Wars games we have gotten this gen and sold millions upon millions. Force Unleashed and Star Wars Lego(20 million for that!).
X-wing vs Tie-fighter
It's old as anything now but in 2009 Patrick Klepek(then at G4) asked LucasArts if this series would ever make come sort of a come back. Fans hoped, and prayed, and wished for so many, many years. The answer was "We don't have any announcements now, but stay tuned," said Rodriguez. "We will soon ..". WOW! So there IS something? A remake? HD version? Maybe a new sequel? Whoa! But no, coming up to 3 years later and nothing has ever been heard about that X-wing vs Tie-fighter news that was coming "soon". Just a cock tease. Where is it? What was it? Why the fuck say that if there was nothing? Was it ANOTHER canned Star Wars game? Then who developed it?
Rogue Squadron
Graphically stunning. Really fun series. Rogue Leader sold more 1 million units even though it was exclusively on a failed platform. Factor 5 goes on to make Lair, screws everything up, goes under. Series never moves to another developer.
Why not make another? Maybe set in the prequel time? Old Republic time? An HD remake? Something?!
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront was the fastest seller Star Wars series EVER. Battlefront first broke the record then BF2 went on to break it again. Over 1 million sales in the first month and one of the most played xbox live games. The series has sold over 10 million copies. 3 was never announced but was apparently being made Free Radical Design(Now Crytek UK). They lost the contract and it was rumoured to have gone to Rebellion Developments or Pandemic. Then Pandemic closes and we hear nothing of it again. Get a couple of artwork and early footage and that's it. Then all of a sudden artwork for Battlefront 4 comes out, apparently dead too. What the hell? If it sold so well why just trash it? You seriously can't do ANYTHING with the most popular Star Wars series? The fuck is wrong with you?
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Highly acclaimed series. People loved Jedi Outcast and people played the multiplayer for Jedi Academy for an ungodly amount of time. However, they never bring it back this generation. For one possible reason though...
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
The spiritual successor to Jedi Knight. Has an interesting premise but was kinda flawed. I liked the story though and was actually pretty fun in general. However, being one of the few big Star Wars games this generation it sold massively and became the new biggest selling Star Wars game selling over 7 million units. The DLC was also amazingly stupid in the best possible way. Dude, you fight and KILL the ghost of Obi-wan, kill Boba Fett and turn Luke to the dark side! While looking seriously bad arse. Now THAT'S an alternate universe.
So Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is announced. Cool right? So they take all the good out of the first game, polish it up, enhance the graphics and wow, you have a new classic on your hands. With 7 million sold they'll surely put a lot of love and care into this new IP they struck gold with. NOPE! Instead they shit out an incredibly weak, 4 hour long game with no multiplayer or any reason to go back. However, despite the terrible sequel the best sales I can find is 2 million in the first 3 months. Still good enough to be salvageable that's for sure. But no, again we get nothing. No rumours, no announcements, nothing. The Force Unleashed 3 is no where to be seen or heard.
Star Wars: Empire At War
The 4th best selling game in 2006 on PC. Only being beaten by The Sims 2, an expansion and WoW(Yes, it beat Oblivion). It was a flawed game, the ground stuff was kinda weak but the space combat was AWESOME. I also really liked the campaign where you took over worlds and the expansion added some cool stuff. It was ripe for a sequel and yet, again, we get NOTHING. Even when the RTS genre started booming again with C&C, Starcraft 2 announced and Dawn of War they still never bothered.
X-wing vs Tie-fighter
It's old as anything now but in 2009 Patrick Klepek(then at G4) asked LucasArts if this series would ever make come sort of a come back. Fans hoped, and prayed, and wished for so many, many years. The answer was "We don't have any announcements now, but stay tuned," said Rodriguez. "We will soon ..". WOW! So there IS something? A remake? HD version? Maybe a new sequel? Whoa! But no, coming up to 3 years later and nothing has ever been heard about that X-wing vs Tie-fighter news that was coming "soon". Just a cock tease. Where is it? What was it? Why the fuck say that if there was nothing? Was it ANOTHER canned Star Wars game? Then who developed it?
Rogue Squadron
Graphically stunning. Really fun series. Rogue Leader sold more 1 million units even though it was exclusively on a failed platform. Factor 5 goes on to make Lair, screws everything up, goes under. Series never moves to another developer.
Why not make another? Maybe set in the prequel time? Old Republic time? An HD remake? Something?!
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront was the fastest seller Star Wars series EVER. Battlefront first broke the record then BF2 went on to break it again. Over 1 million sales in the first month and one of the most played xbox live games. The series has sold over 10 million copies. 3 was never announced but was apparently being made Free Radical Design(Now Crytek UK). They lost the contract and it was rumoured to have gone to Rebellion Developments or Pandemic. Then Pandemic closes and we hear nothing of it again. Get a couple of artwork and early footage and that's it. Then all of a sudden artwork for Battlefront 4 comes out, apparently dead too. What the hell? If it sold so well why just trash it? You seriously can't do ANYTHING with the most popular Star Wars series? The fuck is wrong with you?
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Highly acclaimed series. People loved Jedi Outcast and people played the multiplayer for Jedi Academy for an ungodly amount of time. However, they never bring it back this generation. For one possible reason though...
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
The spiritual successor to Jedi Knight. Has an interesting premise but was kinda flawed. I liked the story though and was actually pretty fun in general. However, being one of the few big Star Wars games this generation it sold massively and became the new biggest selling Star Wars game selling over 7 million units. The DLC was also amazingly stupid in the best possible way. Dude, you fight and KILL the ghost of Obi-wan, kill Boba Fett and turn Luke to the dark side! While looking seriously bad arse. Now THAT'S an alternate universe.
So Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II is announced. Cool right? So they take all the good out of the first game, polish it up, enhance the graphics and wow, you have a new classic on your hands. With 7 million sold they'll surely put a lot of love and care into this new IP they struck gold with. NOPE! Instead they shit out an incredibly weak, 4 hour long game with no multiplayer or any reason to go back. However, despite the terrible sequel the best sales I can find is 2 million in the first 3 months. Still good enough to be salvageable that's for sure. But no, again we get nothing. No rumours, no announcements, nothing. The Force Unleashed 3 is no where to be seen or heard.
Star Wars: Empire At War
The 4th best selling game in 2006 on PC. Only being beaten by The Sims 2, an expansion and WoW(Yes, it beat Oblivion). It was a flawed game, the ground stuff was kinda weak but the space combat was AWESOME. I also really liked the campaign where you took over worlds and the expansion added some cool stuff. It was ripe for a sequel and yet, again, we get NOTHING. Even when the RTS genre started booming again with C&C, Starcraft 2 announced and Dawn of War they still never bothered.