Darth Reiner has already given you the best. Now let's get ugly, like sleep-deprived Emperor Palpatine levels of ugly. Out of the mounds of Star Wars titles that have been released since 1979, we've combed the piles of cartridges and discs in our trash compactor to discover the most soulless and broken Star Wars games ever unleashed upon the galaxy.
If you've got the stomach for it, gather 'round younglings, and gaze upon the bombaddest Star Wars games one last time before we wheel them off to the Sarlacc pit and cast them into fanged, wormy oblivion.
As always, feel free to sound off in the comments below with your own arguments and personal lists and if you decide to take a dark trip down nostalgia lane and play any of these games after reading this list, may the Force be with you!
10. Obi-Wan
Obi-Wan is an awe-inspiring mess, a game that somehow manages to bungle the concept of playing one of Star Wars' coolest characters to the point that it's an absolute slog weighed down by countless technical issues, awful stealth sections, an awkward control scheme, and voice acting so bad that you have to hear it to believe it.
Obi-Wan's combat, which should be its strongest element, requires you to use the right stick to swing the sword. And while that's a cool idea, the awkwardness of that control scheme along with the game's stiff animations makes it feel more like you're batting some space rapscallions about the head with a billy club instead of deftly using an instrument of deadly beauty to cut through swaths of helpless goons. At its best, Obi-Wan plays like a really rough and awkward early version of Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Outcast, a far better game released less than a year later. Ouch.
9.Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
This top-down adaptation of The Phantom Menace essentially took every major scene in the movie and blew it out into 45 minute levels. That worked well for the first sequence, with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan aboard the Trade Federation ship, but why did anyone think that forcing players to explore The Gungan capital of Otoh Gunga or deserted Tatooine for an extended period of time was a good idea?
Even The Phantom Menace's best moments, the action set pieces, are dealt a fatal blow by just how awful the camera is. Good luck aiming at anything. The entire last fight with Darth Maul is you running around, swinging your lightsaber like a mad person and hoping you hit him before he hits you. There's no skill or rhythm to what should be an incredible showdown; it's just dull and frustrating. That the game is as hideous as Ponda Baba's cheeky visage and suffers from chugging framerate doesn't help matters either.
8. Star Wars: Demolition
Star Wars has traversed a lot of game genres: action, RPGs, first-person shooter, strategy games, and vehicular combat for some reason. Star Wars: Demolition is essentially a Twisted Metal clone and, like most Twisted Metal clones, it's bad. In the game, the Galactic Empire makes Podracing illegal so Jabba The Hut has to devise a new sport, which apparently means sending fan favorite characters to duke it out in an arena with their vehicles in tow. Ever wondered what it might be like to see Darth Maul on a floating chair and Boba Fett go up against each other?
Me neither, but that's the sort of thing that Demolition wants to sell you on. Too bad the clunky controls, bad combat, and just general lack of inspiration kill any fun to be had.
7. Star Wars: Rebellion
Star Wars: Rebellion is a bit of a tragic game because it actually had several brilliant ideas behind it. Being able to mess around with the Star Wars' timeline and kill off major characters from the movies was a neat concept as well as the notion of managing systems from across the galaxy. It's a bit of a shame then that the execution of those concepts is such a drastic misfire thanks to a convoluted user interface that just isn't worth dealing with to get to Rebellion's spare offerings.
The worst part of all of this is that this remains the sole attempt to make a proper 4x strategy game out of the Star Wars universe, with no successor to build upon the promising ideas that are buried deep within Rebellion's flawed design. Far and away one of the biggest disappointments in the series' huge catalog of video games.
6. Star Wars Card Trader
Everyone loves a good collectible trading card game, right? Magic: The Gathering. Gwent. Hearthstone. So it stands to reason that a Star Wars trading card game would be at the very least pretty entertaining, except that Star Wars Card Trader has no battles or really anything for you to do with the cards except collect, buy, and trade them.
They're not even physical cards! Completely digital. You can't sleeve them or pack them away in your attic and pull them out to admire them every once in a while. They're just little images you can pay absurd amounts of money to stare at on your phone. Luckily, there's a new, better mobile card game on the block called Star Wars: Force Collection but it still doesn't explain the strange, inexplicable existence of Star Wars Card Trader.