5 Really Bad Star Wars Games: The Force Doesn't Flow at All

For decades, Star Wars has been a certainty in the world of video games, with dozens of video games produced over the years that in some cases have also turned out to be excellent. However, there have also been sudden missteps, the kind that should be forgotten immediately.

Here are 5 really bad Star Wars games where the Force doesn’t flow at all:

Kinect Star Wars

LucasArts has never shied away from experimentation, and the arrival of Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 could have been the right opportunity to offer something different from the usual Star Wars video games. Good intentions, however, clashed with harsh reality: despite an intriguing presentation, Kinect Star Wars was penalized by an imprecise control system that made it very tedious to continue the adventure, and a gameplay in general that seemed superficial and lacking in interesting ideas other than exploiting the peculiar motion sensors of the Xbox peripheral. In short, an experiment that failed.

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The PS1 tie-in to the film of the same name was a total waste of time. Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace follows the events of the film with plenty of action and a touch of exploration, but nothing stood out: it was ugly to play, had a difficult control system, and was slow-paced, and was not supported by truly impressive graphics. A big disappointment for fans, who were hoping to find themselves with an intriguing Action/Adventure in their hands but which unfortunately did not live up to expectations.

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

Having done so badly with the tie-in to the previous film, LucasArts didn’t even try again with Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, simply limiting itself to producing a video game counterpart for the Game Boy Advance. Even so, however, the results were truly disastrous. Attack of the Clones for GBA is simply unplayable, terrible to look at, very easy and with a level design reduced to the bare minimum. Perhaps it would have been better to just abandon any attempt to re-propose the second episode in a videogame perspective.

Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi

3D fighting games were hugely popular back in the days of the original PlayStation, and LucasArts wanted to try their hand at the genre by creating a Star Wars-themed fighting game. A rather bizarre idea on paper to tell the truth, but unfortunately its execution did not help at all to improve the situation. Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi became one of the ugliest games of the PS1, thanks to cumbersome controls, a slow pace of combat and difficulty in executing even the simplest of combos. A disaster on all fronts.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

The original Star Wars The Force Unleashed may not have been a masterpiece, but it was still a solid hack-and-slash action-adventure. Its sequel, Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, failed to improve on it, taking several steps backwards and turning out to be a major disappointment. In addition to being very short, The Force Unleashed II proved to be much more inconsistent in terms of gameplay and without making any real progress in terms of audiovisual. Essentially it was a forgettable sequel that did not prove to be up to the level of its predecessor, one that can be missed without regrets.