Best Star Wars Games On PS2

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Best Star Wars Games On PS2

The PlayStation 2’s extensive library of titles remains among the largest and most high-quality in gaming history. Given how long developers kept making games for the system – its last game came out in 2013, just a week before the PS4 launched, it certainly had the time to build such a collection.

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That benchmark of quality also extends to Star Wars games. Even if the PS2 didn’t boast the highest number of Star Wars games among consoles, it still included some real heavy-hitters for the series. Some of your favorites likely got their start around this time, and you might be surprised at a few others.

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

Star Wars The Force Unleashed

Released

September 16, 2008

Many people don’t know that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed has a PS2 version. This extremely 2000s character action title saw almost as many different versions as The Simpsons Game, though tragically far fewer food-based superpowers.

The Force Unleashed sees you playing as Starkiller, Darth Vader’s secret apprentice who had conveniently stayed hidden until someone decided to make a video game about him. With Sam Witwer lending his voice and face to the character and an arsenal of Force powers at your disposal, it’s a fun romp, and the PS2 delivers nearly the same experience as its PS3/360 counterparts, albeit a little more blurry.

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Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing

It may not be the most poignant of Star Wars games, but it’s also far from the worst. Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing is a big-headed kart racer that’s about as canon as the Lego games, and this is even before the great canon reset of 2014. Boss Nass most likely never zoomed through Tatooine’s Boonta Eve race track while dodging Darth Maul’s lightsaber.

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With goofy remixes of classic Star Wars music and Phantom Menace characters smack talking each other, Super Bombad Racing firmly cements itself among the series’ least serious offerings. But the racers themselves control well enough, and you’re bound to have a good time if you can wrangle some friends together for a game night. Whether they remain your friends after you keep using Yoda’s special is less certain.

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Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter

There was a time when Star Wars flight games were about as expected as random new Fortnite modes. One of the last to come out at the tail end of this period was Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, a sequel to the frankly underrated Star Wars: Starfighter and a surprisingly satisfying little adventure.

Playing as Jedi Master Adi Gallia and several other new and returning characters, you fly through the game’s missions with a bit more user-friendliness than classic flight games like Star Wars: TIE Fighter. It also adds some interesting new “Force weapons” to spice up the already fun gameplay from the original Starfighter.

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Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge Of The Sith

It’s been a little while since licensed games were just action games retelling the events of the thing they were based on. It’s a shame, because the way Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith handled this idea remains fondly in the hearts of many who played it back in the day.

Playing as Anakin and Obi-Wan, you play through the story of Episode 3 with a few embellishments and a shockingly involved animation and combat system. It controls so well that it even includes a built-in fighting game mode where you can take on friends or CPU opponents as characters from the movies, even as far as pitting Obi-Wan against his older self from A New Hope. Who says multiverses are new?

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Star Wars: Bounty Hunter

There’s a reason Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was ported to more modern systems in 2024. That reason is nostalgia. But it’s also because this game is just such a fun time, and a lot of that comes from getting to really let loose as a bad guy in Star Wars.

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Set ten years before Attack of the Clones, Bounty Hunter sees you playing as Jango Fett (voiced once again by Temuera Morrison) leading up to the events of the film. What really kept players coming back was its satisfying lock-on system, which made for some wonderfully dynamic action when you add in Jango’s jetpack and his trademark blasters.

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Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy

Back when the original Lego Star Wars released, which was based on episodes 1-3, Star Wars fans were still in that super fun and not at all pretentious phase where they hated anything that had to do with the prequel movies. Now, most of them have moved on to hating the sequel trilogy instead because just liking something is too difficult for some people, but that’s another discussion.

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Partially thanks to that preference for the original movies, excitement was a bit higher for the sequel, Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy. Many fans loved it even more than the first game, and some small improvements helped too. The lighthearted take on the stories of episodes 4-6 remains a highlight, including a notably hilarious depiction of Darth Vader’s “I am your father” scene.

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Star Wars Racer Revenge

Everybody loves the original Star Wars Episode 1: Racer on Nintendo 64, and it’s easy to figure out why. The podracing scene in Episode 1 is still one of the coolest parts of the prequel trilogy, and getting to take part in that was an obvious slam dunk for a video game. But don’t forget about its sort-of sequel.

Star Wars Racer Revenge took everything great about the previous game and arguably improved on it, most notably its destruction system. Instead of just respawning after every crash, if your pod is destroyed, you’re out of the race. Add in some fantastic tracks, buyable podracer upgrades, and a non-canon teenage Anakin back on the racing circuit, and you’ve got a high-octane stew going.

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Star Wars: Battlefront 2

The prospect of taking part in iconic Star Wars battles was already enticing when the first Star Wars: Battlefront came out. But it was admittedly a bit plain, especially compared to its follow-up. For one, you couldn’t even play as big names like Luke or Darth Vader, even though they showed up in-game, tauntingly out of reach.

But Star Wars: Battlefront 2 fixed that and added so many new features like a poignant take on Order 66 in its story campaign. From gameplay and graphical improvements to a full-on heroes vs. villains mode and the still-beloved Galactic Conquest feature which saw you strategically trying to win battles across the galaxy, it’s easy to see why many fans consider it the peak of Star Wars gaming to this day.

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