History NoProblemWithLicensedGames / LucasArts

** There have been three games based on ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. A Wii game, ''Lightsaber Battles'', which promised motion-controlled lightsaber combat but just couldn't quite deliver (''Kinect Star Wars'' for Xbox 360, which also tried this, had a more polarizing reception.) ''Republic Heroes'' is a lame action platformer whose high point is featuring the villain Cad Bane prominently in the plot. Lastly, there's the much overlooked (as it came out at the same time as ''Lightsaber Battles'') third game, ''Jedi Alliance'', for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. It is by no stretch a ''great game'' but is a decent game that showed a fair amount of inspiration and could have been genuinely good had it got more polish (and a co-op feature, which it was very clearly based around). It takes advantage of the DS's touchscreen features, controlling very much like the DS ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'' games, while letting you play as several prominent Jedi (including [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favorites]] like Mace Windu and Kit Fisto). It features the show's voice cast (who seemed to be [[MoneyDearBoy phoning it in]] for the other two games but put more effort in here) and an original story that could have easily been a story arc in the show ([[ContinuitySnarl though it fits very loosely into the show's canon]]), using the Nightsisters, who would later play a very important role in later story lines in the show.

* There are many ''Franchise/StarWars'' games that are ''very'' good, namely because developers have a whole ''galaxy'' with thousands of years of history to play around with and are therefore not obligated to be so tied to the movies; the fact that there were a total of six (later nine as of 2019) movies and that most of these games were developed well after the movies, giving the appropriate time and information needed to fill in any gaps, helps a lot too (see also Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse). That [=LucasArts=] developed many of them is a plus both on their generally excellent output and the fact that they're a division of the company that ''made the movies.'' The genres covered are as diverse as:

* The 1989 [[AdventureGame graphical adventure]] game ''Videogame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' was Lucasfilm games' biggest hit before VideoGame/MonkeyIsland, got good reviews and was followed by the great ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis''. The latter's success may be partially due to the fact that it wasn't based on any particular movie. That Creator/LucasArts at the time was known for producing excellent adventure games also helped. Some years later, when the company was already going to a downward spiral, they released ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheInfernalMachine'' and ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb'', two 3D action-adventures that were much less well-received, but are still considered more than decent. (''Emperor's Tomb'' was made by a studio who managed to [[VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer do justice to another franchise]])

Creator/LucasArts had a good reputation with licensed video games. Here are some of their well-known licensed games:

** First/third-person shooters: ''VideoGame/DarkForces'', ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'', ''VideoGame/BountyHunter'', ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', the ''VideoGame/RogueSquadron'' trilogy and their more-simple-but-downright-fun cousin ''Starfighter'', ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Star Wars: Battlefront (2004)]]'', ''[[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005)]]''. ''Shadows'' in particular was meant to be a semi-canon interquel between ''Empire'' and ''Jedi'' in the film series, and was produced as if it was a tie-in for a nonexistent movie.

** There have been three games based on ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. A Wii game, ''Lightsaber Battles'', which promised motion-controlled lightsaber combat but just couldn't quite deliver (''Kinect Star Wars'' for Xbox 360, which also tried this, had a more polarizing reception. ''Republic Heroes'' is a lame action platformer whose high point is featuring the villain Cad Bane prominently in the plot. Lastly, there's the much overlooked (as it came out at the same time as ''Lightsaber Battles'') third game, ''Jedi Alliance'', for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. It is by no stretch a ''great game'' but is a decent game that showed a fair amount of inspiration and could have been genuinely good had it got more polish (and a co-op feature, which it was very clearly based around). It takes advantage of the DS's touchscreen features, controlling very much like the DS ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'' games, while letting you play as several prominent Jedi (including [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favorites]] like Mace Windu and Kit Fisto). It features the show's voice cast (who seemed to be [[MoneyDearBoy phoning it in]] for the other two games but put more effort in here) and an original story that could have easily been a story arc in the show ([[ContinuitySnarl though it fits very loosely into the show's canon]]), using the Nightsisters, who would later play a very important role in later story lines in the show.

* There are many ''Franchise/StarWars'' games that are ''very'' good, namely because developers have a whole ''galaxy'' with thousands of years of history to play around with and are therefore not obligated to be so tied to the movies; the fact that there were a total of six (later nine as of 2019) movies and that most of these games were developed well after the movies, giving the appropriate time and information needed to fill in any gaps, helps a lot too (see also Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse). That [=LucasArts=] developed many of them is a plus both on they're generally excellent output and the fact that they're a division of the company that ''made the movies.'' The genres covered are as diverse as:

** There have been three games based on ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. A Wii game, Lightsaber Battles, which promised motion controlled lighsaber combat but just couldn't quite deliver (Star Wars Kinect for X-Box 360, which also tried this, had a more polarizing reception. Republic Heroes is a lame action platformer whose high point is featuring the villain Cad Bane prominently in the plot. Lastly there's the much overlooked (as it came out at the same time as Lightsaber Battles) third game, Jedi Alliance, for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS. It is by no stretch a ''great game'' but is a decent game that showed a fair amount of inspiration and could have been genuinely good had it got more polish (and a co-op feature, which it was very clearly based around). It takes advantage of the DS's touchscreen features, controlling very much like the DS ''[[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Legend of Zelda]]'' games, while letting you play as several prominent Jedi (including [[EnsembleDarkhorse fan favorites]] like Mace Windu and Kit Fisto). It features the show's voice cast (who seemed to be [[MoneyDearBoy phoning it in]] for the other two games but put more effort in here) and an original story that could have easily been a story arc in the show ([[ContinuitySnarl though it fits very loosely into the show's canon]]), using the Nightsisters, who would later play a very important role in later story lines in the show.