Star Wars meets Twisted Metal.
Star Wars Demolition is a 2000 Star Wars Legends Vehicular Combat game for the PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast developed by Luxoflux and published by LucasArts.
Podracing has been outlawed by the Galactic Empire and Jabba the Hutt needs a replacement to attract gamblers to Tatooine. He soon hits on an idea shortly after The Empire Strikes Back: a vehicular combat tournament with gratuitous destruction!
Tropes:
- Absurdly High-Stakes Game: Makes sense for some of the participants, since Jabba is basically forcing them to compete, but for others like General Otto and the Wookiee Quagga, this game will either make them or break them.
- The Cameo: The three secret characters are all from past (or "future") movies: Darth Maul, Lobot, and Princess Leia disguised as Boussh. Leia is slightly less of this since she is featured in the opening cutscene and has a big part of both Tia/Ghia's and Tamtel Skreej's Victory Movies.
- For some reason, despite being dead, Ki Adi Mundi can be seen in the background of Tamtel Skreej's as well as Tia and Ghia's defeat movies.
- Canon Discontinuity: As this is a Legends entry in the Star Wars Universe, it has been effectively declared non-canon by Disney along with all other Legends material.
- Canon Ending: It's implied that of all the movies, Wade Vox's, and Boba Fett's victory movies along with both Tia and Ghia's defeat and victory movies are canon to the game at least.
- Wade appears in Aurra Sing's victory movie, implying that even if she wins he still manages to escape and is currently being hunted by her. Therefore, evidence points toward Wade escaping from Jabba in the end. His bio page on Wookieepedia also claims this ending to be Legends canon, even claiming he participated in the Yuuzhan Vong war.
- Tia and Ghia are still wearing their dancing-girl costumes during their victory movie, implying that Jabba intended to keep them as his personal slaves regardless of their performance. Also, they didn't escape on their own but were rescued by Princess Leia, whose character would never let her abandon her comrades.
- Boba Fett's defeat movie has him getting unceremoniously kicked out of the palace. Given that he is still around by the time Return of the Jedi rolls around, it's safe to assume that didn't happen.
- Come to Gawk: Most of the characters' defeat movies show Jabba's entourage more than happy to cheer on the poor character's punishment.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Several of the characters' bad endings are just not particularly pleasant ways to go:
- General Otto ends up delivered straight to Darth Vader for desertion. The Empire Strikes Back shows how intolerant he is of people who at least try to do their job. We can guess from the look on Otto's face that it's not going to be pretty.
- Pugwis is dragged through the desert by his podracer before falling rather embarrassingly into the Sarlacc pit. To add insult to injury, Jabba passes by in his Sail Barge just long enough for a chuckle.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Wittin, General Otto, and Quagga's main reason for entering the tournament.'
- Loose Canon: Even before the Legends cutout, there are a lot of inconsistencies with the Star Wars main timeline:
- Lando engaging in a demolition derby in and of itself.
- Princess Leia is depicted as possibly being deeply embedded in Jabba's Palace for a while, and (according to different scraps of info from the Wookieepedia) apparently, while Oola was still alive. In Return of the Jedi, she arrives immediately after Oola's execution, which calls the time frame into question.
- Multiple Endings: The Tournament Mode is the closest thing to a story mode in the game. Your character goes through four rounds of combat with increasing difficulty. If you win, you're treated to a cutscene of your character getting a happy ending, whether it be through freedom, credits, or adulation. If you lose enough times, you're treated to a cutscene of your character being humiliated, executed, or enslaved.
- Power Up Mount: Subverted; the power-ups in this game are "mounted" onto your vehicle without being vehicles themselves: Astromech Droids and Weapons.
- Public Execution: Several of the defeat movies are this. Wade Vox's defeat movie implies he is murdered by Aurra Sing right in front of Jabba's Throne.
- Shows Damage: When your vehicle loses 50% of its integrity, it'll start to show battle damage.
- Vehicular Combat: Zack Zwiezen's review on Kotaku called it "Twisted Metal with Rancors."
- Win Your Freedom: This is basically Wade Vox's along with Tia and Ghia's Victory cutscenes.
- Subverted in the case of Tia and Ghia. You unlock their cutscene by winning, but it is strongly implied that Jabba double-crossed them and fully intended to keep them enslaved to him due to the fact that they are rescued by Princess Leia rather than escaping on their own.
