Star Wars: Starfighter Games Review┃History and Analysis

Old school vehicle games with a Star Wars coat of paint.

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[j.mitchcoppoletti]

In Starfighter I remember enemies crazy amounts of HP. So much so that there's no reason to not be shooting constantly during some missions. In fact I recall my Mom commenting "do you do anything other than shoot on that computer?? I come home and all I hear is shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot!!"
And screw the last level, Battle For Naboo does it better. And I love the n1's cluster missiles on that game.

[brianlegrand]

I grew up playing Starfighter - when it released during the PS2 era, it was one of the best games to play. My dad wasn't big into gaming and he'd play this nonstop after watching me.

Jedi starfighter imo wasn't AS good of a base game, but i loved all the unlocks and ships you could play as - because in the first Starfighter i always wanted to play as Jenkins ship. Let alone the Slave 1 added

[QuxMax]

You are killing it with your Star Wars content man and filling in my nostalgia for sure thank you sir I am a lot older then you but I love hearing about your experiences 😊

[ackbarfan]

12:54 "This is Starkiller level power!"

That's actually funny you say that since Jedi Starfighter's lead writer was W. Haden Blackman who also wrote on Starfighter and would later be the main writer of the whole Force Unleashed multimedia project.

[GlimmerFitter]

Fun review! Took me through a enjoyable nostalgic journey. It’s worth mentioning for people who haven’t played the games before, the controls are extremely arcadey. Very fast paced and flowey.

Adi Galia isn’t a new character. She appeared in episode 1 and 2. She was also a playable character In the ps1 game Jedi power battle, for some reason she had a red lightsaber in that game.

I’ll definitely check out more of your videos!

[darinstaley]

I have both games on PS2. I remember buying Starfighter for my birthday along with Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb.

[DIEGhostfish]

9:04 I love those howitzer tanks. They never show up anywhere else. They got replaced as HAGs by the barely-bigger-than-an-AAT Mortar Tanks from Pandemic Clone Wars.

[DIEGhostfish]

Fun thing to note. In the space mission Nym's bombs fly straight, in the planetary missions they arc. The game actually made bombs act differently in Zero G! (The X-Wing and TIE Fighter simulator games also have them fly straight, but the Sim Games are never under Gravity so they don't have the arced version) Heck in Jedi Starfighter the mini-moonlet in one mission actually has its own low gravity so distance from it changes the bomb behavior!

[JaelaOrdo]

You should check out the Clone Wars game for Xbox & PS2 if you’ve never played it before, another enjoyable Star Wars vehicle game focused mainly on hover tanks and republic gunships.

[GNUNN]

Did you play the pc version? I recently discovered that if you cap your fps to 30 in the first Starfighter game the screenshake when you get hit isn't that bad. The engine does't like higher fps.

[captainfach]

These videos are awesome. Its cool to see youve done your homework and really take time to explain lore and such. Hope to see a rogue squadron 2 video. That was my first star wars ship game

[nebiyuesayas]

Starfighter on the OG Xbox was the first video game I ever played back in like 2009 or something (I was born in 2002, but somehow didn't have a modern console or PC until 2017), specifically the Xbox exclusive special edition which I believe added some minor content like Maul's Infiltrator and maybe some minor fixes.

It was a difficult game for sure, and yeah I do recommend 3rd person over first (plus I like seeing either my ship or the cockpit view), but it was a fun game and cemented my love of Star Wars. I've yet to play Jedi SF but I plan to someday,

[leviwarren]

Starfighter reminds me of Battle for Naboo. YouTube videos like this do a good job of convincing me I could never make YouTube videos. If this video is this good and still has so few views...well, awesome video anyway.

[justanotheryoutubechannel]

While I do agree about Starfighter’s ending taking away from Anakin’s achievement, I’m also kinda happy for it. It never made much sense to me that in mere seconds Anakin is able to take this giant space station out just by flying into a hangar and shooting one conveniently placed generator. It makes a bit more sense if there were other people in there too, helping take it out. But it is a shame that the credit for helping out goes to a random guy no one has ever heard of before.

Also, the excessive screen shake is apparently an issue with the engine being partially tied to the frame rate, at 60fps the screen shake is far worse than at 30fps. You can also comment out a few lines in a configuration file to completely remove the hit reaction, if you don’t want to cap the game to 30fps.

[Cylus]

Love both of these games and am currently on a retro game kick. Thanks for reminding me to add them to the list because I still own them

[snowcrash]

Did u just call old x-Wing game primitive as opposed to Starfighter?:-)

[windscar]

Honestly, the focus on Nym was probably due to the tie in comics. He was pretty much the star of the show there. Kinda wish he had more stories dedicated to him. I hear he shows up in Star Wars Galaxies.

[Silem]

I really loved these games, at the time it was like a level up from Rogue Squadron graphically but not in the story IMO

[jeremyhouston]

You should review Clone Wars on PS2. It’s another vehicle combat game kinda like Battle of Naboo that was released on the 64

[NikoTeaJay]

I prefer cockpit view in flight games, especially if there actually is a modeled cockpit. Old X-Wing/Tie Fighter games especially had some fun immersive cockpits. Wing Commander as another series to shout out in that regard too.
But for something as breezy as these Starfighter games I just might go with the third person view. Not sure.

I remember playing Jedi Starfighter on a friend's xbox when I was a kid. It was fun. I've since gone back and forth on whether I should get it for my 6th gen collection. You sure make it sound like good enough of a time for when the nostalgic mood strikes me.