10 Incredible Star Wars Video Games That Desperately Deserve Sequels
5. Empire At War
One of the few real-time strategy games to release under the Star Wars licence, Empire at War charged players with commanding their own Imperial fleet with the intent of crushing the Rebellion and restoring 'peace and order' to the galaxy. Its scale was enormous, but that only meant that the skirmishes it created felt more authentic. There's definitely a place for a strategy game in the current line-up of Star Wars titles yet to come, and there's a home for one on both consoles and PCs alike. As Halo Wars proved six years ago, there's clearly an audience for RTSs in the console market - a Star Wars one would probably experience even more success. Better still, taking the Imperial motif from the first game and transfixing it to The First Order would be the perfect visual update to keep the franchise fresh and innovative for the newest generation of Star Wars fans, and would provide the perfect video-game accompaniment to the slew of films coming out in the coming years. After all, one can never have too many Star Wars games.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
