12 Worst Star Wars Video Games

11. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Before Resident Evil 4 and Gears of War redefined the very idea of how to present third-person combat, you got weird hybrid-abominations like this one; essentially still controlling like you were in the first-person but zooming the camera out back like a bizarre fan-mod. Gameplay-wise this was half hack n' slash and half shooter, letting you play as a variety of characters from the movie, but with some truly awful animation, bad collision detection and a viewpoint that all but obscured anything that wasn't right in front of you, lightsaber duels and blaster-showdowns felt like literal hit-or-miss affairs. It didn't help that one of the coolest things a Jedi is capable of - deflecting blaster shots with their 'saber - looked about as convincing as any of the Remastered Edition's effects either, but on the bright side you were free to run amuck inside levels, taking your frustrations out on child-Anakin and his mother if you saw fit. To be honest, that alone might make this someone's best game of all time.
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