Curated playlist
Space opera video games
- Halo (franchise)Halo is a military science fiction franchise, and in 1997 its earliest form went by a codename its own programmer was too embarrassed to say aloud. Bungie's team first called the project "Monkey Nuts." Jason Jones could not bring himself…
- Star Wars: SquadronsStar Wars: Squadrons opens with an Imperial captain disabling his own wingmen. He refuses an order to destroy refugees.
- Mass EffectMass Effect began in 2003 as a pitch to build a universe on the scale of Star Wars. BioWare wanted to own it entirely.
- Star Wars Battlefront (2015 video game)Star Wars Battlefront cut its single-player campaign to make a Christmas 2015 release.
- Ratchet & ClankRatchet & Clank began with a reptile. Early sketches for the hero of Insomniac Games' new PlayStation 2 adventure showed a reptilian alien. Artists eventually settled on a feline humanoid and gave it a species name, Lombax, which the…
- Star Wars Battlefront II (2017 video game)A Hawaii lawmaker called Star Wars Battlefront II an online casino designed to trap little kids.
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderLucasfilm wanted Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to star a smuggler, not a Jedi. Director Stig Asmussen refused.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old RepublicStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic begins with a character waking aboard a doomed Republic capital ship, with no memory of who they are. The setting lies four thousand years before the Star Wars films. This one amnesiac premise…
- Star Wars Jedi: SurvivorStar Wars Jedi: Survivor opens with a break-in on Coruscant, the Imperial capital world. Jedi Knight Cal Kestis, played by Cameron Monaghan, steals military data from a senator named Daho Sejan. The 2023 game comes from Respawn…
- Star Wars: The Old RepublicStar Wars: The Old Republic set a Guinness record for the largest voice-over project in entertainment.