It’s time to attract your blaster and shoot Greedo first as we check out the very best Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii!

Star Wars has been a real cultural phenomenon since launching approach again in 1977, remodeling the best way that movies are made, launched and even marketed. 

Floods of toys and tie-in gadgets accompanied the discharge of Star Wars, setting the sample for numerous movies to do the identical during the last a number of many years.

Video video games grew to become an necessary piece of that merchandising and licensing plan too, with numerous examples of Star Wars video games being launched within the 80s, 90s and past (we’ve coated a lot of them on Nintendo consoles – why not check out our finest Star Wars video games on Nintendo 64 checklist?).

Seven Star Wars video games have been launched on Nintendo’s household pleasant, accessible Wii console – when you don’t depend the digital re-releases of the SNES Super Star Wars trilogy, that are not out there to buy – however which of them are the very best?

Let’s discover out as we try the very best Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii!

The Wii arrived at a wierd time for the Star Wars saga. The prequel saga had concluded and followers assumed that we’d seen the final of the sequence. 

Yet only a few years later, The Clone Wars animated film arrived, adopted by the sequence – and it considerably redeemed the tarnished legacy left behind by the prequels.

Unfortunately, the unwieldily titled Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes doesn’t stay as much as the standard of the animated present it’s based mostly on. 

A two participant co-op, third particular person motion journey, Republic Heroes is a recreation that has irritating platforming, terrible digicam angles and boring puzzles. 

It feels as if it’s not fairly full, sadly.

It’s not a great recreation by any stretch of the creativeness, sadly – however it makes it to the underside of our greatest Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii checklist…

And that’s solely as a result of there have been solely seven launched in whole on Nintendo’s movement control-focused console! 

Almost as quickly because the Wii Remote was revealed, gamers began to think about a Star Wars recreation based mostly round utilizing lightsabers.

Surely this was one case the place the Wii’s distinctive movement controls could be completely excellent?

Sadly, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels – like Republic Heroes, additionally based mostly on animated prequel sequence The Clone Wars – was a little bit of a missed alternative.

Mostly, this was attributable to the truth that it didn’t merely use the Wii distant as a lightsaber – all kinds of button presses, prompts and even pre-determined combos have been wanted, together with the fundamental swinging round of the distant itself. 

Despite this, the sport does at the very least have a great variety of one on one lightsaber battles and a neat visible type – which hews near the aesthetic of the cartoon it’s based mostly on. 

The adventures of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice – Starkiller – proceed on this underwhelming sequel.

Though the physics-based Force powers nonetheless amuse, the extent variation (there’s simply three playable worlds) and alternatives for emergent chaos aren’t fairly on par with these discovered within the first recreation – and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II finally ends up feeling a bit repetitive and boring in consequence. 

Instead of supplying you with generic Stormtroopers to toy with, it tends to throw a lot of enemies at you at a time, with every having particular weaknesses – necessitating a extra calculated strategy to the gameplay.

It’s an terrible lot much less enjoyable than the encounters within the first recreation.

It doesn’t assist that the story – which needlessly positions Starkiller as a possible clone – is boring and the Wii controls are awkwardly applied too.

Though it nonetheless has its moments, on the entire The Force Unleashed II is a disappointment.

Remember simply how huge Angry Birds was again within the day? It was a real phenomenon – it felt like everybody, together with your Grandmother, was hooked on it. 

The tactile, touchscreen-based pleasure of flinging birds at precariously positioned constructions – so as to knock them down as effectively as potential – by no means appeared to get outdated.

Yet the magic did finally put on off, partly as a result of Angry Birds simply ended up being all over the place you seemed.

This mash up of Angry Birds with Star Wars even took the characters right into a galaxy far, far-off – with blended outcomes.

The casting of the Rebellion because the birds – and the Empire because the evil pigs – led to some genuinely ingenious character design and intelligent implementation of Star Wars ideas and skills such because the Force. 

The Angry Birds components nonetheless proves addictive – however this Wii model of the sport is just a little bit extra awkward to play than the cellular model.

Gone is the accuracy and tactile pleasure of dragging and tapping together with your finger, changed with Wii distant controls that merely aren’t pretty much as good.

It’s price taking into account that with Angry Birds: Star Wars having been discontinued and delisted from cellular app shops, the most important attraction of the Wii title is that – when you personal or can discover a copy – you’ll be able to nonetheless play it even as we speak!

Undoubtedly a stronger audiovisual expertise on different platforms (and it’s undoubtedly improved with the extra conventional controls on different consoles too, although swinging your distant like a lightsaber is nice!), Star Wars: The Force Unleashed remains to be an terrible lot of enjoyable to play on Wii.

One of the most important promoting factors of The Force Unleashed is the truth that essential character Starkiller can use a wide range of Force-based powers to throw round enemies and objects within the setting, resulting in some darkly hilarious moments of emergent physics. 

Despite the sport being pretty brief and the Wii distant controls not being completely applied, the story and physics of The Force Unleashed actually shine and have aged fairly nicely too. 

It’s good at taking you to the darker aspect of the Star Wars universe too – you begin the sport accountable for Vader himself, casually and mercilessly taking down a complete village of Wookiees, for an instance of how darkish issues get virtually instantly.

Even the marginally inferior technical capabilities of the Wii – and the movement controls – can’t dim the attraction of The Force Unleashed, which is filled with hilarious moments that you just really feel such as you create your self with the sport’s glorious physics engine. 

So it’s no shock that The Force Unleashed made it to the highest three of the very best Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii – and it options fairly excessive up on our checklist of the general finest Nintendo Wii video games too!

The prequel period could also be present process a little bit of a renaissance and re-evaluation in the meanwhile, because of new tales akin to Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Plus, however when Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars arrived it was removed from a preferred setting.

Yet in fact, Lego work their magic as soon as once more – the third particular person motion right here being simply as lovingly crafted and fantastically accessible as every other Lego journey.

With an enormous solid of playable characters and an enormous variety of planets and challenges to beat, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars is a superb recreation for all ages. 

Full of the humour, motion and maddeningly addictive stud-collecting that the Lego video games are identified for – it’s no shock to see this title close to the very high of the very best Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii checklist.

In on the very high of the very best Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii checklist is one other Lego recreation – with this title masking the six movies from Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

At the time – a few years earlier than the Disney sequel trilogy continued the principle movie sequence in 2015 – this actually was The Complete Saga.

As you’d probably anticipate, there’s a Lego recreation which covers your complete 9-film sequence now, within the type of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which options on our checklist of the finest Star Wars video games on Nintendo Switch.

Though mechanically Lego Star Wars III is a little more superior, so many extra iconic moments and acquainted conditions are coated in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga that it turns into way more of a pleasure to play. 

There are 160 characters to unlock – even Indiana Jones, one other George Lucas creation, is playable – and even a two participant Battle Arena for aggressive play.

Of course, nothing comes near the pleasure of taking part in by means of the story of a Lego recreation alongside a pal or member of the family and that’s definitely the case in The Complete Saga. 

As with different video games within the sequence, it’s easy however not dumbed down in any respect; easy and enjoyable however nonetheless places up an affordable problem, with an terrible lot of ranges and secrets and techniques to find.

The humorous twists on acquainted scenes and characters are at all times cheeky and amusing, displaying a deep ardour for (and data of) the subject material at hand.

The magic of the Lego video games is nicely and really on show in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, which simply makes it to the primary spot on our greatest Star Wars video games on Nintendo Wii checklist.

Jason – who lives within the UK – has had a lifelong curiosity in video video games, which all began when he found Space Invaders within the early 80s. The first recreation he ever accomplished was Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Sega Master System – which stays one in every of his proudest gaming achievements. Jason is a passionate author – and has been writing about gaming for the reason that late 90s. He at the moment runs popular culture weblog midlifegamergeek.com, which he updates each day (and has written greater than 700 articles on the weblog alone!).

Outside of video video games, Jason is a eager tabletop gamer, movie buff and comedian e book fan.