Between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and the upcoming Star Wars: Squadrons, we've started to get excited about Star Wars games again. But if the Star Wars game franchise moves forward, it should start looking back. Relegated to the status of non-canon "Legends" since Disney bought the franchise, Star Wars Expanded Universe is a rich lore that just needs to be tapped. It includes hundreds of books and comics, exploring corners of the Star Wars universe that the movies never could. And while it's been swept under the Jedi Academy rug, the new state of the Expanded Universe is strangely liberating. Without any ties to current continuity, there's no reason (if Lucasfilm wants it) game developers couldn't dive into this expanded universe and delve into some of these forgotten tales. Here are five Star Wars Legends stories we'd like to see made into games.
That produces itchiness. Delicious. Wookiee (Star Wars: Death Troopers)
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(Image credit: Del Rey Books / Joe Schreiber) Do you think Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 is scary? He attempts to be chased down the corridors of a zombie-filled Star Destroyer by a rabid and hungry Wookiee. It's a nightmare against the protagonists of Death Troopers, a Star Wars novel that screams "survival horror." When Kale and Trig Londo's prison ship breaks down, their captors decide to loot an Imperial Star Destroyer and soon the pair are kneeling in the undead. It's not just the legions of Stormtrooper zombies that make Death Troopers perfect survival horror material. Inspired by Alien and The Shining, it's a sinisterly claustrophobic story; stuck in deep space with nowhere to go outside the dark corridors of the Star Destroyer - we could absolutely see this Star Wars story being turned into an Alien Isolation game. Trig and Kale are also the men that were missing from the Star Wars games. They are not Jedi, heroes, rebels, or even soldiers; his only ambition is to survive all day. Give Capcom Death Troopers and we could see one of the best horror games to date, at least until someone swaps Zombie Chewbacca for a thong.
Barely operational combat station (Star Wars: Darksaber)
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(Image credit: Bantam Books/Kevin J. Anderson) Star Wars: Darksaber asks, "What if the Death Star was built by utter idiots?" It features an inept crime syndicate that builds a super weapon using blueprints and pieces of the Death Star stolen from the highest bidder. What could go wrong building a low-cost underground version of a battle that's already blew up twice? Luke Skywalker and his company may catch a glimpse, but the true entertainment value of Darksaber is watching the syndicate bugs pile up. Like watching the Chuckle Brothers assemble a guillotine, you know it's going to end in disaster, but you just can't look anywhere else. We'd like to see Darksaber as a Star Wars-themed version of Landlord's Super, a building simulation that gets you started. Can't figure out these Death Star plans? Someone ordered the wrong type of laser lens? Bad luck. You have six months or Durga the Hutt will have the upper hand.
Loose cannon (Star Wars: Tag & Bink were here)
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(Image credit: Marvel Entertainment / Kevin Rubio) As entertaining as Star Wars is, it takes itself a little too seriously at times. Kevin Rubio's comedic parody is the perfect antidote to the franchise's poetry, starring a pair of well-meaning idiots who mix up half the film's events. The missing planet that Obi-Wan Kenobi was looking for? Tag and Bink accidentally deleted it. Wondering why Chewbacca didn't get a medal? Totally Tag and Bink's fault. If they don't give Anakin Skywalker dating advice, they steal Boba Fett's armor or make fun of Lando Calrissian. The status of their weapon was questionable before Disney took over the Expanded Universe and dumped it into a reactor, but Tag and Bink's antics require further exploration. We'd pay top dollar for a tongue-in-cheek episodic series that delves into the final Star Wars trilogy or, better yet, shakes things up a bit. The Rise of Skywalker may have dashed our hopes of seeing Poe and Finn as a couple, but we're sure, with some carefully crafted notes, that Tag and Bink could do just fine.
PURÉ DE PAPA. Wars (Star Wars: Medstar 1 - Battle Surgeons)
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(Image credit: Cornerstone/Michael Reaves/Steve Perry) In Star Wars, death is often rated PG; is cut in half and his blood and internal organs must remain in place while his body is lost to view. This is not the case in Medstar 1: Battle Surgeons, which follows the trials of a group of Republic medics, struggling to cope with the victims of the Clone Wars. His gruesome exploits run parallel to the novel's central story, delivered with a dose of reason-preserving black humor. Soldiers here don't die properly; they bled on the operating table while a surgeon jokes about having enough fragments to build a new battle droid. It's a daring take on Star Wars, bringing home the bloody reality of the Prequel Trilogy conflict. We wouldn't say no to Theme Hospital: Star Wars, which treats conditions like Bloaty Helmet and Ingrown Clonenail, but Medstar deserves a more complex approach. Do you keep the clones that the Republic has deemed consumables when there are civilians in need of treatment? What if it's up to them and the Jedi Master who saved your life more than once? Triage and tough decisions are what we need.
Star Wars: Dark Lord (Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader)
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(Image credit: Del Rey Books / James Luceno) How do you balance Darth Vader from the original Star Wars trilogy with the grumpy teen from Revenge of the Sith? In part written from Vader's point of view, James Luceno's The Rise of Darth Vader begins to bridge the narrative gap. He depicts a man raging with his own anger, cloaked in a suit that scrapes and scrapes at his already ravaged flesh, barely able to think about the scraping of his respiratory system. So when a group of Clone Troopers defies Order 66, they welcome the chance to express their hate. It is this raw and primitive Darth Vader that deserves to be experienced on the small screen. He was a playable character in Battlefront 1 and 2, but was never the subject of his own title. We'd kill for a soulslike Darth Vader, not only to have the saga's infamous villain's power at hand, but also to delve into his tortured psyche, and perhaps forcefully put down an Ewok or two.