In 1977, a little-known science fiction film was released in the United States. This film is a rare space war theme on the market. Almost none of the entire film can be called a "star" from the director to the actors. During the years, due to the proliferation of science fiction works, people did not show much interest in this work from the beginning. But unexpectedly, after the movie was released, it caused a huge response. The explosive high evaluation made it directly break the box office record in the history of American movies, and later became the first indispensable part of American popular culture. The influence is still high, this is "Star Wars", an easy-to-understand and meaningful name.
film and television adaptation works have always had a relatively easy market, especially in the early years of the home console platform with special honors to obtain a more ideal market, and "Star Wars" as an extremely influential work naturally cannot Get out of the fate of being adapted into a game. As a sci-fi movie with a huge world view and a lot of elements, any action element in the movie can be singled out to make a game alone, and "Star Wars" did so, and until It still hasn't stopped today.
reappearance of the scene
if you want to talk about all the video games of "Star Wars" since ancient times, it is estimated that it may only be about half of it in the first half of the time. "Star Wars" was born in the 1970s, and that At that time, electronic games and home consoles were even in the rudimentary stage, and most of Star Wars games were logged on the arcade platform at that time. Since Atari launched the Atari 2600 home console, console games were considered to have been a period of time. In the small wave, various game works are emerging one after another, whether it is the first party or the third party. According to available information, the first "Star Wars" game to log on to the Atari 2600 console was born in 1983, five years after the first movie was released. Of course, this game was transplanted from the arcade platform, so the game It's called "Star Wars: Arcade Edition."
Atari 2600
Atari 2600 due to functional limitations, the best expressive game scene is space, only a black background is needed, and a few white dots are used as stars. This is a must For a good space scene, simply draw a colorful straight line. This is a laser. Therefore, Atari is particularly fond of space-themed games because they can devote more attention to adding other effects to the scene. This transplanted "Star Wars" game sets the background of the game in space as well, and itself is a first-person simulation flight driving work, set the scene in the first film of the rebels against the imperial attack. , It is difficult for some strong people to realize the perfect arcade restoration on Atari, but fortunately, this work is fortunately using perspective to achieve pseudo 3D effect with lines only, plus Atari games are common when playing Players are required to use their own imagination, so this game can be regarded as a fairly good game experience for players.
"Star Wars: Arcade Edition"
Since then, most of the games on the Atari platform are basically restoring a part of a movie, and most of them are flying shooting. They are basically transplanted from Arcade, but they all have different gameplay and modes. Later, when Nintendo dominated the hegemony, the game screen became better and the capacity of the game was larger than before. Therefore, the Nintendo console has the ability to completely restore the process of a movie with a game. The first "Star Wars" game on the Nintendo FC platform was born in 1987. It restored the entire plot flow of the first movie based on the trendy horizontal action clearance at that time, but I don’t know why this game is only available in Japan. issued. It is worth mentioning that in this work, there are some first-person flight shooting of the Millennium Falcon in the process of horizontal action, but the experience is not very good, although this work is the beginning of a new era, but But there is not such a good performance.
FC version of "Star Wars"
new vision
Most of the subsequent "Star Wars" games are basically horizontal action types, and according to the release time of subsequent movies, almost every movie has been adapted into it. The game landed on most game consoles at the time. The highlights of these games are mostly the same, nothing more than allowing players to control each person who appeared in the gameThe characters, or restore the famous scenes in the movie based on the horizontal action, they all have basically the same styling design and game soundtrack as the movie, and the level design of the game is relatively good. But the only thing that remains unchanged is the difficulty of the game. From the first game on FC to more than ten works all have this relatively high degree of difficulty, not blowing or black, although the current game difficulty is generally low, even if it is From the perspective of the time, these games are still not very simple works.
SFC "Super Star Wars"
and time has once again advanced to the 3D era. The 3D graphics make the game’s expressiveness to a higher level, and can create the feeling of being in a movie bridge. For the first time, players can hold lightsabers and explosions. Able to attack the enemy at will, and at the same time, it seems that players are somewhat tired of adapting the game, so many manufacturers have chosen to design original plots based on the world view of "Star Wars". Among them, the legendary RPG developer Bioware's "Star Wars: Warriors of the Old Republic" series is represented. The series has three works. Two of them are stand-alone and the other is MMORPG. The game adopts a semi-real-time turn-based system with plot design. It is additionally independently written on the basis of the original movie. With the development experience of "Baldur's Gate" and "Neverwinter Nights" in the early years, the plot performance of "Warrior of the Old Republic" is definitely the biggest bonus of the game, although In the eyes of some players, there is controversy, but the quality of the game is unquestionable. It has won the best game of the year.
"Star Wars: Warriors of the Old Republic"
seems to have entered the 3D era, "Star Wars" has truly found the most suitable position for itself, and finally ushered in his most glorious period, as the largest overseas pop culture One, in order to be able to accept new fans, "Star Wars" has also tried various changes, such as the launch of the "Frontline" series of battle games that support multiplayer online, the "Lego Star Wars" series for younger people, and so on. It seems that in the eyes of many players, the "Frontline" series is the most suitable game type to restore the movie experience. However, due to the business downturn, LucasArts, which holds the copyright of the "Star Wars" game, was dissolved by the parent company Disney, and the copyright was handed over to EA. In the hands of EA, EA has lived up to expectations and revived the "Frontline" series, and developed on the scale of its own "pro-son" and "Battlefield" series, making "Star Wars: Frontline" a game scale no less than "Battlefield" It is also a battlefield, and it is also a multi-dwelling joint operation, and it is developed with its own frost engine. It has no less than movie performance. It seems that "Star Wars" has finally ushered in the posture he should have in the game industry .
's resurrected "Star Wars: Battlefront"
Conclusion
However, everything came a bit late. The loyal fans of the "Star Wars" series are no longer as numerous as they once were, and the discussion about movies and games is far less popular than before Even though the frontline quality of "Star Wars" is relatively good, it has not been able to maintain the popularity for too long in front of "Battlefield". When it comes to "Star Wars: Frontline 2", the micro-transaction problem directly lowers the evaluation of the game , The promotion was ushered only shortly after the release.
"Star Wars Jedi: The Fall of the Samurai Order"
Although for those old fans, "Star Wars" may not be as dazzling as before, but he has never left, just waiting silently for the fans. By his side, movies are as well as games. Now the new game of "Star Wars" will return to the traditional stand-alone game after many years, and it will be a very popular "Soul Like" game. "Star Wars Jedi: The Fall of the Samurai Order" was in charge of "Titan" by EA. Rebirth Entertainment is responsible for the Fall and Apex Heroes. At least the quality of the game may be guaranteed, but this is also the first time that Rebirth Entertainment has tried to authorize the development of a game after joining EA, and it is also their first non-FPS game. I hope I can have stable performance this time. The setting of "Star Wars" is actually very suitable for "Soul Like" games, and there are not many companies that can make games for "Star Wars".
