Attack of the Clones Had 6 Completely Different Tie-in Games 

The ultimate test to see if Jango is worthy of the template for the clone army is to get him to murder a trained force user. That's some neat foreshadowing.

Dooku actually kept his former apprentice's lightsabers after Jango killed her and gave them to Ventress. He ABSOLUTELY has a type.

These games were all a part of the clone wars multimedia project where there was an impressive coordinated effort to tell the 3 year story of the clone wars in real time leading up to the release of Revenge of The Sith across multiple mediums. Comics, novels, games and animation all telling clone wars stories with characters changing and developing as they get closer to ROTS, notably Anakin. They way the games expanded the story and sometimes tying back into the expanded universe lore is so cool and something we don't see anymore or even back then.

Fun fact: Assaj Ventress isn't just using the same style of lightsabre as Komari Vosa. They are *the same* lightsabres. After Vosa was killed by Jango Fett, Dooku retrieved her lightsabres and passed them onto his next apprentice.

Fun fact: When BioWare set up a deal with Lucasarts to make a Star Wars game, LucasArts gave BioWare a choice of settings for the game. They could either do an Episode II game or go 4,000 years back. BioWare chose to set the game four thousand years before the films as it gave them greater creative freedom. And thus we got Knights of the Old Republic.

Bounty Hunter was one of my favorite classic LucasArts games. It's the reason why I was so excited for 1313, but we all know how that went...

I remember buying Episode 2 for the GBA brand new for $2 at a dollar store. As a kid I just assumed they didn’t know what they had and thought it was my lucky day. I was mistaken

Wow, had a serious nostalgia hit seeing Galactic Battlegrounds gameplay again. I put 100s of hours into that game as a kid, and made dozens of custom campaigns with full stories that literally nobody but myself will ever play or see.

I remember playing episode 2 for the GBA as a kid. That was the first time I realized a game could be bad.

"I can't help but think of Assaji Ventress when I see this evil lady" 21:50 *"She's even got the same dual lightsabers"* Oh how right you were, and you didn't even know it. So the lightsabers that Komari Vosa has, ARE Assaji Ventress's lightsabers (in the EU obviously). Remember in the 2D Clone Wars, Ventress is introduced in an arena, with blue, and green lightsabers. After agreeing to hunt down Anakin, Dooku gives her a gift, two red lightsabers in a little box. These are Komari Vosa's lightsabers. Dooku took them after She died in this game, and kept them for 10+ years until he found Ventress. She reminded him of Vosa, so he decided to gift her Vosa's lightsabers. Man the EU was so cool, and well thought out.

Jedi Starfighter's blooper real is the most memorable part of the game for me, primarily because it confirms toasters exist in the Star Wars universe.

I remember in Bounty Hunter, the most effective method of beating Vosa that I found was to tie her up (which can only be done after she's attempted a combo or two, otherwise it just whizzes through her) and melee her to death. Actually did more damage than the blasters. The side bounties were great, though trying to scan them in crowds of enemies was the worst. The best thing was using Gameshark to have unlimited jetpack fuel lol

I'm glad you covered the Clone Wars arena multiplayer horde mode because it's literally the only part of the game I remember XD

The Clone Wars and Bounty Hunter are some of my favorite early 2000's games. I had a lot of fondness for the Clone Wars' Conquest multiplayer mode.

I love Bounty Hunter. It's a little janky and the scanner mechanic is very clunky. But there's a ton of stuff to unlock and the main gameplay and level design is reeally cool. Jango's entire arsenal is awesome too. What I love most about it is the story. Count Dooku is very manipulative and conniving in it. Jango has a nice character arc where he learns to care about more than just money. And the questions answered from the film are done so in a satisfying and interesting way. Always hoped that it would get a sequel or a remake. At this point, I'd settle for a PC port. One of my favorites from the Gamecube.

Common misconception.. Adi Gallia wasn't killed in episode 3 on the speeder bikes. She died before order 66. That is another person of the same species.

18:13 The Expanded Universe managed to explain it by saying that it was a force doppelganger (something like what Luke did in the end of TLJ but was physical) that Dooku could control but was a far weaker version which also explains why Anakin managed to defeat it. Weird I know.

RIP Lucasarts. I sunk so much time into Bounty Hunter, Clone Wars TVG and both PS2 Starfighter games.

That scene where Vosa has captured Jango is one of those scenes that has you like: "I hope my parents won't walk in right now."

Oh. 20 years passed. Can't believe it. Still feels like it was yesterday, time flies by. Still remember how I struggled with Bounty Hunter, there were silly secondary missions, where you had to tie some of your enemies. And I always accidently killed them and had to restart the level. Thank you for bringing my memories again.

4:31 soooooo actually the prequels did this thing a couple times where they would cast someone to play a background character like Adi Gallia in The Phantom Menace but because she’s not important to the story being told and only appears briefly, for a subsequent film like AOTC and ROTS they’d often just recast a different actor in the role and have them put on the same costume if they were shooting in a different country. But a decent amount of the time they decided the actor looked to different from the original and just made them a completely new character. So that there is Stass Allie and Ado Gallia is actually savagely killed by Savage Opress in the Clone Wars when he rams his head spikes into her like a charging bull. They also did this with Eth Koth and Agen Kolar (the scrub who doesn’t defend himself from a Palpatine stab when they go to arrest him) and actually had to do it with Mace as well at the end of TPM in the celebration scene, Samuel L Jackson isn’t the guy playing him (sorry for ruining the film haha) though that one is still supposed to be Mace Windu and not a different character. But I for one actually like how they did this, gives the universe more depth and more cool characters to play with

I've always wondered how the TX-130 tank looks so BAD in the new battlefront compared to the game that came out 20 years ago. The new one is so blocky and the thrusters don't even move around, it's just a floating brick. In the Clone Wars game the model has so much more detail and you can see the thrusters moving around! So damn cool.

Loved this era of gaming. So many great single player games made from different licenses. Good games from big publishers were literally coming out every week. Complete contrast to todays gaming releases. These days: Half-assed multiplayer games and microtransactions up the wazoo

I absolutely loved the Clone Wars game - the Republic Fighter Tank became my favourite Star Wars vehicle after that. You have no idea how badly I wanted a die cast model of it. VS was great and it’s one of the few games were you get to fly a Republic Gunship and use the beam turrets (seriously, the wing beam turrets are barely used at all - not in the show, not in games, just not addressed). I didn’t get to play it much because I was too young to be able to really grasp the controls and properly understand the game; always wanted a remaster.

For some odd reason, 1997-2006 seemed to be a golden age for licensed tie-in games. I mean, I’m certainly not complaining by any means but THAT particular era gave us legitimate games that had a licensed IP. Hell, even Barbie in 12 Dancing Princess ended up being a fairly decent 3D action-adventure platformer that just happened to use the Barbie license

I legitimately grew up playing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. That game is probably a decent chunk of my childhood gameplay experience. It's crazy. Never send anybody really talk about that game let alone talk about the DLC that came out years after it was released. I've always wished that game would have a resurgence. I mean it's Age of Empires 2 but Star Wars. How can you not love that?

Jurassic Park I believe has 7 different unique games that were made to tie into the original film. These include side scrollers, a point and click adventure, and a hybrid top down and fps style game.

Star Wars The Clone Wars was THE SHIT and was one of my most played games as a kid. It had some pretty awesome things like multiplayer in which you would go up against someone and take control of outposts, and each outpost would start building tanks to send toward the other side of the map and it was like a PvP multiplayer where you got to actually fight alongside your army. The coolest thing about this game to me was just, most missions it was, there's an enemy army, and an allied army, and the armies will run at each other into an RTS-level clash and you're just kinda, one of the vehicles involved.

8:35 Anakin going absolutely ballistic is understandable when you consider all the sand there. 😳

Several locations (beyond Raxus Prime) through these games are tie-ins to other games. The Wookie moon, Alaris Prime, is both the colony blown up in The Clone Wars and originally set up by Qui-Gon in the tutorial scenario of Galactic Battlegrounds. The prison break in Bounty Hunter takes place on Oovo IV, where several races take place in Episode 1 Racer.

22:54 Plus extras, like skechbooks, short clips from deleted scenes (like from a movie set, with a bit of a humor) and a free comic book, wich give us some of the Jango's story during mandalorian civil war. All of that for finding some secrets in game. Oh, btw some of the npcs on game have bounty on them, you can kill them or capure them alive to be for example, given back to their slave master

I played all the console games on this list and enjoyed them overall. For some reason Jedi Starfighter captured me the most, but Bounty Hunter was overall the best. And honestly, I think Bounty Hunter would benefit greatly from a modern remake treatment.

I actually miss these liscensed games. They weren't always very good, but there were definitely a few diamonds in the rough.

4:07 lmao I'm dead. I felt the same way when I got to this level like what...did the developers even see the movie?

Fun fact : the scene that you show for order 66 is the death of Stass Allie, not Adi Gallia, who is killed during the clone wars, by Savaj Oppress in Cannon and Grievous in Legends

I grew up with Galactic Battlegrounds. It was great and I still replay it sometimes.

Bounty hunter has an awesome start menu theme! The game was great too! Also played clone wars back then. Didn't like it as much but was fun.

Bounty Hunter and Clone Wars remain to be some of my favorite games from the PS2 era!

Man, remember when Star Wars had tie-in material, and got tons of awesome video games? Shame we don't have that anymore.

Interesting note that Trihexalon being a bio weapon Does Not affect droids, it’s even mentioned in the cutscene where Toth is examining the sample. If this weapon were to be used full-scale in battle, entire armies of clones would perish while the droid armies remain untouched. Unlike most bio weapons that are gas or viral, trihexalon has a catalyst type reaction when exposed to normal temperatures and anything above sub freezing would set it off. “Total biomass conversion: very dangerous” As Jenkins describes.

To this day Bounty Hunter is one of my all-time favorite games.

I absolutely loved playing Bounty Hunter growing up, and was pleased to find it still holds up after a recent replay!

Games like jedi starfighter were great. B games with solid plots and characters and tons of effort put into polishing them. It's a shame the industry cant put out work on this tier anymore.

6:00 Don’t feel bad, that was more or less the strategy the Jedi went for in the actual Battle of Geonosis

I remember Bounty Hunter being hard as fuck as a kid because Jango’s health drained so fast and health packs didn’t drop often. I got all the way up to the last level and couldn’t get past the black monkey-zombie men things because they just swarmed you so quickly and the jet pack fuel runs out super quickly.

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter was one of my favorite games growing up

Thanks for the nostalgia trip! this was a great video and as such we will watch your career with great interest.

I loved The Clone Wars(game), Jedi Starfighter and especially Bounty Hunter as a kid. I'm glad you covered them.

We also had Racer Revenge which came out in February that year with Episode II Anakin as a podracer. We also saw Oovo IV which is the prison asteroid in Bounty Hunter as a racing location here.

I love this video for several reasons. I'm glad you didn't waste time crapping on the prequel films like every RLM-wannabe RU-vidr, I like the variety in content while technically keeping to the same single subject, and your casual kind of humor continues to entertain.

The Gamecube one was a blast, I frequently hired it. The conquest mode was real fun, where you could capture points to have factories churn out AI tanks for you. You could only have 6 tanks at a time but dammit, that was as good as it got for consoles at the time! It was also possible to cheese the vehicular wave-based survival modes on the desert map by launching the Hailfire onto a rock on top of the stage, or a nearby cave or something, where you couldn't be hit. Bounty Hunter was awesome, you had a lot of freedom to just cause havoc for the time, and even though it still had its limitations, it was way more fun than any other Star Wars game.

Galactic battlegrounds + clone campaigns was my entire middle/high school gaming go-to. My older brothers were gamers at the time, so I had lots of options, but that one consumed me for years. Used to build levels, used the cheats all day, damn I miss that

Technically that Geonosis ground level in Jedi Starfighter was before the actual Battle began. Somehow there was fighting occurring and Dooku wasn't informed while he just kept talking to Mace Windu in the arena.

I'd have also counted Republic commando as a tie in game if you would count the clone wars as a tie in game, both of them are equally centred around the events of the movie as each other and you could possibly even make an argument for the first battlefront being a tie in if you really want to stretch the definition

Your comedic timing and editing is incredible. I was laughing my way through this whole video. Good stuff!

I absolutely LOVE that they took the time to animate Anakin petting the dinosaur he rides. They absolutely didn’t need to do that but it’s nice to see that they bothered.

The fact that most of the cast from The Clone Wars show started out in these games is so great.

21:24 4 if you count the clone campaigns in Galactic Battlegrounds. In both the CIS and Clone missions that you're on Tatooine, you can fight them as either or. 21:48 Asajj Ventress actually got her Lightsabers from Komari Vosa.

"Racer's Revenge" was also an AOTC tie-in, sort of

Jedi Starfighter really holds up. I beat it with a buddy splitscreen on my Xbox series x. It’s tough but well worth a play, especially with a friend

Blocking isnt broken in new droid army, you have to time the block just as the blast reaches you to deflect it back, Yes i played too much of that game lol

the vehicle based The Clone Wars game here was the only one I played, but I sunk a *ton* of time into it as a kid. absolutely fantastic game with tons of stuff to do and really great moment to moment game feel (except for the on foot bits outside of the arena mode). I've never seen anyone else mention it until now and I thought I might have hallucinated it or fabricated it out of memories of other games. but no, the Force Harvester and DARK REAPER *were* REAL!

Jango Fett and The Clone Wars were two of the best star wars games of the time. I also loved Galactic Battlegrounds. And a game that game out a few years later Empire at War (2006), which still to this day has a vibrant Modding Community.

I played 3 of them growing up, The Clone Wars for the GameCube (the tank game), Attack of the Clones for the GBA, and Bounty Hunter (played that one on the GameCube too). Wasn't too fond of the GBA one, but I adored both Bounty Hunter and The Clone Wars! I still revisit them every once in awhile

lmao holy shit, at 17:26, this extremely obscure star wars gba game holds continuity with another extremely obscure star wars game, star wars obiwan on the xbox. one of the episode 1 tie-in games. genuinely kinda impressed lmfao edit: ...and then little ani murders dooku 3 years early. whatatwist

I am SO happy you made this video! I loved and had all these games as a kid, and my friends and I played them constantly. Very nostalgic video

The RTS was definitely the underrated one. No one really talks about it ,but it was so fun. Loved all the faction units and attention to details.

Bounty Hunter is still my favorite SW game (Republic Commando a very close 2nd) Always wanted a sequel set in the OT with Boba Fett. Have it start in A New Hope doing random jobs, last levels are when Vader hires you in Empire, go to Bespin, then follow Shadow's plot of other Hunters trying to steal Carbonite Han from you before you deliver him to Jabba.

I really liked the Clone Wars game. Seeing the different vehicles for Star Wars that you don't really see in the films was pretty cool. I also liked how they captured the scale of the war in each missions. You got your character, some friendly clones, and enemies that you fight, but you also get armies of Droid and Clone 2d sprites in the distance battling it out. Even if they don't really kill each other, they're just there for show. Still, I always found it as a clever way to show of the scale of the conflict. The missions were actually pretty great and the Arena mode was awesome. Still have a copy of the game after so many years. Might have to replay it again some time.

Episode 3 had more than just that game. Republic Commando and the original Battlefront 2 were tie in games for Revenge of the Sith. And Lego Star Wars as well.

How could you not mention that The Clone Wars was made by Pandemic and was basically the grand daddy of the Battlefront series?

I loved all of these games. Bought all but The Clone Wars and I rented and beat that one. Put sooo many hours into Jedi Starfighter trying to unlock everything and I may have been slightly addicted to Galactic Battlegrounds at one point. I actually really liked New Droid Army as well.

I had the clone wars game double pack with Tetris as a kid. I never beat the clone wars game. I got stuck on a level and wasn’t smart enough to figure it out. Granted I didn’t know how to read at the time, which I am sure would have helped.

Bounty Hunter was something special from my childhood. Not my favourite game by any means. But one of the first that let me feel like I was playing as part of the Star Wars worlds. I loved hunting extra bounties on Coruscant. I actually wanted an open world game like it just hunting different bounties. Probably wouldn’t sell. But whenever I had to go back to the main story I was upset. Lol

Loving this series! Please keep them coming with all different franchises! ❤

Honestly, I've never cared for the Star Wars films, books or toys, but I've played the shit out of many a Star Wars game over the years. Something about dogfighting space jets and wizards with laser swords translates very well to the world of video games.

I loved playing New Droid Army as a kid, pure nostalgia

Excellent video, I love these videos about movie tie-in games.

lol you know a game was made cheap, when in 2002 it still doesn't have internal long term memory for save data. lol

Love the channel, keep up the good work. I also have an obsession with tie-in games.

That's it, I'm subbing. Your Harry Potter tie-in series was a blast, keep this up!

Regarding Clone Wars multiplayer: There was a way to unlock more characters for the Arena (if I am remembering correctly you could get the characters by completing bonus objectives in the main levels). I remember you could get Yoda and Chewbacca (who had a blaster instead of a lightsaber).

Jedi Starfighter was my first console video game. What a nostalgia hit. The option to use the other ships was so cool too.

In New Droid Army, that was actually a Doppelganger of Dooku who somehow also knew how to use the Force and a lightsaber.

Huh, never knew about that cutscene if you lose against the final boss in Bounty Hunter. What a nice touch. Too bad I was just too good to ever see it 😎 Excellent video btw, this was such a cool time to be into Star Wars. Even with the questionable quality of the prequels we still had all these video games and the cartoon micro-series that provided some really cool experiences in that world.

15:45 there is a cheat code where you can unlock Yoda there's also like an infinite life cheat code as well I forget it off the top of my head but I'm sure Google will give you the answer I just want wave after wave for hours until the code just stopped caring and I think I just ran around as Yoda in the Arena to the whole time

I generally figured Racer Revenge to be something of a tie-in game as well, as it features an AotC style Anakin as a playable character, and does serve as a direct sequel to Episode I Racer. Although with that said RR doesn't really have anything to do with AotC's plot, rather it's just set in that era (two years before, I think actually). Also maybe Republic Commando, which opens with Geonosis? Though maybe that came quite a bit later, I don't recall off hand. Cool video though, love the overview!

A small detail you miss, In Star wars The clone wars, with Anakin, Kenovi, Mace and the random jedi, you could play also as Yoda on the Geonosis arena. To unlock him, you have to complete all campaing missions with all the secondary objetives.

15:38 My friends and I always called this guy Jedi Master Spock, but everyone knows the cheat code characters, especially the Wookie, were OP because blasters were better than lightsabers in that mode! Loved the multiplayer.

18:20 Ackyually he is, it was confirmed by later works he is a Force doppelganger created by Dooku Fun fact: George Lucas was the one who told the devs to put Dooku in this game and kill him

I have many fond memories of The Clone Wars. It was one of, if not the, last games I rented.

great video dude. so glad i found your channel

Seeing GB again reminds me how much we need a new RTS for the franchise.

Galactic Battlegrounds' tie-in bit was actually quite neat. Sure, it didn't do anything overly groundbreaking the original GB hadn't already (though I have to say that I really like the addition of flying/space units in the Age of Empires engine, it completely changed the way I played it). But it did what I love to see from any "side" franchise game - it told a couple cool and neat stories that tied well into the bigger franchise story of the time without being "required reading" to understand anything. It's more Prequel-story Star Wars for those who enjoyed the Clone Wars era, and I am one of them, so I came away very satisfied.

It's funny because despite having all of these tie-ins plus levels in Battlefront and Lego Star Wars, Attack of The Clones is the only movie of the original 6 not to have a (non-portable) console game named after it

Just recently discovered your channel and i got say i'm lovin' it! I've watched all your videos and looking forward to see new ones

I know AotC on GBA is bad but I have a soft spot for it. I was really into Episode 2 when it came out and I was on a trip with a friend and his family. We were looking at games at Gamestop and left. His parents ended up surprising us in the car. They got me Episode 2 on GBA and him NFL Blitz. It was so cool of them and I enjoyed the game, even if I know nowadays its pretty bad.

Honestly, this made me seriously think about the sheer number of Star Wars video games in existence. I'm genuinely curious if there is any other movie franchise that has more tie-in video games. I would assume there are at least hundreds of titles.

Starfighter and Jedi Starfighter were my favorite games and got me into the Ace Combat franchise. Tons of childhood memories there.

Awesome video! Love seeing these old Star Wars games reviewed. My personal favorite is Star Wars - Obi-Wan, released for the first Xbox. Jedi Power Battles is another favorite.