LEGO Star Wars named among the best movie tie-in video games of all time

The Guardian has ranked TT Games’ LEGO Star Wars series among the greatest movie tie-in video games of all time, and it’s in hallowed company.

To celebrate the 95th Academy Awards ceremony, which takes place on Sunday, March 12 at 7pm ET (or Monday, March 13 at midnight UK time), The Guardian has published a rundown of the best movie-inspired video games of all time. And while that category would typically be slim pickings for an Oscars-equivalent ceremony (movies and video games are not always happy bedfellows, in either direction), there are some strong contenders in the mix.

Those include plenty of retro releases, like 1997’s Goldeneye 007 – a classic in every sense of the word – and Activision’s 1984 tie-in for Ghostbusters, and more modern games, like Alien: Isolation (2014) and the LEGO Star Wars titles. Author Keith Stuart writes that it’s ‘difficult to single out any one instalment in the LEGO Star Wars series’, so includes them all, headed by a screenshot from LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

That technically makes TT Games’ long-running series also the most recent entry on the list, given its saga-spanning sequel arrived in April 2022. The much-delayed (and highly ambitious) game encompasses all nine mainline Star Wars films, from The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker, with hundreds of characters to unlock and plenty of puzzles to solve.

“These games work as brilliant puzzle platformers in their own right, but they do equally well at capturing the atmosphere of the Star Wars universe, from exciting battle sequences to in-jokes and thrilling use of the John Williams score,” Stuart writes. While the Star Wars games are the only LEGO titles to feature, we’d argue LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Harry Potter and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean are right up there as shining examples of movie tie-ins, too.

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Presumably The Guardian didn’t want to make its list revolve entirely around LEGO video games, though. The rest of the titles featured are the Die Hard Trilogy (1996), The Thing (2002), Robocop 3 (1991), Disney’s Aladdin (1993), The Warriors (2005) and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004). Click here to check out the entire list.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga may not be a valid contender for the actual Academy Awards, but it has received two BAFTA Games nominations.

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