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Star Wars: Squadrons shows the Force is still with us

The new Star Wars game puts you inside the cockpits of the iconic X-wing and TIE fighter spacecraft. It’s fun, but Star Wars: Squadrons is a good game rather than a great one, says Jacob Aron

Humans 28 October 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons

Motive Studios

PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One

WHILE the early 2000s were a dark time for Star Wars superfans, wounded by the disaster that was the prequel trilogy, they were actually a high point for me thanks to video games.

I was never that into Star Wars when I was younger, having missed the theatrical release of the original films by a good decade or so. Yet it is hard to resist the lure of the Force, and somehow I absorbed Obi-Wan …


Source: Humans - newscientist.com

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