6 Star Wars Games That Are Worth Replaying With Mods

If you emotion Star Wars and you emotion gaming, determination are astir apt a twelve classics from your puerility that you retrieve fondly, astir of them worthy replaying precisely arsenic they are. But if your favourite rubric needs a small caller beingness breathed into it for the tenth playthrough, mods tin prevention the day.

Fortunately, determination are immoderate transformative instrumentality projects that supply the cleanable excuse to not lone replay the classics, but to bash truthful with a caller overgarment of paint.

6 Star Wars Battlefront II (2017): Skins, Heroes, SFX, and More

The much caller Star Wars Battlefront II is simply a large crippled connected its own, providing a genuine Star Wars battlefield acquisition that can't beryllium matched anyplace else. More than galore different games, Battlefront II looks and sounds similar Star Wars, and adjacent 8 years aft release, looks and feels bully to play. I inactive spell backmost and play a fewer matches reasonably regularly. But it's not a cleanable game, falling abbreviated successful galore areas.

Most notably, the crippled ended up missing a batch of aesthetic customization that fans wanted (Galactic Marines, anyone?), arsenic good arsenic celebrated heroes specified arsenic Mace Windu oregon Ahsoka Tano. Naturally, since the crippled stopped getting updates years ago, it's missing immoderate benignant of contented from newer Star Wars installments arsenic well. All of this and much tin beryllium fixed with mods. There are plentifulness of options some connected Steam Workshop and Nexus Mods.

Most of these mods bash not adhd brand-new contented to the game, but rather, adhd caller skins oregon reskin an existing hero, specified arsenic replacing Obi-Wan with Ezra Bridger oregon Captain Phasma with Qi'ra. That said, determination are immoderate mods that adhd reinforcements, weapons oregon wholly alteration dependable effects, in-game lighting, loading screens, and overmuch more. I personally emotion replacing the Resistance faction with rebellious clone troopers.

At immoderate rate, Battlefront II whitethorn not alteration overmuch mechanically with mods, but it tin decidedly instrumentality connected a full caller aesthetic with the immense array of mods it has available.

5 Star Wars Empire astatine War: New Factions, Units, Mechanics and Battlefields

Empire astatine War is 1 of my favourite Star Wars games, chiefly due to the fact that it's inactive 1 of the champion titles for commanding large-scale abstraction battles adjacent astir 20 years aft its release. The happening is, the Original Trilogy isn't my favourite epoch of Star Wars, truthful it felt benignant of limiting astatine times. Thankfully, determination are immoderate unthinkable mods retired determination that wholly alteration the acquisition EAW offers if you tin instal them.

Some of my idiosyncratic favourite mods, similar Republic astatine War and Revan's Revenge, alteration the epoch and factions EAW offers, allowing you to play successful the prequel epoch and adjacent the Old Republic era. This includes not lone due crushed and abstraction units, but besides faction-specific mechanics, massively expanded galactic maps, and brand-new 4X strategy mechanics that marque the crippled overmuch deeper than it ever was before.

There are adjacent plentifulness of afloat conversion mods that crook EAW into a crippled for a antithetic IP, similar Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, Halo, and Mass Effect. Needless to say, if you loved EAW successful the past, it's much than worthy a modded replay adjacent successful this time and age—there's conscionable nary different Star Wars crippled that offers the aforesaid level of analyzable strategy and RTS combat, and it tin adjacent stand-in for different IPs that ne'er made specified a crippled themselves.

4 Knights of the Old Republic II: Items, Quest Lines, and Cut Content

Anyone who is simply a existent instrumentality of KOTOR II astir apt already knows astir the Restored Content Mod. It's been considered a must-have for years, arsenic it restores each sorts of contented that got chopped from the last merchandise of the vanilla game, including quest lines, dialogue, and full segments of the crippled (though admittedly, that mill ngo with HK-47 mightiness beryllium amended disconnected gone).

If you ever felt similar this beloved crippled was missing conscionable a small something, similar the imaginativeness wasn't completed the mode the developers wanted, past getting the Restored Content Mod volition help. That said, determination are plentifulness of different mods disposable to springiness the crippled a caller rotation oregon marque it worthy replaying, particularly if 1 of the large reasons you ne'er replay KOTOR II is due to the fact that you don't privation to spell done Peragus and Telos again.

You tin get mods that skip these introductory sections of the crippled and let you to leap close into the nutrient of it all. I wouldn't urge it connected your archetypal playthrough and possibly not adjacent a second, but diehard fans that already cognize each the twists and hostility gathering successful those slow, creeping sections of the crippled whitethorn person much amusive if they tin conscionable skip it. I cognize I've enactment disconnected a fewer KOTOR II runs due to the fact that of the lengthy intro.

3 Star Wars X-Wing Alliance: Total Conversion and Massive Graphics Improvements

The X-Wing bid of Star Wars games from the 90s were immoderate of the archetypal titles to fto fans consciousness arsenic though they truly were piloting an awesome starfighter successful daring missions and hectic battles. The archetypal 2 titles, X-Wing and TIE Fighter, gave antithetic perspectives connected the galactic struggle and sported unsocial ships matching the factions that you played as. X-Wing Alliance was the past entry, with the champion graphics and mechanics.

That said, america Imperial enjoyers felt cheated. How travel the Rebellion got to person the astir precocious introduction successful the series? It conscionable wasn't fair. There could person astatine slightest been a TIE Fighter sister entry, right? Well, with the TIE Fighter Total Conversion mod, we don't person to consciousness cheated. It ports implicit the full 1994 TIE Fighter crippled to the much precocious motor of X-Wing Alliance, adds respective caller campaigns, and yet gives players a full of 148 unsocial missions to play.

Oh, and since the mod is based connected the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Project, the graphics look thing similar it did successful 1999—with mods, these admittedly past Star Wars games are easy connected par with the modern era, wholly revamping the acquisition of playing them. To apical it each off, determination are plentifulness of different afloat conversion mods retired there, truthful this classical crippled tin beryllium altered for a twelve much replays, easily. Not atrocious for thing implicit 20 years old.

2 Star Wars Battlefront II (2005): Maps, Classes, Game Modes, Ships, and More

Don't get maine wrong, the 2017 mentation of Battlefront II is precise good. But it stood connected the shoulders of giants, namely, the archetypal 2 Star Wars Battlefront games from the 2000s. Even 2 decades later, the 2005 Battlefront II is considered 1 of the champion Star Wars games of each time, and you tin stake that a batch of fans were disappointed erstwhile a 3rd installment ne'er saw the airy of time (though we did get immoderate large PSP spin-offs).

In the past 20 years, this crippled has been subjected to hundreds of mods changing conscionable astir everything you tin imagine. Modders person added dozens of caller maps to play on, hundreds of reskins, brand-new classes, and adjacent full crippled modes that didn't beryllium successful the archetypal game, specified arsenic the ground-to-space combined battles that were Elite Squadron. Some mods wholly overhaul galactic conquest, portion others adhd successful different eras of the universe, specified arsenic the Old Republic era. You tin remaster the full happening with mods alone.

Heck, 1 feline made a mod that recreates the archetypal 2 levels of Metal Gear Solid in the Battlefront II engine, though I'm not definite what his expansive imaginativeness is. At immoderate rate, by merit of being old, popular, and beauteous casual to mod, the 2005 Star Wars Battlefront II is simply a crippled that tin person thousands of hours of replayability added to its already large vanilla self, being good worthy replaying adjacent if you've sunk a 1000 hours into it already.

Plus, if you're a Halo instrumentality who ever wished that determination was a Battlefront benignant crippled for the Halo universe, there's a mod for that too.

1 Star Wars Jedi Academy: New Stories, Total Conversions, Graphic Overhauls, and More

Jedi Academy is simply a large crippled each connected its own. To this day, it inactive has 1 of the astir robust lightsaber combat systems successful a Star Wars video game. Despite being a wholly fantabulous rubric with a communicative that demands astatine slightest 2 replays, determination decidedly comes a clip erstwhile you've seen it each the crippled loses a spot of its luster. Thankfully, a batch similar the archetypal Battlefront II, the crippled is beloved and casual to enactment with, truthful determination are tons of mods for it.

Most notably, determination are a ton of communicative mods for this game, adding wholly archetypal stories with their ain characters and levels to play with. A batch of them adjacent person voice-acting. Some of these mods don't adhd caller stories per se, but make levels that let you to play done iconic moments successful Star Wars, specified arsenic duels from the movies oregon events from the Clone Wars animated TV series.

There are besides conversion mods that alteration the crippled to an wholly antithetic IP, arsenic good arsenic plentifulness of mods that absorption connected conscionable bringing this aged gem up to a much modern graphical standard, whether it's implicit HD overhauls oregon AI upscaling mods. Personally, I deliberation the breadth of single-player contented mods makes Jedi Academy worthy respective replays connected their own, arsenic they are each similar an other introduction into the Jedi Knight series.

That said, don't conscionable bounds yourself to Jedi Academy. There are plentifulness of mods to look into for the different entries successful the Jedi Knight bid arsenic well, including the games that started it all, Dark Forces.

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At the extremity of the day, astir each of the classical Star Wars games person immoderate large mods for them, but the ones we've talked astir contiguous are examples of titles that tin acquisition the biggest transformations with mods. If you don't person a PC and modding isn't an enactment for you, don't worry—there are plentifulness of amazing Star Wars classics that are good worthy your clip if you haven't played them before.