Lucas Arts



The game development firm of Lucas Film Licensing LLC (of George Lucas and Star Wars fame) that's in charge of doling out the license for all official Star Wars and Indiana Jones games. In addition to the aforementioned, the studio is also famous for producing adventure games like Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle as well as the Monkey Island series (and most recently, the Mercenaries series), as well as a series of World War II and Star Wars-themed flight sims developed by Lawrence Holland's Totally Games! studio, mainly Battlehawks1942, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and the X Wing and TIE Fighter space combat games.

More recent titles that they've either published or developed in-house include Fracture, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (note that its sequel, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames had its publishing rights given to Electronic Arts by developer Pandemic) and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. However, The Force Unleashed would prove to be the last in-house game developed by Lucas Arts; soon afterward, in the summer of 2008, the studio was disbanded, with Lucas Arts announcing that it would go back to its roots as strictly a title publisher.

Compare Sierra, their main Adventure Game rival.

Lucas Arts' famed graphic adventure games include, in chronological order:


 * Labyrinth
 * Maniac Mansion
 * Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
 * Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
 * Loom
 * The Secret of Monkey Island
 * Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
 * Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
 * Day of the Tentacle
 * Sam & Max Hit the Road
 * Full Throttle
 * The Dig
 * The Curse of Monkey Island
 * Grim Fandango
 * Escape from Monkey Island
 * The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
 * Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition

Lucas Arts' Star Wars titles include (hardly a complete list; see also Star Wars Expanded Universe):


 * Rebel Assault, an arcade-style Full Motion Video game.
 * The Dark Forces Saga, starting with Dark Forces
 * Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight
 * Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy
 * The X-Wing Series, starting with X Wing
 * TIE Fighter
 * X Wing vs. Tie Fighter
 * X Wing Alliance
 * Rebellion
 * Force Commander
 * Knights of the Old Republic
 * Republic Commando
 * Battlefront
 * Empire At War
 * All three Lego Star Wars games
 * The Force Unleashed, the most recent Star Wars game title to date

Lucas Arts' flight simulators include, in chronological order:


 * Battlehawks 1942
 * Their Finest Hour
 * Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
 * Its sequel, Secret Weapons over Normandy
 * The X-Wing series could also be considered, oddly enough, a Spiritual Successor, being developed by the same studio, Totally Games!

Other Lucas Arts games:


 * Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction (once again, note that its sequel went to Electronic Arts)
 * Fracture
 * Afterlife
 * Outlaws (1997 video game)
 * Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine
 * Lucidity
 * Gladius
 * Big Sky Trooper
 * Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Prior to the formation of Lucasarts, Lucasfilm created several titles for the Atari and Commodore home computers. These were developed under the Lucasarts Games banner and published by various companies:


 * Rescue on Fractalus
 * Ballblazer
 * Koronis Rift
 * The Eidolon
 * PHM Pegasus
 * Strike Fleet