"throw him in the holding cell with the rest of them" "where am I?" "you're in a holding cell with the rest of us" genuis

I liked it when Dooku said "It's Dooking Time"

I love the addition of Mace saying "We've received reports of separatist activity in the system" and Obi Wan "Raxus is back water planet of no strategic importance" despite its sister planet within the same system, Raxus Secundus being the literal capital of the CIS at this point in the war.

I just realized...the Sith essentially made a super weapon to power their larger super weapon

Constantly failing a hover tank mission on Geonosis for no reason is one of the core memories from my childhood but I never remembered anything about the game except that it was on that 2 sided Tetris disk. Thank you for giving me closure.

A small detail in one of the cutscenes I noticed that's actually pretty cool was during the briefing to the clones before the Thule mission. As a kid I thought it was funny that they had only 50 clones in that room, like that was the whole army that they had for the Thule attack, but as an adult I noticed all those clones are marked with red (Lieutenants) or gold/yellow (Commanders). In real life a military briefing like this would be shown only to the officers, who then disseminate it later to the lower ranked soldiers under their command. Pretty cool how they followed that with the clones ranks.

I love that the whole, soul harvesting super weapon is in what is the galactic version of the garbage field. Like someone just threw away a super weapon.

My favorite part is honestly how consistently everyone has their lightsaber out. Mace wakes up, turns on his lightsaber, goes to the ship, turns it off, gets in the ship and flies to the surface of the planet, turns his lightsaber on to get out of the ship then turns it off to get into the tank. Turns it on as he leaves the tank to get into another ship where he turns it off. Gets out of that ship and turns it on to walk to the tank then turns it off again. Then he gets out of the tank to talk to some soldiers so he has to turn it on before he gets into another ship to fly somewhere else where he must turn it off. Why? I just don't understand why he would bother doing that.

The two things you didn't mention. Is how when you are on the droid speeders running from the soul harvester wave you are supposed to ring a bunch of bells to warn the wookie villages... that the death wave instantly envelops! Then in the final battle as you move in there is a breif voice clip if you keep your clone allies alive saying how they will help you fight it despite the fact Anakin is the only one immune. And they instantly die letting out death screams the instant the boss starts shooting.

5:49 ahhh that period of almost a year where we didn't actually have Clone Starfighters so they spammed Jedi stsrfighters everywhere. Presumably with clone pilots.

I loved constantly having to replay the Kashyyyk prison escape mission and hearing Dooku say, “You won’t be needing your lightsaber anymore-“ before skipping the cutscene!

Oddly enough, the thing I remember most about this game was the local multiplayer. Iirc, you could do 4 splitscreen versus and it was a fucking blast. The CIS droid with the two big wheels was always the most fun because it had a very slow default speed but also had a boost that took you immediately to 200 mph and would instakill any player right in front of it

I loved backstabbing sauron, instantly killing him, in lord of the rings conquest

Despite the sheer quantity, a LOT of this deluge of early 2000s prequel trilogy era Star Wars games were really quite solid in their own ways. I respect the Ulic Qel Droma shoutout too.

Do note that in Academy mode, the playable super battle droid has lock-on targeting. If anyone picks them, instead of having to do lightsaber things or missing every shot they easily earn ten times the score.

That RTS bit in the multiplayer at the end made it into Lego Clone Wars singleplayer

Yeah this game was a fucking trip, really fun multiplayer though, like strangely Battalion Wars in gameplay style

This game was such a blast, even though the story doesnt really exist. At least, it will keep you going on and the battles are so awesome. Too bad the multiplayer didnt truly pick up, because the concquest game mode was really unique for a game like this. Yeah sure, Battlefront was already around, but this was good enough too.

I love the ‘oops wrong clip gags’ this game almost guarantees multiple attempts on each level

One of the interesting things to notice is the lack of Venators. They weren't introduced until Revenge of the Sith.

As someone who lives in Albuquerque, seeing someone compare it to a giant wasteland full of hive minded insectoid creatures, a massive industrial and military complex, and the meeting place of galactic corporations forming an alliance to start a massive war actually paints this city in a very positive light! I can only hope it can become the great metropolis of culture you have portrayed it as! Fantastic video as well! Great job as it was a great watch all the way through. My friends and I were obsessed with the arena multiplayer!

Obi-Wan: “Anakin, target the central booby” Anakin *licks lip*: this is where the fun begins!”

21:29 the biggest strange thing here is anakin actually listening to obi wan

I'm literally remaking the first levels of this game in Unity as a passion project. A little hard since I'm no artist and everything is mostly boxes. But one step at a time! This video gave me another spark of inspiration to keep going, so thank you!

Souls: Harvested Stars: Warred Younglings: MORBED

"I've never done a video essay before" I thought the video on your homemade torture game was an essay.

Honestly I love the dark reaper by a video game narrative stand point, it’s a ancient unstoppable super weapon, at the beginning of the game you only get a small glimpse of its core. Later you see this monstrous core in action, and that’s only a battery for a much greater monstrosity. The entire story revolves around this core, and in the final battle with the dark reaper, your not shooting at dooku, your shooting that same core from the beginning of the game.

I imagine, given that the engineer commander runs out with dozens of blasters firing at his back, that the other engineers are already gone by this point, having fought through the whole base to get to and damage the shield generator, which cannot be repaired in time to save the personnel of the base.

Laughing my ass off and I'm only 5 minutes in. This is so great.

The fact that you parodied the Clone Wars cartoon's intro, WITH the music no less, just adds to the video. It's also nice to see the good Clone Wars game get some love.

My favorite part is when Obi-wan develops a cavity and Dooku backflips off of the catwalk above Obi-wan, lands in front of him and goes " Lollipops. The root of your weakness. "

I do love how random the music choices are, like playing the Han Solo and Leia love theme when Anakin lands in front of the Jedi temple like why?

"Conquest. Capture all the territories"... That voice will always resonate in my head

Because you mentioned it now, you’re obligated to make an essay on the masterpiece that is LoTR conquest

The best part of the speech that Mace Windu gives at 51:00 is how almost every clone is neither facing him nor the direction they are going to charge

Holy shit this is such a deep memory, I remember playing this as a very young child

The Soul Harvester/Dark Reaper becomes relatively more normal once that cutscene established it was from the Old Republic. Shit was just like that back then, bioware even created a planet of superweapons to explain why there are so many superweapons in their game/setting. I even checked the wiki, and was suprised to find they were original to the game and not the media that told the story of Exar Kun and Qel-Droma. Nope.

I'm actually really glad you included all the tidbits about the voice actors because I have realized that learning about the sheer range of quality of the works that these VAs work on is fascinating. Star Wars guarantees the best results, given how many iconic voices you can hear in what can sometimes be shovelware.

Man I remember playing this game with my friends back in the day. we would always to 2v2 conquest and the teams of two would often discuss strategy. the most common one was have one player build up the home while the other player rushes to the middle. It got some early fights going and whoever won the middle was often time the winner. One time however this meta was shaken. Team... Blue we'll call them Had captured the middle, Team red was a bit demoralized but had a plan. Team red gathered all of their troops at their HQ and didn't attack only defended. Blue team thought this was going to be easy pickings, they sprinted forth and skirmished with the bases. But after one was destroyed, Red set their plan into motion. Red had trapped the blue players in the outpost they destroyed by rushing in and gunning them both down. After this was complete. the Red team pushed Up on the D pad. and all 8 of their troops sallied forth and charged as one mass. Blue's attempt to stop them didn't pan out. They were encountering defeat after defeat trying to stop the Red mass. And thus Blue had their fate sealed. The Blue HQ was being over run by the Red mass. and their HQ was destroyed. Red had won the game. and shook the meta.

As crazy as the story is for someone with minimal/no exposure to The Expanded Universe, it actually ties in very nicely with other materials and is a great way to send Ulic Qel-Droma's character off.

After years of trying to find what this game was called, we finally have proof that it wasn't just a fever dream Also, I've always found it funny that you get a droid going "waaahhhooooww" when you're at low health, even when you're on foot.

Wow. Dooku getting a weapon of mass destruction and that shot of one of his bounty hunter shooting Anakin in the back is perfect for a divergent timeline where Dooku betrays Palpatine.

The second you mentioned Anakin fighting ghosts in a tank, a deep memory awakened Within Me causing me to out loud Shout "I've played this!" What a Wild game

22:00 Isn't Mace something of a future seer? Something about shatter-points? It would make sense for him to be able to tell people to go to a random area to set up fates or whatever the writers decide.

The fred voice actor part with his silhouette in the background had me spit my drink all over my monitor I couldn't stop laughing I had to pause the video

As someone from New Jersey, I can confirm that we live in a barren war-torn wasteland

Bruh that nostalgia hits hard I got that double disc with my Xbox back in 2003 for Christmas!

This was my favorite video game as a kid. I played it on the gamecube with my brother and we bonded over it. We used to play the arena mode at night when our parents were asleep. This game made for some fantastic memories.

It's scary how I can only remember the LAAT mission from when I was younger. The more I watch this the more I feel like you've broken into the deep recesses in the back of my brain.

Ah yes, I remember the important arc where Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi stopped Dooku's soul harvester in season 13 of the Clone Wars TV show

I can't believe SS13 actually got to be in this game so early after its conception - truly a marvel of the robust UI and such.

Ah, the game that cemented my everlasting love for the sabre tank. Thanks for putting some awareness for this game out there, over the years trying to find reference images for some of its unique vehicles, like the convoy ones, has been an absolute pain. Hoping more stuff pops up

I remember lord of the rings conquest...it was fun. Stupid, but fun. Caving in skulls as Sauron never gets old... Also I fucking swear I played this before!

I remember this game! Its probably one of my favorite "tank games" of its time - it was actually an interesting take on vehicle combat with a Star Wars theme on top. Its not special, but its also a game from 2002 - you know, 20 years ago (cough). I think it executed its goals really well, and I really liked how all of the vehicles where distinct and not copies of eachother which was more common at the time.

No matter how many times I watch this I can’t get over how good that intro was and I just want to hear Tom Kane voicing it so very badly

I played this game to death as a kid. Seeing it on screen was like realizing something you'd dismissed as a dream was real. This unearthed an entire era of my past.

Fun fact: in Brazil count Dooku is called Dookan, because Dooku sounds something like "count of the ass" in portuguese

This would have been so much better if it was about a clone tank crew and their story through the war, not just the Jedi without lightsabers.

This video violently unlocked several core memories.

I just remember how when you throw a lightsaber, the characters upper and lower torso seemed to act independently... The upper torso would keep facing the lightsaber, while the legs would go whatever direction you were running 😂

i wanna get on count dooku's wild ride!! wait what do you mean i'm gonna get my soul harvested

I remember this game. Ulic Qel Droma appears in it. The final boss was an utter SOB, if i remember well. Dooku is voiced by Corey Burton in it too, like in both Clone Wars series.

I keep coming back to this video just from the title alone. Count Dooku's Soul Harvester

Glad I'm not the only one with fond childhood memories of this game.

What I really loved about this game is that it also introduced Old Republic era lore. Ulic-Qel-Droma was even mentioned in Kotor 2.

I liked the scene where Yoda pegged Dooku

I like how half the issues that he's dealing with in this game are because he's running a 60 fps emulation of the game, so the physics, gamespeed, and enemy AI are way more aggressive and damaging.

I remember playing this game as a kid but never finished it because I got stuck on the Mace Windoo walk section at 17:55 toward the gunship. I was being an idiot and trying to bruce force everything while walking thinking I was a one man army. "Oh there's a giant walking spider robot tank heading towards me? TIME TO SLICE AND DICE!!!"

The jokes in this. Oh my god. I basically laughed the whole way through. That moment when the game completely halts and Vale says to just wait a bit. I was dead. 🤣

This is the best Star Wars game of all time for me simply for the nostalgia of the countless hours that me and my littler brother played this game together.

For the longest time I've had an old memory of playing a Star Wars game with a mission to blow up the Techno Union ships and wondered to myself 'What was that game? It was good fun.' I have no other recollection of this game though and I don't know why just that bit has stuck with me so much.

i loved this game as a kid there was an extremely small group of kids who liked the vehicles in Star wars specifically and this game was amazing in that extremely specific regard. Always wanted to play a game like this as the Empire. I remember playing this game and "RoboTech" around the same time and loving the niche "vehicle combat" genre like twisted metal. Also watching this game im surprised how little I actually remember about it, it really is a complete fever dream.

I played Lord of the Rings Conquest 10 years ago at a friend's house and for the last 10 years, I tried to find it again. You just changed my life with an offhand joke.

I'd somehow memory-holed the Kashyyk level. 'Riding a dinosaur armed with 2 laser cannons, a seismic charge emitter, and a grenade launcher'. Are we sure this game wasn't a reskinned spin-off from Turok? 'riding a weaponized dinosaur through a jungle to kill mosquitoes' ARE WE SURE THIS ISN'T SOME ORPHAN CHILD FROM THE TUROK FRANCHISE? 'Uses a tank to blow up coffins while ghosts chase you around shooting fireballs' See above question.

I have a playlist called “a sleeping video”. This is the only video in the playlist. I listen to this to fall asleep 3-7 nights a week.

Lord of the Rings Conquest was an absolute banger, Battlefront but LotR. I am so glad somebody else also acknowledge its existence.

This was one of favorite games as a kid.

I remember just jumping into conquest, capturing all bases, sending both armies to fight each other, and just pretending it was a singleplayer mode. Just don't shoot your allies too much or they'll turn around and shoot you back.

I remember playing this fever dream of a game when I was a child. It is a special little game.

Bro I fucking loved this game as a kid, so fucking stoked to see someone finally cover this

honestly, for a first video essay this is phenomenal! Seems more like you've done this for 5 years. Im watching a bunch of different channels with that kinda format and you're holding up entirely, which is not at all expected. This stuff takes practice. Congrats!

When you said if you’ll let me chuck in an ahoy reference, I 100% thought you said a hoi reference, and was completely baffled for a good few seconds.

This was my first video game. Unironically, this was the first video game I ever played, so seeing this video is bringing back so many memories of playing the neat Star Wars game on my dad's Xbox.

THANK YOU I missed this game! I have so many fond memories playing this as a kid. You've made my week.

My friends and I used to play hours of this game’s multiplayer during Lan parties. The firefight was tons of fun and the campaign for my childhood was awesome. With all the walkers and and sound affects. It may not age well…but damn it was fun when I was young.

This game was an instant buy for me the moment they added to backwards compatibility back in November. It's one of those few games for me that really give you a big battle scale. All the stuff on Thule was incredible for me.

You just brought back so many memories of playing Lord of the Rings Conquest with my friends. Thank you

this videos keeps getting recommended to me every so often and i watch it every time. its so good

I like it when Windu said *"It's Morbin time"* 😂 Ah yes, games back then when you can exploit AI's bad pathfinding by circling around them

This was also one of my fever dream games that I played once (I had the tetris double disk thing and remember also playing that accidentally trying to get my star wars fix) as a kid and have vague memories of but have never seen or heard about since then, thank you for proving to me that it existed

21:20 Is so fucking hilarious. Like, Anakin is not gonna listen to Obi-Wan at all until hes being fired on by an entire fleet, and then he turns around like "We should call this in." 💀

I deadass loved this game on the PS2 as a kid. Just the fact that I was playing a star wars game was all I needed to enjoy it. Though I remember wanting there to be more parts playable as a jedi instead of it being 95% vehicular gameplay. Still holds a dear place in my heart for nostalgic reasons

Oh, also, the academy vehicle map had a cave. When I played this with my sister we'd always take the tanks and hide in there, popping out to kill some enemies then letting our shields recharge. Most of them couldn't be able to get inside :'D

I was a child when I played this, so it just never occurred to me how completely ridiculous the plot was until I watched this

Vale, in my opinion, this video is one of your best. I just really like it.

Thank you for uploading this, it genuinely gave me closure on a game that I thought I simply misremembered and didn't exist.

3:50 Lord of the Rings Conquest is a personal favourite of mine, I used to play the campaign for hours, again and again, solo and co-op, glad to know I'm not the only one that remembers it

I'm happy to know that people remember this game I use to play that bad boy on the GameCube and was one of my first games

Thank you for bringing this game to the wider light, I still love it so much.

I think I remember playing this on the GameCube, I never played the campaign, my friend and I would get on and use a code to unlock a top down hoard defense mode in the Geonosis arena. That was a great time