Star Wars is a franchise that lends itself incredibly well to video games. It happily ditches scientific reality in favour for whatever seems cool. Ships travelling at warp speed don't need to worry about time dilation. Sound frequently travels through a vacuum and galactic politics can be summed up as goodies against baddies. Don't take this as a knock against the films though - I wouldn't have it any other way. Let the descendants of Clarke and Asimov worry about the real hard and gritty sci-fi. None of those guys invented AT-ATs.
This nonchalant approach to world-building also carries over to the planets that make up the galaxy far far away. None of them seem to have differing climates in different hemispheres. You want an ice planet? Got one! A desert planet? That's covered. How about a forest planet? Well, sorry, we're going to have to make that one a moon. This all lends itself wonderfully to being transplanted into video games. The original Star Wars: Battlefront might have been the one to get it near perfect...
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