My star wars interest has awakened again with andor, and ive so far tortured myself through jar jar binks in episodes 1 and 2 to refresh the lore on palpatines rise to power and transformation from the republic to the empire.
I am considering jumping into the clone wars before moving into episode 3. Both movie, series and the ps2-era game.
Are they worth it from a lore perspective?
Disney bought Star Wars in 2012, and it officially branched its canon in 2014 away from the existing EU. What that means is anything made before 2014 except for the main movies, the Clone Wars CGI cartoon, and the Rebels cartoon is not part of Disney canon.
Some elements of the classic EU have been reincorporated back into the Disney canon, but often remixed when they show back up.
What that means is old EU material isn’t directly part of canon and can only sometimes at best be used to guess at what might be in the new canon.
That said, the Tarkovsky Clone Wars cartoon rocks. I haven’t played the PS2 Clone Wars game, but the Republic Commando game is really great and has a modern widescreen fan fix now. The books about clones were interesting, a different take than the modern canon with clones having a much more Mandalorian cultural influence.
Ah good to know - i really enjoyed some of the EU back in the day, like the kyle katarn stuff and shadow of the empire (maybe its mostly nostalgia). But i guess whatever happens in the clone wars game will not be “accurate” as the lore input im after. I did barely play both it and republic commando as a kid - i remember republic commando being pretty cool, but at the time i couldnt get into it (maybe i couldnt figure out the tactical stuff or maybe i was just too busy force grip kicking people online in jedi academy?). Cool to hear it has a widescreen fix! I see its on gog, so i might grab myself a copy!