The remastered edition of Republic Commando, the best-remembered video game attached to the project, was only just released, and I haven't had time to dig into it. I didn't read the seven Clone Wars novels released as part of the project because life is too short (though maybe I'll give Shatterpoint a shot when it gets re-released as part of the Essential Legends line later this year). While Shadows of the Empire was limited to a single novel, one comic book series, and a Nintendo 64 video game, the Clone Wars project had multiple releases in each of those formats, plus the animated series.

Lucasfilm used the template it established with Shadows of the Empire in 1998 for the Clone Wars multimedia project, telling an interconnected tale across various mediums. With that '2D micro-series' becoming available to stream for the first time, it seemed like the perfect moment to revisit that original telling of the Clone Wars, which has a strikingly different, darker tone than its successor. The crown jewel of that project was Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: Clone Wars series, now a part of Disney+'s Star Wars: The Vintage Collection. This initiative saw the Star Wars Expanded Universe chronicling the Clone Wars conflict between its beginning in Attack of the Clones in 2002 and end with the release of Revenge of the Sith in 2005.

However, in 2003, five years before Star Wars: The Clone Wars debuted, Lucasfilm launched the Clone Wars multimedia project.

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