Star Wars Episode 2 on PlayStation 2

In a recent Japanese magazine interview with George Lucas, the creative genius behind Star Wars stated he really wants to see a game based on Star Wars Episode 2 made for Sony's PlayStation 2. Lucas mentioned that he feels the PS2 can successfully reproduce the CG visuals in the movie and that it may be possible to use the original CG movie data directly on the PlayStation 2.

Earlier this year we reported on Roger Ebert's (of the Chicago Sun Times) discussion with Lucas, in which Lucas continually praised the PlayStation 2 hardware. "The thing about the PlayStation 2 is that it works in real time," said Lucas. "We didn't make Phantom Menace in real time. Some of the shots in the film took 48 hours to render. We had huge, giant computers cranking every minute of the day. Here they're doing it in real time as you sit there."