WHY I LOVE WHAT MAKES GAMES SPECIAL
There’s an art to good videogame cannon fodder. Your classic villainous mook needs to have personality, yet be morally uncomplicated to kill by the dozen; fun to smash to bits, without it feeling sadistic or gruesome; enough of a threat to engage you, but not so much that you don’t relish any chance to fight them. You know who ticks all those boxes? Star Wars’ battle droids.
Introduced in the justly maligned prequel movies, battle droids have nonetheless stood the test