History VideoGame / ThePhantomMenace

** If any cheats are used, then the player's rank at the end of the game is "Cheater".

* EscortMission: Oh so many of them. Jar-Jar at certain points, but Padmé gets the biggest amount of escorting. Notably, at least one of those has you escorting the decoy Queen Sabé, though the game never tells you this.

''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' is an action-adventure video game adaptation of the film of the same name, released on PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 1999.

** If any cheats are used, then the player's rank at the end of the game will be "Cheater".

* ButThouMust: Your last dialogue tree playing as Queen Amidala. Nute Gunray asks her if she's decided to sign the treaty, to which she can say "You will pay for your actions, villain!" or "That's impossible!" He'll send in battle droids after the queen regardless of the option.

* CameraScrew: A very frequent complaint cited with the game is its really uncomfortable camera angle, which is fixed to an almost top-down view only tilted slightly, and zoomed so far in that you can't see any further than a few feet in front of you.

** Jar Jar has far less screentime in the game than in the movie, showing up in the second and third levels in important roles, but then disappearing altogether in later missions. The Battle of the Grassy Plains happens offscreen.

* ChainOfDeals: To pad the events of Mos Eisley, you have to perform a series of trades to get enough money to pay Watto and the final parts of Anakin's podracer.

* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: The mission where you have to retrieve Anakin's ignition capacitor. It's been stolen by a scurrying little creature you have to chase around the arena, who doesn't look too formidable, but the abundance of health power-ups once you follow him into his hideout make it obvious you're not gonna get it back without a fight. [[spoiler: Turns out the thief has passed it on to a heavily armed scavenger, protected by automatic turret guns that can re-spawn infinitely.]]

** Jar Jar has far ''lesser'' screentime in the game than in the movie, showing up in the second and third levels in important roles, but then disappearing altogether in later missions. With the movie's Battle of the Grassy Plains happening off-camera.

* LateCharacterSyndrome: Captain Panaka and Queen Amidala are only playable in the later levels and have less abilities than the Jedi.

* ReflectingLaser: As Captain Panaka, players can earn a Light-Refracting Laser which bunces off surfaces until it hits targets. This firearm is unique solely for the Captain, unless the players decide to cheat using an All-Weapons Enabled code.

* IFoughtTheLawAndTheLawWon: A ironic variation. Despite being a seedy WretchedHive, if you start murdering civilians in Mos Espa, the game will not stop spawning enemies (who are likely criminals rather than CityGuards) to kill the player.

** One of the Theed Missions have the player gaining access to a probe droid, which assists by firing lasers at battle droids. Doubles as a ContinuityNod; the droid looks exactly the same as Luke Skywalker's training droid in ''Film/ANewHope''.

* {{Expy}}: The Tatooine town guards, being an unidentified muscular alien race who attacks with large cudgels and axes, is one of these to the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Gamorrean guards]]. This is because the developers were told not to include characters from the original trilogy and had to change the design.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The game's version of Watto is considerably less obnoxious compared to his film counterpart. While he still dismisses Qui-Gon's offer of payment in Republic credits as worthless, he immediately suggests wagering half the normal price of a hyperdrive generator on the podraces as an alternative, is readily amenable to escalating the bet to include Anakin's freedom so long as Qui-Gon puts up either Amidala's ship or Anakin's podracer as collateral, and hands over both Anakin and the generator without much fuss afterwards.

* {{Expy}}: The Tatooine town guards, being an unidentified muscular alien race who attacks with large cudgels and axes, seems to be one of these to the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Gamorrean guards]].

** In Tatooine, you can obtain a necessary PlotTrinket by saving Tomo, a young Ithiorian child, at which point Tomo's mother will give you the item in gratitude... or screw that, just kill Tomo's mother and steal the item yourself.