Well,
1. Brought FPS to the console market and made it really, really popular.
2. Brilliant computer AI for the time.
3. Context sensitive damage to enemies (meaning the react to where you shoot them)
4. Had stealth gameplay for an FPS
5. Zoomable weapons (the sniper for example)
6. Objective based missions based on your difficulty level (something games should do again)
7. And doing a kickass split screen FPS multiplayer.
Remember this game came out before Thief, Half Life and such. It did alot things new for the genre. And you can say, "well, maybe console FPS" but that's still important. Maybe FPS on the console would of been set back a few years if publishers didn't realize FPS could be done well and be extremely popular. ****, Goldeneye sold the N64.
Originally posted by Jmanghan
Its based off the Star Wars [B]universe. [/B]
Which started off as a movie.
Kinda like Arkham Games are based off the DC universe. But meh, if you want it to be games based on the specific movie itself rather than based on the universe created by the movie, up to you. But you're excluding a ton of games...