The video game borrows it's title from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which in the scene which Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi talk about Luke's father, Obi-Wan Kenobi mentions that he fought in the clone wars. 13 years after the video game as release, the animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) premiered on American television. In X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), three X-Men trainees go to the cinema to see Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).
Marcia Cross (The voice of Jean Grey) would later star in the feature film Bringing Up Bobby (2011) which was written and directed by Famke Janssen whom played Jean Grey in the X-Men films.
The game predicted the future: In 2002, 20th Century Fox, the production company that produced and broadcast X-Men: The Animated Series (1992) and the X-Men (2000) film franchise (2000 - 2019) released Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), the 5th movie in the Star Wars series and the spin-off animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) premiered for the first time on American television in 2008. In 2009, Disney bought Marvel Studios (The studio behind the X-Men movies and the Marvel Cinematic Universe). In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm (The studio behind the Star Wars films) and in 2017, Disney bought 20th Century Fox (The studio behind both the Star Wars and X-Men film franchises). Mark Hamill who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies provided the voice of Wolverine in X2 - Wolverine's Revenge (2003).