I had a lot of fun with Shadows of the Empire.
I'm inclined to think it might be an objectively terrible game but it's been to long since I played. I'll just remember the positive memories.
Exactly my thoughts.
I loved it because I really like Dash, The Outrider is a fucking cool ship and it had all forms of Star Wars action it:
Vehicle combat
Space combat
Blaster battles
What's more, you weren't saddled with playing a movie character OR a Jedi Knight. It's one of the few Star Wars games that has that much variety with an original character. Even the Dark Forces games don't have it all; no space battles.
And the locales were largely familiar places, like Hoth and Mos Eisely. And I thought the Skyhook battle at the end was fucking awesome. It was really cool seeing the Millenium Falcon zipping around space during that fight. Nice touch there.
I got all the challenge points for all difficulty levels. I loved that game so much.
But it probably is, as you said, not a really well designed game.
I will +1 all the comments about the Wrestling games, too. WCW vs. NWO, Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy are all really fun games.