All West End Games Star Wars products must have been certified from Lucas Films, sometimes this was leading to problems for West End Games.
This doesn't in any way mean that they're accurate. If LucasArts did some sort of "lore quality control", the details of the games and books wouldn't be highly contradicting, inaccurate and plain wrong. For example, you wouldn't have one series (X-Wing) where the Star Destroyer's reactor is correctly depicted as a reactor, and one where it's a shield generator (Rogue Squadron).
Sure it got silly, don't tell me about it, but that's not the point.
Inaccurate, sure, but silly? Nah. Nothing is silly after Rebel Strike. T-47's picking up bombs with their tow cables and hurling them into walkers, Luke mowing down half the Imperial assault force on Hoth, singlehandedly, with a pistol, from astride a tauntaun; the horrible dialogue ("I see him!" declares a pilot when a TIE is two meters behind him; "the Imperials must be trying to protect something!" says Luke Einstein while taking on Imperial fighters guarding a facility he knows to be there)... I could go on and on.
Not even Galactic Battleground, with its gungans warriors riding birds of prey into space, is ridiculous after Rebel Strike. The game has vaccinated me for all eternity and nothing will ever make my jaw drop anymore.
"One of the bitches actually gave birth while she was attacking, and her puppies joined in on the carnage."
--the awesomeness that is Boatmurdered.