Star Wars™: Rebel Assault 1 + 2

I remember modifying firing up my 386DX/33 CPU with a double speed CD-rom and sound blaster 1.0. and modifying my Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files like crazy to get the first Rebel Assualt to work on my system. I remember seeing the looping demo(no playable levels) for it at a friends house which I went home and with paper route money, ordered it though the LucasArts catalog. Three impatient shipping weeks later, I finally had my game! I used a CH Flightstick, which was pretty good for X-Wing series/F117A Flight Sims and such. I loaded up the game, awesome title intro, loved the sound and onto the first level where i am informed that beggars canyon is a simple run. Then I took control.....right into the canyon wall, then the next wall and over and over into death explosion....awesome. This game kicked my butt and after multiple tries, I went into the options menu to see if I had inadvertently turned on the "Your Ship is a Rubber Band" option. Nope, none to be found. This game is hard. Overtime I learned to not steer so hard, still it was a tough game. Today I tried it again for the first time in decades, still Holy krap is this game hard, especially Rebel Assault 1. The first Rebel Assault game was something ahead of its time when it came out and showed just WHY it was important to own a CD-ROM. The game did so well as to spawn a sequel (Rebel Assault II) in which i also enjoyed years later on my upgraded Pentium 90mhz machine. Are these games for you? If you are looking for a sim that is something just like X-Wing/Tie Fighter series then this isn't it. But if you like Star Wars and can forgive the pixel heavy/rubberband bouncing pre-rendered levels. Then you will have fun with this. A Joystick is a must, as the mouse can be tough to control. As for me, Nostalgia has been satisfied, and I now have the opportunity to pass it to my sons, so they can cuss in anger as they smack against the canyon wall time and time again, just as i did all those years ago.

Well this game has some fun moments, there is no denying that. However there is some serious control problems that really could of been fixed for this release. Certain missions in this game fail hard due to extreme sensitivity and in my experience random drifting. This problem will cause endless game overs and plenty of frustration. However the levels that do not involve this third person perspective are quite fun and very enjoyable. I wouldn't recommend it until it is cheaper.

If you want to get so ticked off, scream, punch your monitor, throw the PC, and to tell your kids to leave the house? This is the game for you! I have the CD version of Rebel Assault 1 and 2 (haven't played yet) but let me tell you some pointers. Use a joystick, (CH Flight Stick kind not the push button types) the game responds better, the mouse is useless and not fast enought. Horrible controlling action. Honestly you can fly better drunk! Most game play action is on a specific path and you just control a limited range of movement. Some levels are just finding the proper range of motion and had eye coordination and well, luck. I did complete the game and nearly destroyed a CH Flightstick (still the best!). There is tips on the internet. Good luck!

I would avoid the first, but the second is playable. I am 32 years old. I played this on it's original CD. Some of these kids reviewing this game are horribly misinformed. It's primitive but it is not a "bad game"... It DOES hold up given what it is... The game was from a time before most of these kids reviewing it were born. This game was from a time were FMV was an art form, and a very common / accepted way to play video games... They don't make FMV games anymore... You should be reasonable going into this game. You can't compare it to something it never was. If you're buying this expecting it to be anything other than a FMV game then that's your problem, not a fault of the game... The game itself has fun cinematics, that are sometimes funny (Mostly unintentionally like most FMV games). It's a bit cheesy but it's also a lot of fun. The cinematics still hold up reasonably well but of course you aren't going to get HD, 4K quality cinematics...more like a buffering youtube video. XD It's sometimes difficult to see where you're going in the flight sections of the game, but never so much that it's unplayable. This game came out before the Phantom Menace was even released. It was the closet thing to a new star wars movie that any could experience at the time. The game has numerous difficulty settings and on Beginner I managed to beat it again in just a few hours.You might need to change your mouse speed, mine is set a little lower in windows. Some sequences will take more than one play through. It just takes practice/ patience to beat this game. I had a blast replaying it in just one sitting. I can assure people that they can't beat this, then they just suck at this form of gameplay. It can be challenging, and some parts can take a few tries but it's not impossible. It's basically a rail game, sort of a arcade type of thing... It's still fun to play for its story, visuals but of course it's an archaic piece of video game history.