Star Wars™: Rebel Assault 1 + 2

Rebel Assault is completely broken. The controls are entirely too sensitive. Even if you drop the framerate and difficulty to get pass Beggar's Canyon, you then encounter the awful aiming controls in the other stages. The second game is moderately more playable, but ultimately was much better on the 32-bit Playstation console port, so if you really want to play the second game use the methods available to you to play that one instead. I'm really concerned with GoG knowingly selling broken unplayable games. Their should at least be a warning or disclaimer on the game page. If I could get a refund, I would do so.

As a preface. I do not own this game through GOG, and through Steam instead. I came to GOG hoping to see if their version had controller compatibility because trying to play some levels becomes nearly impossible without a joystick, specifically the millenium falcon escape sequence in chapter 3 of Rebel Assault 2. If at any point you lose the center position for your mouse, you'll just start ramming into the wall over and over until you find center again, at which point you are likely dead. True, you can just skip the level by looking up all the level passwords online, but it's not the same. Plus, chapter 3 isn't the only offender. On the other hand, the first level is super easy. Granted it's a first level so I can let it slide. The second level is just perfect in my opinion. It takes some time to learn patterns and patience, but it becomes worthwhile in the end. I remember playing this game as a very young kid and never getting far, maybe it was just because i was bad or maybe the game is more unfair than I thought. I even had a full blown joystick that we used too. Man do i wish that thing still worked.

I first played these on an Apple Power Macintosh back in the day. The first one was unplayable on m&k. I got a joystick and it was better. Now if you have a controller like an Xbox controller (not sure is ps will work) it makes it the first one much easier. It definitely is hard as the controls suck but if you use the special code up + fire down + fire left + fire and right + fire at the Lucasarts logo it activates a level skip (press escape) and damage reduction (press +) that makes the first one playable. The second one is miles better. The first one is basically ANH and ESB blended together. Both games are fun and playable. I highly recommend to any SW fan but they aren't for everyone.

No sound working in the game. Tried all the sound options on the configuration. Don't waste your money.

What I always wanted in a Star Wars game - and on Gog.com. I was never a great fan of the X-Wing series, but that makes me no less a Star Wars maniac. I always fancied the idea of fighting Stormtroopers on foot, flying the Millennium Falcon, and riding a speederbike through Endor. You can do ALL of these in this game Rebel Assault II ! And more, of course. And the cutscenes were great too - featuring of course FMV, and not the previous computer graphic cutscenes of the Star Wars games before these. Okay so the speederbike level was utterly infuriating and had me pounding on the desk a lot, and the music made you even MORE tense than you were already. But it's overall a brilliant experience and I can't wait to play through it again. That was mostly about Rebel Assault II. Unfortunately I bought the original Rebel Assault some years after I'd bought that and was more than a little disappointed - there are BIG leaps in how smooth everything looks in the latter of these 2 games. But overall, even though a few of the levels do rely on the very limited 'AI' of the time involving FMV Stormtroopers popping out at set times from set places, it's a brilliant way to pass the time until they release the "Complete" edition of the new Battlefront game due this year.