STAR WARS™: Rogue Squadron 3D

This is a decent mission-based Star Wars arcade action game. I'm sure most people looking to purchase it either played it on PC or N64, so I'll focus on some flaws that I had forgotten that made the experience rougher than it should have been. 1. Configuring a controller requires you to boot in Windows 98 compatibility mode... but that makes the game's menu's super slow... so after you configure your controller, you'll want to exit and reboot in Windows 7/8 normal mode. This means any time you want to adjust a control, you're going to have to boot the game twice. 2. Extremely low draw distance - You can only see around a football field's length in front of you. On some levels this is frustrating and impedes progress, while on others it simply makes it difficult to get immersed in the game's graphics. 3. I played the game for a decent length and never got a mission where you freely flew in 3 dimensions (such as a space dogfighting mission). In what seems to be all missions, you're more hovering above the ground rather than freely flying, making the game feel more like Star Fox than an X-Wing game. A consequence of this is that I found my Saitek X52 flight stick to be overkill for this game, and opted to simply play with an Xbox 360 controller. 4. Alt tabbing breaks the game, and it can be frustrating to close the game with task manager. It was frustrating to be doing well in a mission, and then have the game crash because my friend sent me an IM over AIM or the java update checker popped up. 5. The sequels are only on consoles. Not a huge deal with this game, but if you'd like to play the much better Rogue Squadron 2, you're stuck dusting off the GameCube and playing with a gamecube controller (which isn't really optimized for flying games) The missions are still pretty fun, and if you can ignore the flaws I say grab this game ASAP, even if you aren't a Star Wars fan.

I have played Rogue Squadron 3D as no other game. It was nice to have a proper English version at last. Did not have any technical difficulties, yet the in-game screen size is small i.e. not full-screen and the ships in the hangar move not so smooth. Did anybody else feel like it became way easy now to beat it? Back in times I dag the data files and wrote exclusive utilities for the game and the Secrets of Star Wars®: Rogue Squadron™ at http://rogue.squadron.tripod.com/ was quite popular. Glad they may be useful again to somebody. Now moving these to a new place at https://roguesquadron3d.wordpress.com/

This game is one that is easy to learn to play, but difficult to master. The game itself is really good amd well made, I have played it and I feel that it was well worth what I paid for it. =)

Hi, enter Star Wars space crafts - (ex: X-Wing, Y-Wing, Naboo starfighter, A-Wing) + more. Enter Star Wars locations as (Luke Skywalker), like - (Mos Eisley, Barkhesh). Attack empire droids, spacecraft, ground troops. Configurable keys for (Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick/pad), like - (link weapons, thrust, brake, left, right, cycle camera, and many more + specific spacecraft keys can be configured, like (ex: up/down/left/right, and (primary + secondary weapons), this is a perfect sim for peace of playability and very entertaining. (1280*1024)(1024*768)(800*600) graphics available. Options for mouse sensitivity, (tick/untick - subtitles, autoroll, autolevel, crosshairs, flip (X, Y, Z) Ver/Hor planes) + more. With a mission commander chatter, NPC's voice speeches, (Luke, Solo) like chatter, sound effects, music. Excellent YxDDVxY

I purchased this game shortly after it was added to GoG, having incredibly fond memories of playing it years ago with a joystick when I was little. I downloaded it, and installed, the whole game coming in at less than a hundred MB if memory served so everything was fine and dandy on the installation front. Unfortunately the troubles began immediately after the opening cut scene here I was treated to black screens for menus which made it virtually impossible to navigate until I eventually, by some small miracle of luck, was able to launch the game. I was playing this game on my 360 pad, having been unable to find another joystick within my budget at the time and the game handled perfectly. The controls were responsive and laid out in a way that made sense, flight was fluid and all in all, the game itself ran fine, beyond the preexisting performance issues that are just a part of the software's age. Due to the black screen error, I was unable to properly save the game which made the time that I had spent playing it, multiple hours in fact, completely pointless. Following both a reinstall and reading through the local forums, I learned that the screen error is endemic to this version of the game, and at one point there were rumblings of a patch which, after another reinstall almost a year after the first attempt, yielded the same black screen error. Simply put; Until the error is fixed the game is virtually unplayable, which is saddening because normally I'd gush over it.