A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun crime syndicate, aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. To do that, he must eliminat...
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun crime syndicate, aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. To do that, he must eliminate young Skywalker. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance defeat the evil Xizor. Watch out for infamous bounty hunters and deadly stormtroopers! May the Force be with you!
A gripping new plotline, with new characters and environments...find out what happened between Star Wars™ The Empire Strikes Back™ and Star Wars™ Return of the Jedi™.
Five gameplay modes - in a variety of vehicles and spacecraft - from the heavily armored Outrider, to snowspeeders, hovertrains, jet packs, and speeder bikes.
Action-packed Star Wars™ locales - including Mos Eisley and the ice planet Hoth. New locales, like the sewers of Imperial City, Xizor's palace, Gall Spaceport and the dreaded junkyards of Ord Mantel.
Owned this on N64 back in the day. Always heard the PC version was superior due to exclusive FMVs that wasn't possible on N64 and better controls. I remember this game being pretty hard and it still kind of is. I bought this for the childhood nostalgia.
A long time ago in a far galaxy I played this game on my then powerful computer (Matrox Mystique + 3DFX allied to an AMD K6 200, whooo what a monster beast !).
I enjoyed the game a lot and I thought I could relive the good moments by buying the GOG version.
Alas, it is almost un playable beacuse of the joypad mapping and the fact that i can not aim up or down which I could in my early days if I remember well.
The last stages are almost impossible to complete.
I keep seeing bad reviews of the controls and was a little scared but as soon as I started the game and was playing the Hoath Level. All the controls work and mapped out nicely but the only problem is the frame rate it’s a bit too fast. I only remembered the N64 game being a slower frame rate. I feel like I’m playing this in fast mode but it’s great Nostalgia and full cut scenes but the presentation needs a little bit of work. For 1 dollar this game is worth it.
Let it be clear I don't think it any fault of GoG as the same issues are apparent on the Steam version but...
Essentially the game needs a legitimate remaster a la Nightdive Studios , but the likelihood of it getting greenlit through the intellectual property minefield that is Star Wars IP rights, and Dark Horse factors in here as well since it's technically their storyline in tandem with LucasArts IIRC. Which is really unfortunate. It's an extremely interesting entry for gaming history in a lot of ways - in spite of being a middling game even in its time that's only because it was too ambitious. Seen here are a lot of roots though - roots of the Rogue Squadron series, roots of the 3D entries in the Dark Forces series. And from the Star Wars side of things this entire storyline was a really interesting plot bridge of the ~2 years in universe between ESB and RoTJ which is now not canon AFAIK, AND YET maybe it is as Disney has renewed trademarks on some of the names and such in the storyline (Dash Rendar and Leebo, the Outrider). Not to mention this was the ONLY Star Wars media between 1983's RoTJ and the 1997 remasters. We will have to see what if anything they ever do with it.
Game runs, but faster than it probably should which creates some wonky control issues - too boot whatever the engine is doing for movement and player model movement momentum makes uneven surfaces in one level brutal (protip: crouch a lot on Gall Spaceport as it seems to anchor you). It's playable but rough and the source game, while underated in my opinion, is certainly not the strongest entry in Star Wars games. Still it is among the first to foray into 3d space and runs fully 3d modelled enemies instead of sprites which is again ambitious and worthy of respect given the era it was done in.
As a game it's alright. As a historical piece its more important than its given credit for IMHO. And as a piece of Star Wars media its been lost to time BUT is really undervalued for its role.
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