STAR WARS™ Rebellion

OMG!!!! So many hours! So much time spent lovingly playing this amazing game back in the day!! Get as many SUPER STAR DESTROYERS as you want!!! Get as many DEATH STARS as you want!!!!! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buy it! And love it!!

My game crashes immediately after a space battle sequence every time. Played this game for hours and hour and hours when I was younger. Will be awesome once they get it fixed.

I'm having the same graphical issue as LordTherion. Upside pictures, which is very troubling on scroll downs as the pictures are not only upside down, but (hard to explain) not aligned with their titles. Colors are off. Icons such as characters are on the bottom of the window, separate from the name. Running windows 8. Will give better rating after tech issue is fixed. Otherwise, will get refund.

I played SO MUCH Rebellion in the early 2000s, it's not even funny. One of my all-time favorite games, and I'm very grateful to GOG for releasing it for modern PCs. If you love Star Wars and empire-management grand strategy, don't mind learning the dynamics and getting used to a unique interface, and don't care about cutting-edge graphics, then this is your game. I think it has aged really well. I did not experience any of the graphics bugs that other reviewers had mentioned. I have only had two problems with this release: 1) the briefing at the beginning cannot be skipped. You have no choice but to listen to IMP-22 or C3PO drone on and on every time you start a new game. 2) I tried playing this on my Chromebook-running-Ubuntu-running-Wine. Unlike many other GOG games (HOMM3, Fallout 1-2, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, to name a few) that work like a charm on that setup, Rebellion sadly did not. It will start, but the resolution gets all messed up and it keeps switching back to the desktop every few seconds. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT GOG's FAULT! Just letting you, Dear Reader, know in case you were interested in running this under Linux/Wine. I hope there will be a Linux version of this someday. It works just fine on my Win7 desktop.

I'm giving this three stars because I kind of see how it could be enjoyable to someone who played it back when it came out, or who has more patience for figuring out its convoluted controls- the concept is nice, but the execution is cumbersome, slow and confusing. I gave it a fair try to see if I could get into it, but it's just too complex, too abstract, and too boring and slow. This game is in dire need of a series of in-game tutorials, but instead it has C-3PO say a few words and then throw you into the game with no idea what you're doing. There apparently is a tutorial in the manual, but it's a bit much to take in, and I really wish they'd followed the philosophy of "show, don't tell". So to sum it up: maybe good, but I didn't feel like putting in the long, long hours needed to learn how to play- after a couple hours trying in vain to figure out how to properly deploy ambassadors and spies and ships and failing to achieve any desired results, I threw in the towel. I will say that I didn't encounter any of the graphical bugs that people have been mentioning, though.