STAR WARS™ Rebellion

It gives me great pain to only rate this as one star. Not because the game deserves it, but because the limitations and minor bugs that exist in this version. I loved this game back when I owned it for Windows 95 and got it as soon as I found it here. Unfortunately there are some minor technical issues that restrict your actions (very precise click locations) that are frustrating.

This is in my top two PC games of all time - ecstatic to see it on GOG. When it came out it got mediocre reviews. Why? I'll never know. Most of the spite seemed to be due to "micromanagement" required, but that's misleading. There is so much you can do here, so many strategies that, yes, the learning curve is high. But you can slow turns down and you really don't feel limited. For example, don't have the ships to counter an enemy fleet directly? Send a cheap sabotage mission vs their Star Destroyer. Opponent holding a system only through force? Send an incite uprising mission. Each game is different and it makes for intense multiplayer. Buy it.

I've been playing this game for 25 years now, and I always come back to it. It's a great 4x Strategy game set in the Star Wars Universe. It uses a lot of characters from the old Expanded Universe/Legacy Books.

I'm 45 years old and I've been playing this game since I was a 17-year-old in high school. It was great then and it remains great now.

2 stars are because it randomly crashes. Autosave would have been nice. Fantastic classic game though.