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Awful Game - Don't Waste Your Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: November 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Overly complex game. Start to finish there is nothing exciting included in this game. Whatever side you play starts with a great disadvantage and it just goes downhill from there. Not just a challenge, each order is monotonous and the game becomes disinteresting within an hour. Don't waste you time or money.

One of the best strategy games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Rebellion is one of the best games I have ever played, second only to master of orion. In rebellion you are given very good control over your ships, great resource allocation, and pretty good troop battles. Just buy the game it's worth at least 4 times the current price, you won't be disapointed

Long but Addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most addicting games in my collection. Everytime I start to play I can't stop. The multiplayer mode is great for competitive strategists. It is the best StarWars game available for the price. There is a bit of a trade off of graphics for gameplay but so what. When you have the time to play this game comes highly recommended.

This is one of the best games ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games ever. It was very long but exciting at the same time. I loved the fact that you could build huge amounts of ships and not have a limit. The only bad thing is the stupid C-3PO thats yells at you a llot

1000x Times better than Star Wars Empire at War!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it is now an old game, But Star Wars Rebellion has a much better playability and realistic feel to it than the newer "first ever" RTS by LucasArts "Star Wars Empire at War," first ever according to LucasArts.
LucasArts wants to forget that this game was ever made. They screwed up amazingly with it... Had LucasArts actually WRITTEN A good manual for rebellion we would now be playing Rebellion II or III and not some half cocked super cool graphics pseudo Strategy game like Empire at War. The manual for Rebellion was so bad I just threw it out (it does almost ZERO good to read the manual.)

My Advice for anyone who wants a real StarWars game is pick up Rebellion if you can find it.

I couldn't give this game away.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: May 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I hate this game so much.

I was warned that the game is difficult to learn. I read the whole 170 page manual before installing it. I read the 40 page tutorial a second time before playing. After four hours of trying to get the game to work I gave up. I have an engineering degree from MIT ('93), so I'm not stupid.

The interface was the worst I have ever seen for any non-Unix software. Nothing makes sense and C3PO stands there and insults you the whole time without giving any help.

As it turns out, I had bad luck the first time I went through the tutorial. I had started the game in a situation in which I could do nothing. Except that I didn't know that since I had never played before.

Imagine a game of chess with a twist. Instead of all 16 pieces, you flip a coin to see if you get any particular piece--heads you get the piece, tails you don't. Sound interesting? Now imagine that you don't get your king. Now what? That's what the game is like. Actually, it's worse. Imagine that you are told what the pieces do in a book 170 pages long, but that you can't really see them do anything. You can't even see the board. You have to provide 100 detailed instructions about how to move each piece and the instructions don't make any sense. For instance, I had a mineral mine that could go through space, but I couldn't make spaceships. You don't know why you lost.

LucasArts should never have associated with this garbage. I thought that I would never buy another LucasArts game again without playing it first. But then I bought Rebel Alliance. Now I know I'll never buy another LucasArts game without playing it first.

I tried to give the game away, but my friend gave it back after one day. He said it was the worst game ever. It took him 40 minutes to figure out how to quit (he goes to Harvard). I tried another friend, but he gave it back (Ph.D. Penn State Industrial Engineering). I tried another friend (Psych major) who gave it to somebody else who finally threw it away, but kept the action figure. I guess that last guy never played the game because after being insulted for four hours, I don't know how anybody can like C3PO ever again.

I hate this game so much. I regret ever getting it. In fact, I couldn't play other LucasArts games that I love for 3 months until I got over the loathing toward that company. I wish I could give it negative stars. I have yet to meet somebody (flesh and blood) who likes the game. My only wish now is that I had burned the game slowly and watched the CD melt. This game is a case study in horrible design and horrible interface. I wish I could say that I learned something positive from the experience, so, well, nevermind.

Rebellion Rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Those of you that want to conquer the galaxy, this game is perfect. Not too easy, not too hard, and plenty o f ships and characters.

Not Horrible, Not Great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

While I cannot give the review that our esteemed gamer from MIT did, I also cannot give this a horrible review.

I've owned this game for over a year, and still do not feel like I understand everything about it (the manual is poorly organized and not very helpful). There are some things that do not seem to work (force training, espionage). The interface is horrendous, and the fleet battles are insanely complicated (I just let the battle play out). Add in that there are only two options for sides (Rebel and Empire), which makes repeat play a little dry. I will agree that the helpers (C-3PO and some Imperial droid) are more than a little condescending.

However, the underlying strategy engine seems sound. I jumped in without reading the manual, and got to where I thought I'd figured it out in a few days. The nice thing about this game v. other strategy games is that you cannot overpower your opponent very easily (a downfall of MOO). Once you figure out resources, the economics make the play very compelling.

If the interface was improved, and the space and ground battles strategically enhanced, then LucasArts would have a great game.

I have not played this multi-player, so I cannot comment on that aspect.

In the final analysis, this game was rushed. LucasArts should stick to space flight games like Tie Fighter and X-Wing or First Person like DFII until they figure the interface out. Don't rush these games in production!

A Good Try But could of Been MUCH better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A game that could of been one of the best games in the world for me. I love Star Wars, from movies to games. And Stratagy, sci-fi, battle games are my favorite (usually) out of all electronic games(N64, PC, Playstation, etc.). But this was a dissapointment. For one thing, the battle graphics are horrendous!! On the battle screen, one starfighter=a squadron of 12 (unless they are weakened), and shoot one laser to symbolize them battleing. And they fly around like they were on strings!! Now how cheesy is that? The Capital ships in the battle screen are low in detail and have the symbolizing lasers. Also, it is a pain to get the ships to do what you want them to do. All in all, the battle scenes are one of the worst I've ever seen. But I can sat It could be worse. Now in normal game play it is a little better. The main Galactic display is fairly easy to use an descent graphics. Also the sound and music in this area are OK, too. Though it is more of a pain than a good time to start a new game. It takes several hours just to get of the ground. Few planets have shipyards and construction bases, and the ones who do have them are slow and transporting buildings all over the galaxy can take forever. One good thing about this game is it has a breif encylopedia of some of the things in the Star Wars Universe I think Force commander was another attempt of this game on the ground instead of in space, and it was much better but still hard to use. I think the next Star Wars Rebellion type game should be more like a Star Wars version of Pax Imperia: Entiment Domain. Final Verdict: 2.5/5

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this is a great game although learning curve is a bit long I have allways wanted to make the huge imperial fleets and this is a great game!

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