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Fun, Fun in a Galaxy Far, Far Away....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Since the early 1980s, there have been many Star Wars games, ranging from the wire-frame graphics-based Atari arcade game to the PS2-Xbox hi-tech Jedi Starfighter. The advances in computing power, graphics design, and software evolution have allowed many Star Wars fans to journey to that "galaxy far, far away" with just a few clicks of a mouse and the aid of a good Microsoft-compatible joystick.

The range of games is astounding. There are strategy games (Rebellion), spacefighter simulations (the X-Wing series), arcade-like sims (the Rebel Assault series), role-playing games (Jedi Knight, The Phantom Menace), and "a long time ago," there was even a PC version of the Star Wars Atari arcade game.

I have owned quite a few of Lucas Arts' PC based games, including several of the ones I mentioned above, including Rogue Squadron.

Rogue Squadron places one in the role of Luke Skywalker during the time between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, when he is focused on being a fighter pilot for the struggling Rebellion.

Rogue Squadron is a hybrid, part sim, and part arcade game. As in the X-wing series, players must learn to fly such Rebel starfighters as the T-65 X-wing, the A-wing, the Y-wing, and so on up to Han Solo's Millennium Falcon. Also as in the X-wing games, players fly a series of missions linked together in a story arc. Unless one has "cheat codes," a player must complete each level (called a Chapter) mission by mission. The more one increases in performance and skill, the more ships one can fly.

Unlike the more "realistic" simulations, Rogue Squadron has arcade game conventions such as multiple lives, fixed situations, and less complicated flight controls than its X-Wing stable mates. X-Wing veterans will attest to having to refer to the manual at least when first playing the game, and - of course, if you got killed on an X-Wing mission, that was it...no extra lives. Rogue Squadron, while still very challenging (I am still on Mission 3 of Chapter 1) is more of a "hook-the-joystick-up-and-play" game, with really nice 3-D graphics and great sound. (Most players will probably enjoy flying from the default "exterior of the ship" view, although I prefer the more simulator-like "cockpit" point of view.) It runs great on my e-machines T2200 with Windows XP, so if one has a good Windows-based platform with a good video card that can handle 3-D graphics, this is still a game worth getting, even if it is older than Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

great for the price, but ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

...you can't save mid-mission. If you get killed, you have to start that particular mission from the very beginning. This "bug" isn't that bad until about the end of the 4th mission, when you have to tie up the legs of an AT-AT. I've never gotten past this stage because I keep crashing and have to start from the very beginning of the mission.

Other than that, the graphics and gameplay are pretty good.

Buy only a used/jewel-case version and you'll come out ahead even if you don't get past this problem.

THIS GAME ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game this is one of my favorite star wars games to
play over and over.And also I like the hiden levels to where you
blow up the death star.I would recomened this game to any star
wars fan who have dreamed to suit up with luke skywalker and
take on the empiere.Oh by the way you also get to fly the biggest huk of junk in the glaxay the mellium falcon.....

Anyone remeber how cool this was?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I sure as heck can't be the only one. The gameplay is not much compared to some of the newer games like Jedi Outcast or KOTOR but it was a wonderful attempt and a lot better than some Lucas Arts games even produced today.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the first games I bought for my first computer and it's one of the best star wars flying games ever. The graphics are good for the time it was made, and the missions are awsome but the game would have been better if there were more of them. I highly recommend getting this game.

NOTE:If you buy this game through the amazon.com's store(buying it new from amazon superstore instead of used from someone else)the game will ship in 1 TO 2 WEEKS

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Lucas Arts really blasts it out with this game. The graphics are stunning and the music is great. The only thing is you need a pretty good video card to play. Other than that, get the card, and play!

GREAT GRAPICS!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: May 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS AUESOME!!!!! I HAVE NEVER PLAYED A COOLER GAME!!! THE MISSONS ARE SORT OF HARD BUT THE GRAPICS ARE COOL!!! THE FIRST TIME I PELTED A TIE FIGHTER WITH LASERS I KNEW I WAS HOOKED!!!! IF YOU LIKE FIGHT SIMS AND STAR WARS THIS GAME IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

SW Rogue Squadron: A classic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, the best star wars game this side of Battlefront. The graphics are breathtaking, the environments are fantastic and the storyline works well. The weapons are what you would expect and more and the new worlds are film-caliber. And the new vehicles are awesome (Who would have thought that the Empire would make humped-back chicken walkers?). Definitly worth getting.

One of the best STAR WARS video games of all times.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What Star Wars fan never wanted to fly an X-WING. Well now it can be true! You can fly X-Wings, A-Wings, Y-Wings, V-WINGS, Snow Speeders, and some suprising crafts after beating the game with some medals. Each mission has a certain number of very interesting objectives that you need to accomplish along with some other things, like reducing civilian casualties, or find weapon upgrades along the way. The game is rich in resources and the space crafts are very maniable. If you are a Star Wars fan and you would like to destroy the Empire as part of the Rogue Squadron, you HAVE to buy this game.

One EXCELLENT game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is WOW. This game is the best Star Wars game I've played. The graphics are amazing and the control(on the N64 version)are great. I've only played the Nintendo version, but I suspect the PC version is just as good. A MUST buy game!

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