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Not that loyal to the movie

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Rogue squadon is somewhat fun to play but the majority of the missions are hard to beat. the 3D enviroment is cool looking and on some levels there are places you can see that are straight out of the movie such as Jabba the hutt's palace on Tattoine.
The main problem i have with this game is on the Hoth and Deathstar mission.(use password DEADDACK to get to them)on the Hoth mission you wrap a cord around Imperial walkers to trip them which is tricky to do. As for the Deathstar mission, the scenery is wrong. In the movie Luke fires at the exhaust port at the end of the trench, in the game the target is on the ground. But that's not what bothers me most though, After you hit your target it just says "Mission Complete" They should've had a cinematic sequence where the Deathstar blows up. That doesn't happen in the game which leaves you feeling angry and unsatisfied.

Great, but ultimately limited, Star Wars blaster

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The success of Star Wars isn't based on the cheesy dialoge, suspect acting or even those dodgy seventies haircuts. No sir. Its based on the fact that people love to watch lots of spaceships shoot lots of other spaceships in, suprisingly, space. So its no suprise then that some of the best Star Wars games have seen you flying an X-wing through space, shooting down tie fighters and pretending your Luke Skywalker, Wedge Antilles or if your really sad, some other obscure pilot from the trilogy that no one else apart from you has ever heard of ( you know who you are ). And finally we have a game on the N64 that allows us to capture the excitement of those dramatic space battles, by flying an X-wing, over LAND! Actually, thats a bit harsh as this isn't a bad game. It's just that, for me anyway, Star wars is about dogfights out in the final frontier and not over a desert or a forest but oh well. Once you get over that, this does have a lot to recommend it. There's five craft to fly plus three secret craft, the missions are all varied,challenging and fun and, providing you've got an expansion pak, the graphics are awesome. Combine that with the excellent sound and music that really envokes a sense of the movies and it is impressive. The main problem with this game is that it is limited in the long run. Sure there's 16 missions but you'll get through them without too many problems. I finished the game in just over a week and to quote my flatmate who was with me when I completed it ''Is that it?'' Sure there's the medals to get for the bonus misions and secret craft but re-flying missions you've already done to shave a few more seconds off your time or get that one more elusive kill is hardly riveting stuff, particuly when there's widely known cheats to get them all anyway. In fact, the bonus missions aren't that good, with only the battle of Hoth holding any interest as Beggers Canyon is dull and the Death Star trench actually is nothing like the trench from the film. Good but dissapointing as it could have been so much better.

Way Too Easy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game I loved it.But after two weeks I had beat the game and had golds on most of the levels.It felt really weird flying an X-wing over land.It was like flying a car around in the air(witch you can actually do with a code).But I have to admit the ships are great and with the expansion pak the graphics could not be better.A must have for Star Wars fans.

Shadows of the empire is better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, but I'd suugest Shadows of the empire more. If you're a fan of both the genre and star wars, this is the game for you, but if you're not, rent it first.

Booring Star Wars Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I normally love everything Lucas Arts puts out, but this...

I really, honestly loathed this game! The gameplay was repetitive, hard, and booring. Basically, it is every vehicular battle from the trilogy, put on a game.

While this had great potential, and awesome graphics, I cannot reccomend it.

Finally a not too easy game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Not too easy because those, more experienced in the video game world, need more challenge and this one definitly brings it to you. Missions to make you learn how the real thing would be like and rewards to keep you wanting more. Certainly non-repeating this game brings a lot of excitement and the cheat codes give you even more portions of the game, once uncovered they renew this game for much more fun. So if you want to experience the Star Wars universe this is the one baby.

The X-Wing flight sim you've always wanted

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 18, 1999
Author: Amazon User

First let me say that when this game came out it was everything I wanted it to be. I had played x-wing and tie-fighter on the PC and it was fun but this game has the look and feel like a properly designed flight sim - for each craft you fly has it's own special characteristics. The voices and sounds are fantastic. The levels are varied and imaginitive. However, to be picky, I'd like to see some additions and a Rogue 2 come out. They would include: space combat, with capital ships, the ability to choose which craft you want (some levels simply insist you use the snowspeeder for example), a couple wing-commander-style wingman orders buttons to get another rogue to help kill the tie on your six, and more accurate shots on the complex polygons such as in the cloud city level where sometimes your perfectly aimed shots won't blow up the tabana gas container you want, instead the shots hit the ones behind it, getting you in trouble with the civilian authorities. All in all, though it is one of the best games I've played on the N64 to date and with all the graphics, sound and voice stuffed on a cart instead of a cd, playstation style, I don't have to see a loading...please wait sign. That's worth every penny.

Good game for the most part

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

"Rogue Squadron" continued the series of good Star Wars games for the Nintendo 64 with good flare. It had some of the best graphics seen on the system at the time when it first came out. The terrains, the ships, and the enemies look realistic, and there's not much pixelization in the game at all. The action is fast and furious and the gameplay couldn't have been much better. The sound in "Rogue Squadron" is almost as good as the graphics. From the laser shooting to the sounds of destruction, this game's sound roars with intensity. The only thing that keeps the sound from being perfect is that Luke Skywalker and some of the other characters don't sound anything like they do in the real movies. The control is top notch, allowing you to make tight turns and every other maneuver without a flinch.

The only drawback that I could see with "Rogue Squadron" is that after the first level, the game gets almost impossibly hard. There should be a training mode so that you could get used to some of the missions that you have to accomplish before you actually have to try them. Other than that, this is a great game and anybody that likes shooting/action games and Star Wars fans should like "Rogue Squadron" pretty good.

I want a space battle!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

All the missions are land missions and they get boring after awhile. This a good game to play when your bored. It's one of my favorites. Not close to Colony Wars though. If you like Star Wars buy this. It is a good space battle game. It would be nice if a battle took place in space though. I give RS *Bulls-eyes four womp rats* four stars.

Surprisingly fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was never a really big fan of sci-fi, and Star Wars just wasn't my thing. I couldn't really care less about those darned rebels. Obviously, my expectations for Rogue Squadron that summer day were not very high.

But you know what? I played the first mission and I was pleasantly surprised. The game actually wasn't that bad! It was actually quite entertaining just flying around and shooting these drones out from the sky. The game really isn't that easy to learn, especially if you buy the game used without an instruction booklet. There are basically a lot of nooks and crannies that I have yet to figure out, like what right-C does, or how bombs work. But the introductory missions are fun and pretty easy. However, the gameplay got to be quite repetitive. I mean, you just go around and shoot enemies from the sky. Yay. There are also a lot of sections where you have nothing to do, and it gets boring. Maybe I could have moved on to the third mission.

I also realized how visually stunning the game is. I have an Expansion Pak, so I really don't have a clue what the game would be like without it, but the graphics are just so crisp, at least certain features. The buildings and structures and ships and stuff look great, almost to the level of Half-Life. But the graphics for the people/Storm troopers leave more to be desired. They are obviously sprites. The music does have a Star Wars feel to it, and that's growing on me. I sometimes get certain tunes stuck in my head, and I don't mind. Most of the music is in the menus, though. 40 minutes of speech is nice, if only I could understand half of it. Rogue Squadron has no multiplayer, which is too bad. It would have been fun. Oh well. Overall, I actually kind of enjoyed this game.

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