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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

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"Rogue" is kind of the bastard love child of "X-Wing Alliance" and "Grim Fandango".

Like "Alliance" there are a series of missions to perform, a rich audio environment, and the fun of flying.

But "Fandango"'s sumptuous graphics and building storyline are here too. Far from the simplistic, spacy sameness that plagues "Alliance"'s missions, each new level here is an entirely different, planetary environment. So rich are the graphics that you're bound to spend some time in each level just gazing at the surroundings. When you finally dig into the hard work of your mission, veteran game players may find parts of the levels somewhat easy, but there are always one or two trouble spots that elude even the greatest of space pilots for a while.

Most importantly, like "Alliance"--which has entirely more missions than it should--"Rogue" knows when the party's over.

This is, in short, an adventure gamer's flight simulator. It keeps you going by having a story unfold while entertaining with exotic locales. No, you can't share these locales with friends over a network. But you can feel as though you are actually part of a Star Wars movie. And that, it seems to me, is the precise point of a Star Wars game.

This game takes a step down from X-wing vs. TIE Fighter. The controls are much easier, consisting mainly of shooting and steering. This game also brings the classic down to earth, literally. Instead of engaging enemies in space, you are attacking planets in many choices of vehicles. Rogue squadron also has much more of a storyline to it unlike many other starship games where you are merely assigned missions. It is a great game for the computer because it makes full use of the graphics and sound your computer can handle. It's especially nice if you have a subwolfer to crank up the base. Music to my ears. So this year, make your computer work as hard as you do, and buy Rogue Squadron, from no better place than here, on Amazon.com.

This game explodes with awesome graphics and sound. It's like the movies. If you have a fast computer and a good video card, your all set. I liked this game better than the Rebel Assault games b/c you have full control of your ship, and in Rebel Assault, you only control the aimer. Everyone says you need a joystick to play this, but I tried it using both the joystick and a keyboard. They both work fine.

Rogue Squadron is a great computer game but it does have problems. For one thing the music could have been better. Also your wing men are no help at all so you have to do everything.

Even though there are problems there are many great things about the game. I love the selection of starfighters you can fly. You can fly the X-Wing,A-Wing,Y-Wing,V-Wing,Snowspeader,TIE Intercepter,and the Millenium Falcon. Also the graphics are super for a computer game.

Most of the missions take place in the atmospheres of many different planets. The first missions are easy but as you go along in the game the missions get more difficult. Some people hate it and sometimes it does get annoying but if you would like a challenge then this is the game for you!

If you like Star Wars and you want a good Star Wars flight simulater than get Rogue Squadron!

Rogue Squadron is a fun, addictive, pretty game. Unfortunately, it's not perfect.

This game offers beautiful graphics, fairly interesting music, a range of different craft, with different views, functions and special abilities for them. It has clearly defined goals in each mission, although often the backstory of the mission itself was somewhat silly. And it has sixteen levels, each on different and unique worlds.

With so much going for it, why doesn't RS3D qualify as a "great" game? My biggest complaint is mission difficulty. There is no difficulty selector, and the levels are not paced very well. For example, the entire first chapter is extraordinarly easy, each level being completed withing five to ten minutes. Afterwards, some of the levels are equally easy, and then there are those that are impossibly, frustratingly difficult. My other chief complaint is technical -- this game takes place before Empire Strikes Back, which is when the tow cable method of tripping AT-ATs was concieved. So why is it being done left and right here? Just on a minor note, the dialogue and voice acting was also pretty bad.

Another area that's not really bad or good, but just a note -- there are no cinematics here. Before and during every Star Wars game, I have always enjoyed the high-quality videos. None of that here. Instead you just get some game-engine pictures of the starfighters flying around and hear the pilot's voices. Just, in the beginning for example, seeing Luke and Wedge talking about establishing Rogue Squadron, laying some background for the game, would've been nice.

Don't be expecting X-wing. A flight sim it ain't. But if you want a fun, good-looking, fast moving little game, then I definately recommend this one.

Rogue Squadron, for the most part, is good star wars game. It remains true to the movies, and allows the user to 'recreate' part of the star wars timeline that we never saw on the big screen. The graphics and game play are good, and the sound effects and music are adequate. The biggest problem with the game comes in difficulty and complexity. The earlier missions are woefully easy while the latter missions are painfully difficult. Overall, there aren't many missions to fly in this game, but it is entertaining. You'll like it if you like star wars, but you'll find yourself wanting more in the end...

This is one game every gamer should have. The graphics arecool, and the sound affects are, well, just ok. (Even though it's badmusic and you waste your speaker phone's power.) Whenever my dad seesme playing "Rogue Squadron or other games, he turns onthe volume. (I think he's lost his marbles liking that stupid music! The mission objectives for each level is challenging, except that sometimes, the objectives are lousy! (The secret levels are cool!) The secret levels contain Beggar's Canyon, the Death Star Trench, and the Battle Of Hoth. I think you should enjoy this!

Lucasarts has done it again. Of all my Star Wars games, Rogue Squadron is simply one of my favorites. The graphics are stunning, the missions challenging. Lucasarts attention to detail is amazing. As you fly through Mos Eisley, you can see the people running from their homes! This game is an absolute must.

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.

This game is excellent, with a few exceptions. The first exception is the fact that despite the fact that there are 15 regular missions, not one of them is set in space. Every mission is set within the confines of a planet, be it in the upper atmosphere or skimming the surface. This isn't a crippling disadvantage, except some people like fighting in space. Ideally, this game would have both space and surface fighting. Another bad point is the lack of diversity in opponents. There are basically 6 enemies you'll run into - TIE Bombers, Fighters, Interceptors, Stormtroopers, Missile and Laser turrets. Thats basically it for opponents. Not that that is bad at all, it just gets boring after a while. Other then this, this game is excellent in all respects. A definate must have for any hardcore Star Wars fan.