Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Rogue Squadron is an amazing flight game. The game play is easy to control. The graphics are also pretty cool. The game is very challenging, it took me months to beat it, but that's all in the fun. The secret levels are also cool. My favorite of the three, is the Death Star trench run. That's the best and funnest level in the entire game. This game rocks!

Star Wars has seen MANY video game adaptations through the years and Rogue Squadron is among the very best the franchise has to offer. It's fast-paced, the dogfights are ridiculously immersive and it feels JUST like the movies. Sure it's difficult to complete the levels and gain all the medals for the levels, but it's worth the effort. The gratification is the same as getting a star in Super Mario 64. This was a boundary-pusher for the Nintendo 64 back in the '90s and it's still loved among gamers and Star Wars like myself.

Rogue Squadron gets 4.5/5 stars.

I am playing that game since about six weeks now, and i haven't even passed to the finish of it ... But that doesn't matter IMHO, i think this is one of the best games ever released (after Zelda64 of course :-)) The game control itself could be a bit more logic, but the fast and high-resolution graphics as good as the almost perfect sound of it. I only say: If you have Nintendo64 - Buy it, or you'll miss something.

This was my favorite Star Wars game growing up in the 90s, even moreso than "Shadows of the Empire" from 1996.

After hearing so much positive feedback for the Battle of Hoth level in Shadows of the Empire in 1996, Lucasarts decided to utilize its gameplay and formula to create an action/arcade style game centered around piloting a starfighter in battle instead of another third person or first-person shooter, like "Shadows of the Empire" or "Dark Forces" respectively.

You control Luke Skywalker from the cockpit of a selection of five vehicles: X-Wing, Y-Wing, A-Wing, V-Wing, and Snowspeeder. There are also three bonus vehicles: the Millenium Falcon, an N1 Naboo Starfighter, and a TIE Interceptor. All the craft have differing weapons, speed, acceleration, and deflector shield strength. The flight controls were smooth and easy to manage, and you could collect bonus powerups to improve the capabilities of your ship.

There were 16 missions based primarily on the "Star Wars: X-wing - Rogue Squadron" comic series, while two of them are based on the Battles of Hoth and Yavin from the films. The missions were split into different segments with four possible objectives: search and destroy, recon, defense, and rescue. Throughout them, you'll battle a variety of Imperial forces, like TIE fighters, walkers, probe droids, and turrets.

"Rouge Squadron" was one of the systems first games to use the expansion pack, and it did wonders for the game, because it looked amazing for the time. You would see dimming/brightening engines of your fighter, smoke and fiery debris from explosions, and sparks and dust clouds from laser fire impacts. The landscapes were huge and well-textured, like Hoth's snowy fields or the Death Stars long, metal trench, and the structures, from Tatoonies homesteads to Corellias skyscrapers look great too, although the distance fog limited your field of vision.

The sounds and music were spectacular Star Wars classics, like laser fire, starfighter engines, and the metallic clanking of walker joints. The voice acting is pretty good; Bob Bergen pulls off a good Luke Skywalker while Neil Ross plays Han Solo. The soundtrack was a nice remix of John Williams legendary Star Wars music and some original tunes from Chris Huelsbeck that captured the spirit of the films.

Overall, this was a great game that solidified the Star Wars franchise's popularity in the gaming community. Sure, the graphics are quite dated today, but the gameplay still holds up surprisingly well and I found it more enjoyable than the sequels released in the 2000s. You don't even need an old N64 to play it. Try it out on Steam and see how you like it.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron for the PC and N64 was a very great game when it first came out in 1998, because the game offered something that most people have never seen in a video game-creating graphics, sound, and controls that were out of this world during the N64 Era. While the game is no longer really an extremely amazing experience, because if you compare mostly the graphics to the video games today, it really doesn't look so good. But back when it was new, critics said it looked fantastic, because people back then didn't have the graphics we have today on the Gamecube and Wii. And the reason I wrote this review was because I really love the game a lot, and have some warm memories with it, because it is still fun to play on all of the exciting missions in the game. If you like Star Wars or any kind of fighter-pilot games, this game is definitely worth checking out (and you are probably going to have go online to buy the game, since most stores don't sell it anymore).