Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes back (except for some bonus levels). Each of the game's 15 regular missions requires Rogue Squadron, an elite group of rebel pilots, to complete a unique task. Goals in a mission include guarding supplies, destroying tibanna gas, and raiding an Imperial space port. You can fly X-Wings, Y-Wings, A-Wings, V-Wings, Snowspeeders, and, with cheats, a Naboo Starfighter, an AT-ST, a car, the Millennium Falcon, or a Tie Interceptor (my favorite).

Rogue Squadron does have some advantages. All of the starfighters have their own, unique abilities and different speeds. Also, there is an immense variety in the levels; no two levels are the same.

However, Rogue Squadron has many, many problems. First of all, multiplayer is mysteriously missing. Perhaps the biggest problem in the game is that you can never see anything that is not immediately in front of you. Any object that is not extremely close to your ship is invisible. At-Ats and mountains will suddenly appear right in front of you. Also, the lasers that you fire take forever to reach any target. You can typically fire at least five shots before any reach their target. This results in the lowering of your accuracy because you'll fire more shots than you need to hit targets, and the extra shots will be counted as misses. Also, there is never any way to identify who is who during the missions. If you see another friendly ship, it could be any member of Rogue Squadron. Finally, the medals are rather hard to earn. You can get a bronze, silver, or gold metal during each level. To earn a medal, you must have completed the mission quickly, destroyed nearly every enemy, have high accuracy, find a powerup, and protect most of the allies. These are way too many requirements; it's simply not fun to try to fulfill them all.

Still, it's almost worth earning the medals because they unlock the bonus levels. The three bonus levels are a lot more fun than the regular levels, and the best is the Death Star Trench.

StarFox 64 is basically what Star Wars: Rogue Squadron should have been. It corrects just about all of the problems in Rogue Squadron. Overall, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is fun for a little while but is too heavily flawed.

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).

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.

Without a doubt, the best flight game with the best action ever! Plus Its got the most classic theme of all--->star wars!!!!

The voices,sounds,graphics, and control is so slammin" it aint funny. But just watch out, continuous play could damage your thumb!

Still this is one hot item!!!

This is the best Star Wars for any console I've ever seen. It was so graphically well done. I've beaten it and it was awesome. It's so Star Wars and it even sounds like Star Wars (i.E. voices and music). If you are a die-hard Star Wars fan, buy it for your N64. Or may be your PC. You'll be impressed.