X-wings, B-wings, speeder bikes, AT-STs, tauntauns--you'll have to master them all to save Luke, Wedge, Han, Chewie, and Leia from Darth Vader and his Imperial forces. All new multiplayer modes include the entire Rogue Leader game in co-op, plus endurance, capture-the-base, and dogfight modes. Cinematic realism takes you to new heights as you climb out of your cockpit to battle the Empire on foot in this thrilling third chapter of the Rogue Squadron series.
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Who thought you need missions by foot in a Rogue Leader flying spaceships game?
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III - Rebel Strike delivers an exhilarating blast of space combat, thrusting you into the cockpits of iconic Star Wars fighters for intense dogfights across the galaxy. The core flying and shooting remains as thrilling as ever, offering missions based on key moments from the films. However, the addition of poorly implemented on-foot sections with clunky controls and forced stealth elements mar the overall experience. If you're yearning for pure starfighter action, Rebel Strike has its moments, but be prepared for some frustrating detours along the way.
Has some amazing things, and some real bad things. The on-the-ground gameplay is terrible, buggy, and difficult for no good reason. By contrast, the spaceship controls feel very good, it's just unfortunate that you have to slog through some bad levels to get to the good ones. Also has a 2-player co-op version of Rogue Leader, which I can't believe they didn't think to make earlier, and since that is the best Rogue Squadron game, amusingly this is technically the best disc of Rogue Squadron gameplay you can buy.
It’s meh. The spaceship controls are tight but the on the ground third person gameplay is terrible and full of jank which is like half the game. Funny enough there’s a better game in there cause it has a 2 player co-op version of Rogue Leader.
It's a straight up crime that this series didn't continue. For its time, it was easily one of the best console-based starfighter games in the history of Star Wars and I'd highly recommend the entire series to anybody wanting to play some old SW games.
An unfortunate step down in quality and presentation, however I admire the fact they tried something to freshen things up a bit. To be fair, back in the day, I absolutely loved this. The platforming sections were, and still are, dodgy as fuck, but it was a time when Star Wars was nowhere near as accessible as it is now. This game precedes the dvd release of the original trilogy, meaning that unless you had the out of print VHS tapes or were one of the 5 laser disc owners, the only way to see the film's was hope they were on TV at Xmas.
Having cut scenes lifted straight from the films was astonishing at the time, especially given how good quality those cut scenes are. They look fantastic for a pre hd era videogame. And I think that's why I gave this a lot of slack back in the day.
Playing this in the oversaturation era, it's really showing its age. The dog fighting is as good as the previous game, and some of the missions have a bit of inventiveness about them. Going from a bombing run to driving an AT ST then an AT AT is a lot of fun, and once you get to grips with the speed, the speeder bikes on Endor are thrilling.
But as I mentioned, there's platforming and you can tell the developers did not have that genre in their tool set. The sail barge level is fucking abysmal, and Dagobah just about get a pass because you get a fuck ton of lives.
They've definitely gone for quantity over quality, but when it's good, it stands along side the second game, but when it's not, it's your usual star wars licence fare of that era.
Having cut scenes lifted straight from the films was astonishing at the time, especially given how good quality those cut scenes are. They look fantastic for a pre hd era videogame. And I think that's why I gave this a lot of slack back in the day.
Playing this in the oversaturation era, it's really showing its age. The dog fighting is as good as the previous game, and some of the missions have a bit of inventiveness about them. Going from a bombing run to driving an AT ST then an AT AT is a lot of fun, and once you get to grips with the speed, the speeder bikes on Endor are thrilling.
But as I mentioned, there's platforming and you can tell the developers did not have that genre in their tool set. The sail barge level is fucking abysmal, and Dagobah just about get a pass because you get a fuck ton of lives.
They've definitely gone for quantity over quality, but when it's good, it stands along side the second game, but when it's not, it's your usual star wars licence fare of that era.