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This level ROCKS!!
I really pity those who don’t own a Gamecube and a copy of Rogue Leader.
If you are unfortunate enough not to own the Nintendo dream machine then read this and you will be tempted.
Imagine the scene:
Two giant rebel transporters, medical frigates, other rebel cruisers, a squadron of B-Wings, X-wings, Y-Wings and the Millennium Falcon are all heading towards the half constructed Death Star.
Beneath you is the giant planet of Endor, and you know that the battle is raging between the rebels, aided by everyone’s favourite furry Muppets the, Ewoks and the Empire.
As you approach to intimidating structure of the Death Star, you then discover that it’s a trap! All the rebel ships bank sharply and turn 90 degrees, only to be faced with a massive fleet on Star Destroyers!
The rebel fighter ships, led by you, fly towards the Star Destroyers only to be confronted with about 50 or 75+ TIE Fighters (that’s no word of a lie!!) A huge battle ensues as you dogfight your way around the rebel frigates attacking the TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors and TIE Bombers. Explosions are happening all around you as rebel and Empire ships get destroyed. The medical frigate takes heavy fire until you destroy the TIE Bombers. You shake off dozens of TIEs that are chasing you by dodging and weaving between the giant frigates. Having despatched one wave of enemies, more and more start attacking.
You eventually destroy the TIE Fighters, but the Death Star fires a laser blast, destroying one of the rebel transporters!
You have no choice but to attack the Star Destroyers head on in an effort to stop the Death Star firing at you. So you lead your squadron on a near impossible mission of destroying the Star Destroyers.
As you approach the massive Star Destroyers more of those darn TIE Fighters attack and dozens of laser blasts fly past your cockpit as the Star Destroyers fire their cannons at you.
You attempt to destroy the shield generators on the top first, flying above the Star Destroyers and firing at the spherical structures situated at the top, once they are gone you must fly under the giant craft and destroy another generator. Once destroyed, the Star Destroyer is vulnerable to attack, so you aim your guns at the Command Bridge and fire. The giant craft falls sharply towards the planet Endor. Do this to the other Star Destroyer and your laughing as the pride of the Empire falls to a fiery death.
All of that combined with amazing graphics plus the stunning John Williams soundtrack in the background and various characters speech (including Lando & Wedge).
Plus there’s the Battle of Hoth where you take down AT-ATs & AT-STs, Death Star Trench Run, steal the Shuttle Tyderium (the craft the rebels use to get to Endor) from an Imperial academy, fly through the narrow streets of Cloud City, fly through the Death Star core, bullseye Womprats or race through Beggars Canyon on Tatooine and many more. Plus bonus levels including the scene where Han & Luke shoot at the TIEs from the Millennium Falcons guns in ‘A New Hope’, control the Millennium Falcon as you escape the TIE’s in a heavy asteroid field and eventually attach yourself to a Star Destroyer or control a TIE Fighter in the battle of Yavin.
This game rules!!
Rogue Leader is without a doubt the BEST Star Wars game so far. Forget Jedi Outcast (it’s good, but not as good as Rogue Leader).
This is THE reason to buy a Gamecube. It’s just so amazing you wont believe your eyes. I’ve been playing games for years, but I already think that the Battle of Endor level is one of the best video gaming experiences ever.
Buy a Gamecube and Rogue Leader then be prepared to enjoy the best Star Wars experience ever!!!
I really pity those who don’t own a Gamecube and a copy of Rogue Leader.
If you are unfortunate enough not to own the Nintendo dream machine then read this and you will be tempted.
Imagine the scene:
Two giant rebel transporters, medical frigates, other rebel cruisers, a squadron of B-Wings, X-wings, Y-Wings and the Millennium Falcon are all heading towards the half constructed Death Star.
Beneath you is the giant planet of Endor, and you know that the battle is raging between the rebels, aided by everyone’s favourite furry Muppets the, Ewoks and the Empire.
As you approach to intimidating structure of the Death Star, you then discover that it’s a trap! All the rebel ships bank sharply and turn 90 degrees, only to be faced with a massive fleet on Star Destroyers!
The rebel fighter ships, led by you, fly towards the Star Destroyers only to be confronted with about 50 or 75+ TIE Fighters (that’s no word of a lie!!) A huge battle ensues as you dogfight your way around the rebel frigates attacking the TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors and TIE Bombers. Explosions are happening all around you as rebel and Empire ships get destroyed. The medical frigate takes heavy fire until you destroy the TIE Bombers. You shake off dozens of TIEs that are chasing you by dodging and weaving between the giant frigates. Having despatched one wave of enemies, more and more start attacking.
You eventually destroy the TIE Fighters, but the Death Star fires a laser blast, destroying one of the rebel transporters!
You have no choice but to attack the Star Destroyers head on in an effort to stop the Death Star firing at you. So you lead your squadron on a near impossible mission of destroying the Star Destroyers.
As you approach the massive Star Destroyers more of those darn TIE Fighters attack and dozens of laser blasts fly past your cockpit as the Star Destroyers fire their cannons at you.
You attempt to destroy the shield generators on the top first, flying above the Star Destroyers and firing at the spherical structures situated at the top, once they are gone you must fly under the giant craft and destroy another generator. Once destroyed, the Star Destroyer is vulnerable to attack, so you aim your guns at the Command Bridge and fire. The giant craft falls sharply towards the planet Endor. Do this to the other Star Destroyer and your laughing as the pride of the Empire falls to a fiery death.
All of that combined with amazing graphics plus the stunning John Williams soundtrack in the background and various characters speech (including Lando & Wedge).
Plus there’s the Battle of Hoth where you take down AT-ATs & AT-STs, Death Star Trench Run, steal the Shuttle Tyderium (the craft the rebels use to get to Endor) from an Imperial academy, fly through the narrow streets of Cloud City, fly through the Death Star core, bullseye Womprats or race through Beggars Canyon on Tatooine and many more. Plus bonus levels including the scene where Han & Luke shoot at the TIEs from the Millennium Falcons guns in ‘A New Hope’, control the Millennium Falcon as you escape the TIE’s in a heavy asteroid field and eventually attach yourself to a Star Destroyer or control a TIE Fighter in the battle of Yavin.
This game rules!!
Rogue Leader is without a doubt the BEST Star Wars game so far. Forget Jedi Outcast (it’s good, but not as good as Rogue Leader).
This is THE reason to buy a Gamecube. It’s just so amazing you wont believe your eyes. I’ve been playing games for years, but I already think that the Battle of Endor level is one of the best video gaming experiences ever.
Buy a Gamecube and Rogue Leader then be prepared to enjoy the best Star Wars experience ever!!!
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If you wanna get a gold medal quite easily, go for the Asteroid Field. The Empire level you can get is more enjoyable though.
I have enough points to unlock another secret mission now. I already unlocked the one where you have to shoot out all the tie fighters with the gun turrets on the falcon.
But now I have the choice of unlocking either the falcon in the asteroid field or the level on the death star where you play as Vader. Which one?!
But now I have the choice of unlocking either the falcon in the asteroid field or the level on the death star where you play as Vader. Which one?!
To be honest, its ashame that the Super Stardestroyer and the other Stardestroyers around it are a backdrop rather than part of the level. Of course you get to attack a couple of Stardestroyers later, but it would have been nice to fly inbetween the Imperial fleet as well as the Rebel one. Would have created an excellent atmosphere too if you were able to fly inbetween the different fleets as they square off like they did in the film because of the Death Star attacking.
Also, I think missions can get frustrating when you can't enjoy dogfights so much because your constantly having to go back and defend Rebel ships.
It would also be nice if other Rebel fighters attacked the Stardestroyers with you, but you seem to end up doing the job on your own. Endor is definatly the best level (along with Hoth), but theres still room for improvement. I can't help but not really like the wingmen much. You give them orders and yet they seem so fly off into the sunset while your left in a position no better than before you issued the order.
Order them to engage TIE fighters and after a few minutes, they might get 1 kill between them if your lucky. I think the series could be made better if you were just a pilot rather than a character from the film. I don't like having to keep Lando or Wedge alive in that last level just cause the game has to be scripted to the film. I don't remember them covering eachother all the way to the reactor and I certainly don't remember them being so crap that they just flew in a straight line while defences and TIE's just shot the hell out of them.
The level could have been ok if the AI of the allies wasn't so poor.
Anyway, it'd be nice if they made a game for this series thats on the lines of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter on the PC where you're just a pilot. That way theres no scripts that have to be followed (or at least not to the point of strictly copying the film) and theres no characters that have to be kept alive. You can take part in the battles of Hoth and Endor but as yourself rather than having to listen to crappy voiceovers that are supposed to be the likes of Lando.
Plus is it me or are you 1 of 3 Snowspeeders in the Battle of Hoth ? Would have been better if there were other Speeders flying around, getting shot down and doing runs at the AT-AT's. Plus it'd be nice to have to fly head on at them like in the films rather than entering the battle from the side. Its great that the ground defences have been added, but more Speeders too would have been nice. Shadows of the Empire on the N64 did this and it added a nice element to the level to see other Speeders attacking and even getting shot down.
And the last moan has to be on the way things are staked against you. The Empire throws out a good sized force, while the Rebels are happy to boot you out with two wingmen. Now I know this helps in earning medals and stuff but at the same time, if the Rebels very existance rests on the success of a particular mission, would they really be stupid enough to send out 3 pilots ? This is worth noting when you consider that most peoples favourite missions are the ones that have both sides really going for it and pushing out large size forces. I know I said Hoth is a favourite of mine and that only has you with 2 other Speeders, but again, the ground forces make up for the atmosphere a little and that Battle has always been one of my favourites too since I was little, so I'm always on the look out for a Star Wars game with an excellent re-creation of it.
Anyway, sorry this so long. This is still a great game, but its by no means perfect and I guess in a way I'm still waiting for that game to appear someday. Combine a few different games ideas into one and you could well have the perfect Star Wars game, but on their own, they always end up lacking somewhere...
Also, I think missions can get frustrating when you can't enjoy dogfights so much because your constantly having to go back and defend Rebel ships.
It would also be nice if other Rebel fighters attacked the Stardestroyers with you, but you seem to end up doing the job on your own. Endor is definatly the best level (along with Hoth), but theres still room for improvement. I can't help but not really like the wingmen much. You give them orders and yet they seem so fly off into the sunset while your left in a position no better than before you issued the order.
Order them to engage TIE fighters and after a few minutes, they might get 1 kill between them if your lucky. I think the series could be made better if you were just a pilot rather than a character from the film. I don't like having to keep Lando or Wedge alive in that last level just cause the game has to be scripted to the film. I don't remember them covering eachother all the way to the reactor and I certainly don't remember them being so crap that they just flew in a straight line while defences and TIE's just shot the hell out of them.
The level could have been ok if the AI of the allies wasn't so poor.
Anyway, it'd be nice if they made a game for this series thats on the lines of X-Wing vs TIE Fighter on the PC where you're just a pilot. That way theres no scripts that have to be followed (or at least not to the point of strictly copying the film) and theres no characters that have to be kept alive. You can take part in the battles of Hoth and Endor but as yourself rather than having to listen to crappy voiceovers that are supposed to be the likes of Lando.
Plus is it me or are you 1 of 3 Snowspeeders in the Battle of Hoth ? Would have been better if there were other Speeders flying around, getting shot down and doing runs at the AT-AT's. Plus it'd be nice to have to fly head on at them like in the films rather than entering the battle from the side. Its great that the ground defences have been added, but more Speeders too would have been nice. Shadows of the Empire on the N64 did this and it added a nice element to the level to see other Speeders attacking and even getting shot down.
And the last moan has to be on the way things are staked against you. The Empire throws out a good sized force, while the Rebels are happy to boot you out with two wingmen. Now I know this helps in earning medals and stuff but at the same time, if the Rebels very existance rests on the success of a particular mission, would they really be stupid enough to send out 3 pilots ? This is worth noting when you consider that most peoples favourite missions are the ones that have both sides really going for it and pushing out large size forces. I know I said Hoth is a favourite of mine and that only has you with 2 other Speeders, but again, the ground forces make up for the atmosphere a little and that Battle has always been one of my favourites too since I was little, so I'm always on the look out for a Star Wars game with an excellent re-creation of it.
Anyway, sorry this so long. This is still a great game, but its by no means perfect and I guess in a way I'm still waiting for that game to appear someday. Combine a few different games ideas into one and you could well have the perfect Star Wars game, but on their own, they always end up lacking somewhere...
ENDOR RULES!
I keep going back to that level as well, the only dissapointment is that you can't attack Darth Vaders Super Star Destroyer, which remains in the background, though neither Wedge or Lando attack it in the film...
I keep going back to that level as well, the only dissapointment is that you can't attack Darth Vaders Super Star Destroyer, which remains in the background, though neither Wedge or Lando attack it in the film...
Something I don't get, is that the commentary pronounces AT-ATs 'at ats'. If thats so, how do you say AT-ST? 'at sts'? Heh. Error!
Battle of Endor Rules :D
i managed to do that last level as well.
Its hard enough in the X wing but its impossible in the falcon.
But when you do the last level you get to watch the "making of Rogue Leader" thing in special options or whatever.
i managed to do that last level as well.
Its hard enough in the X wing but its impossible in the falcon.
But when you do the last level you get to watch the "making of Rogue Leader" thing in special options or whatever.
Is this game better than the classic Tie fighter on the PC? not that it matters, I'll be getting a gc and rogue leader soon, but I was just wondering.
Totoro wrote:
> No, there's no on-foot sections.
Well actually, there is a small section where you walk around. At the beginning of each level you can walk around the ship hangar and select your ship and listen to information about all the crafts.
In the Hoth hangar you can see Taun Tauns(sp?) & CP-30 and R2-D2 in the background.
> No, there's no on-foot sections.
Well actually, there is a small section where you walk around. At the beginning of each level you can walk around the ship hangar and select your ship and listen to information about all the crafts.
In the Hoth hangar you can see Taun Tauns(sp?) & CP-30 and R2-D2 in the background.
No, there's no on-foot sections.
I thought Shadows of the Empire was a pretty good game, though it was very underated. It was a odd mix of many styles & genres, some worked but some didn't. The last level was particularly good, and the bike section in Moss Eisely(sp?) was ok.
I thought Shadows of the Empire was a pretty good game, though it was very underated. It was a odd mix of many styles & genres, some worked but some didn't. The last level was particularly good, and the bike section in Moss Eisely(sp?) was ok.
Games quiet bloody hard as well!
dis aint no kiddy game.
dis aint no kiddy game.
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