Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Star Wars: Rebel Assault was produced at a time when there was less strict attention paid to ensuring games were in continuity with the rest of canon. Most of the graphics were rendered in 3D.
The "chapters" of the game were meant to be reminiscent of events and battles of the movies. Although the scenario, the plot and the variety of missions were neither original or rich, the game's value consisted mainly on the technical part, since it featured digitized footage and music from the original movies, full speech and high quality 3D-rendered graphics.
The game was followed by Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire.
In reference to certain other LucasArts video games, Leland Chee, known as the Keeper of the Holocron, has stated that the "Story is S [canon], but locations, characters, and technology are C [canon]. The game follows the adventures of an unnamed young person known under the handle of Rookie One.
They take place near and on the Death Star where the player has to destroy turrets, stop a gigantic laser gun and finally destroy it in place of Luke Skywalker. The whole game happens during the events of A New Hope and begins with his/her flight training in the Beggar's Canyon, some hours before the Devastator captures Tantive IV above Tatooine. The game was followed by Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire. This has led to confusion for some over its canonicity; for instance, with regard to Rookie One making a trench run against the Death Star, or a battle occurring on Hoth prior to the Death Star Assault. However, the only portion of the game that has been declared non-canon is the trench run by Rookie One. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The course of the ship is predetermined and the player has to hit the targets (usually TIE Fighters) that show up and partially control and steer the ship so that it won't collide to some obstacles and lose hit points. The final missions follow the actions of the Blue Squadron (Ironically Blue Squadron was the original script Red Squadron of ANH fame), simultaneously to the Red Squadron shown in the movie. The cockpits were borrowed from the earlier Star Wars: X-Wing. LucasArts shipped 110,000 units to retailers in the game's first day, and global sales reached 400,000 units by mid-1994. [3] Indeed, many elements from Star Wars: Rebel Assault have been involved in later continuity, such as Anchorhead Base in Star Wars Galaxies and Jake Farrell in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, as well as many elements were also used in the sequel to Rebel Assault, Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire. The player eventually guides Rookie through the training on Yavin 4 preparing the attack on the trench run prior to the Battle of Yavin. For Star Wars: Rebel Assault on the PC, GameFAQs has 47 cheat codes and secrets. In some cases, original footage was filmed for the game with actors, and in a case, a Star Destroyer model was digitized (a mini camera "flew" around it) for the needs of a certain mission. A screenshot from the game's Battle of Hoth. The game sold 1.5 million copies. Who like Luke Skywalker, is a farmboy or farmgirl from Tatooine (the player can choose the gender) who decides to join the Rebel Alliance. The gameplay consists of various spaceflight missions, mainly confined in a certain video looping. Star Wars: Rebel Assault was the first CD-ROM-only game published by LucasArts, set in the Star Wars universe during the early Galactic Civil War.
The Rebel base is destroyed and Mos Eisley receives an attack with AT-ST's which the player has to wipe out. Rookie then joins a squadron to intercept the Devastator and after the mission is over they descend back to the planet in order to stop an Imperial assault on Tatooine. The Battle of Yavin is significantly different while the Death Star is destroyed by a character other than Luke Skywalker. Star Wars: Rebel Assault was the first CD-ROM-only game published by LucasArts, set in the Star Wars universe during the early Galactic Civil War. Star Wars: Rebel Assault was a commercial hit. The story then leads the player to the ice planet Hoth,[2] where Rookie will have to stop the AT-AT walkers with a snowspeeder and then escape the Gamma Base (which resembles Echo Base) firing his/her way through the Stormtroopers in a sequence that reminds of the Battle of Hoth, escaping from the planet just before it is destroyed by the Death Star. In fact, the game hinted mainly on impression giving us an alternative storyline of the Original trilogy by recreating famous scenes, rather than being accurate to Star Wars canon: it follows the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, but it erroneously contains elements from the Battle of Hoth. By summer 1994, this number rose to 500,000 units. "[4] This policy has never been stated to apply to Rebel Assault.
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