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It really is an amazing game. At the beginning its more running away from fights until you build up your fleet. Its a lot of empire building at the beginning. Much like another game called Star Trek Birth of the Federation. You build up infrastructure on empty worlds and woo populated worlds with diplomacy. When your fleets get big enough that's where the fun comes. The battles are like the end of Return of the Jedi. Only con is how addictive it is.
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Star Wars: Rebellion came out in 1998, the year that saw releases of some of the best PC video games ever released. Star Wars: Rebellion was not one of them, but read on. I was a huge Star Wars fan as a kid and bought this with my hard-earned allowance the day it appeared on the shelf. I was envisioning a sweeping command of an entire universe, but had a few windows, a lot of text, and the occasional 3D space battle presented instead. It was a glaring disappointment and quickly forgotten in favor of Half-Life and Baldur's Gate. Many years later (a month or so ago) I suddenly remembered this game and decided to give it another chance. I bought the CD, popped it into an old 2000-era system, and the familiar fanfare blasted out of the speakers. Star Wars: Rebellion is a game that demands your imagination, but in a good way. You might be commanding the Empire, discover Chewbecca on Yavin, and have a decision to make: Do you dispatch a fleet to blockade and bombard the planet in hopes of killing the Wookie hero? Perhaps you might stealthily dispatch Imperial commandos on an assassination or capture mission instead. With a good imagination Star Wars: Rebellion crafts a hundred different movies in your mind (think 'Rogue One' when you dispatch an espionage mission) and each new universe, being random, is a fresh experience. Star Wars: Rebellion is also available digitally, but I was happy to have a physical copy just as I used to. Give this game a try and let it inside your head a little. You'll find you're enjoying this game more than you expected.Read full review
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Star Wars Rebellion is a poor strategy game with a confusing interface, bland almost pointless 3D battles, which require no tactical know-how, as sheer numbers always win. Information isn't readily available on build status, manufacturing,diplomacy, etc. which leaves the player in the dark. Also, the game features poor AI. Not good things for a strategy game. I bought this back when the game came out, and decided that playing it was an exercise in frustration (not to mention tedium). I subsequently sold it here on eBay fetching a decent sum. The only real draw here is the game has its status as the first Star Wars RTS and the fact that it went relatively unnoticed at launch. Well now its become somewhat of a favorite with vintage gamers, and all the power to 'em. But if you simply crave a good Star Wars RTS experience, try Empire at War.Read full review
I've been playing this rather unique game since it came out. Rather then the standard RTS gameplay which has you micromanaging troops on a tiny battlefield all but insifnificant to the over all war, Rebellion has you take up the post of a Military Chief commmander responsable for ALL aspects of the war from start to finish. You can control everything from assigning characters to missions, to constructing fleets and troops, to sending agents out to disrupt enemy activities, reaserch and development, and more. I love being the commander pulling the strings from the safety of my own mon calamari cruiser or super star destroyer HQ, as opposed to feeling like some insignificant field commander on a nameless battlefield trying to get Marine#5 to stop picking his nose and start shooting at the onrushing horde of monsters along with his buddies. This is a game that feels very real, as opposed to feeling like a game like you get with other standard RTS games. It takes a long time to capture the entire galaxy, and all your hardwork is all the more satisfying when you finally get to see the awesome cut scenes of the Rebel HQ being bombed into submission or the Liberation or coruscant if you are playing the rebels. I know a lot of fans really love the giant space battles of star wars more then anything else, and though this game is a bit dated graphically, there is simply NO OTHER game previous or since that has been able to capture the same huge movie like space battle experience. If you have patience and like to see your long hard work bear fruit then this is a great game for you. If you prefer more action and less thinking then you may want to look somewhere else.Read full review
An older released game, but a classic. This allows for large empire building & Star Wars fleet battles with a view upon the different aspects of the Star Wars galaxy. Also, there are some really good mod programs out online which will allow you to take the Star Was game even further with custom additions.
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