I agree! The FMV era with its lovably-hokey acting and the primitive 3D environments they inhabit, always felt so unique and otherworldly compared to more "regular" videogames.
For 1995, this game was way ahead of its time. Playing this as a kid, I didn't fully understand how the graphics in this game were so far ahead of the competition. The blend of pre-rendered graphics and FMV was done so well, that even going back and watching it now, it still looks impressive considering the era when this was released.
Since there were only 3 films, the footage in these games like Dark Forces II and Rebel Assault were basically like an entire new movie that added 30% more to the Star Wars franchise - it was really special. This was back when they made new heroes, like Kyle Katarn, who did their own adventures not dependent on the films. They were just adventures, without pretensions to being a psychological drama.
Yes absolutely! This is exactly how I got into Star Wars as this huge universe. All the random other adventures from the video games. This game, Dark Forces, Shadows of the Empire, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, X-Wing Alliance, Kotor 1 and 2, the original Clone Wars game for Xbox. So many adventures outside the movies. It made it feel like it had so many moving parts.
this game brings back so many great memories! early mornings on weekends at my grandma's house playing on her computer and then jumping into the pool right after lol. the 90s were a great time indeed!
I was given a CD with this game for my 8th birthday and I still remember my father's laptop (it was the first laptop I saw), the room where this laptop stood and three VCS with Indiana Johnes I got then. And I still remember every detail of the game.
The guy who played the admiral who reports to Vader, I think did a very good job. He always looked genuinely afraid to report to Vader whenever he spoke.
@@2008FORDF450V8 likely. I don't know what "Night" is, but on iTunes or wherever, it will be a part of any number of Star Wars Return of the Jedi soundtracks.
@@wccman107 It was a mix of both, I learned how to fly inverted, to be honest the hardest part of the falcon was the second part where you still have to aim and shoot lol
dookie_12 a company called Disney was a nice company before it turned to evil helped Lucas arts hunt down and destroy the fan base they betrayed and murdered the expanded universe
I was born in 96 and this was the scariest/hardest game I ever played in my childhood. I was about 5-6 years old and I always played with it at night when my parents where a sleep...greetings from Hungary, love this throwhback to my gold memories😀😀👍
When I got this in '99. As an 8 year old I got so good at this game I memorized every target, every movement and could play this game like I was just watching a movie.
I remember one day before kindergarten playing this with my dad. We hit mission six (the mining facility thing) and since neither of us spoke English, the point of the mission was kind of vague. I was pretty oblivious to game mechanics at that time but my dad quickly figured you had to destroy those battery cells around the gateways. And oh boy, shooting those was tough! He told me to keep going and once I finally broke through them, I was quite surprised to see a cutscene popping out, indicating the X-wings flew into the tunnel. It must have been like twenty years ago and I still remember that, good old days.
Man this game use to amaze the heck out of me when it had just come out on the PlayStation, I rented it like 3 times before I got my own new copy that I still have😊
That bit at 7:00 on as you approach the planet absolutely amazed me as a child. Seeing the planet get larger in real time as you approach it was something I had never seen before in a game and felt so epic. Now we have No Man's Sky :P
Gadtoa why not use the ps3 to play these fucking badass psx classics with it's psx based backwards compatibility. Huge deal so deal with it because I'm a huge fan of it.
What a charming game. I really enjoyed playing this as an 8 year old when I was recently getting big into Star Wars stuff. I replayed some of those missions over and over ´cause I kept dying. Mad respects for doing a 1 hour long complete gameplay of it. This game took me weeks to finish lol.
I bought this with my then new PS1. If I remember right it was a double disc game. An Army buddy borrowed it while I was in Germany and I never got it back...oh well I hope he still enjoys it after 20 years.
Wow theres a lot of assets I recognize... Like the blaster rifle from Dark Forces, and the stormtrooper death grunts that'd later be used for the Clones in Battlefront (the good one)
I remember renting this game as a kid. I know It doesn't look that great now but I was blown away back then. The playstation had a lot of hit or miss games in the early days but I was really pleased with this one. I probably would have purchased the game but it was a little too easy and I beat it before having to take it back.
funny thing is this game is two discs weird also bad acting no health regeneration etc could of been done better least lord of the rings the third age was better than this any day.
Gracias por subir este tipo de material. Confirma todos los juegos que he terminado y también se disfruta sin la adrenalina cuando se juega apasionadamente, mi comienzo con esto fue Asteroides en los 70s, en el que rompimos en chispa un record en Arcade de jugar con una moneda desde las 10 am. que abrian el Chispas hasta las 10 la noche que cerraban, una sola moneda en todo el día, esos eran retos porque no había pausa, no existia la pausa. Era un reto verdadero, por eso mí agradecimiento.
If only someone would come back an revisit this game and give it a 2021 overhaul, keep the story, change the gameplay. Think it would work pretty well.
28:55 For me, it's this scene that has the best acting in all of Star Wars. The look in her eyes after she asked Rookie One where she was being shot at, and the Tie Fighters roaring in the background. Half smiling because Rookie One didn't die, half crying because they're being pushed towards death. Best I've ever seen. And there's a lot more to the scene as well. I don't think her brilliance can be captured in one scene. I don't think I've ever seen better character development in a game. The way she goes from a clean-cut, relatively "normal" woman with morals to a fearful but fearless leader is just incredible.
I've played this game as a kid. It was a lot of fun despite being short. Very nostalgic; I miss this kind of Star Wars storytelling and atmosphere. This is sure to make a great movie.
Me and my best friend had a high school math teacher who resembled Rookie One to a tee, so till the day we graduated we'd call him Rookie Junior to his face. Dude was only like ten years older than us and had absolutely ZERO idea where it came from, unfortunately it caught on as a nickname with the rest of the kids
At 5:38 it always bothered me how uninterested that commander was with that message. Also “Corellia Star” looks an “awful lot” like a certain illegally modified YT-1300 freighter I know.
I mean, both of these games scream "budget New Hope/Empire" when you have Rookie One doing literally everything Luke could outside of actually being a Jedi, haha.
Honestly that’s common with so many old 90's Star Wars games, they always forgot the “heavily modified” part of the Millenium Falcon and just made literally every YT-1300 look completely identical, despite their already incredibly modular design
I always liked how some games like this one and Dark Forces where about stopping the Empire from unleashing an weapon that could turn the tide in their favor.
OMG!!! I used to play the shit out of this game at summer camp in the Mac and could never remember the name of it, just the game play (and those fucking mining tunnels). *13:49**, PTSD kicks in*
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