DOS

Star Wars: Rebel Assault

Description

You play a Rebel space cadet and have various missions to complete: Flying starships, destroying Walkers, infiltrating an enemy base etc. All viewpoints and gameplay is through the use of motion video backdrops.

Alternate Titles

• "מלחמת הכוכבים: מתקפת המורדים" -- Hebrew spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Genre: Rail shooter
• Star Wars: Rebel Assault series
• Star Wars universe

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User Reviews

A cool game, which fathered the video backdrop shooter sub-genre	Mickey Gabel (357)
Technologically impressive.	Trixter (8728)
Good old video-action games, can't beat 'em can you...	Quackbal (47)

The Press Says

High Score	Feb, 1994	5 out of 5	100
PC Games (Germany)	Jan, 1994	91 out of 100	91
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1993	91 out of 100	91
MikroBitti	Jan, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Tilt	Dec, 1993	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Dec, 1993	87 out of 100	87
PC Joker	Jan, 1994	87 out of 100	87
Power Unlimited	Mar, 1994	8 out of 10	80
Svenska Hemdatornytt	Feb, 1994		67

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Trivia

Technology

One nice touch about the video background is that it is larger than the screen. This allowed the developers to shift it up/down/left/right according to player movement, and it helps mask the fact that it's on rails. Another nice trick is a very quick interpolation and rotation section of the video playback code, which allows them to rotate the backdrop +/- 15 degrees if you bank left or right.

Awards

• GameStar (Germany)
  • Issue 12/1999 - #16 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking
  • Issue 01/2007 - One of the "Ten Most Influential PC-Games" (It is almost solely responsible for the fast establishing of CD-ROM drives for PC games. This allowed other developers to free themselves from space restrictions and experiment with new ideas, e.g. FMV sequences.)
• FLUX
  • Issue #4 - #5 on the "Top 25 Worst Video Games of All-Time" list

Information also contributed by Big John WV