Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

"The first Star Wars game the 64 bit console and not a bad one at that"

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire was the first Star Wars game of the N64 series, this featured a dude named Dash Rendar, a friend of Han Solo. This was one of the VERY earlier series of Star Wars. I got this game with my birthday money and when i first played it i thought this game was pretty cool. This was a pretty fun launch game for this time of gaming when the N64 was just young......

Gameplay (7/10)

The gameplay of this game is above average. The difficulty is decent and the layout of levels are VERY long. It will take you a while to play through these difficult levels. You have a choice between what difficulty you want to make: easy, medium, hard, and jedi.

Story (10/10)

You're Dash Rendar, you're out to stop the evil forces of the emperor. You go throughout 10 different areas to complete various tasks and destroy certain things. You are joined with your companion robot, Leebo, who gives you valuable information and helps pilot the ship for you. You are both teamed up to stop that butt-ugly emperor and restore peace to the....to the.....umm galaxy!!


Control (4/10)

This is the category where the game falters. The control is uunresponsive and hard to move to certain places or jump in the direction you want to. Another thing is the camera angel, it's pretty hard to follow and doesn't cooperate with your location.

Audio/Music (9/10)

The sound here is pretty basic, the gun shot, the scream of pain when hit with a gun shot, nothin out of the ordinary here. The music is pretty cool, some of the themes are directly from some of the Star Wars movies.

Replayability (7/10)

Well, after you beat the game, you might get pretty bored of this game. But that is unless you want to play at a higher difficulty and get more out of the ending or collect all of the challenge points or something like that.


Buy or Rent?

No comment. This one is completely up to you.

Overall (8/10)

This is overall a good,fun launch game for the N64. This is a must have for fans of the Star Wars series.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 01/22/02, Updated 01/22/02