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Not exactly good piloting practice, but Luke had the Force to help him! Experience the Battle of Hoth from the cockpit of your Snowspeeder, as you hold of Imperial forces and help the Rebel transports escape. It's the Empire Strikes Back, you're on Hoth and all hell has broken loose! The Imperial forces have discovered the Rebel base and your task is to delay the attack long enough for the Rebels to evacuate. This mission basically consists of dealing with three waves of Imperials.

Simply target and destroy a group of Probe Droids. Once the Probe Droids have been dealt with you receive a distress call and need to follow the radar to a downed Snowspeeder, which is being harassed by AT-STs. The best way to do this is to take out the two lead AT-STs fast with your cannon, as they can get in the way when you're trying to bring down the AT-ATs.

Next, target the first of the AT-ATs and take it down fast. You'll need to be careful not to collide with the second AT-AT or the walls of the canyon which is very narrow while you're at it though.

Then it's simply a matter of mopping up the remaining AT-STs and going home! To get Gold you're going to need to finish this mission fast and with a lot of accurate kills.

So don't go wildly shooting at everything, and try to take out each of the AT-ATs first time. Good luck! To begin this review with a summary of the Star Wars phenomenon would just be silly. To not be aware of at least one of the Star Wars films, you'd have to have been bom on another planet! However, on the off chance that you've been away visiting relatives on Alpha Centauri for the last 60 or 70 years, let's just quickly run over the important events of this century:. Of course, Star Wars has been in the news fairly recently following the decision by George Lucas to make himself pots more cash In the US thousands upon thousands of American fans queued for hours just to be the first to see the trailer for the first film in the new trilogy!

With a film franchise that stirs up this much excitement, it'd be daft not to make videogames! Well, most people anyway. There are those that would buy an empty cardboard box if you stuck the Star Wars logo on it and called it a Star Wars Figure Special Containment Facility!

However, we'll leave those weirdos playing with their limited edition Kenner Han Solos still in original packaging! If you've read any of the Star Wars books and comics, then you'll probably be aware that everything which deals with events in the Star Wars universe has to fit in with the overall storyline. That is to say, every plotline must fit with events that have happened previously or are going to happen.

Rogue Squadron the game as distinct from the Rogue Squadron stories on which the game is based is set immediately following the events in Star Wars. The plot to Rogue Squadron is basically as follows - Luke has joined Rogue Squadron, a newly formed unit of elite Rebel pilots, who have been ovtfitted with the best equipment available to the Rebel Alliance.

Luke himself has yet to discover that Leia, the girl he rescued from the Death Star and who he secretly fancies c'mon, it's obvious! He is also currently unaware that his arch nemesis Darth Vader is really Ms father Anakin Skywalker, due to chop Luke's hand off in a fit of paternal affection in the next film.

So basically Luke is blissfully unaware of just how complicated family reunions are going to become. This is rather fortunate because he's got 16 missions to wade through if he wants to live long enough to get clobbered by a Wampa at the start of The Empire Strikes Back, so he needs to keep a clear head. You begin the game in the Rebel Alliance hanger.

Move around the hanger and you can view the ships which will be available for your missions. Note the phrase 'will be available' though, because at first you're limited to one specific craft for each mission.

As you progress through the levels, you find that you can come back and replay missions already completed, this time using different ships. The incentive for this is the various medals you can win, but we'll come to them in a moment.

The only missions where you can't come back and use a different craft are ones where you need a specific craft because of its capabilities - for example, you need a snowspeeder to bring down the AT-AT Walkers. Just like in Star Wars, our story begins on the desert planet of Tatooine okay, so Star Wars technically began in space aboard the Rebel blockade runner, but the pilot did move to Tatooine airly rapidly.

While Luke and the rest of Rogue Squadron are happily cooling their jets and exploring scenic Tatooine, the evil Imperials rather spitefully send down a whole host of vicious probe droids. Quicker than you can change the spare wheel on a Jawa sandcrawler, Rogue Squadron leap into action their words to defend the homestead! The idea here is to destroy all the probe droids on the planet as fast as possible before they wreck too much of the local cheap housing.

If you successfully take out the all probe droids, then you're faced with a new problem as Mos Eisley - the spaceport where Luke first met Han Solo - comes under attack from Imperial TIE Bombers. The first mission is basically a training one.

The probe droids are hardly what you'd call dangerous opponents, with their lousy firepower, sluggish reactions and tendency to hover in a fixed position in mid-air just asking to be blasted. Even the TIE Bombers aren't the most deadly of adversaries, having little In the way of air-to-air defences and usually relying on a covering force of TIE Fighters to keep them healthy - which on this occasion they don't have.

This means that you have plenty of time to explore Tatooine and get used to the handling of your X-Wing. Eventually when you've tired of blasting probe droids, stormtroopers, sandpeople - and even helpless farmers, since you can basically shoot everything on the planet - you move on to the next mission.

This one's a little more tricky as you have to escort a slow moving convoy of hover-trucks through Imperial territory. The reason that it's more tricky is that you need to keep checking ahead of the convoy to clear any resistance whilst at the same time keeping an eye out for the enemy bombers that come at the convoy from the rear.

And of course you need to stay in one piece yourself! As you progress through the game a story unfolds. It turns out that the raids I on the various Rebel installations are all down to an Imperial Moff that's a kind of military governor, for those not versed in the jargon. It also turns out that Luke's pal Wedge is fairly rubbish. He constantly gets himself into trouble, on one occasion being rescued by smirking ex-smuggler Han Solo and on another getting captured by the Imperials, forcing you to mount a rescue mission!

It makes you wonder how in the hell Wedge became one of the only minor characters to survive the three Star Wars films! Speaking of which, one slightly disturbing thing about the game is that pretty much all the other members of Rogue Squadron who fight with you against the Imperial forces are going to be dead by the end of Return Of The Jedi, either in the snowspeeder battle on Hoth or in the massive assault on the second Death Star over Endor.

Which makes trying to save your wingmen rather pointless! Gameplay-wise, Rogue Squadron is unlike anything yet seen on the N64 -almost. It's very reminiscent of the number of flight sim games which cropped up on the old bit computers like the Atari ST and the Amiga. Probably the best comparison to an actual N64 game is the snowspeeder battle level in Shadows Of The Empire.

Even those who criticised this first N64 Star Wars game grudgingly admitted that the snowspeeder level was bloody good fun, and someone obviously took note of these comments because Rogue Squadron is basically that level expanded to fill a whole game! That's not to say that you spend your whole time in a snowspeeder, though.

For your Imperial-annihilating enjoyment you can take the controls of no fewer than five different craft; the snowspeeder, the classic X-Wing, the faster but more lightly armoured A-Wing, the slow but heavily armoured Y-Wing and the totally new V-Wing which wasn't in the original films and looks something like the Cylon fighters from the classic or crap, depending on your point of view sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica.

Now, one of the most popular craft from the Star Wars universe is conspicuous by its absence from that list. So before the barrage of phone calls from the Han Solo fanatics begins, the answer is yes, the Millennium Falcon is in the game.

This is the first game I can remember that gives you a targeting computer. The targeting computer is an overlay that comes over the entire screen and shows enemies in an infrared-type view. Some of the missions have you enshrouded in a heavy fog so your visibility is limited. The only way you can see the approaching enemy ships is through your targeting computer. I loved the concept but the execution left me frustrated.

The biggest issue I had with it was that you had to hold down the Y button to keep the computer up. If you released the button, the computer would retract and you would go back to normal view. The problem with this is that the placement of the Y button on the controller in relation to your fire button makes it nearly impossible to press both at the same time without contorting your hand in a way the human hand is not capable of contorting.

I really think they could have done a lot more with the targeting computer maybe an entire mission requiring you to use it than they did.

Too bad, because it is a cool idea. As I stated in the beginning of this review, one of the big reasons I fell in love with this game was because of the beautiful graphics; they seem only to have gotten better since E3. I review games on a 53'? HDTV still waiting for the component cables to come out and it looks absolutely breathtaking. Everything, from the snow levels of Hoth to the asteroid fields in space, is in beautiful high-resolution glory.

The ships are very detailed and the Star Destroyers will have your jaw dropping. The game does use CG cutscenes to explain the mission objectives or to set the scene and, to be honest, the cutscenes do not look much better than the actual gameplay.

It is just a game that must be seen to be appreciated. If these are the type of graphics we can expect out of the GameCube, I may forgive them for the crap that was the N64 after all.

Even the less-than-great Star Wars games in the past have always had decent audio. However, the way you earn medals based on mission performance, also a legacy of the N64, gives the action a solid framework. By improving your performance, you can unlock vehicles to use on earlier missions to get better medals.

Ultimately, you can unlock the Millennium Falcon, which is tantalizingly parked in the hangar when you choose a vehicle. You need Winrar installed to do it. The game will be played by the Alliance. The Rebels are trying to stand up to the mighty forces of the Empire, so they assemble a squadron of 12 experienced pilots.

Everyone drives his or her own mode of transportation. Players get the role of Luke Skywalker. Together with the hero you will have to take part in dynamic and intensive fights in outer space.

The missions in the game are very diverse. Some are ground-to-air missions, air-to-air duels, planetary battles, etc.