Star Wars: Rebel Assault 1+2 Review┃History and Analysis
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- In this episode of the Retro Room, we look at two classic Star Wars games, in a retro throw-back to the 90's era of PC games. Before Disney purchased the beloved brand, Lucas Arts was holding down the fort bringing the PC master race a plethora of charming experiences.
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I don't care if the game play was awful. When I was in elementary school in the 90s and got to play this game on a computer at school I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by how realistic the graphics looked.
I loved it too. It was like playing a Star Wars movie. Then I found Dark Forces and that became the new favorite. I don't think I'd ever replay either of the Rebel Assault games now though. They're like time capsules of their time.
I was blown away by rebel assault 2 but the first one I think Is just god awful :(
lol I agree with you and disagree with @user, this game was amazing even with weird controls.
Rebel Assault 1 was absolute GARBAGE! However, RA2 was actually a considerable IMPROVEMENT. So, at least, one of those games gave Star Wars fans who are gamers what they deserved.
My dude, that B-Wing intro sequence was a staple of my childhood. Such a hidden gem of a game.
I don't remember this game being difficult to control and aim ... a good Joystick makes a big difference in old games ...
“All the way back in 1993”
Those of us born in the 80s: *”GUESS ILL DIE 🤷♂️ ”*
Lmao right? Oh well least we had a real childhood playing outside and not glued to our phones like kids now.
@@Rschr101 This is a false narrative because we were glued to the TV watching Nickelodeon, endless reruns of crappy tv shows, and playing video games constantly.
@@yokaicustoms nah there was a balance of outside and tv. now its all phones and tablets with everything in an instant and no outside.
@@PrimusTheGod Kids would be more inclined to go outside if the Baby Boomers didn't ruin the environment, and Gen X did anything to start fixing it.
If you want some beggar’s canyon action I recommend the Rogue Squadron trilogy. Thanks for giving us some throwbacks to when Star Wars had SOVL!
Im tempted to get a game cube just to play the second one.
I remember RA2 was promoted as being the first Star Wars footage filmed since Return of the Jedi. I loved playing it.
This comment is important as it indicates what it was to be a SW fan pre-2000
Although I enjoy these videos, they do lack the viewpoint of those playing in the 90s - it was MIND BLOWING flying down the DS trench, flying a YT1300, dressing as a stormtrooper....the flaws were forgiven for the unique experience they offered that is so different to the 30 years of media and now a stream of content we have.
back in the day we used a joystick.
it was still super fucking hard honestly.
I always entered the password "falcon" to start at the star destroyer assault level.
the final flying training mission drove me nuts. her name is "Rue Marlene" if I remember correctly. hated this level so much.
Everyone got stuck in the Star Destroyer level… until they got to the Hoth tunnels.
I know you glossed over the asteroid and mining base assault on Rebel Assault 2, but that sequence + the Escape from Hoth music was just so memorable for me as a kid.
Ru murleen, I think that’s what the manual said. Thanks for the upload, I rewatch videos on this from time to time for the nostalgia hit. My brother passed recently and him and I used to play this a lot. Just wanted to share how your upload impacted me. Thank you
I'm thankful I could help you remember him through this video.
Rebel Assault 1s controls are made for a Joystick (a real fligthstick not the controller mini sticks).
With a good Joystick it controls the best (still crap but at least not complete crap).
Absolutely underrated channel!
Glad you think so!
I'm with him.@@evprince You've earned a new subscriber... also, with the KOTOR music you're using... when we getting that review? XD
@@ackbarfan5556 I plan to livestream my playthrough of that as I get footage, and want it to be like an 8 hour video lol.
The T-16 Skyhopper was an unlockable bonus vehicle for Tatooine in Rogue Squadron.
The first game where I experienced the power of the CDROM and Sound Blaster 16!! The Beggar’s Canyon opening hits all the feels.
Surprised you didn’t mention that if you play a female in Rebel Assault, she’s the same voice as Ru Murleen, which as a kid I found kinda funny.
I recently got this on ps5, and I forgot how unforgiving this game was lol.
Also, Rogue Squardon series has Beggars Canyon run as a tutorial.
Although I don’t mind the A-T-A-T pronunciation, you can’t really argue that “At-At” (@ @) is wrong. NASA isn’t commonly pronounced N-A-S-A. Even CSPAN and IHOP are pronounced with as much of a word sound as possible. In the case of AT-ST, I can’t think of an established English acronym in which the “wordiest” part comes before the unpronounceable letter or letters.
Older folks call it an At-At (rather then AyTee-AyTee) because one of the toy commercials back in the early 80s referred to it that way. I'm older than you are but young enough to have not had any of the vintage Star Wars toys or see the commercials so I didn't experience that. I agree that AyTee-AyTee makes more sense based on AT-ST and other variants.
While this isn't a good game, I used to be able to beat it without dying, so I do have some tips for the controls. 1) It was much easier to control when I got a decent joystick... It became a *lot* easier when I bought a CH Flightstick Pro from the cheap Suncom stick I used when I first got the game... However, I imagine a lot of you would be running on DOSBox and using a recent joystick and those probably ought to be pretty good, especially by 1990s standards. 2) Instead of squeezing the stick, use light fingertip pressure to control your ship, this will help prevent over-steering it into various obstacles and make hitting targets easier.
I love your retro reviews, specially these old Star Wars games because I played all of them when I was a kid. I appreciate that you go through the entire game and keep in mind from their release time and how they old today.
Also on Rebel assault 2, I used to have the PC version but as you pointed out the PS1 version is different because the space battles (which is most of the game) where made by factor 5 (yes the guys from rogue squadron). So because they targeted the PS1 hardware were 3D started to rise there, they decided to redo the space battles with full 3D models and you could switch from in game cockpit view or exterior view, it was quite cool.
Back in the day, ports on different plats were more like full conversation with different feelings or materials depending of the hardware limitation and sometime a game could feel really different. RA2 was really a great game and story imo.
Anyway great review as usual!
I think of Rebel Assault II as a ‘blockbuster’ title. You play it not for the gameplay, nor the story-you play it, because you wanna feel like a derring do, stealing a stealth fighter from the midst of an enemy fortress, while blasting it to oblivion. And on that metric, the game is a 10/10.
Moreover, I believe it recreates the appeal of the original trilogy so well. The OT has always been an emotional spectacle, with style, plucky characters, stunning visuals and great music above all else. Rebel Assault II is all of these things, without trying to accomplish anything beyond that, and in a way that makes it stand out. I’ve always loved the design of these interiors on board the Star Destroyer. I’d argue in places it looks even better than the original Star Wars (the whole docking area during the escape level is especially memorable).
Rebel Assault 2 may be an hour long if you make no mistakes, but I feel like this game took half my childhood to beat. Three deaths took you back to the start.
There were level completion codes at the end of each level, did you not see or use them?
@@stormthrush37 You have to understand, I was not a bright child. That's news to me.
@@kenk4158 Sure no problem, wasn't intended as an insult, figured you might not have seen them. That makes me sad you didn't get to play more of the game as a kid though, guess you could watch a let's play now though if you wanted.
@@stormthrush37 You're good, my reply was a joke that didn't land. I played the game plenty. Just perhaps not so much after that muddy speeder level.
Joke mode on Rebel Assault 2 is the single greatest achievement of LucasArts. Highly recommended.
Damn, I had totally forgotten about that, glad you reminded me of it, going to go check it out right now. Fun fact: it's a direct reference to MST3K as the code to activate it is one of the robot's names spelled backwards. (Servo - ovres)
Never did get those boots. And they were really good boots!
@@darthdemented If my boss knew I was selling boots for prices like these, he'd kill me. Here he comes now! Aieeeeeee
@@UnitedStatesel 🤣 I still tell the joke about the agnostic dyslexic insomniac and how he use to lay awake at night wondering if there really was a dog. Even if it does get me blank stares lmao
@darthdemented I love that one. If my brothers or I are late to something and someone asks why, our usual response is, "I had to iron my cat". If popcorn is involved, it descends into absolute madness. "Is it real butter? " "uh, no sir. It's imperial. "
In 1993, it was kind of a 3-way race between X-Wing, the Super Star Wars games, and Rebel Assault. Each series got a lot of love from people at the time. I still remember playing the first Rebel Assault with my friend in my kitchen. He had the game, and we had a lot of fun playing it. X-Wing was kind of the dark horse between the three. It was my favorite, but I was afraid it was too technical to compete. I feared Rebel Assault or the Super Star Wars games were just so bombastic that they would outlive my favorite of the three, X-Wing. Somehow, the X-Wing series is the one that got the most iterations, though. But by now, they're all largely long forgotten.
The Rebel Assault games were designed to be played with a joystick. A lot of PC games were controlled with joysticks back then, even if it didn't make sense. The first game does control a little bit better with a joystick, but it's still pretty bad. The second game holds up a lot better. I'm glad the PSX version looks better-balanced, but I think the 3D models aged worse than the pre-rendered sprites of the original. Glad you had fun with the second game. When I look at the on-foot sections of the Rebel Assault games, though... it just makes me think that a full Time Crisis light gun+pedal setup would have been amazing. Of course, pedals weren't used in light gun games yet, but secondary buttons on light guns weren't too crazy. I wonder if that's something they considered, since the game plays so much like an arcade game already...
18:42 I love how in the Stormtrooper first person mode the blaster is literally just the E-11 sprite from Star Wars Dark Forces.
Commander Feral??? Like, that guy from Swat Kats? 🤣
I think Rebel Assault 2 is largely considered canon (at least to Legends). The first game, not so much.
I still remember walking into Ye Olden Ancient Gothic CompUSA and what the cardboard box on this game felt like 👴
Controller and Mouse controls? Bruh, we just used the keyboard back in the day.
8:18 how the hell did you pass up on the opportunity to point out that despite Luke supposedly not being there he is right there in the picture in the lower right corner since this was clearly just a screenshot from the movie made into pixels, its the first thing I noticed when the image came up XD
If I remember correctly Rebel Assault II was my first video game ever. I was about four when it came out and have fond memories taking turns playing the game with my friend. We could never beat it so I hon our own, which was fine since we loved that first level with the B-wing, so I had to get my brother to finish it for me. By the way, the game is meant to be played with a flight stick, that was way before WASD or even the arrow keys became standardized. Even then I admit the controls weren't the best.
Ah man, Rebel assault! Loved these games growing up.
You are exactly right regarding the nerds making their own star wars movies, the dev teams basically won the lottery at the time and absolutely went full send on making their own star wars content with costumes and such that they ended up making themselves or were able to borrow from Lucasfilms Games and for many it was the first proper EU Star Wars content many got, you are exactly right about the dogwater controls for the first game, that was a major complaint at the time and even the devs admitted on the old BBS/forums that they should have spent more time fixing them (which they were on the console releases as they got a second chance to fix a lot of things as you experienced), Also made worse is that for a lot of these controls they were designed with the old giant joysticks you could buy back in the day, the same joysticks that used to cost as much as a new component of somekind for your PC!
I got them both back in the day which included the ANCIENT floppy disk version of Rebel Assault 1 with the pack as the old game shop i used to visit here in western sydney (hi-tech world if anyone remembers them) was desperate to clear out old floppy game stock and i got given the floppy disk edition for free with both CD releases of Rebel Assault. And like with many games like this back in the day, dev team members played roles of somekind in those FMVs either as characters or extras as it was cheaper to just put on the costume and do a few hours of filming rather then hire people outside the studio.
Good times!
The actress who plays Ru Murleen is Julie Eccles, who voiced Jan Ors in the original Dark Forces.
These games were mind blowing in a lot of the ways for the time, and were definitely meant to be played with a good joystick. They’re clunky today, sure, but they have their place in PC history.
I remember trying to play RA1 with my brother back in like 1995 or 6. I don't think we ever got past the 3rd or 4th level haha. Loved RA2 though.
THANK YOU for the AT-AYE TEE clarification because that drives me crazy too haha
That's how I've always said it too😂
The 2 second comment about AT-AT's got me to subscribe, it's such a pet peeve of mine, What would they call the Construction unit AT-CT attssett? and how would they differentiate that from the AT-ST? or the MT-ST? emmmtsssttt? No.. they call it a bug walker because it has six legs while moving 100 mph while scaling mountains... horrifying... You know.. back when Starwars had creative and passionate people behind it.
I played both games back in the mid-1990s. Playing the “Millenium Falcon” stage in Rebel Assault 2 is actually quite easy if you change the controls from mouse to keyboard (then you have to revert it back for the other point and click stages). I don’t understand LucasArts from this time period. They were making games with live action scenes, but never considering bringing Mark Hamill to replay Luke Skywalker, even though he was essentially doing that in contemporary Wing Commander games. What a wasted opportunity!
P.S.: These second game and Dark Forces II should be remade with modern technology and HD cut scenes.
Rebel Assault 1 and Road Rash are what duped me into shelling out $700 for a damn 3DO back in ‘93/‘94 😖
Oof madone
Never played these and they look amazingly bad. (They are not older than I am). But this was a really fun video. I do have a soft spot for the classic Star Wars games. Thanks!
They are pretty bad tbh
I played them when I was little and they were not great, I really liked the shoot out bits though.
Rebel Assault II blew my mind as a kid! I would say that it's worth playing for any Star Wars fan today just for the fact that the developers filmed their own Star Wars movie using actual original trilogy props and costumes from Lucasfilm (which at that point would have just been sitting there for over a decade). Back when Star Wars was just 3 movies and some books and comics, something like this was very, VERY special.
The first Rebel Assault was mind blowing when it came out. Were the controls frustrating as hell? Yes, even back in '93. But there really was no other game at the time that could scratch the star wars itch the way that it did.
Actually I still like it!
More that the second one because it's shorter levels.
Both are good though.
Just practice a little and you will breeze through them! On easy mode at least.
Rebel Assault 1: what if you got to cock block Luke Skywalker out of his destiny? Also 😩 at saying it came out before you were born, I was nine when Rebel Assault 1 came out. The optimal way to play the game back in the day was with a joystick. I had this game mastered. The woman's name is Ru Murleen btw. SMH
Rebel Assault is a great game if you're playing it as a kid who doesn't need perfect controls. I played it over and over in my childhood and enjoyed every bit of it, even though it was hard.
wow man, I'll never forget the ton of hours I spent as a child trying to drive those crazy ships in Rebel Assault 1 with a Quickshot 80's joystick, it was possible, but hard as flying a real plane. Forced you to play totally focused on making your hand move in milimeters, it was easier for me to learn to fly a cheap mini drone.
Quite challenging but an enjoyable one if a SW fan, for the times of 2d games, playing this, as a real new Star Wars movie with real sounds voices and graphics, shooting all the shit riding your Tie, it blow my mind for a while, loved it like a 4th mini-movie. Thanks for the vid
I loved these back in the day, yet they were pretty tough. Just trying to get the first game running in DOS on a Gateway computer was even harder than the game!
16:33 In ROTJ when Luke says he senses Vader on the Executor Han tells him to relax because there are other command ships like this. Or something like that.
I got both in a collection of Star Wars PC games 25 years ago. The first one was so bad because of the difficulty level and controls that I found it utterly unplayable and just gave up. Part 2 however was great and I recommend it, with the exception of the speeder bike and Falcon leveks which give me flashbacks just seeing them though thankfully you can skip them with the codes you get after beating each level (and you can look up the list online). Albeit as mentioned the game is very short and its more like an interactive cutscene with the length of the playable parts relative to the total length of the game. Overall the game felt felt very for if not ahead of its time.
I wonder if AT&T ever did a commercial with the AT-AT from Star Wars, would've been a great one
Seeing rebel assault 1 for the first time I'm glad I only played through #2 on the playstation.
I played Rebel Assault on my Sega CD back in the day and it was AWESOME
I would like to see you cover "Jedi Academy." I found it way back when I was looking for a game to let me run around with a lightsaber. This game delivers fully on that. The plot is more just an excuse to visit places from the movies and some of the books. It is also the final game in the Dark Forces series so the furthest point in time we see Kyle Katarn. I think you can get it for a smile and a wink on Steam anymore.
Also the previous two games also tie in to The Valley of the Jedi, a location that is actually tied to Darth Bane if you read those books.
I loved this game as a kid
Great stuff deserves more views. Rebel Assault 2 is a must play imo.
I always needed to use perks to get past the YT-1300 section in Rebel Assault 2 when I was kid. Great game though!
That level was so terrible, it gives me flashbacks to even see it in this video for a few seconds.
It's actually the best level on the PS1 version I have
What!!! There were cheat codes!!! It took me forever to beat this as a kid.
This game was my jam. Came on one of them new-fangled compact discs. I remember we had a cassette that I had to put the CD into before inserting it into the computer. My parents got me a joystick specifically for it.
I owned Rebel Assault 2 on PS1 back in the day. It’s about on par with several other FMV titles. Once my friends with the N64 got their hands on Shadows of the Empire and Rogue Squadron, I was pretty jealous.
Fellow "ATEE-ATEE" Connoisseur, "A T A T" Just doesn't roll off the tounge and has never sounded right, like you said, everyone refers to the AT-ST correctly but never the AT-AT.
Great find your channel, sad to see you don't get that many likes as I've enjoyed your videos thus far. great work man.
100% that's how I've always said it too😂
I never got to play these but they must have been so good at the time.
Part 2 was. Part 1 was basically unplayable because of how bad the controls were though.
@stormthrush37 agreed, I loved RA2, played it multiple times, trying to get the highest scores possible, and loved the FMV, made it feel like I was in the universe. Years later, I got the 1st game on PC and was very disappointed after a few levels. I ended up giving up trying to make it work and watched a let's play.
Yup, I'm old enough to have bought and played both the PC and Playstation versions when they came out. I think I played the 1st one on the 3DO, but believe it or not, it wasn't the worst thing in the world for its time, and there was NO new Star Wars anywhere on the horizon at the time, so it slightly scratched that itch.
The second one came out right after I bought my first actual PC, and I still remember booting it up. There was a screen that came up after testing your system, and it would display either a frown face for the systems that weren't good, a mid face for systems that were okay, and a smiley face for systems that were good. I was thrilled to have all smiley faces.
I was such a Star Wars geek that I ended up re-buying it for the Playstation when that version arrived, and I can remember playing it for my friends while they watched it like a movie. I had surround sound and everything. It was pretty fun, and controlled better than the PC version, as you mentioned.
Fun vid.
Fun fact, Rebel Assault 1 had a console release as well! ...on the Sega CD, which barely counts. I owned it though.
THANK YOU. I have been saying for YEARS it's an AT AT not at at. Same thing. ATST not at st
Subbed JUST for that one comment alone.
Maybe it's my rose colored glasses in nostalgia, but I remember playing this game with a literal joystick and it played waaaay better than what I'm seeing here.
Yeah a thumbstick or mouse wont cut it. Only a full sized joystick, which were popular at the time, give you any kind of precision. and the game was definitely designed for that
It's actually Ru Murleen i think!
Rebel assault 2 has been added to Playstation 😊
I was in college when a friend of mine had me come to his room and show off the first game on his Power Mac, and had to admit it was pretty cool first time I saw it.
The second movie with its full motion video was during the time where SO many video games had FMV, like Wing Commander 3. Funny how CGI caught up where it looked better than FMV.
The first Rebel Assault sure plays like crap these days (it's a bit more bearable with a proper vintage analogue joystick), but it can't be understated that it was a HUGE hit back in 1993 and one of the killer apps for getting a CD-ROM drive, right after Myst and 7th Guest.
A lovely video, i really love your editing.
I remember playing these as a kid , the joystick at the time I played with was a CH Flightstick Pro, and it was sensitive enough to make the game playable
When this came out , our family pc just recently upgraded with a new CD Rom drive and a multimedia set from creative labs. This was my first legit game outside of the education content bundled with it.
I loved these when they came out. What you need to understand was that these graphics were in a completely different league from pretty much anything else. Completed both, but it's the first one I loved. Can't remember how many times I clocked that one!
Rebel Assault needs to be played with a joystick. And by that I mean a joystick that mounts to a desk and has a trigger and a few buttons. I can’t imagine playing that one with a controller. That said, it was tough as crap even with a period accurate joystick when I was playing it in 1994.
Rebel Assault 2 is what kicked off my Star Wars fandom. I loved it so much it made me watch the original trilogy on VHS, the Special Editions were coming out in theatres and by then I was a mega fan, and it all started for me with RA2.
Rebel Assault II was the best game ever made from 1995 to 1997.
I remember that game.
Keep in mind, before Shadows of the Empire, 3D games looked really bad.
Same with Rebel Assault I. Everybody wanted to play Star Wars as a video game in the 90s and this game made it possible and looked 100 times better than any game made before.
And no it did not look worse than the movies. TV screens had 480p.
I LOVED the Rebel Assault I & II so much as a kid! These games were somewhat of a Tech Demo for the shiny new CD-ROM drives at that time. Optical CD-ROM disks enabled unbelievable FMV graphics in a rail style format that offered much better graphics than what was available in any 3D rendered game of that era and did so for years to come. It felt like you were playing the Star Wars Movies themselves!
Also fun fact apparently depending on your difficulty you get 3 different endings for rebel assault 2 ( the "bad" ending is the commander giving you a handshake and then going all boomer on you saying back in my day we had it so much harder lol)
I never played RA2 but I remember RA1 feeling like a preview in 1993 of what Star Wars games could look like in the future once hardware caught up. We knew back then that at some point a game like this could "come off the rails" and no longer be pre-rendered and heavily script.
Two years later, I really felt like we had arrived when Dark Forces was released in 1995 and you could finally really get yourself fully immersed into these new worlds.
The kids won't ever understand the progression that us 80s babies grew up with between the 1980s and some point around 2010 where hardware was no longer a limiting factor in the kinds of games you could make. It was an exciting time to grow up as a gamer. Always something new to look forward to every year.
I don't even know what there's is to look forward to in gaming these days. Slightly better visuals? 8k resolution instead of 4k resolution? The 84th installment of Call of Duty?
As Yogi Berra once said, "The future ain't what it use to be".
Rebel Assault was my first Star Wars game I played. The second game is actually a lot better. It has an actual original story which is great. The flight and on foot levels are awesome.
rebel assault 2 was the first PC game I ever owned when I was a kid, I still play through it every once in a while, but i can beat it on the hardest difficulty with no problem, this is my pallet cleanser whenever i hear about disney star wars, and jedi knight, these two games will never get old for me.
The hoth ground Mission is more then just had it's unfair as you have to chose which path to chose and if you chose the wrong one it's game over except the correct paths are completely random everytime you play the mission( and from what I understand and would not surprise me changes after you die lol)
Thanks for the honest reviews. You brought back memories of how awesome parts of the original game were (like the Battle of Hoth and Death Star trench run) and how annoying other parts were (like the ground combat, caves, canyons, etc.). The gameplay was awful, as you said, but it was still so cool to have such a cinematic-looking Star Wars game (and, really, such a cinematic-looking game of any kind, since CD-ROM was very new and Rebel Assault was one of the first to take real advantage of it and release only on CD-ROM). In 1993, it had been 10 years since RotJ and we were very hungry for more Star Wars. So, it wasn't a good game, but it was a cool experience at the time. It's not one that I care to re-experience, though, not after you reminded me of all of its faults. 😆
Yes, this is nostalgia speaking... but Rebel Assault was AMAZING back in its day. We had never seen graphics like that, not in 1993. Clips straight from the movies. Voice acting all the way through. It was revolutionary. Yes, controls could be fiddly (it was intended to be played with a joystick, not a mouse or controller) and it wasn't very long, but that didn't matter. It was Star Wars like we had never played it before.
Rebel Assault, along with Myst and 7th Guest was a CD-ROM killer application. People bought CD drives just to play these games.
Oh, and as far as I know at least Revel Assault II is Legends Canon.
Honestly I consider star wars rebel assault 1 unplayable and if games were reviewed by today's standards I honestly think it would be super man 64 bad.
If you haven't had the pleasure, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter is a gem from the 90s.
It's been ages, but it was a favorite of my brother and I when we were little.
Also different franchise altogether, but Star Trek : Starfleet academy is a 5 disc behemoth from that era too.
One of my all-tjme favorites. If you like that era's corny dialogue and film style, you'll love the cutscenes.
Played Rebel Assault 2 last year on PS 1 using projector with 2.5m by 1.5m cinema screen + home theatre sound , it was something else !!! Especially level 3 or 4 when you find millenium falcon and getting out of the base , despite game is so old it still look amazing and gives you a feeling you're in the film . Also playing NFS 2 did make it look like i'm playing arcade and it brought excitement back . Have Rebel Assault 1 on steam but it's fckn unplayable , forget about the mouse and as author of this video said , even with controller it's totally f....ed up , i hardly passed canyons training mission . ,, Maybe he wasn't that sharp after all,, if someone remembers that line 😁
The second opus was so good back in my childhood. I ties the first once, and OMG! After 5 minutes, I just uninstall it.. XD
Also, I didn't know the series was Non canon (What if), as I just knew the second opus, and the story fit in the normal timeline, I wall though it was Canon-C class game.
Her name's Ru Murleen 🤣 - that's actually the actresses (actors? he her she him blah) real name also.. Course, I know you knew that.
Had both as a kid. I NEVER knew RA1 had Hoth stages 😂. This is my first time seeing them! Back then my brother and I failed so much on the very first “training” mission. We forced our way through, only to find the next stages were stupid easy compared to the first. Then we never passed the A-Wing canyon lol.
RA2 was one of the first games I ever beat by myself. I remember feeling like it was a grand adventure. Like, by the time I finished, it was some epic accomplishment lol.
7:25 - Technically, that's the rebel base, not imperial. Just taken over by Stormtroopers. Rookie One's X-Wing is even there.
When I first played this 30 years ago, I always assumed it was another ice planet. They don't even mention Hoth by name, choosing the generic name Gamma Base instead.
Rebel Assault 2 is a formative gaming memory. Even back in the day I knew it wasn’t exactly a great game, but it didn’t have to be, it was new Star Wars.
I was able to get Rebel Assault 2 on clearance around 2008-2010 for 9 bucks at Best Buy [basically they had a section for all unsold PS1 era games and I knew I had to grab it at that price because I was used to always buying games around 30 bucks back then]. One of my best cheaper game pick ups ever.
I loved the heck out of RA2, the story was both fresh and familiar enough to come back to and see how it would fit in with the expanded universe. Back then, stuff that wasn't canon was okay to me as long as it came out and said it straightforward.
I was hoping for a remake or even a continuation of this story for many years after, I mean, it has solid structure and it would be interesting to see how different the story would be if the Rebels could figure out ways to win against the Empire outside of Luke. Like what if the Empire had a homing beacon on the ship and the next game starts with them trying to escape an ambush and what little data they had on the new TIE fighters.
Also, I love FMV in games, and this game was one of those first ones I ever played.
I make no apologies for liking Rebel Assault 2. Its an arcade FMV action adventure, done right.
I would've enjoyed #1 a lot more if it controller better. Sadly, even 30 years ago, it never did.
Every time I hear someone talk about a movie or a game I distinctly remember experiencing after I graduated from college as "older than I am", I feel a distinct ache in my knees.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the Mystery Science Theater cheat code for Rebel Assault 2. If you used it, the cutscenes would be displayed with what appeared to be R2, 3PO, and Vader in the movie theater, the dialogue would be cut, and there would be humorous subtitles as well as a few funny changes to the videos. That is what I most remember about this one.
Which game on my Xbox s would be good for someone who loved Rebel assault? I'm not a fan of open world and 3D games that induce nausea. I bought Star Wars Fallen Order, but I quickly got tired by endless wandering and having to discover and find things.
Rebel Assault II - The Hidden Empire is ABSOLUTELY Canon. Look up Grand Admiral Martio Batch.
When I played Rebel Assault back in the day the aiming controls were more responsive like what you show in RA2. Not sure what caused the janky aiming with your version, but it clearly hampered the experience.
The ONLY way you can actually play these games is with a good old Joystick. No controller, a real joystick.
And then it works surprisingly well.
Man what a trip to early childhood. I never had the full version of Rebel Assault 2. I had like a demo disc of the start of the game that let you play up until you steal the Corellian Corvette. Fell in love with the B-Wing from this game. I did not realize the Tie-Phantom was in this game, I am super curious if this is it's first depiction/inception. Great little retrospective.
You mention you don't know any other game that lets you play with a T-16. There's one of the Rogue Squadrons for the gamecube that has a Beggar's Canyon map with the T-16.
Logan Paul looks like the twin of this This Ruma Lean character. Great video, Evan!
I love looking back at older Star Wars games because of the charm of the older graphics and cheesiness that had the true spirit of Star Wars. Why do so many modern games with the impressive graphics seem so boring and lackluster? It's because the spirit of which something is made is the most important factor. Back in the day, these were AAA graphics. Today's graphics are going to be looked down upon in the future when graphics are more superior, but the most important question is with what spirit were the games created from? Great video.
3:06 is wrong... 1 character from Rebel Assault can actually be seen in Episode 6 when the Rebel fleet attacks the Death Star II (flying to the core). Its commander Farrell at 4:28
I’m older unfortunately (born 85) and I had RA1 when it came out on the PC. Totally agree about the controls, I had an old quick shot controller and that was the only way in could make it though. I did eventually beat it without cheats, but honestly I was stuck on the hoth probe droid cave for like a year. I would just use the password system and play the star destroyer attack in the early game over and over as I really liked that level.
The V-38 Phantom was canonized retroactively in the EU/Legends canon, but the Rebel Alliance games plot was not.
I remember the controls for the flying portions of the first rebel assault being particularly terrible. It was very difficult to accurately aim at the little targets and even more difficult to tell where the walls of the various canyons you always seemed to end up flying down actually were until you crashed into them. I also remember that obnoxious on-foot mission would actually kill you instantly if you picked the wrong path to walk down - rookie one would walk into a control room completely full of storm troopers and that was the end. I don't think there was any in-game warning not to go down that path either.
As far as star wars games from that era went, I much preferred x-wing and tie fighter, which the idiots at my school insulted me for liking because "the graphics in rebel assault were better". They couldn't look past the low-detail polygons of the time.