VIDEO GAMES : SHADOWS: SETTING STANDARDS WITH THE BEST STAR WARS GAME.Byline: Roy Bassave Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire The Game: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Formats: Nintendo 64 (N64). Estimated selling price, manufacturer: $79, LucasArts for Nintendo. Category: Action. Players: One. Recommended ages: 6 and up. How to play: Remember in ``Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'' when Luke, Han and Leia were trying to escape from Darth Vader's troops on the ice planet of Hoth? That's where you start your adventure - which is really set between ``The Empire Strikes Back'' and ``Return of the Jedi.'' You are Dash Rendar In the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe, Dash Rendar was a Corellian smuggler, and friend to Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and the rest of the Rebel Alliance. Biography Early life , a member of the Rebel Alliance The Alliance to Restore the Republic (commonly known as the Rebel Alliance) is an interstellar force formed in direct military opposition to the Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe. who is hired to protect Skywalker and the others from the Imperial warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors Xizor, and you must pilot a Rebel snow-speeder while trying to shoot your tow line around the legs of AT-ATs, those mammoth-size Imperial walkers. If you aren't a good pilot, you'll be hit by red laser fire and your ship will crash. (Too bad you can't control the Rebellion's best pilot, Luke Skywalker, who's not in this game.) If you can survive the AT-ATs, you'll enter the Rebel base, fight stormtroopers and help the Millennium Falcon The Millennium Falcon is a fictional spacecraft in the Star Wars universe commanded by smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). take off. Game play is similar to Dark Forces for the PC and Sony PlayStation Sony Playstation - Playstation . In Shadows, you travel through 10 levels of various missions that include solving puzzles, walking through buildings, killing stormtroopers, setting off explosives, flying a snow- or land-speeder, riding on top of and inside a train, or surviving a classic Tie-Fighter dogfight in the middle of an asteroid belt. Just like Han Solo Han Solo is a character in the Star Wars universe. He was played by Harrison Ford in , , The Star Wars Holiday Special, and . In the first released Star Wars did in the movies. Good points, bad points: Remember the three Star Wars games from LucasArts for Super Nintendo? They were some of the best SNES SNES Super Nintendo Entertainment System SNES Syndicat National de l'Enseignement Supérieur (French) SNES Syndicat National de l'Enseignement Secondaire (France) games ever made. This time around, on N64, the graphics and game play are again setting standards that other programmers will have to meet, and the music is as good as John Williams' original soundtrack. The sound effects sound effects Noun, pl sounds artificially produced to make a play, esp. a radio play, more realistic sound effects npl → efectos mpl sonoros are Lucas' best from the films: the classic laser-gun blasts, the Tie-Fighter scream, the explosions - they're all here. The only bad point - I wish Shadows allowed you, as in Die Hard Trilogy (PlayStation), to realistically damage walls and doors if you miss your target. Starting next month, George Lucas rereleases to a whole new generation his three original ``Star Wars'' films, with new scenes and digitally enhanced special effects. The verdict: The best version of a Star Wars game and the best graphics since Mario 64 set the standard. |
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