Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)
1998 Star Wars video game
1998 video game
Star Wars Rebellion (known as Star Wars Supremacy in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a real-time strategy 4X game released in 1998 by LucasArts and set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe .
Reception
The game received poor reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings .[ 2] Next Generation stated, "LucasArts should start looking more closely at what it slaps the Star Wars brand on, as consumers will be less likely to forget or forgive."[ 10]
According to PC Data , the game was the U.S.' 18th-best-selling computer game during the January–November 1998 period.[ 13]
The game won the award for "Most Disappointing Game of the Year" at GameSpot ' s Best & Worst of 1998 Awards.[ 14] It was also nominated for "The Underachiever Award" at IGN ' s Best of 1998 Awards, which ultimately went to Trespasser .[ 15]
Rebellion has been more positively remembered in retrospect, with PC Gamer noting it is a "pretty effective Star Wars story generator" with compelling grand strategy elements.[ 16] Game Rant also notes the game as for its rich Star Wars digital encyclopedia, unique for its time.[ 17]
Macworld saw LucasArts' 2006 game Star Wars: Empire at War as a successor to Rebellion .[ 18] Ars Technica notes that the Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: Rebellion board game is loosely based on the computer game.[ 19]
References
^ Gentry, Perry (March 23, 1998). "What's in Stores This Week" . Gamecenter . CNET . Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
^ a b "Star Wars Rebellion for PC" . GameRankings . CBS Interactive . Archived from the original on May 20, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Dembo, Arinn (April 16, 1998). "Star Wars: Rebellion" . Gamecenter . CNET. Archived from the original on August 16, 2000. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Ocampo, Jason (April 7, 1998). "Star Wars Rebellion" . Computer Games Strategy Plus . Strategy Plus, Inc. Archived from the original on November 6, 2003. Retrieved July 1, 2010 .
^ Cirulis, Martin E. (July 1998). "Got a Millennium to Kill? (Star Wars Rebellion Review)" (PDF) . Computer Gaming World . No. 168. Ziff Davis . pp. 172, 177. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Shaw, John (April 17, 1998). "Star Wars Rebellion" . The Electric Playground . Greedy Productions, Inc. Archived from the original on August 27, 2002. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Bergren, Paul (June 1998). "[Star Wars] Rebellion". Game Informer . No. 62. FuncoLand .
^ McDonald, T. Liam (April 8, 1998). "Star Wars Rebellion Review [author mislabeled as "Tim McDonald"]" . GameSpot . CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on December 12, 2004. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Airainecer (February 11, 2013). "Test: Star Wars Rebellion" . Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ a b "[Star Wars] Rebellion" . Next Generation . No. 43. Imagine Media . July 1998. p. 117. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Trotter, William R. (June 1998). "Star Wars: Rebellion" . PC Gamer . Vol. 5, no. 6. Imagine Media. Archived from the original on March 10, 2000. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Argy, George (May 1998). "[Star Wars] Rebellion" . PC PowerPlay . No. 24. Next Media Pty Ltd . pp. 68– 70. Retrieved August 26, 2021 .
^ IGN staff (January 4, 1999). "Best Selling Games of 1998" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ "Best & Worst of 1998 (Most Disappointing Game of the Year)" . GameSpot . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on October 18, 2000. Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ IGN staff (January 29, 1999). "IGNPC's Best of 1998 Awards" . IGN . Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on April 27, 1999. Retrieved August 27, 2021 .
^ Andy Kelly (2021-05-04). "The weird old Star Wars games that time forgot" . PC Gamer . Retrieved 2024-07-07 .
^ Fisher, Maddie (2024-01-14). "Best Star Wars Strategy Games, Ranked" . Game Rant . Retrieved 2024-07-07 .
^ Holt, Chris (June 3, 2010). "Star Wars: Empire at War" . Macworld . IDG . Retrieved August 25, 2021 .
^ Anderson, Nate (2016-03-26). "Star Wars: Rebellion review: A fully operational 4-hour board game" . Ars Technica . Retrieved 2024-07-07 .
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