My review of Rebel Strike aka Rogue Squadron 3

[Mr.Sci-Fi]

Well I put down my $5 reserve and got the promotional disc. The disc has the following on it, playble level of rebel strike, I believe the full version of the Atari StarWars arcade, Rebel strike bonus pics/video and a trailer for Gladius.

The playable demo level is on hoth. It contains 4 different types of play. The first is that of luke running around right after his snowspeeder crashes. This requires you to run underneath two at-ats and take them down with your harpoon , saber, and gernades while doging blaster shots from snowtroopers. This play is difficult to control , your controlling luke from a 1/4 down view perspective whi;e shooting snowtroopers. It's akward and there's now real skill except running up to a target while taking hits and firing back. The second task is to find a taun-taun and make it back to the rebel base. A character on another taun-taun leads you through several waves of snowtroopers and around falling at-ats. The view of this action is a chase view, behind luke on his taun-taun, thou easier than the first because of the view it's basicly the same. The third view starts out right when you make it to the base, you dismount and man a heavy tripoded blaster. This is your generic shoot'em up action, your at a fixed point and shoot anything coming towards you. After defeating the couple of waves of fighters and ground forces you are wisked away to your xwing in the fourth action play. This level is a near copy of the hoth scene on the rogue leader, you need to defend several transports from ties and tie bombers. The play takes place with the transports in the air, no defence of them on the ground like in rogue leader. This level has waves and waves of ties, more than usual but not as much a the rouge leader rotj level.

All in all the play was ok for the ground and the usual greatness for the sky fights. I'm not sure how much Rebel Strike will have in the way of ground pounding with a blaster but by the trailer it wil be alot. I hope they tweek it a little better for the main release.

The menu screens are almost an exact copy of the previous titles with little difference. The cutscenes this time include movie cuts unlike the cg game cuts in rogue leader.

B on this game, A if they tweek the ground pounding.