The game was absolutely terrible. Did we really need to make an entire topic on it?

Man. I had tons of fun with that game. Not bad for 1998. Of course, it wasn't as fun as Pax Imperia Eminent Domain website.

I remember buying that, trying it, not knowing what was going on, and then going back to play Baldur's Gate 2. A pity, I love Star Wars games.

Ben

I loved the game. but it was always too easy to win. i found myself giving the computer a chance. i saw one thing happen in the game i never saw again, one of my heroes actually retired himself. maybe because I was the Rebellion and I was just bombarding planets out of boredom.

Rebellion was the very first 3D space strategy game I can recall. It also was the very first real-time STRATEGY game. It's not a real-time tactical game like most of the RTS titles you see, it actually requires you to figure out how you're going to get to the battlefield in the first place and then locks you into your initial decision.

It had a lot of potential. A truly ridiculous amount. True 3D space battles, epic scale, enough unit mix to keep things interesting, semi-random map generation, and a very well-done mix of both strategy and tactical scale combat. Even better for those who like big battles, you could literally bring hundreds of ships in for your assaults on major worlds. Unlike Imperium Galactica 2's model which gave you a maximum of 16 ships and increased ship stats to compensate, in Rebellion you could use whatever you brought to the table.

I ended up playing a highly modded version against a friend that ended with me running fighter squadrons past his Lancer anti-fighter frigates, demolishing his Interdictor cruisers, and hypering out with the my fleet's survivors before his Star Destroyers could crush me. The other two-thirds of my fleet did a nice little dance over Coruscant two ingame days later that included a trio of Death Star trench runs (first two didn't work out so well), a couple of Super Star Destroyers, and a huge melee of capital ships slugging it out while escorts tried to shoot up (or defend) as many troop-carriers as possible.

That was one of my favorite gaming moments of all time.

Too bad the pathetic AI, Rebel-stacked victory conditions, and overwhelming power of the movie characters crippled the game.

Rebellion may have had its down points, but it was one of the games that I enjoyed the most over the years. It had strategy on a massive scale, the likes of which I have not since seen.

Sins does have it in that reinforcements can arrive mid-battle, though.

I really liked it. The tactical battles were stupid though. If they would have put those resources into something different it would have been much better. The characters were kinda cool although I hated it when they got captured doing missions.

Still have it. But getting harder to play with newer comps.

JosEPh

You can't be serious. No, you are....Aren't you?

Anyway.......Rebellion sucked. There really is no other way to put it.

What, with the laughable combat mode that lacked even the most rudimentary of tactics. Ships, no matter their size, fired one little laser until they, or their, target died in some cheesily pixelated explosion. Further more, the combat graphics were atrocious, even by graphical standards at the time. Fighters were nothing more than cardboard cutouts that resembled gnats, and ships looked like jagged polygons or bizarre oblong things (nice).

It took forever to get anything remotely done. Here's some of my reactions to some of Rebellion's "good" gameplay: "Dammit Leia!!! You're supposed to be good at diplomacy, why the heck did it take 20 tries to convert that rebellious imperial planet to our side!?

"You idiot scout ships! Why did you fail your scout mission, and then return to base!!" "Do you know how long it takes for you to arrive and then return!?" "God!"

Yeah, you can speed up the game, if you could care less about the million things that'll happen as a result, and enjoy listening to your annoying advisers every ten seconds.

Then there's the infinite fun of having to subdue just about every planet in the solar system (as the game goes along) and chasing down renegade enemy fleets that could disappear any moment......Yeah, Rebellion was barrels of fun.

Hey, some of us enjoy complicated games

I can accept those failures for the easy missions; some variability is needed.

No one will ever claim the graphics were great. but many understood that the graphics could be forgiven if the immersion was successful. and it was. the music was nicely used in the game too.

I don't know that it took too long to do something in Rebellion. What happened quick in SOASE? Diplomacy was based on the players diplomacy skill, which brings up an interesting feature: like SOASE capital ships that can level up, so did characters in the game. They improved with successful missions.

As fpr scout ships, it is smart for them to be destroyed. That is a nice AI feature. But one thing Rebellion had that many games didn't was the ability to get arrival times. I wish SOASE and EAW had this feature.

The adviser could be toggled to report very little.

The rest of your post could be said of Sins too.

I personally could never get enough of Rebellion. It was frustrating at times and certainly had its short comings, but the overall game was really appealing to me... Star Wars setting, fleets of unlimited size, building infrastructure, assigning characters as admirals or generals or commanders... I had a lot of fun wit that game.

EAW was disappointing to me because it felt like a severely dumbed down version of Rebellion. If they just remade Rebellion, or made a sequel, they could really make a fine fine game while working out all the kinks from the original. That ain't gonna happen, of course. And it probably won't be needed with what I'm sure will be a fantastic Star Wars mod for Sins...

Build more scouts?