Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)

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Star Wars Rebellion
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Developer(s) Coolhand Interactive
Publisher(s) LucasArts
Director(s) Scott Witte
Designer(s) Scott Witte
Composer(s) Peter McConnell
Michael Land
Clint Bajakian
Platform(s) Windows
Release
Genre(s) Real-time strategy, 4X
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

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.

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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]

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