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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.
Aggregator | Score |
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GameRankings | 50% [2] |
Publication | Score |
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CNET Gamecenter | 8/10 [3] |
Computer Games Strategy Plus | [4] |
Computer Gaming World | [5] |
EP Daily | 5/10 [6] |
Game Informer | 5.5/10 [7] |
GameSpot | 4.5/10 [8] |
Jeuxvideo.com | 16/20 [9] |
Next Generation | [10] |
PC Gamer (US) | 60% [11] |
PC PowerPlay | 88% [12] |
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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