STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™
LucasArts · 2017 · Action, Adventure, Space, Classic, Third-Person Shooter
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 739
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About STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™
✦ AI summary
Play as Dash Rendar across five action-packed modes and vehicles to protect Luke Skywalker from Dark Prince Xizor and his criminal empire during the original trilogy's gap. Blast through iconic Star Wars locations and new locales with everything from snowspeeders to jet packs in this thrilling bridge between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun crime syndicate, aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. To do that, he must eliminate young Skywalker. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance defeat the evil Xizor. Watch out for infamous bounty hunters and deadly stormtroopers! May the Force be with you!
- A gripping new plotline, with new characters and environments...find out what happened between Star Wars™ The Empire Strikes Back™ and Star Wars™ Return of the Jedi™.
- Five gameplay modes - in a variety of vehicles and spacecraft - from the heavily armored Outrider, to snowspeeders, hovertrains, jet packs, and speeder bikes.
- Action-packed Star Wars™ locales - including Mos Eisley and the ice planet Hoth. New locales, like the sewers of Imperial City, Xizor's palace, Gall Spaceport and the dreaded junkyards of Ord Mantel.
As Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance struggle to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire, a new threat arises. Dark Prince Xizor, head of the Black Sun crime syndicate, aspires to take Darth Vader's place at the Emperor's side. To do that, he must eliminate young Skywalker. As Dash Rendar, it's up to you to protect Luke and help the Alliance defeat the evil Xizor. Watch out for infamous bounty hunters and deadly stormtroopers! May the Force be with you!
- A gripping new plotline, with new characters and environments...find out what happened between Star Wars™ The Empire Strikes Back™ and Star Wars™ Return of the Jedi™.
- Five gameplay modes - in a variety of vehicles and spacecraft - from the heavily armored Outrider, to snowspeeders, hovertrains, jet packs, and speeder bikes.
- Action-packed Star Wars™ locales - including Mos Eisley and the ice planet Hoth. New locales, like the sewers of Imperial City, Xizor's palace, Gall Spaceport and the dreaded junkyards of Ord Mantel.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I had this on N64 when I was a kid so I wanted to play this for nostalgia sakes. Back in the day I never made it past the first level and honestly now that I made it further, I didn't miss much. The level design is horrible, the controls atrocious and whatever story is going on is pretty uninteresting. I couldn't even finish the game because of a game breaking bug during [spoiler] the Boba Fett boss fight. [/spoiler]
God this game rocks. I only have vague memories of playing it decades ago because I was really young. But the nostalgia is strong here.
This game is a gem, but playing this on PC kind of sucks. I tried to make my controller work but no success. I pushed through to play with mouse and keyboard and I made it through several missions, even the Boba Fett fight. However, you need the patience to do all of that and need to collect as many lives as you can on the early and easier missions for insurance. It was a little fun to replay some of it despite the hassle, but I am now well and truly at my limit with the controls and being able to beat the game. At least some of the game is playable, but I welcome any remake.
classic. harder difficulties will remind you just how hard old games could be
I had this for the 64 when I was a kid. this game was a horror game for me then! there was a lot of cool exploits to defeat the bosses. I remember the purple pulse bullets would hit enemies through walls - doesn't do so in this port. Wonky controls + the level design makes for a hard game to beat !
Arcade style TPS mostly, sometimes it is vehicle based shooet'em up. Interesting game, hard to control. Still, it is an interesting part of SW games to recommend.
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