Product Description

In Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II, you'll take on the role of Luke Skywalker and engage in some of the fiercest battles in the Star Wars trilogy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4008 in Video Games
• Brand: LucasArts
• Model: 23272652586
• Released on: 2001-11-05
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: GameCube

Features

• Awesome cinematic graphics and intense action-packed gameplay put you "in the movies"!
• Be Luke Skywalker or Wedge Antilles and fly your choice of X-Wings, B-Wings, Y-Wings, Snowspeeders and more!
• 11 - plus heroic missions send you to Hoth, Cloud City, The Death Star and other Legendary Star Wars Locales!
• 1 Player

Amazon.co.uk
Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II features some of the best graphics ever seen on a home console, and it is a proper, old-fashioned, Star Wars game. If those two facts don't raise at least an eyebrow of your interest, then there's probably not much in the world of video games that will. Thankfully, the jaw-dropping graphics are matched up to a very playable shoot-'em-up concept that works as a slightly more in-depth version of the PS2's Star Wars Starfighter, except without any of that Episode I nonsense. Rather, it re-creates everything from the Death Star trench run to the Battle of Hoth.

The game is actually a sequel to Rogue Squadron for the N64--an excellent game that many only remember from the rather lackluster PC version. It's structurally very similar to the original, with a dozen or so levels and a Star Destroyer full of secret levels and ships. The game does feature a few new ideas, such as controllable wingmen and ground troops, and some of the levels are set in deep space rather than planetside, but at its heart this is still Rogue Squadron deluxe.

What elevates the game to an object of worship is the graphics--they really do look almost identical to the movie's, with several scenes appearing like exact copies. The ships move with a fluidity and grace you wouldn't have thought possible from such a tiny purple cube. The only flaw is that the missions are needlessly short, but there's plenty of replayability, and by gosh there's those graphics. --David Jenkins

Amazon.com E3 Game Preview
Probably the biggest surprise of the show, Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II deserves every syllable of its incredibly long name. Why? It's simply the best realization of the magic the original Star Wars brought to the screen in 1977. The musical cues, the sound effects, and even the X-wing's targeting screen (use the Force, Luke) is perfectly appropriate. Don't even get us started on the movielike visuals--one looping maneuver into the Death Star trenches and we were drooling on our shirts.

You play as Luke, with R2 riding shotgun, and you stick it to the man in 11 missions over ice planet Hoth, the Death Star, and other fabulously familiar locales. LucasArts and game developer Factor 5 definitely stayed on target for this one. --Porter B. Hall

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Customer Reviews

Rogue Leader
My 14 yr old loves this game. He recently chose to use a monthly free movie/game coupon, that came with the gamecube, for a movie instead because he said he knew he'd want to play this game the most anyway.

Not a great buy
I was a fan of the first installment of Rogue Squadron, but I'm not impressed with where the series has gone. The main problem for me is visibility: TIE fighters are tiny and almost impossible to see (especially in space battles), making taking them too much of a challenge. They added a targeting computer feature that helps a bit, but you lose points the longer you use the targeting computer.

Overall, I found portions of this game to be fun, but they need to brighten up the graphics to make it more playable.

Hard, but a great game!
This game is a great game but it is kind of hard. It has great graphics and sound.You can either play as Wedge Antellies or Luke Skywalker. Pretty good combination if you ask me! There are a bunch of unlockable ships so the replay value is great. There are also medals and points you earn at the end of each level on how good you do (bronze,silver,or gold medals) and you can unlock "secret" levelswith those points. There are also different views of the ship you are in, such as third person and cockpit views so you feel like you are in the game not just playing it! I would give it five stars but it is pretty hard (which is probably a good thing). Anyway, great game, buy it, you won't regret it.