Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire

I recently reinstalled this just for kicks

User Rating: 9.2 | Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire PC

By ZelvarR | Review Date: May 7, 2007

I used to love this game, it was the first 3D computer game I owned and my father was even forced to buy a 3D accelerator card (back when they were optional heh). I remember liking the Hoth level, the in-ship turret levels, and the speeder bike level.

Graphically, this game used to be pretty beautiful (compared to its peers at the time) and for something like this, you can't really compare it to the games today...at least graphically.

Honestly I still like this game even though it's almost 10 years old. Wow I feel old typing that. This game came out a decade ago? I'm gonna be dead before I know it at this rate.

Anyways, despite its obvious flaws (namely the awful horrible and terrible controls) I still love this game.

The rating I gave it is based more on how I would've had I written this review 10 years ago.

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