The Battle of Hoth - Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Part 1
2Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a third-person shooter video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat sequences. It was released for the Nintendo 64 on December 3, 1996, and for Microsoft Windows on September 17, 1997. Good Old Games re-released it on May 3, 2016, as a compatibility update for 64-bit Windows.
The player controls the mercenary Dash Rendar to help Luke Skywalker and rescue Princess Leia from Prince Xizor. It is part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project and has a backstory between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Tracks from the multimedia project's soundtrack are in the musical score. The game received mixed reviews from critics. Shadows of the Empire is the third top-selling Nintendo 64 game for 1997, with more than one million copies sold.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire plays primarily as a third-person shooter. Players control the protagonist, Dash Rendar. His blaster pistol recharges after each shot, and can pick up additional powerups for the gun. In later levels, Rendar acquires a jetpack to traverse larger gaps. The jetpack can also be used under water in the sewer level. He has limited health, which can be replenished with health packs located throughout the game. The player is given a finite amount of lives to complete the game. Additional lives can be acquired, however if the player runs out of lives a game over sequence occurs. Each level is timed and up to three challenge points are awarded for performing specific actions or finding hidden tokens, to unlock rewards.
The game features other non-shooter elements. In the opening level, Rendar pilots a snowspeeder in defense of the Rebel base on Hoth. Rendar controls the turret of his ship, the Outrider, in 360 degree space battles to destroy a specific number of enemy ships. In other space sequences, he pilots the ship, destroying targets with its forward cannons. In one sequence, Rendar makes a high-speed chase on swoop bikes, controlling the swoop and attack to eliminate an enemy gang before reaching the destination.
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