Best "Lucas" Games

[gamevet]

Rebel Strike looks even better, but it has a lot of bad levels.

I didn't see anything about that game that would make me think it did look better. The ground levels were pretty generic looking and the space battles did nothing beyond Rogue Leader.

[kool kitty89]

I didn't see anything about that game that would make me think it did look better. The ground levels were pretty generic looking and the space battles did nothing beyond Rogue Leader.

I found the space battles more details and doing some things that RL didn't, but I'm not positive on some things. It certainly didn't look any worse.

Does RSII support progressive scan? (I'm to lazy to check right now, but I know RSIII does)

[kokujin]

Does RSII support progressive scan? (I'm to lazy to check right now, but I know RSIII does)

Yes it does.

[gamevet]

Rogue leader was the first game I fired up, when I got my component cables. It's pretty sweet in progressive scan mode.

[MrMatthews]

I didn't see anything about that game that would make me think it did look better. The ground levels were pretty generic looking and the space battles did nothing beyond Rogue Leader.

It's subtle, but I think Rebel Strike at the very least improves on the number of enemies on screen. I only noticed it on the Rogue Leader levels, though.

As for the actual RS campaign, I never made it past the first ground level, myself. I got bored.

[kool kitty89]

Rogue leader was the first game I fired up, when I got my component cables. It's pretty sweet in progressive scan mode.

The first time I played either at home I'm almost sure it was through component, but not in progressive scan, just on our SDTV. (it does support anamorphic display though, and that's how it's set most of the time -and for almost all games that support it)

[kool kitty89]

It's subtle, but I think Rebel Strike at the very least improves on the number of enemies on screen. I only noticed it on the Rogue Leader levels, though.

As for the actual RS campaign, I never made it past the first ground level, myself. I got bored.

I got bored with some of the more tedious escort-oriented levels of RSII... the ground levels of most of RSII kept me interested most of the time, either short and simple (like Geonosis), or just plain fun for me. I think I ended up just using cheats to get to the later levels of RSII originally, but it wasn't until the co-op modes that it was really fun.
If you really don't like the on-foot levels, just use the cheats and skip them , there's a reason Lucas Arts games usually have significant cheats built into the games. (I need to go back to Super Star Wars and try some... never did that bitd -the only one I finished was RoTJ, ESB was way too hard, and SSW lacked the save system or continues)

Plus there's bonus unlockable ships with cheats too, always fun for that. (in the PC version of the original RS, there were some extras that came via patch actually, like the Naboo Starfighter, not in the N64 game at all)

It's odd, but the escort/defensive stuff frustrates me more in RSII than the X-Wing games... maybe it's the arcade style gameplay that makes that feel off, but I'm really not sure.
I've gotten stuck in X-Wing before (actually going back to the original I'm stalled on one mission), but it generally didn't seem to bother me in the same way.

The fact that enemies are really hard to see sometimes and the fact that you have to hold down the targeting scope did get on my nerves in RSII, something they fixed in RSIII.
But the 2 player dogfights are great... I just wish I had more people who wanted to play them though. (still not nearly as fun as XvT/XWA LAN play though, full open space free 3D dogfights or more complex competitive missions as well, no boundaries, sim style gameplay, etc)