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TWRoO on 12 February 2012
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RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:

They're different kind of games, Rebel Strike's pacing was flawed but Rogue Leader was uniformly fantastic, and you're a soulless monster and I'm ringing your house with a line of salt to keep you inside of it.

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And on that point, most of Rogue Leader's missions weren't actually based on the movies. I think about 30% of them were lifted from the films.

Well, let's go through Rogue Leader's missions.

 

  • 1. Death Star - Based on the showdown of the Episode IV. A great opening. 8/10.
  • 2. Some space level - Don't see a real connection to any movie. Meh. 5/10.
  • 3. Battle of Hoth - Based on the opening of Episode V. Pretty good. 7/10.
  • 4. Maw - No connection. The section in space is especially boring, the part on the planet is also lame. 2/10.
  • 5. Star Destroyer - Sweet, but supershort. LIke 90 seconds. 7/10.
  • 6. Wrecked Star Destroyer - Was alright, no real highlights though. 6/10.
  • 7. Stealth mission - I despise stealth of pretty much any kind and this was added for the sake of having a stealth mission. 1/10.
  • 8. Bespin - This was Taloraan in the first Rogue Squadron. Well, at least they really look alike. Was okay. 6/10.
  • 9. Endor - Based on Episode VI. The real highlight of the game. 9/10.
  • 10. Death Star II - Episode VI again. Apparently they had to rush the game, because the framerate and collision detection inside of it is lacking. 6/10.
  • 11. Blast stuff - The first bonus level is just controlling a crosshair. 3/10.
  • 12. Asteroid Field - Fly through a samey stage and let the Millenium Falcon's auto-aim do the rest. 2/10.
  • 13. Triumph of the Empire - The first level of the game in reversed roles, but lacks its epicness. 6/10.
  • 14. Yavin - Darth Vader again, this time less exciting. 4/10.
  • 15. Endurance - Game lacks content, so let's stretch it. And yes, I beat this one with a gold medal in 200 minutes. 0/10.
Feel free to rate all these levels by yourself. The more original levels are clearly worse than those based on the movies, if you take the average for both of them. There's some stinkers in there and especially the five bonus levels don't hold up all too well.

 

I roughly agree with your placement of the levels (Endor being the cream of the crop), though the only ones I feel could have been dropped from the game with no complaint from me would be Maw and Asteroid Field.

Also I enjoyed endurance, though it could certainly have been a lot better... true most of the time I spent in  endurance was pulverising the waves with the cheat craft Buick.