Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
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| Developer(s) | Factor 5 |
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| Director(s) | Julian Eggebrecht |
| Series | Star Wars: Rogue Squadron |
| Platform(s) | GameCube |
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| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| GameRankings | 76.61% |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 5/10 |
| EGM | 7.17/10 |
| Eurogamer | 4/10 |
| Famitsu | 30/40 |
| Game Informer | 6.5/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | B− |
| GameSpot | 7.8/10 |
| GameSpy | |
| GameZone | 8.5/10 |
| IGN | 8.3/10 |
| Nintendo Life |   |
| Nintendo Power | 4.7/5 |
Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike is an action video game developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts exclusively for the Nintendo GameCube. The game is set during the original Star Wars trilogy and recreates battles that take place during those films. The game follows the Rogue Squadron, which, under the command of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles, uses starfighters to engage and defeat the Galactic Empire.
Rebel Strike was developed as a sequel to Star Wars: Rogue Squadron and Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Rebel Strike added the ability for players to leave their starfighters to participate in ground battles as well as enter and pilot other vehicles during certain missions. The game also has a two-player multiplayer mode allowing cooperative play for all but two missions from Rogue Leader.
Rebel Strike contains on-foot missions and space battle missions, as in the previous Rogue Squadron games. The game also includes some unlockable classic missions inspired by the Star Wars original trilogy.
Rebel Strike features two multiplayer modes: Co-op and Versus. Co-op allows players to replay missions from Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader in split-screen, excluding the levels "Triumph of the Empire" and "Revenge on Yavin". In Co-op, players share the same pool of lives. Versus features a variety of modes, such as Dogfight and Survival. In any Versus mode, players can pilot several craft, including X-Wings, A-Wings, TIE Fighters, and Darth Vader's TIE Advanced.
The story is set shortly after the destruction of the Death Star above Yavin 4. The Empire drives the Alliance off the moon, leaving the Alliance searching for a planet to serve as its next base. Tycho Celchu, an Imperial officer, defects to the Alliance on Dantooine and leads it to a group of scientists on Ralltiir who wish to defect. During the battle to rescue the scientists, Rogue Squadron member Sarkli defects to the Empire. Despite this, Rogue Squadron and the scientists escape safely in a transport craft. The Rebels settle on Hoth, but the Battle of Hoth forces them to leave as the Empire attacks and destroys their base.
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