Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault is a rail shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts for DOS, Macintosh, Sega CD and 3DO Interactive Multiplayer systems, set in the Star Wars universe. Released in 1993, it is the first CD-ROM-only game to be published by LucasArts. The game's story focuses on a young pilot called Rookie One as they are trained by, and subsequently fights for, the Rebel Alliance in the Galactic Civil War.
| Star Wars: Rebel Assault | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | LucasArts |
| Publisher(s) | LucasArts |
| Director(s) | Tony Van (original concept) Vince Lee |
| Designer(s) | Vince Lee |
| Programmer(s) | Vince Lee |
| Artist(s) | Ron Lussier Aaron Muszalski |
| Composer(s) | Michael Land Peter McConnell |
| Platform(s) | DOS, Sega CD, Macintosh, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer |
| Release | November 25, 1993 |
| Genre(s) | Rail shooter (Interactive movie) |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
The game features digitized footage and music from the original movies (although most of the original footage is replaced by CGI rendered sequences), and full speech. Rebel Assault is one of the oldest titles to make use of extensive full-motion video (FMV) on the PC. The video was used to display pre-rendered 3D graphics that were far ahead of what a contemporary PC could render in real-time. Developers pre-rendered various environments and battles and the player flew through these environments.