But getting it running at higher resolutions, and with proper controls, takes a bit of fiddling. Now, thanks to GOG, it’s easy to play again on modern Windows. Rogue Squadron also pulled a bit from the Star Wars Expanded Universe fiction, which excited me to no-end when I first played it. And the snowspeeder’s AT-AT-tripping cable…well, that part was more maddening than fun. Interesting, layered missions with an addictive medal system that encouraged repetition (and eventually demanded perfection).
Ships that felt different and had their own advantages in combat. Factor 5 simply got everything right: cinematic camera angles in the cutscenes that evoked the original films. While TIE Fighter was blazing a trail for space sims on the PC, Rogue Squadron was perfecting arcadey dogfighting combat on PC and the Nintendo 64, where I played it for years.
