STAR WARS™ SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE™
1996/LucasArts
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a 1996 action video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat and third-person shooting sequences. A version for Windows was released by LucasArts in 1997. The player controls the mercenary Dash Rendar to help Luke Skywalker and rescue Princess Leia from Prince Xizor. It is part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project and takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a 1996 action video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat and third-person shooting sequences. A version for Windows was released by LucasArts in 1997. The player controls the mercenary Dash Rendar to help Luke Skywalker and rescue Princess Leia from Prince Xizor. It is part of the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire multimedia project and takes place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Tracks from the multimedia project's soundtrack are in the musical score. The game received mixed reviews from critics and was the third-best-selling Nintendo 64 game for 1997, with more than one million copies sold.
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- Cover: SteamGridDB · SteamGridDB Terms of Service; artwork (c) its author and the game's publisher
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- Screenshots (5): Steam · Steam Web API Terms of Use; artwork (c) its publisher
- Screenshots (9): IGDB.com · Twitch Developer Services Agreement (IGDB); artwork (c) its publisher
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