For many of us who currently play video games, until the disappearance of the mythical LucasArtsthe games of Star Wars were serious business. Especially those from the early days when we experimented with increasingly advanced technologies to live the same experience as in the movies on our computers: Dark Forces, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Jedi Knight, Rebel Assault and many others who forged a good part of that mythical legend.
But of all those we have told you above, there is one that is a child of its time, of the birth of the multimedia phenomenon, when PC storage formats changed to multiply their capacity. From the barely 1.4 MB of the 3.5″ disks we went to the 650 MB of the CD-ROMs (later came the DVDs and Blu-rays), so there was a lot to fit in to fill so much space and the most common resource to create these editions was, precisely, to resort to what we then knew as FMV: full motion video.
Star Wars Rebel Assault Gets an Update
Star Wars Rebel Assaultthe first of them all, was a real hit when it was released in 1993 for PC, Mega CD and 3DO (a console that Electronic Arts actively supported) and, it must be said, in retrospect we don’t know how we could have been so excited about it. But the truth is that we did because it was practically a film, shot with the old methods of Episodes IV, V and VI, with real actors, sets and everything that the magic of cinema can convey on a computer.
So important was it in its time that the budget recognized by LucasArts of one’s own Rebel Assault It cost more than 500 million pesetas, which was an incredible amount for a game. So you can imagine how much of an impact it had on those young people (in those years) gamers that we were discovering a new format capable of storing hundreds of times more quality of spectacle in games. Although that has been until today, when someone has thought that it would be good to put a little bit of Unreal Engine 5 to that old development of Star Wars.
It was a youtuber the one that has shown what technology can do for a game that simply projected a video on the screen and then we moved a ship, or a character on the screen. FMV It’s now truly 3D, with lighting and visual effects worthy of a AAA released in 2024. So give it a go play and check how it looks Rebel Assault with a bit of modern magic.
At the moment it is a project… let’s see how it ends
This youtuber has shown the work that has been done so far, with some examples of missions that do change radically from being seen as a simple video to a 3D one with Unreal Engine 5Obviously, in certain cases, it is noticeable that there is a lack of artistic talent, but it is conceivable that by putting in the hours, they could reach acceptable levels.
The fact is that those who now have the rights to those games could feel alluded to and try to update these mythical ones. Star Wars Rebel Assault. No?