You could use more Rogues in your life.

User Rating: 10 | Star Wars: Rogue Squadron N64
Star Wars:Rogue Squadron is the first real flight game taken place on the consoles in the Star Wars universe, unless you count those flight levels from the "Super Star Wars" days of the SNES. Lucasarts has had success in the flight sim genre with games such as the X-Wing and Tie Fighter series on the PC, but this is a game that will appeal to more people due to it's simplistic style and fun gameplay.

Unlike it's PC Star Wars counterparts, Rogue Squadron won't blow your brains out with buttons and real flight controls. You fly through the air, shoot, use your missiles or ion cannons or bombs, can speed up or slow down, and maneuver across the skies. This simplistic style might turn off fans of the PC Star Wars games, but will please many who thought the millions of controls took away from the Star Wars experience.

The levels all look good, and the vehicle models look good as well. Before a mission starts, you get to go in a hangar that has all the Rebellion ships sitting in dock, with a audio description of all of them. You will get to play with the X-Wing, A-Wing, Y-Wing, Speeder and V-Wing (along with a few other ships including a certain smugglers ship). The missions range from defense, to hit and run, to destruction and rescue as well. The Imperials will have all their craft, and their gun and missile platforms will cause you troubles to no end.

You gain medals depending on your mission success and certain factors (did you stay alive, team stay alive, kills, accuraccy etc.) The medals then allow you to access secret stuff such as a Trench run level or the Battle of Hoth level.

The voice acting is very well done and while it's not the true actors, they are good fake voices. The recognizable howl of a Tie Fighter is done exactly right, and lasers and explosions both are done well, as the new expansion pack released around this time improved the graphics considerably.

This is a great Star Wars game and great flying game. Anyone who's ever wanted to play a Star Wars flight game, but either didn't have a PC or thought the controls of the earlier Star Wars games were complicated, should look this one up.