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Though you won’t get dialog or cutscenes when events occur to you or your enemy’s characters, there’s a lot of exciting tactics you can use with them. One of the most interesting facets of the game is the interactions between the named characters. You can also train troops that can be used to garrison or take over planets and build starships to wage war and blockade systems. With your named characters you can take on missions like diplomacy and recruitment (which gives you another named character if successful). If you choose to be the Rebel Alliance, you’ll start with Mon Mothma, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa. If you’re playing as the Empire, you’ll have Darth Vader and the Emperor. Each world has its own diplomatic rating which can be influenced both by the diplomatic leanings of other planets in the system and diplomats from either the Empire or the Rebel Alliance.īoth the Empire and Rebellion always start with a few major characters. Each sector contains some planets which in turn hold mines, refineries, and factories. Instead of a battlefield view, you’re presented with a map of the Star Wars galaxy which you could customize to hold either 10, 15, or 20 sectors. As far as I can tell, the only game Coolhand Interactive ever made was Star Wars: Rebellion, and there’s no real history of the company to be found readily on the internet.Īlthough it’s an RTS, Star Wars: Rebellion’s interface reminds me more of a 4X turn-based strategy title. It was developed by a studio called Coolhand Interactive, which is a bit of a mystery.

Star Wars: Rebellion is almost the exact opposite of those two games. When it came to real-time strategy, StarCraft and Age of Empires were the rulers of the roost, and favored quick, decisive unit movements and a tactical mindset. Star Wars: Rebellion ( Star Wars: Supremacy in the UK and Ireland) went against the grain of what was popular upon its release in 1998. However, I did end up discovering a lot of games that way that I might not have played otherwise.

More than once I made the mistake of grabbing something like Giants: Citizen Kabuto that my meager computer couldn’t hope to run. I didn’t have a high-end computer, so that made finding titles for PC even harder than usual. In the days before Amazon was king, you usually just had to grab whatever you could find in stores. When I was young, I had a bad habit of buying games blindly.