Rebel without a cause.
Shadows of the Empire does not appear on best Star Wars video game lists.
It is not fondly remembered (or is it?).
Parts of it are quite bad, in truth.
But it will always be my favourite Star Wars game.
I was tremendously excited, a teenager bouncing off the walls of our temporary Tooting home in South London.
Well, not so patiently.
He was sick, then, from a cancer that would eventually consume him a year later.
It was an extremely difficult time, not that I showed it.
You play Dash Rendar (what a name!)
You even take on those intimidating AT-ATs by sweeping around and through their legs to trip them up.
It felt like I was playing the Battle of Hoth directly from Empire.
Unfortunately, Shadows of the Empire plummets downhill from there.
Inevitably, you fall off platform edges to your doom.
It’s awful, really, looking back at it now, but at the time I was wowed.
I wasn’t about to let bad gameplay put me off!
I’m not even sure I knew what bad gameplay was, back then.
Now, Shadows of the Empire’s inconsistent innards make sense.
Hopefully, this sort of workload can be avoided in future projects."
May the 4th be with you!
