Star Wars Shadows of the Empire N64

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Star Wars Shadows of the Empire N64

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a third-person shooter video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 and published by LucasArts for Microsoft Windows. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat sequences. It was released for the Nintendo 64 on December 3, 1996, and for Microsoft Windows on September 9, 1997. Good Old Games re-released it on May 3, 2016, as a compatibility update for 64-bit Windows.

Star Wars Shadows of the Empire N64

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 has a backstory 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. Shadows of the Empire was the third-best-selling Nintendo 64 game for 1997, with more than one million copies sold.