For many of us who currently play video games, until the mythical LucasArtsthe games of Star Wars It was something serious. Especially those from the early days when we were experimenting with more and more advanced technologies to live the same experience as movies on our computers: Dark Forces, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Jedi Knight, Rebel Assault and many others who have forged a good part of this mythical legend.
But of all those we have spoken to you about above, there is one that is a child of its time, of the birth of the multimedia phenomenon, when the storage formats of PCs were changing to multiply their capacity. From only 1.4 MB of 3.5-inch disks, we went to 650 MB of CD-ROMs (later DVDs and Blu-rays would arrive), so there was a lot to put in to occupy so much space and resources. The most common way to create these editions was precisely to resort to what was then called Market value: full motion video.
Star Wars Rebel Assault Gets an Update
Star Wars Rebels Assaultthe first, was a real bomb when it was launched in 1993 on PC, Mega CD and 3DO (a console that Electronic Arts actively supported) and, it must be said, given the passage of time it is not clear how we could have been so excited about it. But the truth is that we did it because it was practically a movie, shot with the old methods of Episodes IV, V and VI, with real actors, sets and everything that the magic of cinema can transmit on a computer.
It was so important in its time that the budget recognized by LucasArts of his Rebel Assault This was over 500 million pesetas, which was an incredible amount of money for a game. So you can imagine how much of an impact it had on those young people (in those years) players that we discovered a new format capable of storing hundreds of times more spectacle quality in games. Although it was until today, when someone thought it would be nice to put a little Unreal Engine 5 Engine to this old development of Star Wars.
It was a Youtuber the one that showed what technology can do for a game that simply projected a video on the screen and then you moved a ship, or a character on the screen. It Market value It’s now true 3D, with AAA lighting and visual effects that will be released in 2024. So hit the play and look what it looks like Rebel Assault with a little modern magic.
For now it’s a project… let’s see how it ends
It is Youtuber showed the work he has done so far, with some examples of missions that radically change the appearance of a simple video to 3D with Unreal Engine 5 Engine. Obviously in some cases there is a lack of artistic talent, but one can imagine that by devoting hours to it, they will manage to reach acceptable levels.
The fact is that those who now have the rights to these games could consider themselves as allusions and attempt to update these mythical games. Star Wars Rebels Assault. No?
