Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (video game)
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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a third-person shooter video game developed by LucasArts and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 in 1996 and published by LucasArts for Windows in 1997. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat sequences.
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire | |
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Developer(s) | LucasArts |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo (N64) LucasArts (PC) |
Director(s) | Mark Haigh-Hutchinson |
Designer(s) | Jon Knoles |
Programmer(s) | Eric Johnston Mark Haigh-Hutchinson Mark Blattel |
Artist(s) | Jon Knoles |
Composer(s) | Joel McNeely John Williams |
Series | Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 64, Windows |
Release | Nintendo 64 Windows |
Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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.