R.I.P. John Cygan, the voice actor for Dash Rendar in this game. He also did other video game characters.He was a true legend.I hate when one of the best peoples like him die. It breaks my heart.
if done correctly it would be alot better than solo and kenobi. of course i dont trust disney to make any good star wars these days. hopefully they sell it back to lucas
@@bigmikeobama5314 Dash Rendar is the Han Solo type, so how do you get a Harrison Ford association in people's heads even if he's nothing like him? Blade Runner 2049. Have Ryan Gosling play Dash Rendar, and have him battle Darth Mall's torso attached to robotic crab legs. Using his ingenuity, he'll be the first regular guy to take down a Sith Lord.
Ha ha. I had it on the n64. I went to my uncle's house one day and he was playing it on the pc. I saw the cut scenes and I was very jealous and freaked.
I always thought it was funny that Xizor honestly believed he could use Palpatine as a puppet, when Palpatine's pretty much seen through Xizor's schemes.
Darth Vader saw through it too. I believe in the book Darth Vader was the one who killed Xizor blew up his skyhook with Xizor still inside it from his Star Destroyer. Years before Shadows of the empire Palpatine had Darth Maul kill the old leader of Black Sun and I think I recall Xizor took over Black Sun in sort of revenge for that.
@@ryancentnarowicz Xizor wanted revenge on Vader because he was responsible for the death of his family on Fallen. One of Vader's secret weapon facilities had a biological outbreak and Vader ordered the entire region including the city to be destroyed to prevent anyone from finding out about it.
Color me surprised. I loved this game back then on the N64 but until right now I didn't even know there was a version with actual fully acted cutscenes. Absolutely mindblown right now :O
I always dug that still image of Dash, that rough, tough, grizzly, 30 something manly man with crows feet, 5 o'clock shadow, somewhat looking like Kevin Costner. Dash was cool.
It's kinda weird that they didn't have one unified look for him since this was all a planned out multimedia event. Some illustrations and photos of him give him brown hair and looking like Kevin Costner as you pointed out, some make him look like a gritty version of Richie Cunningham, the action figure makes him look like Crix Madine, etc.
Fun Fact: IG-88's line of "You will detain me no longer." was also said by Boba Fett in the Shadows of the Empire graphic novel to a bunch of rival bounty hunters, asking to be cut in on the bounty for Han Solo.
shadow of the empire is one of the most forgoten gems of all the hecking time, like first of all they actually made a understandable and coherent side story that doesnt throw away anything and cohexists near perfectly with the og moviesand also has his own shine by just looking at how much it had at the time obviusly the only bad side is the fact that due to technical reasons everything was compacted to be in the n64 but still the fact that its still a blast to play makes me feel chills, i shall thank everyone that made this game
Whoa this game had actual cutscenes??? I played the N64 version and all that had were slide shows with subtitles. These scenes are so cool. Also WHY THE HELL isn't Shadows of the Empire made into a movie yet?
Too many "adult" themes for the Disney crap that is star wars now, including how Prince Xizor used "pheromones" to sexually lure Leia during the comics and of course the constant "I want to kill Vader" thing from the same guy.
SOTE is such a great media campaign. The game, novels, comics, and figures are all done well. Disney is foolish not to include it in their fan fiction.
Disney (and LucasFilms) were sinfully foolish tp have just decided to scrap and entire universe or just stop producing content for the universe in general 😤
Yea...princess leia getting seduced by a green guy with a thorny spine that screws a robot on the side. Rougue one ruined such a perfect storytelling and character growth.
Shigeru Miyamoto had a small influence on this game. When it was in development for the N64 he advised on how to make the in game camera work and told the developers to make sure that Dash's feet where visible at all times when they where on the ground.
Shigeru’s a total boss. It was thanks to him that this was a pretty good game and a memorable side story. If the camera was not as aligned well as the final project, and I ended up falling off ledges because I couldn’t see where my feet were going, this game would have been terrible.
According to toy galaxy one of the people who worked on the project had a Portuguese boyfriend called Xico ( pronounced “Sheeko” ) and always thought Xi both sounded and looked cool. They added zor from razor to make the name exotic and dangerous.
@@f-22raptorlandingzone30 it makes sense now seeing them in The Clone Wars series with the Fumanchu and top knot inspired hair. They’ve strong Chinese inspiration; the Black Sun Empire.
For me as an N64 player, this is unseen footage. Those cards didn't have enough space for cutscenes, so they went for static images with subtitles instead.
I like it that 10:12 is in the same deleted scene from episode IV prologue, where Luke finishes building his green lightsaber before heading into Jabba's Palace.
I wish they would make a Shadows of the Empire inspired movie. Instead of having Luke and Leia in it they could be replaced with maybe Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade hanging with Dash Rendar.
I don't think you can just replace Luke and Leia or any of the OT characters because Shadows of the Empire was supposed to like a hypothetical OT episode set between Empire and Jedi. The game makes it seem like the story is all about Dash Rendar and that the rest of the characters are replaceable, but in the novelization and comics, there's plenty of focus on the OT characters. For one thing, Xizor is trying to kill Luke in order to gain the favor of Palpatine.
@@axebomber2108 Why not? They slowly replaced our beloved characters in the abomination we call "The Sequel Trilogy". A new Shadows Story doesn't even have to be the same one from the original timeline. It could be something new entirely like when they put Thrawn in Rebels. Besides you can't cast Mark Hamill as Luke that young anymore unless you're rebooting the original trilogy.
auranit lol kids like you are lame and the number of them are too much to count lol. Maybe that's why life these days is so boring. Funny people are disappearing
Back when Star Wars still held magic, Boba Fett was cool and the continuing adventures of Luke Skywalker held so much promise. Back before Disney destroyed everything. I love this game.
Well, you're not wrong since I did enjoy both Disney and Star Wars but only when they were separate back then, kinda like the same thing for Marvel too when that happened. Tho' confession is I did sorta enjoy that Bad Batch show since it's from that Clone Wars cartoon I watched on Cartoon Network growing up lol.
Oh man I wish these had been in the N64 version rather then those still oil paintings with no voice acting and just text , would have helped me understand the story better when I played the game when I was 9
I wish Disney made this into a movie, some wrinkles would have to be ironed out, like Xizor plan, and the Vader- sidious dynamic, but it's all there, now, without Carrie, I dunno how they could do it, but they should do it. A lot of the things in Shadows was great stuff
The penultimate scene on Tatooine is clearly inspired by a cut scene in Return of the Jedi. Which makes me wonder: who knows if back in 1995/96 Lucasfilm was planning on releasing that scene in the Special Edition?
I clicked on this video thinking it was a fan made project. I was very surprised to find out that these cutscenes are official AND you didn't actually die at the end of the final mission. I got bamboozled from multiple fronts by playing the N64 version.
If Boba returned to life (despite being declared dead in the RotJ by Lucas himselves) then who known who Dave&co might bring back this time from the legends.
IG-88’s voice sounds like his vocabulator is badly damaged. I guess that’s mainly due to the voice of IG-88 I’m more use to from Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption.
The Nintendo 64 lacks of cutscenes, but having a Nintendo 64 in the mid-90 was like having a Playstation 4 in the mid-2010 you are able to play the same pc games
The environments and vehicles look really good, but the CGI characters are actually kind of scary. I think I preferred the artwork stills in the N64 version sometime. Noticed also that the PC cutscenes don’t include the scene of Dash talking to Han on Hoth or the scene where the emperor and Xizor talk, after the spaceship infiltration stage.
Learning about shadows of the empire and how it made of making a Star Wars movie without actually making a Star Wars movie making a game, book, comic, soundtrack, and a toy line makes me kind of wish they would something like this again the closest thing I can think of is high republic
shadowslayer205 the book and the game are different stories. As a game, it's not based on the book so much as it's telling what happened from solely Dash's perspective while the other stories were being told in the book and the comics at the time. Shadows Of The Empire was a multimedia project set between Empire and Return Of The Jedi, with each piece of the multimedia project (book, game, comic) telling different parts of all that went on in that time period. The project was designed so that you could enjoy each work of the project both separately and together.
I have asked Pablo hildago is this book/game. Story canon , he said No ..,really can't see why this is not an official story.. .it all fits in the right places..
Where’s the cutscene with Prince Xizor talking to Emperor Palpatine? Was that only in the N64 version? I felt that scene was important because Xizor gave the plans of Endor to Palpatine in that scene.
FANBOY Most games of LucasArts at that Time were Great. By 'that Time' I mean before Disney took over. I really enjoy Jedi Academy, Oryginal Battlefronts and more.
I loved this games story and esspecially loved how cool dash rendar and his outrider were its too bcad now star wars rebels has made a bunch of kids the owner of the outrider
Update: It is indeed the same type of starship as Dash Rendar’s Outrider, but according to Rebels director Dave Filoni it’s not the Outsider itself. According to EW, the person who originally designed the ship for the Shadows of the Empire video game now works on Rebels, so Filoni let her put it in. Source: io9.gizmodo.com/uh-what-is-dash-rendars-outrider-doing-in-the-new-star-1783822515
Man, if this also gets a Switch release? It'd be my perfect chance to play it and yet if this had a tv show adaptation? I'd totally watch it on [adult-swim] too instead of D+ lol.
A rough underrated gem, this game. One would even like it more if they checked on the rest of the SotE Multimedia Project. Ah, those were the days. Shame its Prequel equivalent, Bounty Hunter (featuring Jango Fett), doesn't have a modern multiplatform rerelease. At least SotE still lives on the PC (I recommend the GOG version), alongside Episode I: Racer (which also has Switch access).
It's rather interesting to see the fact that LucasArts reused some of the uncanny valley models from the infamous "Masters of Teräs Käsi" game for SOTE's PC CG cutscenes, especially Luke and Leia's.
*N64 theme plays* Wife: "What's wrong?" Me: "nothing, just checking for Dianoga's" Wife: "WTF is a dianoga?" Me: "Hentai Tentacles made reality" Wife: "good" Me: "no bad, very very bad"
Played the 64 version in my youth, this is the first time seeing all these from the PC version.
Same
R.I.P. John Cygan, the voice actor for Dash Rendar in this game. He also did other video game characters.He was a true legend.I hate when one of the best peoples like him die. It breaks my heart.
He also done solidus snake from metal gear solid 2
He was also Canderous Ordo in KOTOR and KOTOR II.
Whoa I thought Dash sounded familiar! RIP John Cygan. Loved his work as Solidus and Canderous/Mandalore.
He was such a great actor.
@@tommymitchell8580 He was a terrific Solidus.
Shadows of the Empire really need to be made into a mini series, SotE hands down one of the best Star Wars side stories written.
if done correctly it would be alot better than solo and kenobi. of course i dont trust disney to make any good star wars these days. hopefully they sell it back to lucas
You still have every right not to trust Disney. Andor and Ahsoka have proven that in spades.@@bigmikeobama5314
@@bigmikeobama5314 Dash Rendar is the Han Solo type, so how do you get a Harrison Ford association in people's heads even if he's nothing like him? Blade Runner 2049. Have Ryan Gosling play Dash Rendar, and have him battle Darth Mall's torso attached to robotic crab legs. Using his ingenuity, he'll be the first regular guy to take down a Sith Lord.
Not canon
If it was canon then yeah, but sadly it’s not.
Now, imagine a remake of this game with Fallen Order graphics...
Image it with ps2 graphics
@@lopiklop imagine it with Atari Graphics
Imagine it with applied graphics
Imagine it with N64 with expansion pak applied graphics
Imagine it with pong graphics
Whoa I didnt know the PC version had cutscenes with voiceovers.
TheBlackxRanger as someone who always played the n64 version, these feel dirty and sacrilegious
Ha ha. I had it on the n64. I went to my uncle's house one day and he was playing it on the pc. I saw the cut scenes and I was very jealous and freaked.
I used to play it on PC ages ago and cutscenes were non-existent for me. I have no idea what version was it tho.
Yes. The PC version was way better than the N64 version. Cut scenes were very good.
I like both. Never played the pc version, but voice overs make it more lively.
I really wish they would remaster this game for new consoles
agreed!
Hell yes!!
N64
Would be better then Fallen Order
Nugget Supreme someone’s mad it’s too hard for them
I can't help but remember the sewer monster. That thing scared the crap out of me as a kid
The giant dianoga 😌 yea that was freaky !
@@JordanSmith-tl4pu at least it didn't start speaking in Japanese 😂
@@blackshogun272
Gotta pay extra for that. Eah!
It's called a Dianoga.
Hahaha same
I always thought it was funny that Xizor honestly believed he could use Palpatine as a puppet, when Palpatine's pretty much seen through Xizor's schemes.
Darth Vader saw through it too. I believe in the book Darth Vader was the one who killed Xizor blew up his skyhook with Xizor still inside it from his Star Destroyer. Years before Shadows of the empire Palpatine had Darth Maul kill the old leader of Black Sun and I think I recall Xizor took over Black Sun in sort of revenge for that.
@@ryancentnarowicz Xizor wanted revenge on Vader because he was responsible for the death of his family on Fallen. One of Vader's secret weapon facilities had a biological outbreak and Vader ordered the entire region including the city to be destroyed to prevent anyone from finding out about it.
Color me surprised. I loved this game back then on the N64 but until right now I didn't even know there was a version with actual fully acted cutscenes. Absolutely mindblown right now :O
Same
Ikr im fuckin trippin
I always dug that still image of Dash, that rough, tough, grizzly, 30 something manly man with crows feet, 5 o'clock shadow, somewhat looking like Kevin Costner. Dash was cool.
He actually looks more like Don Johnson from Miami Vice on the Nintendo 64 version
Kevin could play dash easily
Probably should
Bob Odenkirk should play him. He’s got the right look and attitude for it.
It's kinda weird that they didn't have one unified look for him since this was all a planned out multimedia event. Some illustrations and photos of him give him brown hair and looking like Kevin Costner as you pointed out, some make him look like a gritty version of Richie Cunningham, the action figure makes him look like Crix Madine, etc.
I love the fact, that Dash Rendar's ship made it into the special edition of star wars episode 4.
It did?
@@ArchangelRG09 At least it is a YT2400 transporter like Dash's ship.
At one time it was confirmed that the YT-2400 in Ep IV was indeed the Outrider, as it was modified and had different engines than a stock YT-2400
There's also an YT-2400 in Rebels and Rise of Skywalker. Everything is here for a remake / return
Fun Fact: IG-88's line of "You will detain me no longer." was also said by Boba Fett in the Shadows of the Empire graphic novel to a bunch of rival bounty hunters, asking to be cut in on the bounty for Han Solo.
One of the first games I ever played as a kid, I remember the excitement it gave me, I also remember IG-88 absolutely terrifying me 🤣
Same here, I hated that boss so much 🤣
Omg lol this comment. This game made sure I was terrified of him as a kid! 😅
@@Devilicious. pure dread 😂
Clanky step sounds closing in but IG-88 nowhere to be seen
shadow of the empire is one of the most forgoten gems of all the hecking time, like first of all they actually made a understandable and coherent side story that doesnt throw away anything and cohexists near perfectly with the og moviesand also has his own shine by just looking at how much it had at the time obviusly the only bad side is the fact that due to technical reasons everything was compacted to be in the n64 but still the fact that its still a blast to play makes me feel chills, i shall thank everyone that made this game
Whelp not anymore his outfit is in Jedi Survivor
Whoa this game had actual cutscenes??? I played the N64 version and all that had were slide shows with subtitles. These scenes are so cool.
Also WHY THE HELL isn't Shadows of the Empire made into a movie yet?
Did Dash have a beard in the N64 version? I remember him having one when I used to play it on mine as a kid
@@jamesheichel6137 yes he had a beard
Too many "adult" themes for the Disney crap that is star wars now, including how Prince Xizor used "pheromones" to sexually lure Leia during the comics and of course the constant "I want to kill Vader" thing from the same guy.
@JARR Uhhh, things being adult in nature doesn’t necessarily make them good. That’s just creepy and uncomfortable.
Don't give those Disney crap-makers ideas, man, they have ruined Star Wars enough as it is...
Such a great game. I remember buying this with the N64 in '97 - totally blown away when the first mission loaded up.
Great ending. Truly fitting for the character. Behind ocarina of time and wwf no mercy, I probably played this game more than any other on the N64.
I've never seen this and it is amazing! Dash with a voice! OMG. he's my favorite non jedi character and I want to play him live so badly
The nostalgia is strong with this one
SOTE is such a great media campaign. The game, novels, comics, and figures are all done well.
Disney is foolish not to include it in their fan fiction.
Disney have been foolish full stop when it comes to Star Wars.
Disney (and LucasFilms) were sinfully foolish tp have just decided to scrap and entire universe or just stop producing content for the universe in general 😤
Sote was a piss poor, perverted piece of fan fiction
Yea...princess leia getting seduced by a green guy with a thorny spine that screws a robot on the side. Rougue one ruined such a perfect storytelling and character growth.
Joshua Allen thank you!
Dash Rendar sounds like he was voiced by Alec Baldwin haha.
Candoras from kotor more like it.
They are both voiced by John Cygan.
He reminds me of Hank Phym from the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
Shigeru Miyamoto had a small influence on this game. When it was in development for the N64 he advised on how to make the in game camera work and told the developers to make sure that Dash's feet where visible at all times when they where on the ground.
Shigeru’s a total boss. It was thanks to him that this was a pretty good game and a memorable side story. If the camera was not as aligned well as the final project, and I ended up falling off ledges because I couldn’t see where my feet were going, this game would have been terrible.
Talk of unexpected crossovers. Thank you Miyamoto.
This story was so badass to bad we will never see it on the big screen or a part 2 in future graphics. I hope to see Captain Dash Rendar return.
Never knew the PC version had these cutscenes. Also didn’t know Xizor was pronounced ‘Shee-zor’. I always thought it was ‘Zee-zor’.
X in Chinese is pronounced sh
Rare deep lore knowledge gained ✍🏻
According to toy galaxy one of the people who worked on the project had a Portuguese boyfriend called Xico ( pronounced “Sheeko” ) and always thought Xi both sounded and looked cool. They added zor from razor to make the name exotic and dangerous.
I always thought it was "Zy-zor"
@@f-22raptorlandingzone30 it makes sense now seeing them in The Clone Wars series with the Fumanchu and top knot inspired hair. They’ve strong Chinese inspiration; the Black Sun Empire.
Having played KotOR *before* this game, I can't stop picturing Canderous Ordo every time Dash Rendar speaks.
This is 1000 times better than sequel trilogy
So many memories being scared of IG-88 lol
Can't stop laughing at Luke skywalkers face
Lmao looks like someone fused Mark Hamill with a melted Ken doll
Considering this game came out in ‘96, these graphics are actually gorgeous
God, I love IG-88's voice
For me as an N64 player, this is unseen footage. Those cards didn't have enough space for cutscenes, so they went for static images with subtitles instead.
I want to see Shadows Of The Empire return to canon as a live-action spin-off movie.
I think it would do better as a mini series like the book of boba fett personally.
@@akiva1168 bobf is a mini series ?
I like it that 10:12 is in the same deleted scene from episode IV prologue, where Luke finishes building his green lightsaber before heading into Jabba's Palace.
I wish they made the movie first like they did on Rogue One.. It would have been awesome..
Animated series or movie would be awesome
Agreed. I always thought Tom Hardy would make a good Dash.
@@nebulous6660 no kidding. Just now realized this
I wish they would make a Shadows of the Empire inspired movie. Instead of having Luke and Leia in it they could be replaced with maybe Kyle Katarn and Mara Jade hanging with Dash Rendar.
I don't think you can just replace Luke and Leia or any of the OT characters because Shadows of the Empire was supposed to like a hypothetical OT episode set between Empire and Jedi. The game makes it seem like the story is all about Dash Rendar and that the rest of the characters are replaceable, but in the novelization and comics, there's plenty of focus on the OT characters. For one thing, Xizor is trying to kill Luke in order to gain the favor of Palpatine.
@@axebomber2108 Why not? They slowly replaced our beloved characters in the abomination we call "The Sequel Trilogy". A new Shadows Story doesn't even have to be the same one from the original timeline. It could be something new entirely like when they put Thrawn in Rebels. Besides you can't cast Mark Hamill as Luke that young anymore unless you're rebooting the original trilogy.
These cutscenses are on another level compared to N64! I didn't even know it was on PC.
1. Did not know cutscenes existed since I’ve only played the n64 version.
2. These are actually pretty impressive compared to what I was expecting.
Here's hoping we see Dash Rendar in Book of Boba Fett
It was good to see these again without having to reinstall the actual game. Thanks for this.
Thanks for the upload! Been 20 yrs since I played SOTE on N64, great to see these PC version cutscenes!
Except for the dark forces series this was probably the most played game ever back in the day
Much better than anything made by Disney.
auranit hear hear!
auranit lol kids like you are lame and the number of them are too much to count lol.
Maybe that's why life these days is so boring. Funny people are disappearing
This is just poorly developed characters delivering exposition.
auranit you're just saying that
Shut up this is garbage compared to the last jedi
Awesome game and storyline, can't believe it hasn't been made into a movie yet. It could possibly be the best ever made if done correctly.
6:44 crosseyed. A true Star Wars Legend..
The first Xizor cutscene reminds me of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 cartoon.
Yeah, the cutscenes we're good for the time except for the close ups and Luke
My life is better for seeing this.
Back when Star Wars still held magic, Boba Fett was cool and the continuing adventures of Luke Skywalker held so much promise. Back before Disney destroyed everything. I love this game.
Well, you're not wrong since I did enjoy both Disney and Star Wars but only when they were separate back then, kinda like the same thing for Marvel too when that happened.
Tho' confession is I did sorta enjoy that Bad Batch show since it's from that Clone Wars cartoon I watched on Cartoon Network growing up lol.
Keep whining, you bitch. Wah wah.
Oh man I wish these had been in the N64 version rather then those still oil paintings with no voice acting and just text , would have helped me understand the story better when I played the game when I was 9
Wtf I didn’t even know this game has cutscenes!?!? These were really cool to watch
Remember playing this on N64 but can't recall the cutscene, and I had a Dash Rendar action figure I recall, plus the 'Shadow of the Empire' comics.
Cutscenes were only available in the PC version
I wish Disney made this into a movie, some wrinkles would have to be ironed out, like Xizor plan, and the Vader- sidious dynamic, but it's all there, now, without Carrie, I dunno how they could do it, but they should do it. A lot of the things in Shadows was great stuff
Wow it is amazing, those cutscenes are awesome!
I used to play a lot that game on my childhood!
Gall spaceport was one of my favorites
This and Goldeneye. The best. Late 90s I spent many hours on them.
The penultimate scene on Tatooine is clearly inspired by a cut scene in Return of the Jedi. Which makes me wonder: who knows if back in 1995/96 Lucasfilm was planning on releasing that scene in the Special Edition?
In a redux of a new hope you can see the outrider on Tattoine
This is one of my favorite games, why am I just now finding these
I clicked on this video thinking it was a fan made project. I was very surprised to find out that these cutscenes are official AND you didn't actually die at the end of the final mission.
I got bamboozled from multiple fronts by playing the N64 version.
I hope Dash Rendar and the Outrider make an appearance on the Mandalorian season 2
If Boba returned to life (despite being declared dead in the RotJ by Lucas himselves) then who known who Dave&co might bring back this time from the legends.
I second this. Dash faked his death (I hope) right ?
Disney = Czerka corporation on legends KOTOR.
Some of the pre renders are just amazing for the time.
This is canon
There was a cheat on N64 where you could play as the nearest enemy, and change your starfighter in the final battle. That was what makes a fun game...
Xizor sounds like a Protoss
❤ Leebo's and Xizor's voices
They come back for rise of Skywalker. Wow I'm amazed how good this looks. For the time. I have it on n64. This was really cool
I still don't care what Disney says this will always be canon to me
No one cares, loser.
I've always liked this kind of animation.
00:51
Sure is cramped in the Hoth Hangar, lawd
Is it just me or does Dash sound like Canderous from KOTOR?
Gabriel Fuller Thats What i was thinking
Same voice actor
And the voice actor of Luke Skywalker is the same in Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. 😁👍🏻
S Barada And Rouge Squadron I II & III
Unfortunately, he passed away 2 years ago from cancer
I would love to Shadows Of The Empire on the big screen
Or on Disney+
IG-88’s voice sounds like his vocabulator is badly damaged.
I guess that’s mainly due to the voice of IG-88 I’m more use to from Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption.
He sounds like Mr. Freeze from Batman the Animated Series.
Imagine if they had just adapted this into a movie instead of Solo.
This was a better story than the Last Jedi crap... This should be a movie
Lol nah, this looks like some kid playing with action figures.
I never knew about these scenes, I've only played the N64 version, very interesting
Expanded Universe will always be better than Disney’s BS canon.
Ole Hillshire Yeah I'm starting to really miss pre Disney Star Wars.
Joel Knowler Films the Last Jedi alone can make Disney’s canon be questionable
Bitch please, just cos Star Wars geeks think it's somehow "cool" to complain about the ;ayesy edition of the Saga.
Ole Hillshire I disagree
Old expanded universe was dumb as hell, I have a soft-spot for it
The sewer level used to scare TF outta me as a kid!!
That bobafett / slave 1 boss level was rough
The Nintendo 64 lacks of cutscenes, but having a Nintendo 64 in the mid-90 was like having a Playstation 4 in the mid-2010 you are able to play the same pc games
The last quote always sticks to me
The environments and vehicles look really good, but the CGI characters are actually kind of scary. I think I preferred the artwork stills in the N64 version sometime. Noticed also that the PC cutscenes don’t include the scene of Dash talking to Han on Hoth or the scene where the emperor and Xizor talk, after the spaceship infiltration stage.
I hope Nightive Studios remasters this one as well.
Learning about shadows of the empire and how it made of making a Star Wars movie without actually making a Star Wars movie making a game, book, comic, soundtrack, and a toy line makes me kind of wish they would something like this again the closest thing I can think of is high republic
This is cool. I only played the N64 version so it's nice to see the upgrades :D
Got them retro Fallout graphics for the cutscenes. Sweet
This is a tar wars game should be made into a film end of
It was already based on a book of the same name, and yeah it would make a great film.
shadowslayer205 the book and the game are different stories. As a game, it's not based on the book so much as it's telling what happened from solely Dash's perspective while the other stories were being told in the book and the comics at the time. Shadows Of The Empire was a multimedia project set between Empire and Return Of The Jedi, with each piece of the multimedia project (book, game, comic) telling different parts of all that went on in that time period. The project was designed so that you could enjoy each work of the project both separately and together.
Someone should pitch that idea...
@@Kerunou Mind blown ! :O Thanx for those infos !
I have asked Pablo hildago is this book/game. Story canon , he said No ..,really can't see why this is not an official story.. .it all fits in the right places..
Where’s the cutscene with Prince Xizor talking to Emperor Palpatine? Was that only in the N64 version? I felt that scene was important because Xizor gave the plans of Endor to Palpatine in that scene.
Great game, great video
FANBOY Most games of LucasArts at that Time were Great. By 'that Time' I mean before Disney took over. I really enjoy Jedi Academy, Oryginal Battlefronts and more.
Battlefront 2 for the PS2 is one of the best StarWars games i have played.
I agree. I thought X-Wing Alliance was excellent too.
I never knew this game was remade!!!😮😮😮😊😁
I had it on the n64 though!
I had this on the n64. I didn't know it had any of these cutscenes.
Pc only
I mostly prefer Canon to Legends, but I have quite the soft spot for Shadows of the Empire.
I loved this games story and esspecially loved how cool dash rendar and his outrider were its too bcad now star wars rebels has made a bunch of kids the owner of the outrider
Wait what? Seriously?
Fenris0mega94 Yes, they did in an episode of Rebels
Update: It is indeed the same type of starship as Dash Rendar’s Outrider, but according to Rebels director Dave Filoni it’s not the Outsider itself. According to EW, the person who originally designed the ship for the Shadows of the Empire video game now works on Rebels, so Filoni let her put it in.
Source:
io9.gizmodo.com/uh-what-is-dash-rendars-outrider-doing-in-the-new-star-1783822515
silentscopelx you can’t give facts, people have too many feelings
thinking of getting this for old times sake
Stuart Berryman
I tried on PC
It won't play on newer PC! Up to "windows 98" and nothing newer. Maybe there is a way round it, but couldn't find it.
The game was re-released on GoG with fixes so that it will work, you don't have to f*ck around with the settings anymore.
Man, if this also gets a Switch release? It'd be my perfect chance to play it and yet if this had a tv show adaptation? I'd totally watch it on [adult-swim] too instead of D+ lol.
A rough underrated gem, this game. One would even like it more if they checked on the rest of the SotE Multimedia Project. Ah, those were the days.
Shame its Prequel equivalent, Bounty Hunter (featuring Jango Fett), doesn't have a modern multiplatform rerelease. At least SotE still lives on the PC (I recommend the GOG version), alongside Episode I: Racer (which also has Switch access).
It's rather interesting to see the fact that LucasArts reused some of the uncanny valley models from the infamous "Masters of Teräs Käsi" game for SOTE's PC CG cutscenes, especially Luke and Leia's.
There's a super video depicting the story behind Shadow of the empire
*N64 theme plays*
Wife: "What's wrong?"
Me: "nothing, just checking for Dianoga's"
Wife: "WTF is a dianoga?"
Me: "Hentai Tentacles made reality"
Wife: "good"
Me: "no bad, very very bad"
It would be awesome to see Dash Rendar and Prince Xizor in live-action.
I demand a Dash Rendar series on Disney+.
Needs to be a canon story of this
This needs a movie damn it but bases more off the book