Star Wars: Rebellion (video game)

Star Wars Rebellion (known as Star Wars Supremacy in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a real-time strategy 4X game released in 1998 by LucasArts and set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe.

For other uses, see Star Wars: Rebellion.

Star Wars Rebellion
Developer(s)	Coolhand Interactive
Publisher(s)	LucasArts
Director(s)	Scott Witte
Designer(s)	Scott Witte
Composer(s)	Peter McConnell Michael Land Clint Bajakian
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	NA: March 25, 1998[1] EU: 1998
Genre(s)	Real-time strategy, 4X
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
GameRankings	50%[2]

Review scores

Publication	Score
CNET Gamecenter	8/10[3]
Computer Games Strategy Plus	[4]
Computer Gaming World	[5]
EP Daily	5/10[6]
Game Informer	5.5/10[7]
GameSpot	4.5/10[8]
Jeuxvideo.com	16/20[9]
Next Generation	[10]
PC Gamer (US)	60%[11]
PC PowerPlay	88%[12]

The game received poor reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.^[2] Next Generation stated, "LucasArts should start looking more closely at what it slaps the Star Wars brand on, as consumers will be less likely to forget or forgive."^[10]

According to PC Data, the game was the U.S.' 18th-best-selling computer game during the January–November 1998 period.^[13]

The game won the award for "Most Disappointing Game of the Year" at GameSpot's Best & Worst of 1998 Awards.^[14] It was also nominated for "The Underachiever Award" at IGN's Best of 1998 Awards, which ultimately went to Trespasser.^[15]

Rebellion has been more positively remembered in retrospect, with PC Gamer noting it is a "pretty effective Star Wars story generator" with compelling grand strategy elements.^[16] Game Rant also notes the game as for its rich Star Wars digital encyclopedia, unique for its time.^[17]

Macworld saw LucasArts' 2006 game Star Wars: Empire at War as a successor to Rebellion.^[18] Ars Technica notes that the Fantasy Flight's Star Wars: Rebellion board game is loosely based on the computer game.^[19]