Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader
In Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader you get the chance to jump into the cockpit of an X-wing and join Luke Skywalker and the Star Wars galaxy's most daring pilots as they return to face off against…
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader is a shooter developed by Factor 5, released 9 November 2001 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader is
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader is a shooter game developed by Factor 5 and released in 2001. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is a flight action game developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts and published by LucasArts for the GameCube. The second installment of the Rogue Squadron series, it was released as a launch title for the console in North America on November 18, 2001, Europe on May 3, 2002, and Australia on May 17, 2002. Set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, the game spans all three original trilogy Star Wars films. The player controls either Luke Skywalker or Wedge Antilles. As the game progresses, Skywalker, Antilles and the Rebel Alliance fight the Galactic Empire in ten missions across various planets.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Star Wars series
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader is the 96th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Starfighter - Special Edition in 2001. Its critic score of 90 is 19 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.
How it was received
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 61 votes.
What it launched against
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II - Rogue Leader launched on 9 November 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Halo: Combat Evolved. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved.
Cheats and codes
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