The game is all over the place, veering between a then-spectacular Snowspeeder/AT-AT battle and clumsy third-person shooting, all starring the answer to the question no-one ever asked: 'what if Rob Liefield redesigned Han Solo?'Īlthough there has no been no official confirmation that he has been stricken from the unhistory books, the shoulder pads and multiple belts of Dash Rendar most likely no longer qualify as official Star Wars canon - which is now said to comprise only the six pre-Disney films, the Clone Wars and Rebels TV series, The Force Awakens and books released around that time, and anything released subsequently. You can pretty much blame it for the prequel movies, at least if you're tired of blaming a slightly sad bearded man in a lumberjack shirt for them. Shadows of the Empire was part of a multimedia attempt to reinvigorate Star Wars, with a books'n'comics'n'games tale set between TESB and ROTJ. For the longest time, SOTE had the greatest Hoth level ever made.
You do get one more day in the sun, though, as Shadows of the Empire, one of the few remaining Star Wars games to not yet be re-released digitally, is now out on GoG. Sorry Dash Rendar, but you and your silly shoulderpads probably aren't canon anymore.
