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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire is a video game developed and published by LucasArts. It is primarily a third-person shooter, with multiple types of vehicular combat sequences. It was released for the Nintendo 64 on December 3, 1996, and for Windows on September 17, 1997. Good Old Games re-released it on May 3, 2016, as a compatibility update for 64-bit Windows. 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 the musical score. The game received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Shadows of the Empire is the third top-selling Nintendo 64 game for 1997, with more than one million copies sold.
Release Date 1996-12-03
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Nintendo 64
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