If Star Wars: Rebel Assault (1993) was the moment LucasArts looked at the CD-ROM era and said, “what if Star Wars tried to feel like a movie now?”, then Rebel Assault II – The Hidden Empire is the sequel where that idea got bigger, shinier, stranger, and much more convinced it could pull the whole thing off. And to be fair, sometimes it really did. The first Rebel Assault was already built around spectacle. It wanted movement, drama, music, explosions, and that early-90s “look what this machine can do now” energy. But Rebel Assault II pushed that vision further. It did not just want to feel cinematic. It wanted to feel like Star Wars had stepped directly into the era of live-action CD-ROM ambition and decided subtlety was for weaker franchises. That makes it one of the most fascinating Star Wars games of the 1990s. As part of our Complete…
