Shadows of the Empire

The storyline follows the adventures of a new character, Dash Rendar, a tough, roguish mercenary and friend of Han Solo. Rendar’s mission is to protect Luke Skywalker from the clutches of a new evil force in the universe, Dark Prince Xizor. Xizor, leader of the feared underground criminal organization Black Sun, is determined to assassinate Skywalker so Darth Vader falls from Emperor Palpatine’s grace, enabling Xizor to replace Vader as the right hand of the evil Emperor.

When you arrive at Hoth, Imperial Star Destroyers have entered orbit and are deploying land assault craft. The Alliance has put out a call for all able-bodied pilots. You pilot a snowspeeder against some of the Empire's heaviest land assault hardware. Your mission is to slow down the Probe Droids, AT-ATs, and AT-STs to provide the Alliance enough time to evacuate. Take out as many as you can. Be advised, the Imperial assault formation will increase as they have more time to land vehicles.

Set in the time between the Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Shadows of the Empire features a gripping new plotline with new characters; 5 gameplay modes in a variety of vehicles and spacecraft (from the heavily armored Outrider, to snowspeeders, hovertrains, jet packs and speeder bikes); action-packed Star Wars locales, including Mos Eisley and the ice planet Hoth plus new locales, like the sewers of Imperial City and Xizor's palace; high-resolution graphics coded specifically for the processing power of 3D accelerator cards.

Currently supported 3D cards include: Diamond Monster 3D, Orchid Righteous 3D, Hercules Stingray 128/3D, Creative Labs 3D Blaster, Intergraph Intense 3D, as well as other cards supported by the following chipsets: 3Dfx Voodoo, Rendition Verite 1000, Permedia 2 or other chipsets with similar or better performance.