Rebelstar: Tactical Command | 
| From: Namco
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 3185
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Genre: Adventure Games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 50019
Model: 722674500197
UPC: 722674500197
EAN: 0722674500197
ASIN: B000A2GX2M
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Features - | | • | Four Play Modes - Campaign, Skirmish, Multiplayer Hotseat (1 for Game Boy Advance) and Multiplayer Link Mode. | | • | Turn-Based Strategy with a Twist - Destructible maps and gas canisters, use the environment to your advantage with true line of site (in 8 directions) | | • | Turn-Based Combat System - Players controls individual soldiers in a turn-based combat system. A replay option lets players review what happened during their opponent's turn. | | • | RPG Elements - Experience true character interaction and development. Equip characters with different types of weapons and equipment, including grenades, sniper rifles, missile launchers and laser rifles. |
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Product Description
Set on a futuristic Earth, Rebelstar: Tactical Command is a turn-based strategy game and you too can join in the fight against an evil empire in single-player mode. There is also the option to take on a friend in multiplayer mode. The year is 2117 and the evil Arelian Empire has been in control of planet Earth for the last 70 years. When the Arelians first came, they brought with them peace and prosperity to a world ravaged by war, disease and ecological devastation. Later they abducted people when they turned 30 and controlled Earth's inhabitants through fear using their henchmen, the Zorn. Now, a band of rebels rises up to fight against the Arelians and a new recruit, Jorel, quickly advances through the ranks and becomes their leaders. He organizes the rebel forces and builds a powerful global army, challenging the Arelian Empire for control of planet Earth. Stealth Skills - Players hide and dodge at the end of a turn in preparation for an enemy attack.
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 X-Com meets Final Fantasy Tactics September 9, 2005
Isackson (WA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was a little sceptical when i first heard about Rebelstar Tactical Command. I've been waiting for a handheld version of X-Com for a long time and despite loving Tactical RPGs i was a little disapointed that the only real aspect of X-Com to make it to Rebelstar (Other then fighting aliens) was X-Com's brilliant tactical combat. (For those who haven't played X-Com think turned based squad combat with pistols, machine guns, grenades etc)
Well as you can tell by my rating i'm anything but dissapointed.
Unlike X-Com you follow a typical linier RPG plot where you must complete preset missions to progress through the story, and boy are some of the missions difficult. Despite being a seasoned veteran of everything X-Com many of the missions really have taken everything i have to keep all my soldiers alive. While some Tactical RPGs are frusteratingly difficult because they require you to spend alot of time leveling up to have a chance, (Unless you feel like extorting the A.I.) Rebelstar is the kind of game that rewards strategy and really gives you a feeling of satisfaction when you manage to get all your boys back alive and get that elite ranking. (You're scored based on your level of success in each mission)
Trust me when i tell you BUY THIS GAME, $20 dollars is a steal for this gem. Rebelstar definately gets my vote for Game of the year.
Best GBA Strategy game by makers of Xcom UFO Defense September 9, 2005
G. Johnson (Hawaii)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The two brothers that made Xcom UFO Defense and Laser Squad Nemisis for the PC have made a masterpiece Strategy game for the GBA.
This is an amazing game that has had me glued to my GBA for hours.
If you liked Advance Wars and want to take your hand held strategy gaming to the next level do yourself a favor and get this game.
The game has many options and is extremely deep game. Don't let the
"cute" graphics fool you into thinking this game is just for kids.
There is a great in game tutorial that teaches you all of the important features of the game and unlike Advance Wars there are RPG elements that let you make all of your troops unique.
The game has multiplayer via "hotseat" meaning that you can play another person on one GBA.
In conclusion I highly recommend RebelStar to any owner of a GBA that likes strategy and RPG games and would say that this game is
reason enough to own a GBA SP or micro.
Great Game, Great Price September 16, 2005
Dylan Burton (Denver, CO)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Short & Simple:
If you enjoy Fire Emblem, you'll like this.
If you enjoy Advenced Wars, you'll like this.
It's turnbased stratagy, that has a lot of details to add a lot of depth to the gamepley. The graphics are a little odd, but it's a gameboy advenced title, so why would you expect too much anyways? The sound and music is a little more barable than advanced wars music and sound, but yet again, it's a GBA game. There is story mode and a "1-2 player skirmish mode." For the 2 player, you only use one gameboy, so you dont need to bother conecting another to play 2 player. Just hand it off when you're done.Then comes the story...so far it's nothing great, but not too bad. Some of the dialogue is a little on the corny side, but that's expected. So, If you like the previously mentioned games, and have no idea what x-com is, (I missed something on that one I guess) pick it up. It's only $20 bucks.
 X-com is much better. April 1, 2006
The Holland Rocket (That one place, California)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have a love hate relationship with this game.
First off, if you enjoyed this game, I would HIGHLY recommend
X Com, UFO defense. You will NOT be dissapointed.
Pro's:
Portable X-Com!,
Fun Tactics,
Great for long drives or trips,
Con's:
Can be frustrating at time's,( hey thats with any game, right?)
I Thought it was too short,
Earlier I said I have a Love-Hate relationship with this game.
The reason being, I've been exremely blessed to have played the
game that inspired Rebel Star Tactics, ( X-com, UFO Defense).
After playing this GBA game, I felt somewhat unsatisfied.
Not because of the game, but what it could have been.
Not having the ability to name your soldiers, Build your own bases, hunt down UFO's and research new weapons and ships
like X-Com was saddening.
Overall I would recommend RebelStar..
Just don't expect TOO much from it.
falls short of greatness July 23, 2007
M. Yamada
I give this game such a poor star rating because I had such high expectations. X-Com UFO Defense, designed by the same Gollop brothers, was a flawless piece of PC gaming, and it will probably never be matched in the genre, on that system or any other.
Since that game Julian Gollop has made better and worse spiritual successors. I don't think that any of them have contained the global strategy part of the original, which is a shame. Laser Squad Nemesis, a shareware game for Windows available over the web, is one of the better ones. Rebelstar for the GBA, this game, is one of the worse.
Not because it is a bad game, but because it is not as good as it could be. The controls are a sort of clunky, the animations a little slow, the story tepid, and the anime-style art a bit tired. The game is fun, the pixel art is bright and it offers some interesting challenges to the tactical gamer, but you'd be better playing off the Advance Wars games for the GBA, or buying a used copy of X-Com and running it with DOSBox on a PC or buying Laser Squad Nemesis for Windows.
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