Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Many reviews compared "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" to one of its inspirations, the Battle of Hoth flight combat level in "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire", considered one of that game's best elements. "GamePro" remarked that "Rogue Squadron" "enhanced the flight model with true pitch, roll, and bank mechanics". IGN praised its inclusion of "upgrades, more enemies, better sound, and stunning second-generation graphics". The Nintendo 64 version received mostly positive reviews, and received an aggregate score of 85 percent from both GameRankings and Metacritic. "GamePro" named it one of the best games released in 1998. In a 2008 retrospective, IGN's Levi Buchanan stated that the game revived the "Star Wars" license on consoles through well-paced gameplay, a story tied into the "Star Wars" canon and visuals that made it "one of the generation's top stunners".
Rogue One
IGN reviewer Eric Goldman gave the film 9/10, saying, ""Rogue One" is a movie crammed with fan service, but when fan service is done this well, there's little to complain about and much to adore." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, writing, "this spin-off/prequel has the same primitive, lived-in, emotional, loopy, let's-put-on-a-show spirit that made us fall in love with the original trilogy." /Film gave "Rogue One" 8/10, writing that the film is enjoyable but does not have the emotional weight of "The Force Awakens", because "no character in "Rogue One" was strongly compelling". "PopMatters" wrote, ""Rogue One" seems to enjoy spending time on a whole new batch of moons and planets we haven't seen before, reveling in the clutter and clamor of far-flung settlements where anti-Imperial sentiments fester. But the film is bogged down in engineering the complex maneuverings of spy games, dogfights, and the most sprawling Rebel-versus-Empire land battle scene since the opening of "The Empire Strikes Back"." Justin Chang, writing for the "Los Angeles Times", called "Rogue One" "a swiftly paced, rough-and-ready entertainment."