{"id":93869,"date":"2019-05-22T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/video_star_wars_rogue_squadron_gets_a_stunning_hd_makeover_in_unreal_engine_4"},"modified":"2019-05-22T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:05:00","slug":"video-star-wars-rogue-squadron-gets-a-stunning-hd-makeover-in-unreal-engine-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/video-star-wars-rogue-squadron-gets-a-stunning-hd-makeover-in-unreal-engine-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Gets A Stunning HD Makeover In Unreal Engine 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/87b692a405494\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/87b692a405494\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Rogue Squadron\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/87b692a405494\/rogue-squadron.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/87b692a405494\/rogue-squadron.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rogue Squadron\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Long before EA got the rights to create Star Wars video games, LucasArts and Factor 5 produced the Rogue Squadron trilogy. The first game was released on the Nintendo 64 and PC in 1998 and the second and third game landed exclusively on the GameCube a number of years later.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_ii_rogue_leader\">Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_iii_rebel_strike\">Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike<\/a><\/strong> are no longer readily available to the gaming public, the original game \u2013 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/star_wars_rogue_squadron\">Star Wars: Rogue Squadron<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 can still be purchased from various digital platforms such as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/game\/star_wars_rogue_squadron_3d\">GOG.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you do decide to play it or your old copy on Nintendo 64, you might notice the close-range draw distance and extreme levels of fog from time to time. With this in mind, a group of Star Wars fans is currently working on a high-definition version of the first game in Unreal Engine 4. Take a look below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=14iwZIi0Vj8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It makes us wonder if there&#8217;s a chance we&#8217;ll ever get to play this series on a Nintendo platform again. Even a direct port of the original Rogue Squadron would be enough, similar to what we saw with the first two <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/turok\">Turok<\/a><\/strong> games.<\/p>\n<p>If you are seeking a Star Wars fix on the Switch now that you&#8217;ve seen this, unfortunately, you&#8217;ll have to hold out until September, when Zen Studios releases <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/star_wars_pinball\"><strong>Star Wars Pinball<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to see the Rogue Squadron series revived? What do you think of this HD facelift? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before EA got the rights to create Star Wars video games, LucasArts and Factor 5 produced the Rogue Squadron trilogy. The first game was released on the Nintendo 64 and PC in 1998 and the second and third game landed exclusively on the GameCube a number of years later. While Star Wars Rogue Squadron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}