"Shadows of the Empire" was one of the debut games for the Nintendo 64 system, and it was a quite a debut.  Capitalizing on the huge popularity of the Star Wars series of novels, LucasArts took one of the more popular books, "Shadows of the Empire", and created a video game based on it.  "Shadows..." starts off with the Hoth snow battle where you use one of the speeders to take out probe droids, AT-STs, and AT-ATs.  From there, you play as mercenary Dash Rendar, whose job it is to assist Luke and Leia in the capturing of a super computer that contains details of the next Death Star and to battle the Black Sun crime syndicate.  The varying locales of each and methods of gameplay for each board allow for a diverse, entertaining experience.  There are space battles, battles aboard moving trains, and numerous battles on foot help increase the intensity of the gameplay.  One of the best boards comes late in the game and involves a mission to infiltrate and destroy Prince Xizor's (the head of Black Sun) palace.  The music effects are the best this side of the original trilogy soundtrack and graphics create a haunting environment of a castle that is very dark, almost fog-laden, and very forbidding to proceed through.