The gameplay is more similar to Super Star Wars rather than The Empire Stirkes Back. Before each level you can select who you want to be from one of five characters, depending on the level. You can be Luke, Han, Leia, Chewie or Wicket (the Ewok). Each character has their own strentghs and weaknesses, for example Luke only uses a lightsaber and if you want difficulty in the game then you'll choose him since he also has the least amount of life. But the fact that Luke can heal himself and use his lightsaber as a projectile easily remedies his weaknesses (you CAN beat the first boss with Luke I've done it thousands of times you'll just take A LOT of damage). Han and Chewie have weak blasters (unless you power them up but when the next level starts your back to the default). Leia...well you could be invulnerable since every other item enemies drop for her is a health sword (which increases your life gauge) or a large heart. Wicket is just there to take damage. His arrows are VERY VERY strong but he has so little life that you'll find yourself killed off a few times before you get the hang of him.

The levels are great but some of them get VERY repetative. On Tatooine you'll pass over the same landscape dozens of times and in the death star you'll certainly run across the same bridge and go about the same pattern several times.

The graphics in the game stand out at least. They aren't really better than The Empire Strikes Back they're more or less the same.