Not sure if I would call it good and recommend it unreservedly, but Rebellion was different to say the least. This may be nostalgia speaking just a little bit. I played it when I was just getting into the Original Trilogy, and I thought the game was rather atmospheric with the music, the droid advisors, the intro, etc. I felt that it just had that Star Wars atmosphere, without any Gungans in sight. Too bad that the space battles were very unwieldy. In any case, SW strategy games are few and far between. I never played Force Commander or Empire at War, mind. Anyone know if they're any good? I did play Galactic Battlegrounds quite a bit, but it was really just an AoE2 clone, made by Ensemble even. So you would have soldiers just lining up and shooting at each other, fighters and bombers just hovering in front of their targets, etc. Not as bad as mentioned above, but quite unsatisfying in the end.
I liked Rogue Squadron, but I never played the other, less arcade-ish starfighter games like X-Wing, TIE Fighter, etc. At around the same age, I had a demo of TIE Fighter on one of those shareware discs, but it only worked for all of 10 seconds. That intro posted here in this thread looks pretty amazing, though. Doesn't say much about the game itself, but I do miss the days when graphics were so bad that they had to put at least some effort into making intros and cutscenes extraordinary. Anyway, the game is supposed to be a classic, so I'll have to try it at some point.