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13 out of 17 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Star Wars: Empire at War demo
"Another good game from LucasArts"
Pros: Its nice to see another RTS from LucasArts it brought back my liking for them. Anyways, this game has good graphics and sounds.
Has some good features, plently of units in the full version, and just a well put together game. If you like Star Wars I recommend you download this and play it. I guarentee you'll like it and want to buy it.
Cons: I encountered a few bugs, nothing bad.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Star Wars: Empire at War demo
Pros: After seeing lots of screens and movies about the game it got me all excited, downloaded the demo and it just made me a very big fan of the game. Now finally having the full version in my PC, I can't stop playing!
When LucasArts tried the RTS genre before they just delivered a standard game who couldn't win from the other RTS's out there. Now years later LucasArts tries it again with Empire at War. Hiring Petroglyph (former Westwood) was one of the smartest ideas they ever had. This game really has the Star Wars feeling! When playing Big space battles and also battle it out on the surface untill the whole galaxy is yours is just spectaculair! The game plays between episode 3 & 4, that means some favorite characters are dead or just don't exist yet; Like Luke Skywalker is still a pilot in this game and hasn't even heard of a real jedi, but we get Darth Vader/The Emperor/R2D2 & C3PO/Han Solo & Chewbekka/Old Obi-Wan (Uncle Ben). Building units and buidlings are all done from the build menu in a large space map enviroment. You also have to conquer the space around a planet untill you can get to the surfice, that means a space battle and ground battle most of the times. If you are a real RTS and/or Star Wars fan you can't miss this game!
Cons: In most battles you can only use ground units that you have transported with your fleet in the Galaxy Map. You can then drop them as reinforcements but if you run out of those, you lose the battle. build units in skirmisch etc are also transported to you reinforcements tab, and don't come out of build building like most RTS games. You must then capture reinforcement point to drop your units. You can see that the creators have stolen a lot of those ideas from Battlefront (Star Wars-Battlefield), cause there you also must have reinforcent point to spawn at. If you lose all you loose the game. This can be very frustrating cause sometimes you loose all point while none of your buildings are damaged...
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Star Wars: Empire at War demo
Pros: The first thing I noticed about the demo was how great the sound was. The game does a great job of using Star Wars music and sound effects, everything from blasters to the distinct utterings of Chewbaca. When issuing commands to your units you'll often hear them responding with quotes from the movies.
The gameplay was excellent and I enjoyed the fact that the emphasis of the action is based on combat and not largely on economics. There's only one resource to gather, which is a relief after playing games that require 5+. The game also has a nice interface making it easy to control different groups of units at the same time, which is a huge plus in any RTS.
Cons: Space combat could have been better if the game allowed 3d movement in space. The hero units feel overpowered (even if it is Star Wars).
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Star Wars: Empire at War demo
"Don't buy the full game without reading my review."
Pros: Fun at first.
Cons: Demo takes forever to download, you can't really do much, if you buy the game you not only quickly find out how boring the game is, it screws up your computer. Me and my friends all have totally different computer models, being Star Wars fans we all bought it, and had to delete it within a month cause it was screwing our PCs up. These fan reviews are mostly from people who dont have the game yet. I know. I was reading these reviews before I got the demo, and bought the game. I thought it would be just as good as youre thinking it will be. If you like space battles buy Homeworld 2. These land battles suck majorly. It's really painful, as a Star Wars fan, to be assaulting Hoth with AT-ATs and full battalions of snowtroopers, and have fifteen rebels with blaster pistols and three with rocket launchers destroy your entire force. Ask someone reasonable who has had the game for a little while if it's fun. If they've had it for well over a week they will probably know how good it is. Sincerely sorry everybody for bursting your bubble.
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5 stars
Version: Star Wars: Empire at War demo
Pros: great grafics
Cons: it is big size software
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