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Star Wars: Empire at War puts the power to mand an entire war for the Star Wars galaxy in the hands of players giving them the freedom to determine how they play the game within the pletely scalable and accessible gameplay. Set a few years before the events of Episode IV A New Hope LucasArts new PC game lets players wage war on ground and in space as well as experience the creation of the Rebel Alliance the strengthening of the Empire and the beginnings of the Galactic Civil War.Using an entirely new game engine created by the Las Vegas-based developer Petroglyph Empire at War features beautifully rendered land and space battles set on memorable plas such as Yavin IV Tatooine and Dagobah as well as never-before-seen environments taken directly from the Star Wars films and expanded universe novels. In the game players choose to join either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire building and setting up tactical forces to unleash upon the enemy in real-time 3D. Memorable Star Wars hero characters can be brought into the action to help turn the tide of the battle as players build manage and upgrade their space and ground-based units vehicles troops and base structures.All of the gameplay and action within Empire at War is persistent meaning that strategic and tactical elements from previous events will have a permanent effect on the galaxy. In addition to the single-player campaign mode the game includes a two-player campaign mode and online skirmish modes for up to eight players.Product Features: Wage war on ground and in space battle it out in space and then send down your remaining forces to invade the pla.All action is persistent every decision affects the next battle and ultimately the fate of the galaxy. Play out your own personal version of Episode IV: A New Hope.Real-time strategy (RTS) 3D gameplay set in more than 40 ground and space locations including Yavin IV Tatooine and Dagobah - each has its own specific advantage and/or resource.Construct gr
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Star Wars Empire At War Gold Pack Reviews
Star Wars Empire At War Gold Pack Reviews
| 55 of 60 people found the following review helpful  AMAZON'S PICTURE IS MISLEADING (thanks JJAV), By = Fun: This review is from: Star Wars Empire At War Gold Pack (DVD-ROM) I like Star Wars as well as your average 30-something red-blooded American male, but I am by no means a fanboy; in fact, I have found that most Star Wars related games in the past decade are kind of 'meh'. With that said, I loved the original Empires at War, it was a great game that combined a strategic game of planet conquering with two types of RTS games in which you fought for control of planets on land and in space - it didn't rest on the Star Wars Franchise to please the user, the Star Wars heroes, vehicles, and troops are just an added bonus. User created mods are freely available on the net, and that expands replayability immensely. I pulled it off the shelf the other day to find some of the new mods use the expansion - the original expansion no longer seems to be available from Amazon, but the gold package has both the original and expansion. The original was a great twist on the basic RTS style of game, and one of my favorites, gameplay-wise. Eye candy isn't as good as more... Read more 24 of 25 people found the following review helpful  Good Value, Nice Mods, Great for Star War Fans, = Fun: This review is from: Star Wars Empire At War Gold Pack (DVD-ROM) Positive Side: This is a very good value. For two games you get them for only $30. I remember the time it was out, it was $39.99 in Bestbuy for only the non-expansion game. This one is a deal although it is a bit old now. Still, it's very fun. There's more to it in the game. If you search on Google for Game Modifications, you can download a few you like and add features and new units to the game for free. In fact, some game modders go all the way to the extent of modifying the whole game. (Note: Many games are also modded.) Very nice, and very fun in multi-player. The game can run at high settings perfectly on my desktop and notebook PC. (My computer can barely run Crysis on medium settings on my desktop (Intel Quad Core Processor, NVIDIA 512 MB GeForce 8600GT) and almost not playable on my notebook PC except on low settings (2.2 GHz NIVIDA 256 MB 8600m GS)).Negative Side: The land battles tend to get a bit boring since they are similar to other strategy-based games (but... Read more 22 of 24 people found the following review helpful  Fun, but hogs resources and gets repetitive, By = Fun: This review is from: Star Wars Empire At War Gold Pack (DVD-ROM) It may matter that I'm a Star Wars Geek. Actually, I'm a polygeek. I geek out on all sorts of things, but I do like Star Wars quite a bit.So this set of two games appealed greatly to me. The characters, planets, and actions all reflect fairly faithfully the expanded Star Wars universe, which I never got much into but it beats the Star Trek universe (Luke Skywalker never tried to hook up with a green alien with sucker-fingers, for instance). What the game got most right from an RTS perspective is the comprehensiveness of spacefaring combat. You must defeat orbiting defenses before landing to assault planets. This is something that some games (the aged but respected Imperium Galactica II) got right, and others (the disappointing Master of Orion 3) got dead darned wrong. Every battle is, strangely, centered on a planet, rather than in midspace, and the planetary maps are pretty tiny, but the idea is there. If you want to conquer territory you need a space fleet and... Read more |
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