If you played the first Star Wars: Empire at War, than you would expect nothing less than this. If you haven’t, which would mean you missed out on a very good new title, then you are in for a tasty new surprise. The graphics are awesome and if you have an up-to-date computer with a decent video card, than this game works like clockwork at everything but the highest of graphics. The empire and rebellion are still here, and both have some new ships, but the new faction is corruption. Their ships and ground units look cool (although a bit expensive), but the weapons they use border on insane. They have mass drivers, which are new to this game, which are like photon torpedoes with ¼ the strength and are launched at literally 10x the speed. They have mega weapons too. If you use Tyber Zann (the faction main hero) or their Aggressor- class destroyer, they fire a huge ion bolt followed by a huge shield-piercing bolt. The new Keldabe-class battleship can drain the shields of a target ship with a big purple beam. If you watched the 3rd star wars movie, you would recall thebig ships that the clone troopers used when battling general grievous in the space over Corisant. Corruption can buy those from a hutt asteroid or that other funny building that you buy pirate stuff from. The corruption space station’s special weapon is a plasma cannon. Unlike the rebels or the imperials, the plasma cannon has to be bought once, and by continually fired without having to be re-bought. The campaign and galactic battles are still cool and the corruption replaces the black sun pirates. The corrupting part of the corruption takes some time to get the hang of but in the end, it adds another twist to this already exhilarating game. But there are still some minuscule problems. 1 All of the wording for corruption was taken from the rebels. 2 Once in a while, the lost parts from ships will instantly return, only to fall off again, which is distracting and kinda weird.
3 You will randomly be able to see the whole map for the rest of the game after a certain random time.
Other then that, it is a game that anybody should buy.
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