Star Wars: Empire at War can be explained in one word. Awesome
User Rating: 9.2 | Star Wars: Empire at War PC
All Star Wars fans remember the classic star wars games, Jedi Outcast, Battlefront 1, and 2, Knights of the Old Republic, and so on. But something was missing. Great shooters, and RPG's but no real time strategy games. Lucas Arts and Petroglyph have heard Star Wars fans cries and pulled together and created a unique and superb game. SW:EaW (Star Wars Empire at War) is an awsome game. And what makes it so awsome is its orginality. Almost all of the RTS' in the past are the same basic, build buildings, build units, and last attack. EaW is different. Almost all of your building goes on in the galatic map, where you can see all of your planets. You build space stations, troops, factories, barracks' you name it, all from an overhead "planet view". Each of the 43 planets has 3 fleet slots, where you can take your units on the planets and add them to your space fleets. You then take your fleet/land units and hyperspace to a planet. If there is an enemy fleet above that planet then you enter into a space battle. Your units (or a group of them) warp into the sector. You then fight the enemy until they are destroyed or you die. Of course of you are out matched you can always hyperspace away (unless the Empire has a gravity well generator online, then you are screwed). After you have destroyed the enemy fleet you can attack the planet itself. Your units (or a group of them) land on a "reinforcement point" and you go attack the enemy. But there is a catch, you can only have a certain amount of units in space or land. You can get more by capturing more reinforcement points. (for example you can only have 3 points of units on the field, this does not mean that you only have 3 units, it just means that you have 3 "groups" of units. Some groups are larger than others, ((ie, your stormtrooper group has about 40 stormtroopers in each group)). Same goes with space battles. Different ships have different values, (so do not expect to go into a battle with 40 star destroyers. ) After you have destroyed the enemy on the planet you gain control of that system and can start building on that planet. The graphics of the game can go from ok, to superb depending on how good your computer is and how laggy you want it. I think one of the coolest features on the game is the Battle Cam, where you can see all of your units fighting from a camra/movie perspective. Its quite neat, and can make the game a lot more exciting. Overall this game is superb, just awesome. If you are a Star Wars fan, or a Real Time Strategy fan, Pick this up, you wont regret it.
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