i've seen better, but it's a good game.

User Rating: 8.7 | Star Wars: Empire at War PC
By delta1238 | Review Date:
Again, Lucasarts creates a new rts game, and this time, they seem to have gotten the formula right. However, there are a few flaws too! Lets start with the gameplay; the gameplay in space combat is very good, because of the many options. The player can order his ships to start bombing the enemy shield generator and then destroy the enemy ion cannons to prevent them from doing too much damage to your own ships, but to do this, the player must first take down the enemy fighters in order to make a safe passage for the bombers. But the rebel mon calamari cruiser has an indestructible shield generator, which means that the empire has to resort to an all new tactic when facing these ships.

But now we get to the ground battles, where tactics seem to be a bit less important. Sure, every unit has a weakness and a strength, but flanking seems to have no effect! This means that ramming in the front of the enemy is the best tactic.

The graphics are very good, but you can't enjoy it because the game tends to become very laggy at high levels, but even with a very low detail level, units are still very good.The holographs are very nice too!

The sound is, just like any other star wars game, made from blaster sounds, lightsabers,explosions and the classic music. The units say some things when you give orders, but that is really all the sound that there is, and it's great.

The replay value is high, as there are two campaigns and a lot of galactic conquest maps.

So, lets say empire at war is a good star wars game, and a must have for any star wars fan. A hardcore rts gamer may be disapointed by the minor flaws, but most people should really enjoy this.

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