NGE is an improvement

User Rating: 8 | Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit PC
By Tegashi | Review Date:
As a player since release, I find the NGE to be a vast improvement over the two previous incarnations of this game. I've played MMO style games for almost 10 years now and quite frankly, I've become very tired of the traditional "turn-based" combat system found in other games of it's type. NGE Combat is fast, entertaining, and keeps you on your toes.

I prefer the 9 Iconic classes over the previous 32 profession pallettes. Even with all the options in the CU or Release, players still saught after the "uber" builds which over time caused the emergance of "Cookie-Cutter" builds in this game and diversity became more narrow. This kind of structure is nearly impossible to balance especially in terms of PvP. I agree with this decision completely even though it meant the complete destruction of my favorite character (Rifleman/Crature Handler).

While the NGE has it's share of issues and bugs, I think the overall direction this game is taking now is what should have been done in the first place. Take all the negative comments posted above with a grain of salt and check it out for yourself. I'm a vet and I love this game more now then ever.

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