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An Addictive Masterpiece!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I usually play shooters, like Duke Nukem, Quake and Doom. Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds has converted me into a strategy game fan. Everyone that I have introduced it to loves it! Best of all, you get to kill Jar Jar and his entire Gungan civilization (or the Wookies, Galactic Empire, Naboo, Rebels, or Trade Federation - depending on who you have it in for). Buy it for hours of entertainment.

looks great, but not much fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everything looks great - it should be very fun. Even the pleasure of wiping out Jar Jar and all his kin doesn't make up for the fact that this game requires you to spend FAR too much time managing your units, tech levels, structures, etc. There are few opportunities for any tactics other than 'build to the highest tech level, then swarm the other guy'. This gets old FAST.

Total Annihilation, for example, is the granddaddy of RTS games, but still has the best gameplay I know of. You can go high tech, or swarms of low tech, or whatever, and there are many many different ways to win any given level. Not true w/ Star Wars:GB. Ya kinda gotta do it the way they envisioned it, and by the time you collect the FOUR different resource types, build a few dozen buildings, and upgrade ten technologies, you (or at least I) am mighty tired of clicking.

The software also crashes my G4 800 running OS 10.1 pretty regularly. Only a full restart will bring it back up. The only other software capable of doing this is Microsoft Internet Exploer.

All in all, pretty dissapointing. I'll go back to playing my 4 year old copy of Total Annihilation.

THE BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game is awesome, the best! I play it all the time! Anyone who thinks this game isn't good has a problem

Not as good as the game it borrowed its engine from

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now the game itself is very fun and challenging and has a lot to offer but the engine they used was AOE2s. They did a bad job using it. I found that there was very poor path finding and the AI was pretty crappy. Besides those downsides a solid RTS

Decent game, but could be better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love Star Wars stuff.
When I saw this game, I knew that I just had to have it. I was not expeting all that much, so I got what I expected.
This review is for the Mac version of this game.
The game is OK. Some challenges and some just really easy stuff. Interface is clunky and not as good as Starcrafts. Basically, just go and buy starcraft. It looks better and is more fun to play.
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is a must for die hard Star Wars fans. But, if you are looking for a really fun game to play, try starcraft.

ye-ya

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: June 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game plays alot like Age of Empires 2, but with alot more stuff. I'm not a Starwars nerd and i thought the game was cool.

So and so...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a couple of days ago. Basically each civilization gets about 20 similar units. You have to chop trees to harvest carbon and mining for ores and crystals. Those are your basic requirements. I finished the training missions and didn't get very far (only on level 3 of the Trade Federation). I am playing on the hard level of difficulty. I can say it takes forever to finish. The units move kind of slowly and clumsily and the game drags on forever. Very often the CPI units are behind laser turrets which are in turn under the cover of a shield generator. Penetrating that was difficult. The ranged units are pretty much useless against structures. Have to rely upon melee attack. I don't know whether I will ever finish this game. Got to get a life as well.......

Don't hold your breath.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This was possibly created by the most inept minds in the industry. A realtime strategy game based on Star Wars? This game has many flaws, which I won't go into detail with, but some other ones that really stick out.

1. The graphics. Come on. This is the 21st century. We should expect good graphics for any game on a Mac. These graphics are wicked blocky, and most of the explosions look pasted on at best.

2. What kind of Jedi hacks buildings with his lightsaber? I didn't see Obi-Wan hacking the Mos-Eisley cantina. Or maybe Darth Vader duking it out with a a in the Death Star.

3. The havesting of minerals, or money, whatever it was, seemed really unrefined. you couldn't have machines come through and annihilate an entire forest for wood, could you? I mean, it is far in the future! In Warcraft III you had more hi-tech harvesting tools, i.e. the goblins with buzzsaw wooden mechs.

Aside from this, I urge you to go with a Warcraft title, or Starcraft before you try your hand at the destruction of games as we know it. Although, if you like this kind of Star Wars [stuff], go with this. It's not too bad.

ugh....soooooo boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: September 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I used to like this game. was kind of fun. not it bores me out out of my wits. Let's start out with the graphics. Ok, the Millenium Falcon is huge in the movie, but in the game...(sigh)its the size of about ten people. Lets look at the Jedi and Sith. The only difference between the two is that they fight differently with different colered light sabers. If a jedi comes to an enemy building, why the heck would he hack at it with his LIGHTSABER? Its also a frame rate of oh, 3?! Now lets look at the mechs. There are, count em, 4 DIFFERENT MECHS! AWESOME! The Pummel has...whoa...2 ATTACK! there are also about 10 maps. the campaigns are just disproportionately boring. Chewbacca has a crossbow, yet he shoots lasers! How can ewok hang gliders hover? Why can't they just fly in a circle like airplanes in Empire Earth? Also theres about 10 different animals. The terrains are boring. Grass and dark grass. If you walked by and said hi to a Gungan medic, would she\he\whatever say stupidly, "Just a fleshy wound!"? Echuu Shen-Jon is a black character, but in the game he's white. C-3PO Can't walk that fast! Ok, Ok, Ok lets just leave it at that there are no Pros and many Cons. I hate this game. People who think this game is "The BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE", should breathe deeply and rethink their life.

This is very first game I bought for my new Macintosh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a few months ago just after I got my G4 PowerMac. This is a very fun game to play. It is kind of like Rise of Nations in the Star Wars Universe. This year I have become a big time RTS fan. When my older brother saw how cool this game is while I was playing it, he bought the PC version for himself. I recommend this game to those who both like Rise of Nations and Star Wars.

I am very happy,
Webmaster Mark

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