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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

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

Mostly for Star Wars Fans, but Still Very Playable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you have played Age of Empires II, it won't take very long to get the hang of this game. However, that might make this game boring if you've worn out your interest of that game. Even so, the AE II engine has been completely reworked into the Star Wars Galaxy, with much of the familiar characters, vehicles, and planets of the movies. Playing the scenarios lets you use various main characters such as Darth Vader and Chewbacca. Many sound bytes have been used from the various movies, though a few get overused, especially the "Ahh!!" when some units get killed. The graphics are decent and it ran well on my G4 400 which is getting too slow for most newer games.
Despite the fact that most of the game feels like Star Wars, it would have been interesting if more unique units and features were available since in regular game play, it doesn't matter how many resources you have gathered or how advanced your technologies are, you aren't going to get the Millennium Falcon or a Star Destroyer. At least you can get an AT-AT or X-wing. Overall, I recommend Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, especially for Star Wars fans. I just have to wonder if there is a Spaceballs mod out there somewhere??

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.

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.

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

A great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of Star Wars and Age of Empires II, I eagerly awaited the release of this title for the Mac. Overall I am pleased with the game, though there are some faults. One problem I have had is getting computer opponents to build mech units. If you're waiting to see the Galactic Empire mount an attack with its dreaded AT-AT walkers, don't hold your breath. It takes a long time for your opponents to progress through enough research to have assault mechs.

Aside from this, the game is spectacular. My favorite units are the Jedi Masters... just as in AOE and AOE II, you can convert units to your side. Imagine, a TIE Fighter flying with the rest of the Rebel fleet! Clone Campaigns has added the Republic and the Confederacy to the six original civilizations, helping to spice up the game once it gets a bit stale. With the ability to build scenarios and campaigns, a Star Wars fanatic can re-create almost any historical battle from the five movies (even the attack on the original Death Star, if you decide to cheat and can handle the fact that the fighters are half the size of the Death Star).

Even without lots of mechs, this game is still very enjoyable. If the computer enemies built more diverse armies that would challenge you more, I could give this game five stars.

Fun, challenging and addictive. A must have Mac game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I will agree with some here. This game is involved and engaging. It does require LOTS of time to complete. You will click your finger off. This is just part of the game. The only game you can compare this to is the game it was built on...Age of Empires II. If you like AOEII, you will like this game as well. If you like Star Wars, you will LOVE this game. That is what makes this game fun, it is NOT like all the other games. I enjoyed Starcraft and Warcraft. But this game is much more than these.

Unlike others below, I have had no problems running the program in OS9 or OSx. Never crashed once. I use a B&W G3 upgraded to G4 with the stock Rage 16mb card.

At first I thought this game was going to involve "micromanagement". With the 4 resources you need, you will never look for something to do. However, I find these things necessary to the game and did not tire in collecting them. I found the standard campaigns to be challenging and fun. Frustrating at times, but rewarding. I think the thing to remember is to keep an open mind and not box yourself into thinking this game has to be like all the others. It is refreshing to have something different. Also, you do not need to just do what the game tells you. You can start a single player custom map and do what you want. The options are many with this game.

Kudos to Aspyr for the conversion of this game and the upcoming Clone Campaigns. Mac users should feel grateful and support companies like this.

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.

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.

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