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For every Star Wars Geek

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you love the Age of the Empire series and you are a Star Wars fan you will love this game. It works exactly like Age of the Empire, it just has different names, i.e. carbon instead of lumber, nova instead of gold. The greatest difference is being able to do an air attack. It is great to finally get to use tie fighters or x-wings to fight. I really loved being able to send a hoard of AT-AT's to trample the enemy. Loads of fun and with the Clone Expansion there are lots of campains to fight. A must for any Star Wars Geek.

Galactic Battle Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was an avid WarCraftII player since 1999; Couldn't even wait for the sequel WarCraft III to come out. However, when I was introduced to Star Wars' Galactic Battlegrounds, my universe started to change. Gone are feelings to knock some Orcs out of the screen; replaced by the yearning to visit and do battle at each and everyone of the Star Wars locale. To borrow a well-known phrase; "This game really rocks!" So, for those of you who are eager to blast away any and all unwanted Imperial Storm Troppers, Sith Lords, even Droidekas; or from the "other side"; to shoot down the likes of a Rebel Alliance X-wing, some Wookies, Gungans, and Naboo; this is YOUR GAME.

There are six different civilizations on this game, and each one is as entertaining to play as the next. The designers of Lucas Entertainment did a really good job in balancing out each of the civs' unique strengths and weaknesses... But alas, all is not perfect in this Star Wars action-adventure. I did find some hard-to-explain-aspects of the game that could've benefited from better tutorials. Granted, I was a little intimidated by their on-line help and didn't avail of it as I should have done; but I wasn't the only one who was a little lost when trying out the game intially. The Options Menu is very easy to get lost in. Things like "ALL-TECH", color-coding the enemy, "Starting Tech", and the like, took a while to figure out.

All that being said however; and after nearly being addicted to the game (much to the annoyance of the wife and kids); this game really is the one to spend your money & time on. Buy it, play it, and be lost in it. You have the whole George-Lucas-universe at your fingertips.

Sweet! Oh YEAH!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best video game ever! It's even better than Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight! I've only played demo but oh boy, do I love it! You can download the demo at Lucasarts,com/products/battlegrounds/default.htm . That is the adress for the home page of the game. When you get there, to the left side, there's a panel with different choices on it. Click downloads, and you'll see at the bottom of the page, two sites with the download is available.

BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OKAY. THIS IS DEFINATELY THE BEST GAME IN THIS GALAXY AND THE GALAXIES FAR, FAR AWAY. IT IS JUST LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES, EXCEPT EVERYTHING IS BASED ON STAR WARS EP I, II, IV, V, VI, AND VIII. YOU CAN MAKE SITH AND JEDI WHO CAN CONVERT UNITS. YOU CHOOSE FROM THE GALACTIC EMPIRE, THE REPUBLIC, THE REBEL ALLIANCE, THE CONFEDERACY, THE WOOKIES, THE GUNGANS, THE TRADE FEDERATION, AND THE ROYAL NABOO.
BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. True, it is an old game and indeed, it had great graphics for its time. I bought this game back in 1998 and I still have it. It was originally made for Win95 and right now I have WinXP and it still works without any problems. Nor had I to download any patches. This is my kind of game. I love that you can choose between playing as the Rebellion or the Empire. This is a strategic game. You have to make recoinassance missions to uncharted planets plus you have to develop your own planets by building mines and refineries in order to get maintenance point in order to be able to fortify yourself by building shipyards and training facilities to be able to either rule the galaxy by the Evil hand of the Emperor or to bring the total freedom to the galaxy.

Star Wars Galactic battlefront saga

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Galactic battlefront saga comes with two disks and Star Wars Galactic battlefront saga clone campaigns. The graphics are O.K, but the game makes up for that. If you or your friend both have it, you can play over the internet. You can deisign your own levels with hundreds of buildings, such as a shield generator; units, from jedi to bounty hunters; and everything else from Star Wars. Play on campaigns from episodes I, II, IV, V, and VI. It's a great game that includes lots of strategy.

Even a game from long ago, this game still rules the galaxy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even though the game is a few years old,it's still one of the best Star Wars games for pc. I loved the Age of Empires series, and I love this game. The best part about Age Empires and Age of Kings were the campaigns, and that is true with this game. The Tech in this game is very good, and if it's a Age of Empires-based game, it's gotta have crazy cheats. We all loved the Monkey people and missle launching cars from Age of Empires and the Ewok monster and Death Star code for the Expansion continue the saga. Overall, I only have one piece of advice. Buy Age of Empires II:The Age of Kings before you buy this game so you can learn the way to play the game and the terminology.

G-B is a Cut & Paste copy of AOE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

AOE II was one of my favorite games when it came out. It had a well ballanced core game with lots of extras thrown in. When I heard that Lucas Arts had purchased the AOE game engine I expected that they would use to create similar game based in the Star Wars genra, the very best of the sci-fi cult genras.

Boy was I surprised to find that instead of a game similar to AOE, Lucas Arts created a game exactly like AOE. Not only did they take the game engine, but they also copied the tech trees, storytelling style, even the openning menus are exactly the same as those in AOE. All Lucas Arts did was to draw their own starwars bitmaps and sprites to paste over the knights and horses of AOE. This makes for a very disappointing game.

This is not to say that what was kept from AOE is bad or that Lucas Arts did absolutely no original thinking, just that the tech-trees, balance of power, and even the feel of the AOE game just doesn't fit with Star Wars and even seems silly at times. For example: the -monument- structure in G-B is obviously copied from the -wonder- structure in AOE. Now, while a wonder is a demonstration of a civilization's might, a relavent concept in AOE; why on Earth or Tatooine would the Rebel Alliance build an enourmous monument?! And why would that be a definative blow against the Empire?! Its all very silly!

The entire game is done this way, from the graphics, to the game play to the cutscenes. While the game works and is playable, what Lucas Arts should have done was keep the AOE engine, but build the tech trees and story engine from scratch. It would have been truly awsome if the AT-AT's had the same presence on the battle field in the game as they did in the movie. As it is, you get these things which act more like the cavalry they were pasted over from AOE. The infantry is like the infantry for AOE, the "mechs" are really the cavalry, each and every ship has an exact duplicate in AOE, and "heavy weapons" are really just catapults, batteringrams and the famouse AOE trebuchets in disguise. Even the things new, such as aircraft, Jedi, shields and generators feel very artificial in their roles in the game.

The game is playable, But it is not Star Wars, and not a very good RTS. I was sorely disappointed when I recieved it as a gift.

It's Hiroshima all over again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is the most awsome game of its type i have ever played, and i own every one of the comand and coucer games and age of mythology, and this one woops all of them! it is a guarentied sucess among u and your froedns with its multyplayer mode...so buy it now!! its an awsome game!

Awesome game! Well worth the time!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is ideal if you want to get right there into the battles and strategize. Granted its not totally like planning a battle in a game like Star Wars Battlefront, but the experience is cool anyhow. I personally liked the stages where you can take the role of Princess Leia and lead her troops, which isn't something you'd see in most Star Wars games. But the game is great if you love games like Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and such. Definitly a keepers. Its one of those games that ya play for a while and sometimes may decide to just put it up on a shelf and pull it out again sometime in the future. Have fun with the game if you choose to purchase it, I know I did. ;) Good fortune all!

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