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Age of Kings with Star Wars Graphics (and bad ones at that)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 26
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game doesn't make much sense in terms of the Star Wars universe. It was clearly made to be as similar to Age of Kings as possible. Yeah, it's pretty cool to select some Tie Fighters and tell them to attack, or to move around an At-At, but I'm sorry, Wookies, Naboo and Gungans are all lame. It suffers from all the same problems as Age Of Kings:

- Really really slow action, where everything takes forever
- Sound is really bad. It sounds sample from someone's VHS copy of Star Wars
- Missions are boring
- Too many units
- So many resources that you spend all your time making drones to chop down trees.

Additionally:
- The graphics are sub-par. The color palletes for things are not right and there's a lot of dithering. It looks really bad.
- Each "race" is essentially exactly the same as the others. All have basically the same units and tech, with minor differences to make it appear that they "balanced" the game.

Do not buy this.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Many people are saying this game is just like Age of Empires. So what? AOE is a great game. To be able to build AT-AT's and X-wings and have an all out war with them is any Star Wars fan dream. You can have bounty hunters, jedi, sith, and hundreds of more units from the Star Wars universe. I can't wait for an expansion to have more civs. like Black Sun or Sand People. The campaigns are also great. They have characters like Han, Luke, Vader, and many others that add to the story. You can even make your own scenerio. If you like Starcraft or AOE and you are a SW fan then you will love this game.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. There's so much to so. The scenario editor has tons of stuff. You know how on AoEII all the heroes (except Frankish Paladin, Master of the Templar, etc., which are made from a jousting unit that you can't get in the real game) are made from existing units? Well, on GB, the heroes are completely unique. They didn't take a Jedi Knight unit and call it Ob-Wan Kenobi. They created a new, slightly different unit for him. They didn't take a Rebellion worker (an R2 unit) and call it R2-D2. He gets his own unit.

And you know how on AoEII: The Conquerors you can play Standard Games on Real World maps? On GB, you can play on Star Wars locales, ranging from Hoth, which has wampas, and Tatooine, which as gaia sandcrawlers, Sand People, and Jawas, to Yavin IV, which has Massassi temples strewn around, and Naboo, which has Gungan giant stone heads and LOTS of animals.

Which brings me to something else. On AoEII, there are wolves, sheep, boars, fish, hawks, and deer. (Conquerors gives you jaguars, turkeys, and javelinas.) GB has rontos, dewbacks, mynocks, cu-pas, banthas, nerfs, wampas, fambaa, falumpasets, kaadu, tusk-cats, rancors, gundarks, eopies . . . the list goes on. Plus PLENTY of fish (which includes Colo Claw Fish and Opee Sea Killers, which rise out of the sea to attack your ships).

According to popular myth about this game, you can't get A-wings, B-wings, or the Millennium Falcon. This only partially true. You can't get B-wings, but the scenario editor CAN get you A-wings and the Falcon. Other things the scenario editor can get you are Ewoks (Wicket, Chirpa, and Logray, plus normal Ewoks, Ewok gliders, two kinds of Ewok houses, and an Ewok catapult), Trandoshans (slavers, jailers, Bossk, the Hound's Tooth [Bossk's ship], and two Trandoshan buildings), every hero from Boba Fett to Anakin Skywalker to Captain Panaka to Yoda, and buildings from Yoda's hovel to the landing platform on Endor the landed Sith Infiltrator, ships from the Queen's Starship to Vader's Advanced X1 Tie Fighter, and limitless triggers.

The civs are cool. My favorite are the Rebels and the TradeFed. The Gungans get Fambaa shield generators, which rock. The Empire gets AT-AT's, which also rock. The Wookies are okay, though they are not my favorite civ. The Naboo have great starships.

Units are awesome - there are most untis from the movies there. Assault Mechs - which are AT-AT's, MTT's, Juggernauts, or whatever, depending on your civ - can carry 10 units inside. This is great when you're the TradeFed, and can load battle droids in your MTT. Some of the cooler units are Tie Interceptors, TradeFed AAT's, X-wings, Rebel scouts (swoop bikes), and Naboo N-1 starfighters.

I have a FEW minor complaints: there are no capital ships, like Star Destroyers or Droid Control Ships; and some of the heroes' voices are not the voices from the movies. Also, the cheat codes are irritating.

The few complaints notwithstanding, this is a great game. I await its expansion, Clone Campaigns, in May.

A.K.A. AOE reskin

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having played Age Of Empires, the game's engine was all too familiar. There were jokes flying around about it was JUST a reskin. Well, that's partially true. Most of the buildings are extremely similar in what they do (actually almost all), the building where you build air obviously is new, but other than that, all the buildings, minerals and overall game play are essentially the same.

In AOE 2, there were over 10 different civilizations, this has 6 I believe, the rebels, trade Fed, Imperials, Wookies, royal naboo and gugans. To tell the truth, the only reason i played this was to send AT-ATs at Gungans. (it was fun, till i realized you couldn't step on them) Each race pretty much is the same, except for how the units look and special units. Slight differences exist though, imperial fighters don't get shields, trade fed does not have to build shelters, gugans can build shelters underwater, i can't remember any others....oh well.

Dealing with 4 resources is a pain, seriously. And miners are rather slow. having to mine carbon, food, nova crystals and ore is annoying to say the least. Whenever a worker isn't working, a red button flashes until you send that peon to work. When your fighting it gets rather annoying. Some units you would think should hit air AND ground, alot don't. Also air units CANNOT be in the same 1x1 block in the air. The air is treated like ground, where only a single unit can occupy that space, unlike starcraft where air can stack.

The game engine is very good, seeing that it is the SAME exact one as AOE.

There's a campagin for each race except the gugans. in each you get to play with heros from the movies

Trade Federation: attacking naboo and u get Darth maul and lots and lots and lots of droids
Wookie: driving off imperials, slavers and trade federation, rebuilding governement, Han, chewie and a bunch of wookies
Rebels: follow the story line, luke, leia, a jedi, han, etc.
Gugans: weird, half is like 1000 years ago, then it jumps forward. uniting clans and killing droids, Boss Nas, Amidala, qui-gon, obi-wan
Imperials: Hunting rebels down. Darth Vader

There's also deathmatcher were u get lots of resources and fight to death. Mounment, where the first to build one wins, no combat.
Killing the commander -> straight forward, standard where you can do almost all of the above to win.

The game is good, you get to use alot of Starwars units, and the sound and graphics aren;t bad...

Sytem Requirment arn't bad(to the idiot who posted first)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: September 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you think that these requirments for a comp. are high go out and buy a new one right now because you are officially ancient.

Estimated System Requirements:

1) Multimedia PC with Pentium 266MHz or higher processor.
2) Microsoft® Windows® 95, Windows 98/ME, Windows NT®
3) 32 MB of RAM
4) 300 MB of hard disk space; additional 100 MB of hard disk space for swap file
5) Super VGA monitor supporting 800x600 resolution.
6) Local bus video card that supports 800x600, 256 color resolution
7) CD-ROM drive.
8) Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device.
9) 28.8Kbps modem (or higher recommended) for Internet* or head-to-head play.
10) Audio board with speakers or headphones.
*Internet access required for Internet play. May require payment of a separate fee to an Internet Service Provider. Connect time and local telephone charges may apply*

Don't say what you never knew. Research a game before you rate it and you might look a bit saner than usual.

This Game is Great........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

because you can control a massive amount of at most 200 units which is awesome. I can create a ton of At-At Walkers which is one of the best ...-kicking unit in the game plus they look cool too. Almost everything about it is great except if your an AOE player. If you are and your playing this game it might be a little annoying. Like the Power Cores in the games which you have to build. ... Now for HARD CORE STAR WARS FANS who beleive that every single detail should be realistic according to the books and movie you'll see some things oddly when you get it. Like the advance TIE BOMBER is really two payload pods on top of each other. You might wonder why the hell didn't "They use the Scimitar Bomber?" Or use the A-Wing as the advance fighter for the Alliance instead of a better X-Wing...

Overall this game is great for beginners who never played AOE and Star WArs Fans across this galaxy and Fun to have an army of Battle Droids or Legions of Stormtroopers and many other units. And don't forget those At-At Walkers, dang SWEET.

I give this game FOUR AND i SAY FOUR STARS but hey, that's what i think so don't judge me. ...

This game will rock your world!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: September 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Though it has yet to come out, this game should be game of the year! I wish I could give this game more than 5 stars! I am a huge RTS fan and of course I love AOK. :)

This game has taken all of what is awesome about AOK and kept it, all of what AOK could have tweaked and improved it. Then it has taken a gigantic step forward --- UNIQUE civs, Star Wars landscapes, Star Wars units, unique features (air units!.., submerged units!..), low system specs, on and on. This game is accessible to anyone - Star Wars fan, AOK fan, RTS fan, gamer.

Trust me when I say - this is a wise buy, a must buy, the game we've all been craving! My deepest congratulations and gratitude to the Director for his insight, follow through and for thinking of us fans! :)

Greay Game For The Star Wars Fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is trully an awsome game! It is rated Teen for violence wich does not incluge any gore. In Star Wars Galactic Battle Grounds, you control your desired civilization and fight your opponents. This game will give you hours of fun stratigic Star Wars warfare! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Looks to be good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: September 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Because Star Wars Galactic Battelgrounds isn't out yet, I can not be entirely certain as to what it will be like. But rest assured, it is NOT like Force Commander. It uses the Age of Empires 2 engine, so it will play similar to AoE2.AoE2 is one of the greastest RTSes out there, so LucasArts can't really go wrong on this game. I'm really looking forward to this game, because it looks to be a lot better than LucasArts previous RTS games, thank goodness.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It has everything a classic RTS needs: Graphics, gameplay, customizable areas... It's only one of the many examples Lucas Arts is back in the business of making great games.

In summary it's a must have for every Star Wars and RTS fan, and evrry other player should give a it a serious try!

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