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Good genre, bad gameplay.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) has always been an extraordinary idea that lit up most of the people's minds. For one thing, it has always made us think about travelling freely into outer-space, walking freely in a huge planet. However, every game has its downsides. Lucas Arts, no offense, never really made a good Star Wars game. Clone Wars was close, but not close enough! Now, there has been one reason why this game will fail, and that is: 1. Lack of reputation. 2. No single-player options. The lack of reputation just basically means that it's really made from a company that was always criticized by so many people. Number two means that not every one is a pro at using the internet, nor every one has a fast speed connection. Also, just to add on, the monthly fee system will not encourage any gamer to play continuesly. Now, you might say, "hell no!", others might add, "I will play on for the rest of my life". But you really must know every one has his/her own opinion. Some people might like it, some others might not. Now gameplay doesn't really mean stick this cd into its disc and press the play button then admire the graphics. It's more than that! The gameplay is designed in a strategic way. A way like the Sims was designed as. Think about the camera angles you find in the Sims with additional buttons for fire mode or driving mode. So you really don't have as much freedom as promised. Dont take my word for it, buy it and see for yourself. Imagine, wasting over $70 dollars in cash for something useless that'll , in few years, lose its ranks and then something else will boom to the top. So why go for a game that needs monthly fees? mutliplayer only? bad gameplay (thought non agree with)? My words, think of what happened to those who wasted more than $70 dollars for Sims Online. All it became is one massively enchanced msn messenger or a chat room instead of being a game. So people, do not get your hopes to high, I've watched the trailers myself, analyzed it a hundred times by re-checking, I have seen the screens, tried everything myself, and if you're really hyped up and not patient to wait for others to try it first, go ahead, waste your money and risk all the outcomes and possible outcomes of failure/success in the game you've just purchased!

Run away! Run far away!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

black-tiger from Miami, FL United States
It's not worth the price of the box nor the 15 bucks a month. I spent 2 months playing and then they decided to nerf my character to heck and back. And they're preparing to nerf other professions as well, this is another beta test which people should not have to pay for. I am very disappointed. I was having fun but it's no fun when they release a game that they claim is finished only to have it drastically change in one sweep of the nerf-bat. Anyway you have been warned. Those that like it see the potential. I do too, but it's not there yet, therefore not worth the money to invest. Give them a year or 2 and maybe it'll be up to snuff then and the nerf-bats will be put away.

subscription service is like a russian bread line

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome not only does it comes with a requsite subscription service so you may have the privledge of paying up to 143 dollars a year in fees. But waiting to pay is harder than getting into a NYC hotspot. Given the ammount of time they pushed back the release date one should expect them to have maintained a proper backend infrastructure instead of trying to run the subscription service off an apple IIe in some guys basement.

Great Game Time Consuming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Fun online game but will, and I say Will take up time. Depending on your character of course; but you will be almost required to log in each day or every other day to pay rent or harvesters or other things once you own them. Or if you plan to be a crafter, be sure you have Lots of Time each night. Great graphics, sure some lag bugs but what game doesn't?

please read before throwing your money and time away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I buy most every game that comes out. I have a 1900+ rating in AoC and hovered just below 2k in AoM when I played. I also play most of the other MMORPGS with the exception of DAOC, just not my speed.

I have never, ever seen a game that has this many catastrophic flaws and bugs. The server has been down at one point or another nearly every single day since it opened, and that is nothing....

A multitude of people have had everything they owned deleted out of the blue, most people have had some significant items deleted at one time or another. It is very hard to move to any new area of town without someone mentioning out loud that they just signed in and 'such-and-such' is now gone.

Creatures magically disappear when you fight them, usually just before they die so you get no credit for fighting them. They also teleport in clear view on top of you because the servers are apparently VIC28s.

There were a plethora of exploits known in the beta that they chose to ignore and let the people paying to support the game (which is still much less reliable than eves beta was, or EEs beta for that matter, which actually was buggy) use to advance to endgame levels that now have been made unapproachable for months to most. They embraced the "exploit early, exploit often" principle, mostly because a number of them play the game online....and also post on the website trashing anyone who has a problem with anything they do (under their player names, which doesn't denote that they are monetarily connected the game to anyone who hasn't happened to get to know them ingame), and delete totally legitimate posts (I have never had one deleted, but many of the ones that get deleted are just being deleted to promote a fraudulent image of the state of the game, which is terrible).

Worst of all, there are untold numbers of bugs that were known in the beta that made the game completely unplayable, but they chose to ignore so that they could release the game and force the fans of star wars to pay to support it for them (please keep in mind, I play most MMORPGS, this is so far out of the realm of the minute amount other games have done that it makes Shaq-Fu look like viable product).

There was 30 days playing time promised on the box. Out of the 30 days, there was a grand total of 1 that I was able to play without having a fatal error on their end make it unplayable. Having their faulty code damage stats as if armor was on 2 or 3 times over when no armor was on (making some stats negative :P) and insuring anything that touched you would kill you in 1 hit until the next day (or longer sometimes) when they would finally shake it off your character. Crashing for no reason and killing your character in the process, world comes back up an hour (or day, or 2) later and your character has huge wounds that force you to sit around in a hospitol for up to an hour...WHEEEEE. Deleting all your equipment and your money so you run around with starter gear trying to get money is real fun then. Having havesters dissapear with a weeks worth of gathering in them. Having entire suits of top grade armor regularly disappear when they are bought. All these things and thousands more were known before release and are acceptable to them (call their reps online and ask about the 30 days the box promises, they openely say could care less about any promises made and they will make no attempt to make ammends for charging you to play while their servers are completely unavailable. They released it anyway to make star wars fans (figuring they are loyal and could thus be exploited) pay for what is supposed to be pre-release troubleshooting and quality control.

It is a shame and I am frankly stunned that Sony would allow this travesty to be enacted under their name :(

-true__ibnFrey

(Please save yourselves the frustration, lost time and effort. Eve online runs fantastically and is so well taken care of that it may well be the next long-term MMORPG to make it truly huge, AC2 has finally begun to listen to the gaming community and has been quietly building up a hard-earned fan base, a couple my buds play, Blizzard always comes through and there are other MMORPGS on the horizon (I can't wait for City Of Heroes ^^).)

**edit** for the fanboys trying to blame the systems of people who are playing this game and honestly trying to warn other people from getting robbed, here are my specs: hyperthreaded 2.8, 1G RAM, 160Gb hard drive with nothing but 3 games on it, GeForce fx 5200. This game does NOT work...on any system. Every person who has any experience with MMORPGs knows the truth that is the most poorly supported and designed game ever released, it is a total disgrace (eve and ac2 get back to you within small hours, often within 1, average time on tickets is about 3-4 days (long time to go without playing and still being expected to pay for it), and that is on tickets they don't accidentally delete, which has been right about half of them in my experience (which means queing up another 3-4 days wait of not playing).

Not a game review, but a review of whats in the box!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I recently purchased the Collectors Edition of Star Wars Galaxies, and since I'm only just getting in to it all I will not review the game, but the contents of the box itself. The Collectors Edition box is leather, heavy and very well made, and very fitting for a game with so much to live up to! The Collectors Edition comes with the following:

The Game: 3 CDs in a plastic case, much better than the recent trend of forgoing a case for paper sleeves.

Exclusive in-game wearable: Once you get your account setup, make a character and get through the tutorial, you choose a starting location. This item is in your inventory, but I havn't seen any real use for it as of yet.

Art concept book: Nice book, though softcover. It is nice to flip through, but really does not offer much you didn't see on the various gaming web sites.

Collectable figurine: small pewter figure of the all powerful Zabrak... she sure doesn't look all powerful in pewter!

Sew on patch: Well the patch is nice and maybe if i was an 8 year old Star Wars fan from the 70's i'd put this on my denim jacket, but otherwise I do not really see this leaving the case at all.

I gave this three stars, based on quality, content, and price. I felt there could have been something more for $... In reality, thats the price of two other games, and tack on $... a month to play (after first month free), it starts to become a real investment for something you might give up after a month or two of play. Maybe if they had included three months game time, and a CD soundtrack, or access to restricted in-game items/races/classes, this would have been a much more valuable purchase.

In conclusion, there really is no reason to buy the Collectors Edition. Buy the regular version and pick up the Warcraft 3 expansion as well, or Rise of Nations!

This game's wonderful, people are strange!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OKAY, I read all the reviews I could about this game, and I really had doubts about buying it. I mean, it really semmed like a love it, or hate it game. Many of the people who hated it played the Beta; well I never did, but maybe there was something different in it. You really have to understand that in this game, you make your own story! It is NOT just "hack n' slash" it is much more. I mean you can have a blast in this game without even picking up a gun! People build weapons, armor, powerups, you can learn to play an instument, dance, it's just so expensious! It took me about two days to really get into the game, and now I really see how good it is! Once I was out on a 2 mission voyage with 2 other people who I just met, and went through battles, and sat at the camp we made on Tatooine with the sun setting, I wondered how can someone not enjoy this? As far as the special edition, I HAD to get it because the stores were out of the regular edition, but now I dont regret the extra money. The art book is really great, and the boxing is really nice; just makes it seem all that much more brilliant. And I hear that it's supposed to get even better!

Better then EQ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've played EQ for about two years now and didn't know what to expect with only my second MMORPG game experience. Reading reviews from folks who played the beta, I expected a release like the WW2 online game from a while back that never got fixed. But playing it for about two weeks now, I can happily say that it has been a near perfect gaming experience for me. For the reviewer that says that he disconnected 6 times a day, check your machine or check your internet provider, cause I'm in Germany and I have never lost connection. The only complaint I have about this game is the fact that if I am on an uncompleted mission when I log out, when I log back in and follow the waypoints back to my objective, there has been a couple times that my objective was gone. No biggy, I just go get another mission, a little time taken away. Anyway, i've enjoyed this game and I have found myself hooked like I was to EQ so long ago.

Perfect MMORPG for scifi fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided was the game that wowed E3 participants and has been a much-waited-for release. A MMORPG about Star Wars? How more perfect than that could you get?

Being an incredibly enthusiastic fan of MMORPGs, and trying just about every new one that comes out, I got my hands on the Collector's Ediction of the Star Wars Galaxy box as soon as I could. It had a few extras - signed manual, little figure, patch and pin.

But of course the real test is actual gameplay. If you are at all a fan of the Star Wars saga, it is just SO neat to get into the game and hear that familiar music, and start choosing from the available races. The choices are great - Human, Wookiee, Bothan, Mon Calamari, Rodian, Trandoshan, Twi'lek, or Zabrak. You choose male or female, and then the type of character.

The customization of your character is simply AMAZING. You change eyes, hair, tattoos, shape, size, EVERYTHING. While many other games make a female a "Barbie Big Breasted Bimbo", in this one you can make your character look as realistic as you want - tweaking literally every part! You really end up with a character that you feel fully comfortable with.

There's a training mission that walks you nicely through every part of gameplay, from moving to combat to talking to other people. I found the controls very intuitive and while there was a moment that I was "jetissoned into space", I'm sure those bugs will go away as the game goes on.

Then, when you're ready, you head out into the real world - choosing from your favorite planets! I hopped onto Naboo, and wandered around a visually lush world. There were NPCs to talk to, missions to go on ... but sadly, very few people. Yes, it's a brand new release, so hopefully more people will be coming on soon. It's still a bit depressing to go into a thriving city and have it seem like a post-holocaust wasteland.

Like any MMORPG, it comes down to how much YOU enjoy the world that is there, and what sorts of friends you meet to have fun within it. If SciFi and Star Wars are your thing, this is the place for you!

best starwars game EVER!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: December 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok, the game charges a 12$ a month fee, but that's the bad news, the good news is that you can be ANYTHING, ever want to be a mon-calimari commando/bioengineer... you can now. you can also choose from the 8 species and then become EXTREMLEY different, from choosing height and weight to eye size and shape. then there;s carrers, creature handelers, commando's, artisan, pikeman, smuggler, just to name a few of about ohh say 50. YES!!!! 50 CARRERS, and with the new game expansion (that came out for free) you can become a politian, and mount on dewback and several other creatures, HATE TKERS? (people that kill their own teammates on purpose just for laughs)WELL ME TOO, well swg prevents that with several ways. PLUS PARENTS THAT ARE WORRIED FOR THEIR CHILD"S PROTECTION....not a problem, a censor is placed over words you think may not be appropriate for them, and if you are a parent your self and don't mind you can change taht (much like the aol parental controll) not to mention you become a REBEL OR AN IMPERIAL, yes you can become EITHER!, i have friends who have full stormtrooper armour, a 3 man firing squad of commando storm troopers and have an outpost (large enough to be a base) with at least 20 troopers and 2 AT-STs!!!, but you can do the same with rebels, have a 3 man firing squad of tough as nails troopers and a base of feedom loving men. and now people have unlocked JEDI!!!!!!! yes you can become a jedi though it would take a month or two, you would be able to take on 3 rancors at the same time (rancors are the big monsters that luke killed at the begginning of return of the jedi in jabbas palace), just think soo much power!!! And to the people that say "no veichels" your wrong, desperatley wrong, in june 04 an expansion (which will unfortunatley cost another 14 dollars to install, but wont add more $ to your bill) will be released where you will be able to pilot xwings, tie fighters, and tons of other stuff, not to mention that will include 2 more species, Gungans (jar jar binks) and the aliens that have a very strange mouth (seen in the bar at the begginning of a new hope that obi-wan kills for giving luke a hard time). so this is a MUST HAVE GAME, BUY OR BE SAD FOR THE REST OF FOREVER, JUST GO TO to check out pics, a quick note about this game is that it KICKED THE LIVING **** OUTTA KOTOR, and if you liked that you will go crazy for swg, and the minimum requirements are met very easily, my friend has just barley the minimum req's and it runs great, and the graphic are blazing on my computer (athlon 2600, 1gb ddrram, 80 gb hard drive, and a geforce 5200 (128 MBs), so you NEED this game, and what else would you do with 12 dollars? buy some bottle rockets (which i'd like to add you can make in swg)? a new shirt? c'mon this game is GOLD!!!!!!!!

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