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Empire at War? way better than galactic battlegrounds.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Alright this game is fricken awesome! You can live battles and command your units on land or space and across the galaxy. The campaigns are fairly fun and you can build up space and ground forces on planets. Each planet will give you more credits (a.k.a.) money every galactic day. In the campaigns you can play as the rebels of the empire. Both sides are very fun.In galactic conquest and in the campaign for the empire after you build it a legendary battle station the size of a moon will be in your command. THE DEATH STAR!!! You can destroy planets with the death star. If you're in a space battle with it you have to fight off the enemy until the death star is in range of the planet. Once it's in range you can fire the weapon and watch the fireworks. You can also do skirmish battles on land and space. The online is very fun and most of them are pretty nice people.
The servers aren't too bad and are very fun. All in all Go and buy this game you can get the Best of PC pack which has this game and it has battlefront 1 jedi outcast Knights of the old republic and republic commando. it costs $40. This game would be a very great christmas gift new years gift birthday gift etc.

Pros-
. good graphics
. fun to play
. you can use star destroyers
. It's star wars
. there are no cons!

Nice Graphics but no heart

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is just more of the same Real Time Strategy gaming we ahve seen in the past but with a splash of Star War Paint. After a few games it is hard to tel the difference between space and groudn combat. You go thru the same motions, every thing is played out on a 2D battlefield (yes the graphics are 3d but the play area is only in 2 dimensions). This game is a big improvement over the last attempt (Star Wars: Rebellion) but suffers form the same plague. IT RELIES ON ITS STAR WARS THEME far too much and doesn't focus on playability.

Bottom line: Save you money or get Lord of the Rings Battel for Middle Earth II. Fun, enjoyable, and has more than a handful of unique features that put it above the usual RTS game. Star Wars Empire at War....boring.

Played it for 3 hours before shelving it for other games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game the day it was release. Installed it onto my computer and was gutted as soon as I tried to play it, there was an issue with it authentication the disk as the original in my drive. Went online and downloaded the patch and was please that it could now recognize the disk and I could start playing. The designers put a lot of effort into making the mechanics different from other strategy games, but making something different doesn't always mean an improvement.

I didn't really like the whole reinforcement mechanism and very limited units to start a battle with. I can give it a stretch and say that ok terrain on land battles could limit ground forces, but in space combat, if you send in 20 Star Destroyers into a system, space is vast enough to accommodate all your forces. What about all the epic battles from the movies? I found my self always bringing large forces to a battle then attaching and seeing what my limited forces could do and calling in reinforcements as the original invading party suffered losses. I much prefer the C&C, AOE, type of unit production and upgrades.

The resource management is basically do you build a mine on the planet to increase credits or not. You can send smugglers out to steal credits from the Imperials as well.

Space battles often got to a point where it was almost a stale mate and I would click on the fast forward button to accelerate game time and just wait several minutes until the enemy was destroyed. Not much fun in doing that.

The only part I enjoyed about the game was playing the Imperials and controlling Darth Vader in Land battles. He kicks some serious butt in the game.

Anyway, like the title says, I've played it for about 3 hours then when back to my other games like Rise of Nations and Dungeon Lords

The Force is strong with this one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. The only real problem is that it takes a little while to adjust to the revolutionary real-time system and the different battle system. It's main strength is that it doesn't have tedious resource gathering and you can jump into the action by building your army and attacking immediatly. But that doesn't mean you can spend, spend, spend. You still have to pick and choose carefully what units you need. The best part is that the factions are different. With the Imps, you have your trademark star destroyers and tie fighter while in the rebellion you have your X-wings and Y-wings as well as a few units not shown in the Star Wars movies. The cinematic mode actually makes it feel like you're watching Star Wars movie.

Could hav been much better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game could have been much better. Recent patches from Lucas Art have identified and corrected several major balance issues, a definite improvement, but fundamental issues have been left unaddressed. The AI sucks, and that's putting it mildly. The AI will not attack a heavily fortified position and plays the waiting game, not much fun. The maps, especially the space based maps are way too small, and lack much depth.

The games saving grace is the player vs player mode. This one feature makes the game worth buying at around $30.00 but not at $49.99.

Hopefully the expansion will spice things up a bit.

Really, really fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a few months ago, and I play it almost every day. I first want to mention that if you are a star wars fan, then this game is deffinately for you. There are many units to command in both space and land modes. The only bad thing is that when you first buy the game, all of the units are WAY out of scale. But you can fix this by just going to google and searching "empire at war mods". There are some really great modifications that make the game way better, so you might want to check those out after you buy the game.It's an excellent game.

Not terrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had high expectations for this game... but I think it falls short. The campaigns are a bit rigid and don't leave much room for player improvisation. For actual battles, an organized way of using units tactically is very difficult to come by.
Most unfortunately the opponent's position, strength, movement, etc. is almost always completely shrouded! Droids, smugglers, and bounty hunters do little to remedy this fact... Consequently there is not much strategy going on here; just build up as big a force, as quickly as possible and be ready for an attack at any time. Even after an attack has begun, there is so little info. regarding the other side you can't do much in the way of tactics.
On the plus side, the cinimatic views are very cool, and the grafics are good, and Star Wars characters add a mystique to the whole thing... If you like being the brains of your game I wouldn't pick this one up.

WARNING: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Many people (including my son) are getting an exception error every time they play the game. This renders it unplayable. Before you buy this game, go to the LUCASARTS technical support site (or, search the internet for "Empire at War" "Exception_Access_Violation") There are 576 posts at the LUCASARTS site complaining about this problem, from experienced computer geeks who have spent days or weeks trying to resolve it. And Lucas Arts has not come out with a reasonable fix. The latest patch (1.04) does not address it. Buy this game, and sorry will you be.

Big let down!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played the game on/off for several days playing the rebels, (I like challenges). My major problems are the space maps are not that big, with all the firepower the IMP displayed in the game does not matter since the AI is a joke, and the game ended too quick. By the time I was getting ready to enjoy the game with some decent cruisers for a change the game ended.

I would of love to play it through all the three movies, but it only centered on the first.

Very disappointed.

I love this game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: March 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I find most computer games seem to be designed for the hardcore gamer and are just too hard to play. I think they should have more games for the rest of us and a super easy setting. I like space games that are like an interactive movie. This reminds me of my favorite real time strategy "Homeworld" (the first two).

In addition to the scripted Campaign one is able to play quite a few free form campaigns.

I really love this game and expect to enjoy it for months. I wish they would make more like it.

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