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Empire at War - PC game

Warmaster Nice

Post subject: Empire at War - PC game

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:22 pm

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Well with my computer back up and running I finally had a chance to try out the new Star Wars strategy game "Empire at War".

With dissapointments such as the old Age of Empires clone "Galactic Battlegrounds" I had my doubts about a Star Wars strategy game.
The ground battles are good but not great. Perhaps it is just the scale which is wrong: In the old movies there weren't that many truely big ground battles except for the battle of Hoth. You were either really up close following only a few characters in small fights or there were the epic space battles.
As a result many of the units and tanks aren't really that sexy - except of course for the AT-AT ? :(8:

(Ok running around as Palpatine is kinda cool as well... except for some corny dialogue, but hey: It's Star Wars!)
You have to secure landing zones in order to bring in new units to the battle which is nice because it forces you to fight agressively. On the other hand it is a bit frustrating that you can only have a limited number of units on the battlefield at one time. If you've just spent a king's ransom building a big assault force you want to hit the enemy with everything you got!

Regardless of how you might feel about the ground combat the bit which really makes this game shine is the Space battles! I mean GOD DAMN! ? :cool:

?Again you have some limitations to the ammount of ships present at any one time but who cares: 5 Star Destroyers still kick some serious butt!
The graphics are better than the old XvT flight simulators (obviously) but I was still surprised just how nice they were for a strategy game! A nice feature is, that once you've selected targets for your units you can switch to cinematic mode which has some cool dynamic camera angles.
Here's a few shots:

You can't help but humming along on the Imperial March once you take command of your own personal Death Star... ?

You also have to deal with a few traitor Imperial captains...

Die rebel scum!

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Warmaster Nice

Post subject: Empire at War - PC game

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:26 pm

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There's no such thing as too many Star Destroyers...

And it looks nice up close as well...

All in all a really nice game I think. Certainly the best SW strategy game ever ...even though that isn't saying much. Even if you don't care much for the ground combat you could buy it just to enjoy the spectacular space battles. There's an auto-resolve option for most battles so you can focus of ground or space battles if you like.

...Now if only someone did a BFG mod for those space fights...

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Post subject: Empire at War - PC game

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:31 pm

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Damn, those are superb graphics, nearly as good as the movies.

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Warmaster Nice

Post subject: Empire at War - PC game

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:33 pm

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I'm running the game at a pretty low resolution with no anti aliasing. If I had a better PC I'm sure it would look even better.

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Enderel

Post subject: Empire at War - PC game

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:27 pm

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I've been looking at getting that game. Had a good couple of reviews recently over here. Does look very spiffy even at lower res..

Might have to wander into town tomorrow to pick that up now.

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The_Real_Chris

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:12 am

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Hows it compare to the homeworld series (pretty much the only PC game I would consider buying after the dissapointments of Total War sequels).

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Steele

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:23 am

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Quote (The_Real_Chris @ 17 Mar. 2006 (04:12))

Hows it compare to the homeworld series (pretty much the only PC game I would consider buying after the dissapointments of Total War sequels).

Pretty much faster gameplay, you don?t have to bother about formations (type Wedge or X) . Just Select your Shiptype assign a Hotkey or not. And engage. You may pick specifical targets at the capital ships - Hangar, Turbolaser Batteries, Proton Launcher a.s.o. Most Ships also have special abilities that you can activate for a limited duration - e.g. Ackbars Command - Concentrate All Firepower . Or the Millenium Falcons Invulnerability or Boba Fetts Seismic Bomb.

You should try it for yourself.

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netepic

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:23 am

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It is an amazing game, and is actually partially responsible for preventing me seeing the missus for over two weeks.

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Enderel

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Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:36 am

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Quote (netepic @ 17 Mar. 2006 (08:23))

It is an amazing game, and is actually partially responsible for preventing me seeing the missus for over two weeks.

lol I bet that is not appreciated by her!

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primarch

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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:49 am

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Hi!

I have heard oif this game, looks very nice. I dont like real time games much though.

I still play Doom 3 MP..... :;):

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