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Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Lucas Arts
EAN: 0023272854188
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Manufacturer: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Model: 2186094
Platform: Windows XP, Windows 2000
Publisher: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Release Date: February 16, 2006
Sales Rank: 6890
Studio: Lucas Arts Entertainment Co. LLC
Features:- Real-time strategy game takes place between the two trilogies through "A New Hope"
- Play with a multitude of heroes for each side, each with their own abilities
- Control the battle between Rebel and Empire forces on both land and in space
- Dual-layered game play requires you to manage both strategic and tactical levels
- Play campaign across more than 40 planets, or play multiplayer with up to 8 players
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Product Description:
Star Wars: Empire At War lets players rewrite history, while they experience the aftermath of Revenge of the Sith. Set a few years before the events of A New Hope, the game chronicles the start of the Rebel Alliance & Darth Vader's rise to power. Visit worlds like Hoth, Tatooine and Dagobah -- as well as never-before-seen environments taken directly from the Star Wars films and expanded universe novels. Choose to join either the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire, and unleash your tactical skills on your enemy in real-time 3D. All of the gameplay and action within Star Wars Empire at War is persistent; strategic and tactical decisions from previous events will have a permanent effect on the galaxy. Deploy more than 20 ground-and air-based vehicles - from giant Star Destroyers and Mon Calamari cruisers to speeder-bikes and X-wings Access multiple ground troops, from Stormtroopers & Rebel soldiers to powerful heroes like Obi-Wan and Darth Vader Multiplayer action including 2-player campaign mode and up to 8-player online skirmishes
Amazon.com Product Description:
Star Wars: Empire at War is a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game that is, quite simply, amazing in its scope and grandeur. This game has all the elements that both hard-core Star Wars fans and dedicated strategist gamers are looking for. In Empire at War, you must fight battles in space and on the ground, giving the game a dual-layered design that forces you to operate on both an involved strategic level as well as a tactical level. Add epic-looking battles with dozens of great touches, outstanding sound effects that you've come you've come to expect from LucasArts, the contrasting play styles enabled by playing as either the Rebellion or the Empire, and a broad array of unforgettable characters, and you've got a game that lets you truly immerse yourself in the Star Wars universe.
Land battles are highly enjoyable and extremely challenging, involving heavily armored AT-ATs and more. View larger. | 
Fight epic-looking battles in space with outstanding sound effects you've come to expect from LucasArts. View larger. | 
As a player, you'll be involved in virtually every aspect of the conflict between the Rebels and the Empire. View larger. | The storyline of Star Wars: Empire at War occurs between the two trilogies through the end of "A New Hope." As a player, you'll be involved in virtually every aspect of the conflict between the Rebels and the Empire. You must simultaneously manage your economy, develop technology, build factories, planetary defenses, ships, and space stations, as well as get information on new planets and maneuver your various forces around the galaxy. Unlike some strategy games that are decided by who has hoarded enough resources to overwhelm the enemy, here it is just as important to build your forces up in an intelligent fashion in order to gain power. And to ensure you aren't ever allowed to sit back and relax, it all happens in real time, so if you spend too long considering what to build or where to send your fleet, you'll be inviting a computer attack that could reverse your gains.
Star Wars: Empire at War has a huge number of variables you'll need to consider. Many planets have unique bonuses, such as allowing certain units to be created more powerfully or cheaply, thereby increasing your credit income by different degrees, as well as only allowing the largest ships like Mon Calamari cruisers and Imperial Star Destroyers to be built on certain planets. And the Empire and Rebels obviously both have their differences. The Empire usually generates a lot more money, which it can use to overwhelm the rebel forces if left unchecked. The Rebels, on the other hand, have far fewer resources, which can make them more difficult to play and learn, but they can steal technology and sneak raiding parties past many of the Empire's space defenses. And each of the two sides has their own distinct Hero units, which can be extremely powerful and can sway the course of battle greatly. You can use Palpatine or Mon Mothma to reduce a planet's production costs; C3PO and R2D2 to steal technology or hack into an enemy's turrets and turn them against their own troops; Darth Vader to force-push entire groups of enemy soldiers on land; or Boba Fett to crush concentrations of fighters by dropping seismic charges in space. To balance out these massive powers, both sides can hire generic bounty hunters to try and eliminate a rival hero from the game.
While the land battles in Star Wars: Empire at War are highly enjoyable and extremely challenging, involving heavily armored AT-ATs and more, the space battles are truly breathtaking. Watching a Star Destroyer crawling with bright-blue ion energy, or an entire wave of X-wings explode into flame, or witnessing a fully-armed and operational Death Star blow a planet to smithereens are unparalleled experiences in this galaxy, or any other. And the visual and sound effects aren't the only thing that will amaze you during a space battle. The bigger units like space stations and Star Destroyers all have hard points pertaining to different systems. You can target these different systems to cripple ships in different ways, taking out their shield generator, weapons system, or engines to reduce their effectiveness, or taking out the hanger on Imperial capital ships to thin out their fighter cover. And as you destroy a cannon or shield generator, that piece will break off and float away. And while most ships eventually explode, the Mon Calamari Cruisers and Imperial Star Destroyers will actually tear in to pieces that continue to linger throughout the battle. What's more, you always need to watch out for ships the AI (artificial intelligence) might be hiding in asteroid belts, waiting to spring them on the flanks of your fleet at the worst possible moment.
The strategic layer of Empire at War takes place on a two-dimensional galactic map showing you all the planets. In the full campaign mode, you must consider and plan around more than 40 such planets, whereas in some of the simpler conquest scenarios, you may end up dealing with as few as eight of them. Instead of playing in the campaign mode, you can play multiplayer matches over a LAN or online with up to eight players. The LucasArts' matchmaking system makes finding an opponent easy, and if you are playing a head-to-head match against a friend, you have the ability to save a match and reload it to continue at a later time. Delivering a presentation that is as epic as the films themselves, Star Wars: Empire at War is ideal for any fan of strategy games, and absolutely necessary for Star Wars aficionados.
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I'm a star wars freak!And for me there isn't much more fun than marching a group of AT-AT's into battle, or Sending a fleet of star destroyers to crush the enemy's defense. The game is great. The sound gets 100/5 stars just as you would expect from a star wars game. Visuals get high score! AI only gets a 4/5 because it's so mixed! Sometimes they will charge at you and sometimes they will just sit in a corner like your not even there. But for glitches and bugs like this just download game patches! ... Read More
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I enjoy playing this game. Its not working for online play it keeps saying that my key code # isnt valid. Ive tried working with lucas arts and 2 months later im still not able to connect.
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This game is ok though way too repetitive for any long term appeal. I much prefer Command and Conquer generals which keeps you glued for days and days.
The missions do not have much variety as all you do is fight in space then fight on the ground, thank god you can autoresolve some conflicts as otherwise it would be way way to boring.
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Building a Better Empire / Rebellion
Well I recently purchased and tried Star Wars: Empire at War. It's a bit like Rome: Total War I'm told. Just in space, without centurions, nor chariots, and the Emperor shoots lightning bolts from his hands.
Hey at least you can't say it's a boring change.
If I were to compare this game to something it would have to be Star Wars: Rebellion or maybe even Master of Orion II. But don't get excited about the second comparison, ... Read More
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When I heard about a Star Wars based RTS, I thought about Galactic Battlegrounds, which I didn't buy because it looked like a re-skinned Age of Empires 2 (which I already had). Anyway, I looked into this game and was impressed by the graphics and the description of gameplay. What hooked me was the concept of land and space combat; however, if you've played the Homeworld series, the space combat of Empire at War is nothing compared to Homeworld. The space combat is not done in a completely 3-D environment, ... Read More
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