Any fan of Star Wars will have fun with the space combat in this game. The various ships, the destruction of specific ship parts, all presented in a straightforward fashion that is easy to use, it's a great time. The cinematic camera is a great feature to basically start making your own Star Wars fan fiction as you play, a feature more games like this should implement.

Where this game falls apart is the ground combat. To put it bluntly, it's a bore. While the vehicles, troops, and heroes you can use are fun to see move around, all the tactical depth of the space combat is lost on the ground, and it just becomes a game of throwing things at the enemy and seeing who wins, which is usually just the side that has more artillery units. It's a shame that is drags down the rest of the game. At least in the campaign modes, you can auto-complete ground battles to not have to engage with them.

The campaign modes are where it's at with this game. The base game and DLC both have an interesting story to play through, and the scenarios presented are a lot of fun.

What makes this game stand-out all these years later though is the absolutely insane modding scene it has, with mods created for almost any popular sci-fi property to have their ships and units playable in the game, all with weapons and weak points mapped out to fit within the games mechanics. It really is a great toybox to play around with if you like seeing cool space battles.

Overall, it's a pretty basic strategy game, with minimal resource management and most of the fun coming from the spectacle of the space battles, but that spectacle really is a lot of fun to experience, and there is nothing quite like rolling up in the custom campaign modes with a Death Star and just obliterating a planet while the enemy tries to fight your ships in the background. Classic for any Star Wars fan.

This review is purely based on nostalgia:

I remember those times when I or my brother were playing this game on the family computer, they were great bonding moment, and it probably forged me to be the "gamer" I am today.

I remember preferring the fights in space compared to ground missions, which I would let my brother do them for me.

I know my brother still plays this game regularly, mainly with a ton of mods, but it's probably great still!

The space combat is so incredible. It’s the most fun I’ve ever had in both Star Wars games and RTS games. Then the ground combat happens and it shifts into something far more sinister. The ground mode is so mind-meltingly boring that I refuse to believe that something this good could also be the worst thing I’ve ever had the displeasure of experiencing in my whole life.
If you play this game, please for the love of God and all that is holy, do not ever play with ground battles enabled or I can personally guarantee that you will be shoving a firearm into your gaping maw by the third minute.

This game is just pure fun. Once you get around the learning curve of how the game works, it is one of the most interactive and fun pieces of Star Wars media out there. With the detailed and interesting ways both the Rebels and Empire play, you get hours of fun. The expansion pack makes that even better! It does this by adding a new faction and expanding the other two. This game is amazing when you have mods as it allows you to graphically overall the game and make it even better. One of the worst parts of the game is ground combat though. It is decently clunky and it just really drags gameplay down. However, everything else about this game is fantastic. If you love strategy games. Give this game a shot!