Uno de los juegos que mejor ha explotado la franquicia Star Wars. Divertido, profundo y uno de esos RTS imprescindibles en tus partidas online. Si eres fan de la estrategia y de SW, no me explico cómo todavía no tienes esta maravilla en tu biblioteca.
Favorite Star Wars game and RTS
The basic game is really good but the mods are sm better
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.
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.
My first ever strategy game! And a damn good one, I say. Star Wars lends itself so well to this genre, surprised there hasn't been more, especially with different eras like TCW and that. I've only played the Rebel story campaign but it gave me a decent enough taste. I feel if I was more invested in the genre I would really sink my teeth into that but I don't really have the patience, but if I get the itch then I certainly know where I'm going back to.
The best way of experiencing EaW - solid base game with great expansion pack
My most played gme
play'd hours upon hours of this thing when i was a kid...
this game is so god damn good
The balancing is destroyed by the Zahn Consortium content.
this game is so goddamn awesome
Extremely enjoyable experience
This shit is getting too old
Always a good time playing it with my dad!
Pretty cool real-time-strategy game, but I think we all know that mods were this games true saving grace.
Space combat = the most amazing Star Wars RTS experience of all time.
Ground combat = the worst Star Wars RTS experience of all time.
Ground combat = the worst Star Wars RTS experience of all time.
Never understood this game as a child. Have the disk sitting around somewhere, might return to this one day.
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!
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!
Hi if you know the cool mods for this game that allow hundreds of starfighters and add weird ships from the lore, please point me in their direction. thanks
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.
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.
One of my many, many secret Star Wars shames is my never really getting on with Empire at War. Call me an old-head but I liked how Rebellion handled the Galaxy Map-style management system more than this game did. Also, the ground combat sucks; the space gameplay can't really make up for it, as cool and cinematic as it is.
Space battles are 4 stars, ground battles are 2. I really hated ground battles in this game.
Best RTS experience a Star Wars fan can hope for. And that's despite the fact that it includes a really small era of the movies.