- 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 levels.
- Play campaign across more than 40 planets, or play multiplayer with up to 8 players.
Product Description
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Star Wars Empire at War is the first game ever that gives you
the power to command an entire war for the Star Wars Galaxy at
your finger tips and the freedom to decide how to do it. The game
is set between Episode III and Episode IV of the Star Wars
series. This real-time strategy takes place in the wake of the
Jedi slaughter that has disrupted the balance of the force.
Players wage ground and space battles all in an effort to gain
control of the galaxy. All of the gameplay and action within
Empire at War is persistent, meaning that strategic and
elements from previous events will have a permanent effect on the
galaxy.
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Star Wars: Empire at War is a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game that
is, quite simply, amazing in its 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 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,
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Fight epic-looking battles in space with outstanding sound
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As a player, you'll be involved in virtually every aspect of the
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. 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 chey,
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 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 nent 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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From the Manufacturer
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The first game ever that puts the power to command an entire war
for the Star Wars Galaxy at your fingertips. PC players now have
the rtunity to control the e of the galaxy in the all-new
real-time strategy (RTS) game Star Wars: Empire at War.
Set a few years before the events of A New Hope, the game lets
players rewrite history as well as experience the aftermath of
Revenge of the Sith, the creation of the Rebel Alliance, and
Darth Vader's rise to power.
The game features beautifully rendered land and space battles
set on memorable planets such as Hoth, Tatooine, and Dagobah, as
well as never-before-seen environments taken directly from the
Star Wars films and expanded universe novels. In the game,
players can choose to join either the Rebel Alliance or the
Galactic Empire, building and setting up forces that can
be unleashed on the enemy in real-time 3-D. All of the gameplay
and action within Star Wars: Empire at War is persistent, meaning
that strategic and elements from previous events will
have a permanent effect on the galaxy.
As players build, manage, and progress their space and
ground-based units, troops, and vehicles, memorable Star Wars
hero characters will begin playing a role in key situations. In
addition to the single-player campaign mode, the game includes a
two-player Empire vs. Rebellion mode and up to eight player
online skirmish modes.
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