DH Review: Empire At War: PC

***Zardon*** · Mar 26, 2006, 12:20 PM

There used to be a time when every game released by Lucasarts was a classic but recently we’ve had many games attempting to cash in on the hype of the Star Wars movies. Games like Clone Wars, Bounty Hunter and Starfighter (on consoles) didn’t leave a lasting impression on anyone and many would say were only released knowing the star wars fanatic would have to add them to their collection. Sure, there have been a few diamonds in the dirt like the Knights of the Old Republic series, the Jedi Knight series or even Republic Commando which all captured the essence of the movies.

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Yousaif · Mar 26, 2006, 09:12 PM

I've been playing this game since release. I went from an old 9600XT 128MB card to the X1600PRO listed below and my machine now handles this game at 1280x1024 with full AA and AF and the game is frankly quite stunning to look at. There is a cool feature called "cinematic view," in which you can select what your units are going to do and then sit back and watch it in cinematic mode.

Below are some links to some screenshots that I took while playing the game. They really don't do much justice to seeing the game in full motion, but I still find myself using them as desktops at work all the time, and always get compliments on how they look and how impressive they are. Many people have actually bought the game after seeing the screenshots.

The online play is awesome and is easy to get into.

Link for the screenies. They're all about 150K or so and I didn't want to screw up Zardon's load time here.

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Enjoy!

***Zardon*** · Mar 27, 2006, 03:09 AM

I quite like the game myself, its pretty well coded and fun.

OmegaRED · Mar 27, 2006, 10:48 AM

It was a fun game but the replay value quickly wears thin. You can get bored very quickly because defending planets becomes monotonous and the AI is very dumb.

Sandok · Mar 27, 2006, 11:30 AM

Yeah, I agree but if you go on the net it really becomes LOTSA fun... Not boring at all against a real human player!!!

bug77 · Mar 28, 2006, 07:19 AM

'this game could have perfectly followed the entire saga from III to VII'

I knew I missed an episode somewhere

Looks like it's worth checking out, but Oblivion has me for God knows how long...

Sandok · Mar 29, 2006, 07:25 AM

True oblivion is great but in the RTS domain, this is the only good and fun game to bite into

(of late)

Yousaif · Apr 1, 2006, 03:08 PM

Was playing a couple online battles last night, one in space and the oter a co-op on the ground.

Amazingly fun- especially when he thought I didn't have much in the way of defense around one of my mining asteroids and I warped in 2 start destroyers and a bunch of fighters. Lol all he could type was "Aw hell" right before his scout fleet got wiped from the stars.