Star Wars: Empire at War Gameplay and Performance Review

Star Wars: Empire at War is not your average RTS. It is fair to say that later versions of C&C epitomised, for me, everything wrong with the genre. Gameplay was ever thus: bring up a new map, make as many units as possible as fast as possible, rush across a 2D map to capture points and kill the enemy before he had time to generate a decent amount of units. Lather, rinse repeat. EaW attempts to take a rather different tack. Gameplay takes place on two different levels - a ‘battle’ level and ‘galaxy strategy’ level.

..All in all, Empire at War is easily the best Star Wars strategy game out there. The two-tiered approach to galactic conquest is innovative and really adds something to the genre. The setting is good, the missions are cool and, hell, it’s Star Wars.

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