Star Wars: Empire at War

[ShadowMarth]

Well, as many of you know, the Empire at War demo came out today. If you were lucky enough to actually find a plausable download time, then you got to play it first! Fun stuff. I'm tired, and I'm heading to bed, so I'll tease you with this:

snap dizzle

22% downloaded >_>

[bignds]

Apperantly, according to xfire, ive downloaded it, but im keeping the suspense ready till i actually buy the game in febuary.

lol

i hope they up the graphics, watching it in cinematic mode is so freaking blocky.

and i beat an entire space battle just with clever handling of the millenium falcon >_> took down 2 cruisers, 3 squadrons of TIE fighters, and their little space station.

[ShadowMarth]

Yeah, the space mission is no big deal. The ground mission is the tougher one. I did the space mission with all X-Wings on no specific orders... Just set them loose on the galaxy. Looked really cool though. As for the graphics... They're insane. However they built in tons of levels to it, so even someone with such an outdated computer as myself can run it well, even though it does look very much worse.

As for the heroes, that's known as the Stormtrooper Effect.

[Frisky_Biscuits]

i thnk this games looks like poo, and bow to my sig!!

[ShadowMarth]

I got the game about a week ago, and it is truly amazing. In the big space battles you feel like you're controlling a part of the movie. It's awesome. The skirmishes are made to be more like a standard RTS, if simplified, and they work very well. The galactic conquest mode brings it further to life, after a few games with a friend (1 win, 1 loss). In fact, the only big gripe I can claim is that the ground battles tend to be very unbalanced. The empire's vehicles are rediculously underpowered. The rebels have "Plex Soldiers" that wield powerful rocket launchers. Four or five of those guys can take out just about any equal amount of vehicles (except for Tie Maulers, but those suckers are only good against infantry, and only then because they can run them over in formation), but the Empire has just Stormtroopers that wield blasters. I believe that this could be fixed in a patch rather easily, if they would just make ATSTs worth building, and downgrade the Plex Soldiers about a third.