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Caught up in the thick of battle

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 62 / 65
Date: November 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Real Time Strategy (RTS) games had never really gotten my attention until the release of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. I had played Command and Conquer until it bored me into a coma, played StarCraft until I couldn't care if my units lived or died (which took about three hours), and played Star Trek: Armada until completion just to find out what happened next in the backstory (not being overly challenged by the combat scenarios). All in all, I had chalked up RTS games to being for a niche market that I, apparently, didn't belong to.

Then Galactic Battlegrounds came out and changed all of that. It is not terribly different from any of the above games or their bretheren (it reminds me particularly of Age of Empires - which it bases its game engine on - and WarCraft/StarCraft). There is an interesting addition in the form of air attack units, but I can't say that this is what brings be back to this game time and again.

I guess the addiction comes from pure fanboy glee. Let me put aside all rational gaming considerations like graphics (very good, but not fantastic), learning curve (very easy with a good tutorial, no manual reading required), and game play (well paced fun, never boring). Let's down to the meat of the act. Pure geekish fun.

Oh, sure, it is okay to control a bunch of annonymous soldiers and fight off invading forces like in StarCraft. But squishing a Jar-Jar Binks look-alike under the heel of your AT-AT Imperial Walker - now THAT is worth the price of admission!

Getting good takes practice like any other game. The difficulty is easily adjustable, and the replayability is infinate. Add in the fact that this bundle comes with the Clone Campaigns - adding two more types of forces to play from Episode 2 - and this will be the best money you have dropped on a video game in a long while.

Simonsays= Killer Ewoks!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 25
Date: March 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Install the game. Go ahead. Now start a campaign. Ok, now pause the game by hitting enter. Good. Now type Simonsays (just like that, no spaces). Hit enter again. You'll hear a sound, a sound reminiscent of Ewok. Now look on the screen. What's that? An Ewok you say! Why don't you try repeating that process about a hundred times. Behold, your very own Ewok army!!! Long live the Ewoks!

Besides the obvious plus of being able to create a nearly indestructible army of vicious furry Endor natives you have the option of playing with 8 different civilizations, all from the Star Wars universe. For those of you who are impatient there are numerous cheats available to ease your mind.

If you like Command and Conquer or Starcraft then you will love this game. Especially if you've ever wanted to control an army of Ewoks.

BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 18
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OKAY. THIS IS DEFINATELY THE BEST GAME IN THIS GALAXY AND THE GALAXIES FAR, FAR AWAY. IT IS JUST LIKE AGE OF EMPIRES, EXCEPT EVERYTHING IS BASED ON STAR WARS EP I, II, IV, V, VI, AND VIII. YOU CAN MAKE SITH AND JEDI WHO CAN CONVERT UNITS. YOU CHOOSE FROM THE GALACTIC EMPIRE, THE REPUBLIC, THE REBEL ALLIANCE, THE CONFEDERACY, THE WOOKIES, THE GUNGANS, THE TRADE FEDERATION, AND THE ROYAL NABOO.
BUY THIS GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the best Star Wars games yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: September 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games ever. Age of Empires players, if you like star wars then you will love this game. The new things are air units( I love the Air Crusier!), anti-air units,and more techs. If you don't have it buy it now or ask it for X-mas, you will love it.

EMPIRES @ WAR...... LITE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga combines the RTS (real-time strategy) Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and its Episode II mission expansion Clone Campaigns in a single package. This sells for less together than they did (or do) apart, so make sure its SAGA.

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga challenges using over 50 battle campaigns from the classic and prequel Star Wars universe EXCLUDING Episode III., this predates that prequel. But it is sort of the poor-man's EMPIRES @ WAR, which does include the complete SAGA, but is also very expensive right now, this is a good game to hold you over until EMPIRES becomes more affordable.

Using the award-winning Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings game engine, Battlegrounds Saga allows players to deploy armies of Storm Troopers, Clones, Naboo, Battle Droids, Rebels, Gungans, and Wookiees. Players manage their units, structures, and resources in single- or multiplayer campaigns on Tatooine, Naboo, Endor, Hoth, and Geonosis. Play can be set in the prequel era of the SW SAGA up the Clone Wars, or original SW Trilogy settings controling Vader and his forces, and a post-FILM setting of the NEW REPUBLIC as seen in the SW NOVELS using LEIA and the other ex-rebels to battle the remnants of the Galactic Empire. Specific film characters (Like Han and Chewy)and book/COMIC characters (like MARA JADE & DARK TROOPERS) make appearances and can be controled. Less specific characters (like JEDI & SITH KNIGHTS) can be created and controlled.

One of the unique features for advanced gamers, that is rarely called attention to, is the ability to construct your own "BATTLEGROUND" for actual use. You populate the field with your own mechanized armies (AT-ATs, Ties and more), characters, as well and master the scenerio settings themselves; including: text prompts that you pen your own text prompts, sculpt the landscape buildings it to suit the story, player-settings and sides offerings.This is a fun feature you won't find in EMIPIRES @ WAR.

Like most engines of this kind, once you get a feel for the hot keys and short-cuts to managing your forces, figuring out what to build & the most economical way to use your buiding resources (because they are the key to winning) you will rapidly become more successful.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is so cool! If you liked age of kings than you'll love the star wars version. You get air units, shielding, and lots more. I recomend this game to any Real time strategy (RTS) game lover and Star Wars lovers! This game is worth the money.

Can't...stop....playing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome game. The graphics could use improvement but the gameplay is fun. I can't stop playing this game its addictive. I played for 5 hours once and I didn't even know. If you like Star Wars as much as I do then BUY THIS GAME!

Even a game from long ago, this game still rules the galaxy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Even though the game is a few years old,it's still one of the best Star Wars games for pc. I loved the Age of Empires series, and I love this game. The best part about Age Empires and Age of Kings were the campaigns, and that is true with this game. The Tech in this game is very good, and if it's a Age of Empires-based game, it's gotta have crazy cheats. We all loved the Monkey people and missle launching cars from Age of Empires and the Ewok monster and Death Star code for the Expansion continue the saga. Overall, I only have one piece of advice. Buy Age of Empires II:The Age of Kings before you buy this game so you can learn the way to play the game and the terminology.

Galactic Battle Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was an avid WarCraftII player since 1999; Couldn't even wait for the sequel WarCraft III to come out. However, when I was introduced to Star Wars' Galactic Battlegrounds, my universe started to change. Gone are feelings to knock some Orcs out of the screen; replaced by the yearning to visit and do battle at each and everyone of the Star Wars locale. To borrow a well-known phrase; "This game really rocks!" So, for those of you who are eager to blast away any and all unwanted Imperial Storm Troppers, Sith Lords, even Droidekas; or from the "other side"; to shoot down the likes of a Rebel Alliance X-wing, some Wookies, Gungans, and Naboo; this is YOUR GAME.

There are six different civilizations on this game, and each one is as entertaining to play as the next. The designers of Lucas Entertainment did a really good job in balancing out each of the civs' unique strengths and weaknesses... But alas, all is not perfect in this Star Wars action-adventure. I did find some hard-to-explain-aspects of the game that could've benefited from better tutorials. Granted, I was a little intimidated by their on-line help and didn't avail of it as I should have done; but I wasn't the only one who was a little lost when trying out the game intially. The Options Menu is very easy to get lost in. Things like "ALL-TECH", color-coding the enemy, "Starting Tech", and the like, took a while to figure out.

All that being said however; and after nearly being addicted to the game (much to the annoyance of the wife and kids); this game really is the one to spend your money & time on. Buy it, play it, and be lost in it. You have the whole George-Lucas-universe at your fingertips.

puny humans you dont deserve to touch it!but buy it anyways!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

when i bought this game i wasnt getting my hopes up because have age of empirs and i didnt think that a strategy game like Age of Epires could never make good in a starwars game but i played it i was suprised i love it it was great.you want me to tell u about it ok i will you can play in interesting campainsin 8 different civilisations including the galactic republic,the trade federation, the conferacy,royal naboo,gungans the empire,the rebel alliance and the wookies ,did i studder wookies walking carpets the big hairy guys,chewbacas people yes wookies oh wookies!SWEETNESS!!

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