This is an excerpt from the June 2006 PC Gamer (UK) magazine George Lucas gets some things right: he may have desecrated the SW universe with his hideous attempts at the Prequels, but the recent RTS StarWars: Empire At War stepped into the original films' timeline and was all teh better for it....
Something from webmail: My new updated game menu for my upcomming mod Pirates At WarI'm not 100% sure on whether this is a new MOD in development, or, if it is a simple viewing screen. Nevertheless, it looks good :)
JustPressPlay has recently released a preview of EAW based on the demo that they recently played, the one that we've got to play as well! Here's a snippet: An RTS game without resource management, how is that possible you say? Well, Empire at War has way points throughout a map. As long as you cont...
WorthPlaying has released a new preview which includes tons of new screenshots! Here's a snippet from this preview: Fight your way to the surface, and your ground troops might face AT-AT walkers or fight against the wookie population of Kashyyk. Darth Vader might show up to wield his force powers...
GameCloud has released a new preview of EAW which is a full page worth of text for you to read. Here's a snippet from this preview: Most of the time you have to battle in space first before sending in the ground troops to capture each planet although the Rebellion side can head down to land first i...
EuroGamer appears to have posted up a new preview of EAW today. The Preview is long and will give you a good idea of how the full game will feel once it's released to us! Here's a snippet: Set a few years before the events of Episode IV, and thus bridging the gap between the two trilogies to som...
GameSpot has released a new preview on EAW which takes a look at the Single-Player Campaign and Skirmish subjects. Here's a snippet from this new preview: The second single-player mode is galactic conquest, which is more of a free-style mode compared to the campaign. Basically, you'll be given the...
IGN have posted an article previewing Star Wars:Empire At War, have a read of this snippet from the article: Collecting planets grants large economic bonuses. Conquering a planet will grant a one time sum along with increasing the amount of cash given at the start of every new day. Some of the pl...
Gamers Info have posted a preview of the upcoming Star Wars:Empire Of War,Read a snippet of the preview here: Many RTSs of late have taken the route of avoiding the micromanagement of mining for resources, keeping your citizens happy, etc. Empire at War follows this strategy. For those of us who...
Our brothers at 1UP has released a little review of the demo that they've managed to play! Here's a snippet: At over 700MB it will take you a couple minutes to grab, but it's worth waiting for. We've had a couple days to play around with it already and have a good feeling you're going to like what...
The Venator has been spotted on a recent EAW build! (see below for image) The poor quality is because the photo was taken of a laptop. This means that you will be able to capture ships! Related Links: SW-EAW.de - Actual site (in German) - Translated version
Gamespot has released a new exclusive hands on preview of EAW. The title of this preview appears to be Galactic Map, Space Battles, Darth Vader Crushes All! I'd say that the preview is to do with these topics in hand, I haven't had a chance to read it yet because I wanted to get it out to you as fas...
PC IGN has released a new preview based on what they saw at the Games Convention 2005. The preview is quite short but it does explain well what IGN saw at the event. Here's a snippet from it: It seemed, though, that most people were interested in the space battles. 3D on a 2D plane like Conquest: F...
GameSpot has released a new Designer Diary with Joe Bostic. This time it talks about how the team made space battles in Empire at War. It's a long article and does offer some good information on the space battles in the game. Here's a snip: There are many challenges to creating a game of this type,...
Lucas arts has blessed us with some screeny goodness, with about eight new screens. Is it just me, or are the planets more graphically awesome with every update? Check 'em out.
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