Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
by LucasArts Entertainment
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Video Game Reviews of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
Customer Review: Simonsays= Killer Ewoks!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Customer Review: This game rocks!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Customer Review: Caught up in the thick of battle
Summary: 5 Stars
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.