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Powered by the Age of Kings engineProduct InformationStar Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga gathers the popular real-time strategy game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and its dynamic Star Wars: Episode II mission expansion Clone Campaigns in a single package. The destiny of a galaxy hangs in the balance. You must lead the great armies of the Star Wars saga in intense real-time strategy clashes across land sea and air. Execute single or multiplayer battles as you deploy your armies and manage your resources. You are in command!Product FeaturesExecute over fifty campaigns from Episodes I II IV V and VI.Powered by Age of Empire's: Age of Kings technology adapted for the Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds game.Combat arenas extend from interstellar asteroids to epic ground battles on Tatooine Naboo Endor Hoth Geonosis and beyond.Deploy vast armies - up to 250 units per side that can include bounty hunters Jedi droids Wookiee Kas tanks Jedi stamina and Kaminoan clone technology.Create custom single or multiplayer campaigns with the robust scenario editor featuring characters from the movies and expanded universe.System RequirementsWindows 98 Me 2000 XP100% DirectX compatible computer requiredPentium II or Athlon class 233 MHz or faster processor required32 MB of RAM required (64 MB recommended)2 MB PCI or AGP Graphics Card required (4MB graphics card recommended)100% DirectX compatible 16-bit Sound Card requiredQuad Speed IDE or SCSI CD-ROM drive required100% Direct Input compatible keyboard or mouse requiredRequires DirectX 8.0a or higher (DirectX 8.0a included on CD)Multiplayer RequirmentsPentium II or Athlon class 300 MHz or faster recommended for MultiplayerLocal Area Network PlaySupports up to 8 players via IPX or TCP/IP Local Area NetworkInternet PlaySupports up to 8 players via 28.8Kbps or faster connection to the InternetModem-to-Modem PlaySupports 2 players via 28.8 Kbps or faster modemDiProduct Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2220 in Video Games
- Brand: Lucas Arts
- Released on: 2002-10-07
- ESRB Rating: Teen
- Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x 7.25" w x 5.25" l, .30 pounds
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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Saga
gathers the popular real-time strategy game Star Wars: Galactic
Battlegrounds and its dynamic Star Wars: Episode II mission
expansion Clone Campaigns in a single package. Star Wars:
Galactic Battlegrounds Saga challenges players with more than 50
battle campaigns representing the classic and prequel Star Wars
universe.
Powered by the award-winning Age of Empires II: The
Age of Kings core game engine, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Saga allows players to deploy vast 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.
Customer Reviews
Caught up in the thick of battle
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.
EMPIRES @ WAR...... LITE
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.
Can't...stop....playing!
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!
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