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WilHarris · 21st Feb 2006, 13:46

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/..._at_war/1.html

BioSniper · 21st Feb 2006, 14:49

I played the demo of this and really didnt think it was anything special. Also even though in the demo I cranked all details to max I remember it looking far FAR worse that those screenies.
I guess they may have left some stuff out or something.

Godboy_g · 21st Feb 2006, 15:09

Nice review, I can't help but notice that the unit detail seems a bit low. I suppose it might need to be considering that there can be several hundred on screen at once. Oh well....

I might just need to check out the demo.

P.S. Sorry for nitpicking, but it's spelled Foliage, not Foilage

*hides under desk*

adidas · 21st Feb 2006, 15:37

The graphics in this game are lame compared to what's done nowadays in RTS. I can't believe it's still receiving decent reviews, especially considering that the gameplay itself isn't anything special.

Wolfman_UK · 21st Feb 2006, 15:58

Having played the demo im not going to get the full game. Its just like XXXX: Total War series but set in space. Without the tactics when you get into a battle. Not exactly innovative in my opinion.

Roll on Supreme Commander and Mark Of Chaos!

-wolfman

Hamish · 21st Feb 2006, 16:04

space battles are fun, ground battles are less fun but still ok
personally i just like sending waves and waves of x-wings and y-wings at star destroyers, its fun

CowBlazed · 21st Feb 2006, 18:08

The demo didn't have any of those extra graphics features (bloom, heat distortion etc.) all together the graphics are nice for an RTS, though they could be better. BFME2 will be around the same graphics by the looks of the movies and ss.

Great review though, one thing I'm curious about is antistoperic filtering. You might be able to force it through the drivers settings, works with some games but crashes others.

automagsrock · 21st Feb 2006, 20:25

Nice write-up, but I remember playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 with bloom before Valve ever mentioned Lost Coast or HDR

Shadowed_fury · 21st Feb 2006, 21:04

This looks a damn good game, i'll be buying.

Kipman725 · 21st Feb 2006, 21:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by automagsrock

Nice write-up, but I remember playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 with bloom before Valve ever mentioned Lost Coast or HDR

Deus EX 2 has bloom and came out before HL2 aswell.

Marquee · 21st Feb 2006, 23:28

I have been waiting for a great space MP game.

Firehed · 22nd Feb 2006, 00:46

Ah, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight... what fun games. This looks interesting enough, but I really don't like RTS gameplay so I'll be passing it by methinks. Actually I haven't been doing a whole lot of any gaming recently, but you can only have so many CSS matches before it starts to get a bit repetative.

Shadowed_fury · 22nd Feb 2006, 00:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firehed

Ah, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight... what fun games. This looks interesting enough, but I really don't like RTS gameplay so I'll be passing it by methinks. Actually I haven't been doing a whole lot of any gaming recently, but you can only have so many CSS matches before it starts to get a bit repetative.

The KOTOR and JK series are suprisingly good fun to replay.
Shall I be good or nasty

Iago · 22nd Feb 2006, 12:37

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Star Wars strategy games, however, have less of an endearing legacy - Galactic Battlegrounds and Force Commander both utterly failing to set the world alight.

You are forgetting Star Wars Rebellion...I may be the only one, but I fount it incredibly addictive. Yep, it had a clunky interface and the AI...let's say it had much of A and little I... but it was very deep, had a huge number of units, and against compenten human opponents, it was loads of fun. And I found the mix of slow-paced kind of turns (wich weren't turns in fact) and real time space simulator worked pretty well.

Of course, it can't touch the two best SW games ever (Tie Fighter and X-Wing), but I believe Rebellion was an underrated game with great potential for Star Wars geeks and non-RTS strategy lovers...

Emon · 23rd Feb 2006, 02:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadowed_fury

The KOTOR and JK series are suprisingly good fun to replay.

Heh, if you liked JK much, you'd be suprised to know that the JK gaming and editing communities are still rather alive. Check out Massassi and the JK Editing Hub. Massassi used to be the center of all stuff JK years ago, but is more of a community now. The hub is where it's at for editing...and mostly in the IRC channel.

It's actually quite impressive what we can still do with the game. The Rebirth mod is much the same as the System Shock 2 rebirth mod. It already replaces many of the original character and weapon models with newer versions. There's also Sith 2, a complete engine rewrite, which is nearly finished, save the lack of a physics engine (which has stagnated development). And then there are some patches to remove internal engine limits and extend scripting functionality...fun stuff.

But yeah, I might get Empire at War. Looks decent enough. Honestly, I think KotOR and KotOR II are the only really, REALLY good games since JK/MotS in 1998. Flight sims aside, of course. I mean, there have been good ones. JO/JA was pretty good, but nothing astounding like KotOR or JK.

Nikumba · 24th Feb 2006, 20:18

I have not yet decided if i want to get this, but to me the best star wars strategy game is Star Wars Supremecy much like the new EaW game but more technical and micro-mngment ish

Nikumba

Rizz · 14th Mar 2006, 05:40

This played OK on my Dinosaur system
Athlon 64 3700+ (754)
Biostar NF325A7
1 gig Corsair XMS Ram
Geforce FX 6200 AGP
Win XP
WB 80 GB SE 8 mb IDE
Maxtor 200 GB Sata

It ran great at first, no glitches slow downs etc, but I used default settings that it chose, my only issues were later in the game I got really bad slowdowns and 1 fps in space battles (only for like 15 seconds at a time). Even saving, then restarting didn't help this.
I LOVED the space battles, and now I think I'll pull out my homeworld and homeworld 2 discs and play. I didn't really care for the ground battles though. Rebellion has those frak/missile tanks that pretty much 2 could decimate an entire army. Was great as Rebellion.. sucked when played as Empire.

zoom314 · 7th Apr 2006, 00:53

I bought EAW off ebay and It installed well and such, But when I battle against the computer wins the war, I can win battles at a cost, But I can't hold what I've won and I'm playin on the side of the Empire too, Hey I like the Big ships and what not I just run into planetary caps on production of units.

Otherwise It works pretty good on My 2nd PC:

Asus K8N-DL v1.03 motherboard(w/1007 Bios),
2-SuperTalent 1Gb Reg/ECC PC3200 128x72 64x8 Dimms(Samsung/D32RB1GW),
1-AMD Dual Core Opteron 270 2.0GHz @ 2.4GHz E6 cpu(OSA270FAA6CB),
Silverstone SST-ST56F 560w Power Supply,
Leadtek PX7800GTX TDH 16x PCI Express Video Card w/256MB ram,
X Black Mid-Tower ATX case(Modded),
WD 80Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache hdd,
IBM 48x black cd-rom drive,
1-Delta 120x38mm 150cfm exhaust fan,
2-Thermaltake 80mm 75.7cfm fans(For Chipset),
1-80mm 32.5cfm fan(door),
Vantec Nexus silver 5.25" fan controller(Blue LEDs),
1-zalman 9500LED cpu heatsink,
usb ActionStar/LinXcel hub/vga/kvm switch(Shared),
usb Canon CanoScan D1250U2F flatbed scanner(Shared),
usb Teac 1.44Mb fdd(Shared),
usb MS 5 Button Optical mouse(Shared),
usb BTC AT keyboard w/ps/2 adapter & ps/2 to usb adapter(Shared),
Microsoft Windows XP Pro x64,
nTune 3.00.15.05(Beta).

21st Feb 2006, 13:46	#1
WilHarris Just another nobody Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Oxford Posts: 2,671	Star Wars: Empire at War http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/..._at_war/1.html

21st Feb 2006, 15:09	#3
Godboy_g Supermodder Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 396	Nice review, I can't help but notice that the unit detail seems a bit low. I suppose it might need to be considering that there can be several hundred on screen at once. Oh well.... I might just need to check out the demo. P.S. Sorry for nitpicking, but it's spelled Foliage, not Foilage hides under desk __________________ I AM Backwards compatible!

21st Feb 2006, 15:58	#5
Wolfman_UK What's a Dremel? Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: UK Posts: 17	Having played the demo im not going to get the full game. Its just like XXXX: Total War series but set in space. Without the tactics when you get into a battle. Not exactly innovative in my opinion. Roll on Supreme Commander and Mark Of Chaos! -wolfman __________________ Physics tells us that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are, victims of mathematics!

21st Feb 2006, 20:25	#8
automagsrock Hypermodder Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Great Falls, Montana, US Posts: 936	Nice write-up, but I remember playing Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 with bloom before Valve ever mentioned Lost Coast or HDR __________________ I am bored of my old sig, so here's my WoW character armory link instead PS3 network name: Myrmccheese

21st Feb 2006, 21:04	#9
Shadowed_fury Natural Born Chaos Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Telford Posts: 7,133	This looks a damn good game, i'll be buying. __________________ Steam: kev_fury New Frag Video - Gigabyte EP43-DS3L - E8200 - XFX 4870 1GB - 4GB Kingston - - Steel Series 7.1s - Logitech G11 - Razer Diamondback 3G - 2209WA -

21st Feb 2006, 14:49	#2
BioSniper I Mod, Therefore I Own Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Somewhere in the south Posts: 3,454	I played the demo of this and really didnt think it was anything special. Also even though in the demo I cranked all details to max I remember it looking far FAR worse that those screenies. I guess they may have left some stuff out or something.

21st Feb 2006, 15:37	#4
adidas Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Richmond, Surrey Posts: 72	The graphics in this game are lame compared to what's done nowadays in RTS. I can't believe it's still receiving decent reviews, especially considering that the gameplay itself isn't anything special.

21st Feb 2006, 16:04	#6
Hamish I Mod, Therefore I Own Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: London Posts: 3,587	space battles are fun, ground battles are less fun but still ok personally i just like sending waves and waves of x-wings and y-wings at star destroyers, its fun

21st Feb 2006, 18:08	#7
CowBlazed Multimodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 110	The demo didn't have any of those extra graphics features (bloom, heat distortion etc.) all together the graphics are nice for an RTS, though they could be better. BFME2 will be around the same graphics by the looks of the movies and ss. Great review though, one thing I'm curious about is antistoperic filtering. You might be able to force it through the drivers settings, works with some games but crashes others.

21st Feb 2006, 23:28	#11
Marquee Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 404	I have been waiting for a great space MP game. __________________ Project Log: Knight Rider CWC

22nd Feb 2006, 00:46	#12
Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match. Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An hour north of Boston Posts: 12,576	Ah, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight... what fun games. This looks interesting enough, but I really don't like RTS gameplay so I'll be passing it by methinks. Actually I haven't been doing a whole lot of any gaming recently, but you can only have so many CSS matches before it starts to get a bit repetative. __________________ hire me @ eric-stern.com - web developer and php ninja pics @ my smugmug :: Twitter @firehed :: blog @ firehed.net 40D\|580EXII\|285HV\|AB800\|70-200f/4LIS\|17-50f/2.8\|150f/2.8Macro\|50f/1.8 MacPro @ 8x2.8GHz, 10GB FBDDR2, 3TB HD :: MBP @ 2x2.2GHz, 4GB DDR2, 320GB HD

24th Feb 2006, 20:18	#16
Nikumba Supermodder Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The Dark Place Posts: 371	I have not yet decided if i want to get this, but to me the best star wars strategy game is Star Wars Supremecy much like the new EaW game but more technical and micro-mngment ish Nikumba

14th Mar 2006, 05:40	#17
Rizz What's a Dremel? Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kansas Posts: 1	This played OK on my Dinosaur system Athlon 64 3700+ (754) Biostar NF325A7 1 gig Corsair XMS Ram Geforce FX 6200 AGP Win XP WB 80 GB SE 8 mb IDE Maxtor 200 GB Sata It ran great at first, no glitches slow downs etc, but I used default settings that it chose, my only issues were later in the game I got really bad slowdowns and 1 fps in space battles (only for like 15 seconds at a time). Even saving, then restarting didn't help this. I LOVED the space battles, and now I think I'll pull out my homeworld and homeworld 2 discs and play. I didn't really care for the ground battles though. Rebellion has those frak/missile tanks that pretty much 2 could decimate an entire army. Was great as Rebellion.. sucked when played as Empire.

7th Apr 2006, 00:53	#18
zoom314 Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Yermo, CA, USA Posts: 174	I bought EAW off ebay and It installed well and such, But when I battle against the computer wins the war, I can win battles at a cost, But I can't hold what I've won and I'm playin on the side of the Empire too, Hey I like the Big ships and what not I just run into planetary caps on production of units. Otherwise It works pretty good on My 2nd PC: Asus K8N-DL v1.03 motherboard(w/1007 Bios), 2-SuperTalent 1Gb Reg/ECC PC3200 128x72 64x8 Dimms(Samsung/D32RB1GW), 1-AMD Dual Core Opteron 270 2.0GHz @ 2.4GHz E6 cpu(OSA270FAA6CB), Silverstone SST-ST56F 560w Power Supply, Leadtek PX7800GTX TDH 16x PCI Express Video Card w/256MB ram, X Black Mid-Tower ATX case(Modded), WD 80Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache hdd, IBM 48x black cd-rom drive, 1-Delta 120x38mm 150cfm exhaust fan, 2-Thermaltake 80mm 75.7cfm fans(For Chipset), 1-80mm 32.5cfm fan(door), Vantec Nexus silver 5.25" fan controller(Blue LEDs), 1-zalman 9500LED cpu heatsink, usb ActionStar/LinXcel hub/vga/kvm switch(Shared), usb Canon CanoScan D1250U2F flatbed scanner(Shared), usb Teac 1.44Mb fdd(Shared), usb MS 5 Button Optical mouse(Shared), usb BTC AT keyboard w/ps/2 adapter & ps/2 to usb adapter(Shared), Microsoft Windows XP Pro x64, nTune 3.00.15.05(Beta).