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by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 13, 2005 4:57am PST

Related Topics – Star Wars: Empire at War, screenshots, LucasArts

LucasArts updated the Star Wars Empire at War website, adding a ton of new screenshots showing planetary and space-based combat. The real-time strategy game is scheduled for a Fall 2005 release.

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hm it could turn out to be fun...graphics are ok but not really good (worse than LOTR:BFME) but i'll surely play the demo at least

Feb 14, 2005 12:15pm PST

hm it could turn out to be fun...graphics are ok but not really good (worse than LOTR:BFME) but i'll sure... : neo69

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2003:
http://www.relic.com/images/homeworld2/screens/HW2_Screenshot_02.jpg

2005:
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/empire_at_war/Star+Wars:+Empire+At+War/2/021205/33.jpg

I think that says it all right there.

Feb 13, 2005 9:19am PST

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Anyone else immediately think Rebellion (I think thats the name...been ages since I played it as my disc is dead)?

Feb 13, 2005 11:19pm PST

Anyone else immediately think Rebellion (I think thats the name...been ages since I played it as my disc ... : Judicus

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I think it looks really good. I've wanted a good 3d starwars rts for ages. Force Commander was way ahead of its time, didn't enjoy it much.

Galactic Battlegrounds: I'm sure it was great and all, but i'd already been playing Age of Empires 2 for ages before it came out, and would rather just play that than learn basically the same game over again with a load of changes and new graphics.

I've been waiting for a starwars game like this, using the warcraft 3 or age of mythology engine. This looks fun, and kudos to them for adding the space battles, never saw that coming!

Feb 13, 2005 4:39pm PST

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I think it looks really good. I've wanted a good 3d starwars rts for ages. Force Commander was way ahead ... : physio
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- It has great potential but I just have a feeling it's gonna turn out to be pretty poo-licious. But th... : Reeves

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anyone else think those TIE tanks look ridiculous?

when i see something as ridiculous as that, the most amazing part isn't that someone conceived of the idea, but that someone else undoubtedly signed off on it and agreed that it looked good.

Feb 13, 2005 4:01pm PST

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anyone else think those TIE tanks look ridiculous? when i see something as ridiculous as that, the mos... : systatic
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- The first shot I saw from the side I thought was dumb, but seeing them from the front/topdown I thought t... : physio
- Looks like buthole. : Reeves

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STAR WARS UNIVERSE IS A DEAD HORSE AT THIS POINT. Jeezus Lucasarts, let it rest already. Develop some new properties. You've bastardized Star Wars enough...

Feb 13, 2005 4:01pm PST

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STAR WARS UNIVERSE IS A DEAD HORSE AT THIS POINT. Jeezus Lucasarts, let it rest already. Develop some new... : u sir name
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- I still enjoy it as do millions of others, so just don't buy it. : Scotty22
- I'd say it's a cash cow. Maybe a dead cash cow-horse. : rorshack

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Dec 31, 1969 4:00pm PST

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  I suspect that's intentional -- they're going for an orthagonal RTS feel in space : mrtony
  - Well, *there's* perspective, but it's really weird, as if all ships were miniature ships. Pretty strange ... : rorshack

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I havent read anything on this game but.....I will say this....

Im sick of RTS games without unit formations. I HATE seeing a bunch of units all mixed in together, its ugly. I LOVE homeworld and I hope to hell they took something from that as far as formations go, especially in space.....now on land.....oh god i HATE how C&C games are but LOVE how the total war games are done.
you all know where im going with this so im done.

blah, we shall see

Feb 13, 2005 5:46am PST

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I havent read anything on this game but.....I will say this.... Im sick of RTS games without unit fo... : comport3
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    Combined, the founders have almost 50 years experience in shipping award-winning, chart-topping entertain : comport3
- RoN had awesome unit formations : personaljesus

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Hey now this looks really nice.

Feb 13, 2005 1:03pm PST

Hey now this looks really nice. : jrock

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By the way, what did everyone hate about Force Commander? I actually found it enjoyable, althoguh my video card (I think I had a Voodoo 3 at the time) made it tough to play without moving the camera into an isolated angle.

I just didn't like how it was trying to push me onto the rebel side as the imperial missions went by. I wanted to fight rebel scum and only rebel scum!

Feb 13, 2005 10:32am PST

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  I Thought they raped the soundtrack for that game but beyond that I didn't think it was that bad. : -efx-
  - I kind of liked a couple of the songs, although they might have stayed a little closer to the originals. : Omaha

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I dont see how the graphics are terrible. Are we looking at the same shots? Esp the ground shots look very cool imo.

Feb 13, 2005 11:24am PST

I dont see how the graphics are terrible. Are we looking at the same shots? Esp the ground shots look ver... : buzzfunk

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This looks cool.

Note to devs. Make space black not blue, you rubes.

Feb 13, 2005 11:12am PST

This looks cool. Note to devs. Make space black not blue, you rubes. : midgetherder

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The ground shots really look like a successor to Force Commander, especially the scene with the landing craft pulling away from the AT-AT/TIE crawler and the assault shuttle right, probably dropping off fresh meat for the grinder.

Feb 13, 2005 10:30am PST

The ground shots really look like a successor to Force Commander, especially the scene with the landing c... : Omaha

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Is this an RTS that doesn't feature a HUD? That would be something eh?

-Reid

Feb 13, 2005 9:41am PST

Is this an RTS that doesn't feature a HUD? That would be something eh? -Reid : brushbaron

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Where are the X-Wing 3 screenshots?!?!

Feb 13, 2005 8:04am PST

Where are the X-Wing 3 screenshots?!?! : mrtony

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Hmm, the graphics look terrible. The space ones are particularly bad. There's no sense of "movement" in any of them and the explosions look like puffs of washed out or muddy dirt. Doesn't even look like space, quite frankly, but rather some one dimensional drawings of ships pasted on to some sort of backboard.

If anyone has ever seen Homeworld 2, you can really only laugh at what Lucasarts has done here. Why it's never occurred to them to license that engine is beyond me.

Force Commander'd. Same crappy graphics, too.

Feb 13, 2005 6:03am PST

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  - that's space? i thought it was underwater : dantastic
- the ships are way too big, the scale is totally (and purposefully) off, i dislike it, but hey someone mus... : grimiv

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I was looking forward to Force Commander for along time before it came out... I remember checking the website every couple of days to see if there was any new info... I bought that game the day it was released and was so horribly disappointed that I will never have faith that they wont screw another one up.

I used to be a huge RTS fan and am a longtime Star Wars fan. If they can deliver a similar feel to C&C Generals, Im sold... I just hope they dont completely screw up the interface...

yes I played through Galactic Battlegrounds/Clone Campaigns, it was decent and still is the best SW RTS in existance. But it just felt like a total conv mod of AoE.

Feb 13, 2005 7:52am PST

I was looking forward to Force Commander for along time before it came out... I remember checking the we... : Jayx77

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ummm, maybe I'm a little behind but where do you guys see bad graphics here? looks pretty darn good to me.

Feb 13, 2005 7:19am PST

ummm, maybe I'm a little behind but where do you guys see bad graphics here? looks pretty darn good to ... : humpx

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The space stuff reminds me of vector graphics. Primitive, but still sort of charming.

Feb 13, 2005 6:39am PST

The space stuff reminds me of vector graphics. Primitive, but still sort of charming. : ornee

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YAWN

Feb 13, 2005 6:29am PST

YAWN : personaljesus

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If this ends up Rise Of Nations in the Star Wars setting.....i'm sold

Feb 13, 2005 5:29am PST

If this ends up Rise Of Nations in the Star Wars setting.....i'm sold : Mrc32

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those actually look pretty good. the space battles look odd, but the land battles look amazing

Feb 13, 2005 5:13am PST

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those actually look pretty good. the space battles look odd, but the land battles look amazing : jedi_27
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- looks like fun. i think some of them are concept arts. : lonestar3

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looks good. I'll keep an eye on this one.

Feb 13, 2005 5:12am PST

looks good. I'll keep an eye on this one. : burning eye

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Hmm, space part of it looks like ORB, which was shit.

Homeworld is what they should have been aiming for.

Feb 13, 2005 5:12am PST

Hmm, space part of it looks like ORB, which was shit. Homeworld is what they should have been aiming f... : Beady

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sexy. please dont be like force commander

Feb 13, 2005 5:12am PST

sexy. please dont be like force commander : maulla

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get read of the " in the link, pls.

Feb 13, 2005 5:04am PST

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