Star Wars: Empire at War Demo

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  Impressions time! Played through the tutorial and a little bit of the demo campaign. Please note: I e : sharpie
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    Cheers for that review. : humbleone
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      Excellent assessment of the review! : thaperfectdrug
      • Quite a good review of that review of the review : fluffy64
  • Agreed nice review. : Scotty22
  • thank you, thank you. And hey, popped my "interesting" cherry! Wee. : sharpie
  • Theres a hell of alot more to this game than i had thought originally. Thats a good thing : kuma79
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    http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sup25gt.jpg http://img43.imageshack.us/my.php?image=aofuxed1yx... : arsonide
    • Looks better that way. : Psychic Potato
  • Agreed with the majority of your review though I'd give it a higher score (even for a demo), the tutorial... : wytefang
  • Thanks for the review! : SixDemonBag
  • I think they need to work on their right click, left click scheme. I think the "special attack" commands... : bling1bling
  • For people who want a generalized idea of the gameplay, think of Rome: Total War. Civilization-style emp... : riptyde
  • too fast lol? I think im gonna go bust out starcraft or dawn of war. : TRIPLESIXMAFIA

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  The game wasnt what i was expecting, nor is it something i like overall. Is it just me or can you onl... : Kn4w
  • That is correct, you start with one rally point and one set of tanks to defend it. The rest you have to ... : riptyde
• Totally disagreed with most of your post, I thought the game was quite impressive, but then again I didn'... : wytefang

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• I'm with you, PV. I don't see any reason why this can't game be a hell of a lot of fun. : Killrig
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  Force Command : Ziz
  • Different dev studio. No comparison. : Killrig
• With games like this you really need to play them for a while and understand the mechanics of the game an... : physio
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  Well I played through the full tutorial, which I must say is very well done, not half-assed at all. I ... : fuji-juice
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    Cool it is a nice full map, well small, but it's a demo so no big deal. Hard though, empire kicked my ... : fuji-juice
    • Sweet. : physio
    • I got thrashed the first couple of times I fought on Tattooine before I realized that if you go north and : riptyde
• You'll be pretty happy with it, I think, based on my time with the demo and I'm fairly tough on new games... : wytefang

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• yeah, ditto...I am only interested in the MP balancing : byorn
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  Well if you're looking for a new RTS have you tried Warhammer 40k Dawn of War? It's probably the best RT... : wytefang
  • Pre-order Battle for Middle Earth 2 if you wanna play a good Multiplayer RTS....and you like games like g... : supyoscn
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    ^^warhammer: dawn of war wins : needlez
    • DoW >>>>> Middle Earth : wild falcon
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    i have tried warhammer, i actually own it. But i never liked it, its so complex lol. I like military, fut... : Kn4w
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      Okay, that makes sense...Warhammer is, in certain ways, a bit too complex in interactions between units f... : wytefang
      • i dont think dow is that complex once you understand it. I love that its impossible for people to just bu... : spdon
• Same here. Wore the crap out of Generals a couple years back. That first LOTR rts that was using the G... : MR 9000

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  Do you honestly think that there's anyone who doesn't know that the Death Star gets blown up in Ep 4? LO... : wytefang
  • dude.... : pigvomit
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    I imagine the spoilers were more for not spoiling where the GAME ends. A common courtesy which some of us... : tomservo
    • Roger that but it really isn't the kind of game where you can ruin the ending of the game...it's not an a... : wytefang
  • I didn't know when, off the top of my head. I thought it blew up once, but the spoiler even says twice. ... : revolver6
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  So it's all set in the original series Star Wars universe? PRAISE JEBUS! I can't stand the "look at thi... : Dechter
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    In the demo, it looks like a few of the imperial ships are from the prequels. : zen2k
    • I think those are just ships from the expanded universe. Games like Tie Fighter and X-Wing had some pret... : Mecha Tofu Pirate

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• im sorry, 750. :D : virus

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• Doesn't seem to be working so smoothly :( : Wheatloaf
• getting 300 kb/sec off my dsl, thanks so much! : shackwack
• Working nicely here, thankyou muchly : Angry_Badger
• Working great here also, bout 550Kb/sec =p Thanks for the mirror! : Nihilist
• Nice Speed. :) Thanks a lot dude. : mallfouf
• hmm, it got to 127mb and then stopped. Strange : Angry_Badger
• no workie.... : gopjihad
• I got nothin'! : jake
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  working now.... .99mb sec....thanks... almost a full mb/sec, the fastest I have ever had this cable mo... : gopjihad
  • Limited connections? I still can't get anything, looks like a timeout. : jake
• thank you kindly... worked great for me.. 4Mb/s : nummerdrei
• Wow... thanks! : Tawler
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  Doesn't work in here :( : Mercador
  • Fixed it again, never had this much load on my server before... : askedrelic
• 2.7mb/s ... not too bad i guess : revolver6
• ~540 KB/sec. Thanks! : ucanbfuzzy

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• It does look cool, and gives some good views during the lull when units are moved from one locale to anot... : wild falcon

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  If you are the Attacker you can only build turrets/repair stations etc. on build pads that are near contr... : Zawath
  • Where is the skirmish mode that you speak of? I can't find it in the demo. : gnoleb

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• Agreed. It felt overly simplistic and didn't do enough to convince me of a sale. The title screen and... : wild falcon

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  I think no RTS has very detailed units. : matthaeus
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    ya but come on... poop logs and x-wings in space... : jrock
    • watch the movie, they look like poop logs to begin with. : pigvomit
  • Then you clearly haven't played Warhammer 40k I guess...that game has some really excellent levels of uni... : wytefang
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  More detailed per unit models results in fewer units on-screen. It's a trade off. : sinistarfith
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    difference b/w lack of detail and highly detailed. homeworld series had plenty of ships onscreen and yet ... : jrock
    • I think he was refereing to omgneedsmorepolygons : ghost hacker
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    BS, there's less than 20 units in that shot. : slackor
    • i counted 39? : mallrice
• LOL MORE POLYGONS. THIS GAME SUX. ITS POLYGONS ARE LOWER THAN HALO2.LOL. Learn something about technol... : mittense

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• Thanks :) : humbleone

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  got the same thing when i was playing through the tutorial. Also found a bug where i couldn't move a sm... : burning eye
  • Yeah. I think if you accidently click on the planet and not the raid slot, you initiate a regular battle,... : Sturm08
• Yep, I encountered the same thing. I dragged over to the raid slot and nothing happened, so I dragged ove... : Waverider
• Didn't have any problem with it : Ziz
• I had the UI randomly appearing and disappearing : Maarten Goldstein

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  Very limited. To one player. : Commee
  • lolz : bling1bling
  • back to Russia with you :) : ghost hacker

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  Alright here are my impressions. Now I am not a huge RTS player, but I have played my C&C and AOE, but t... : manlyman
  • Oh yeah I played it at 1024x768, 2x AA with all settings on High/Max. System: Athlon 64 3200 1GB R... : manlyman
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    Wait, is the galactic map turn-based or real time? : PenicillinX57
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      I would say turn based, but even that might be wrong. It is really only a staging area for your next assa... : fuji-juice
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        Yeah its not really turned based. I haven't seen a time that I've had to wait to move my fleet or anythi... : manlyman
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          I think when you do stuff it moves the time along, notice the days ticking upwards. So it's sort of turn ... : yourname00
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            But you're not rushed at making decisions on the fly, right? You can do it at your own pace ? : PenicillinX57
            • Not in any way. : manlyman
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    I don't know why you would do space battles on a 2d plane. I also don't know how the interface in the Ho... : Wheatloaf
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      I didn't play Homebattle because I was afraif of to complicated space battles. : matthaeus
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        Homeworld... not Homebattle. Sorry. : matthaeus
        • I agree this game is far from dumbed down...I have been playing RTS since late 80's Herzog Zwei anyone?? ... : supyoscn
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        Wow. You really missed out. Both of them were great games, and the expansion for the original was g... : Wheatloaf
        • Yep, I concur with the above poster, both great games, not terribly hard to play at all. It's a shame th... : wytefang
    • Basically the space battles play just like land battles. : gnoleb
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      The space battles in ep 4-6 were more or less on 2-d planes (at least for cap ships) : pigvomit
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        no, they build models! I've seen some of them, they look impressive. : matthaeus
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          Can I get a rimshot? : pigvomit
          • Not every scene, but many of them. Btw, they "invented" the Photoshop core technology for their postprodu... : matthaeus

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  yeah its gonna happen sometimes.. 2 big demos and a new version of 3dmark coming out all at the same time... : Steve Gibson
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    Don't worry I'm applying for Mercury right now. : manlyman
    • ^ This person is cool! But the Gibson isn't? : ann thracks
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      Lightning Bolt FTW!! : punchdog
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        I have a lightning bolt next to my name? I can't see it. : manlyman
        • you have to enable it under Mercury Settings : MikkleThePickle
        • Click options in the upper right corner... select "mercury options" and scroll down a bit. There you can ... : SilverSnake
  • Scotty! We need more power! : TheArtMan
• Except fileplanet is up to 72mins already (I was just checking). : yourname00
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  Except fileplanet gives you 13.7K/sec wheras fileshack will at least give you something reasonable. : Beady
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    FilePlanet: Reminding you of the Good Ol' Days [14.4kb] : jrock
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      I was so excited when I moved to a 14.4. : Chris Remo
      • When I got a 14.4 for Christmas, I stayed up for 36 hours playing DOOM2 with various people from a BBS. :... : tomservo

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• It's very different, but I like it a lot. It really is a blend between two different game types. On... : SolrFlare

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• Seems to be a lot of depth on the planet management thing. Plus with the persistent units/results...I can... : Sturm08

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  and why you say this? : bling1bling
  • i can't really put my finger on it, just seems pretty slow, nothing very interesting going on. I've got ... : burning eye
• also, there seems to be some kind of weird bug. If you buy a smuggler, and drag it to the steal credits ... : burning eye

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• is there a skirmish option in the demo??? : godm0de

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  It's set just before the first star wars film and it goes through the trilogy I think. : physio
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    I mean after episode 3, just before episode 4 a new hope : physio
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      Cool that sounds interesting, I thought that was one of the better things about how Episode III ended the... : yourname00
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        Yeah there are some made up units in this. Like tanks with tracks that look like tie fighters and stuff. ... : physio
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          Hopefully it will have some cool research stuff beyond just unlocking new units after a battle? (I rea... : yourname00
          • I don't know much about it either. I don't think there's any resource gathering. Dunno how that'll work. : physio

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• Update: the install was very quick. : manlyman
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  how bout the game??? fun??? : godm0de
  • did you notice the comment gap? the first downloaders are currently playing, which sounds like a good th... : pigvomit

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  I'd rather not have a review of a one level single player demo an hour after it was released. : physio
  • okay, first impressions perhaps...in great detail. : bling1bling

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• It'll just re-direct to fileshack and make you get in line so what's the point? : SatansFist

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• I would like to know this as well. : c_man_tmt

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• Needs more ewoks! :) : Ziz

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• I'm downloading it from www.3dgamers.com at the moment. : woluwe
• http://www.fileshack.com/file_download.x?fid=8255 : askedrelic