Star Wars: Empire at War

THE GOOD:
The ability to take space units into space combate and conquer worlds either by using the SD, or a ton of land troops, and using heroes such as Darth Vader, and Luke skywalker

THE BAD:
The graphics culd be improved, including special effects like the damage it is scripted and really quite ugly at times to me. The land battles are so dull and unbalanced that I just dont play that part of the game, and their is tiny variety in space units that could be in the game. An average game. Nothing special.

SUMMARY:
Yes you can take space units but for the original game youc an only take I believe 20 for space cap which does not actualy include 20 ships which is a tiny number it wont be eye candy you wont be able to watch a huge battle unfold without a bunch of lagging.

the graphics just dont impress me. Some ships like the mon cal just seem dull in nature, the star destroyers however do have more complexity in them, but all the...

THE GOOD:
Overall presentation is excellent, everything sounds right and the music is classic stuff. The 3 levels of play add complexity.

THE BAD:
Land battles are below average, space battles are too 2-d.

SUMMARY:
Like Rome total war? So does Petroglyph. It's very similar in what it's trying to do only not as well done. You move from panet to planet on an overall galaxy map. At this level you build barracks, research new tech rally your forces etc. This is fun and watching your empire or rebellion grow is satisfying.

Then you move your fleet and army to a planet.You fight first a space battle then a land battle and only then do you win the planet and its resources. Problem is without the Star Wars franchise this would never have been released. Sure it's OK. But do you want to spend $40-50 on OK?

The space battles are the best part and they look and sound great, later in the game you have the death star blowing planets up...