Star Wars Galactic Battleground (PS)

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (SWGB) is a strategy based game moulded around the popular Ages of Empires game engine. The game functions in pretty much the same way as Ages of Empires 2 and the only difference is that this game is set in the fictitious Star Wars universe. When you load the game you are presented with the main menu which gives you access to the games various modes of play and other features associated with the game. The first feature of SWGB is Training mode. This mode is based around a learning campaign featuring Chewbacca?s father, Attichitcuk. The training option takes you through all the various controls that are used within the game and ...  Read the complete review

The first Star Wars strategy game was Force Commander, which suffered from a embarrassingly awful camera and because of that it wasn?t very successful. But Lucarts knew that the thought of controlling your own empire was just too good to give up so they gave it another go and realised Galactic Battlegrounds! Galactic Battlegrounds is an amazing game! The graphics are good, it?s easy to control all the units and most of all: it's very entertaining! The game has civilisations from the two main time periods that the films are set in. First there's the early time period set around Episode 1. These campaigns have the Royal Naboo, Trade Federation and the ...  Read the complete review

As a big age of empires fan, a game player who has spent hundreds of hours playing this style of game I found Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds to be a refreshing addition the real time stratergy games on offer today. The first thing that attracted me to SWGB was the direct relationship to the movie. The character animation is brilliant on, as is the wealth of funny comments that emerge from the vast variety of chacters. If you compare this directly to Age of empires you will see many similarities, as the engine is the same used in AOE. With this in mind, if you are a previous AOE player you will find the game of SWGB very easy to pick up. To be honest the in-depth ...  Read the complete review