Star Wars:Empires at War
 

I justed downloaded the just released demo for this game. First, the easiest way to explain it would be Total War meets Star Wars. I have to say I am shocked at the presentation of game. I t really gives you that Star wars feel and it appears to be a great RTS/Turn based game as well.The guys that made the command & conquer games had there hand in this one and they have some nice innovative features. If you like Star Wars,Rome Total War or Master of Orion/Civ games you have got to check out the demo.

HOT. i will go DL now

I posted a thread about this yesterday, but haven't had the time to check the demo out yet. I'm hopeful to have time try the demo out tomorrow. If it is good as I think it will be, I'll be pre-ordering this weekend.

where the hell is it?? I can't find it anywhere

Check out the thread I posted yesterday:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...ighlight=force

I've wanted this game all of my life and didn't know it.

right. but i'm not seeing the DL there anywhere.

It's on Gamespot's main page. Unless it is only available to gamespot complete members, but I doubt that.

If you go to IGN, there's a download there.

You can also click the gamespot demo page link in the other thread. It works.

Looks interesting, downloading now.

I would recommend gamers hell for nonregistration downloads it did take about two hours and my computer is quite fast
http://www.gamershell.com/news/27450.html

also check blues news they have a snippet about the demo being released with a bunch of download links.
http://www.bluesnews.com/

How does it compare to Galactic Battlegrounds?

I don't have the patience to start by building a little fort with Chewbacca's father and all that BS. I want to go big time!

I've never played Battelgrounds, so I can't compare. However, I was able to play the demo for about an hour today and I'm going to pre-order it. I agree with the comparisions to Rome Total War. The strategic options are interesting and varied. You can retreat from hopeless battles if the enemy doesn't have a way to counter that, and marshall your forces for another battle where the odds are in your favor. From my limited time with the demo, I think they did a nice job of representing the Star Wars world while making an interesting strategy game (although I usually prefer turn based rather than RTS.)

I really like the idea of the cinematic camera, however, usually the battle is over fairly quickly by the time I switch to that camera. However, that could be a function of using smaller forces in the early battles of the demo. Bombing runs were very neat looking in the cinematic view, and they really decimated ground forces/structures. Of course, I'm fairly sure there are counters to them.

One concern is that the "accelerate time" was greyed out in the demo. I hope this will be in the final game as waiting for the bombing runs to be re-enabled took a bit of time.

However, this reminds me of why I don't usually try demos until the retail version is out. I want the game to come out already so I can play more than just an hour or two of the game. I will be pre-ordering this weekend.


Edit: Obviously, I'm not sure about the AI from the demo either, but it is supposed to have 2 player MP games, and I'm sure my best friend will be buying this as well.

Galactic Battlegrounds is AOE2 with Star Wars guys.

I've never played Total War, so I have no clue what its like. I havent played the demo either.

Ahh, I remember that now. Even though I'm a sucker for Star Wars games, that one just didn't appeal to me for some reason. I tried it at a friend's house and thought it was just ok. The demo of this was MUCH more interesting to me.

Hmm, didn't look at accelerate time for the ground battles but I know it works for the space battles. I used it during the demo campaign when fighting the Empire in that asteroid belt.

I've been downloading this game for 4 hours now :(

It doesn't work for the ground battles, or at least not the tutorial where you bombard the enemy from space multiple times.

Yes, this one is no comparison to the star wars battlegrounds game .That one was pretty much AOE 2 with Star Wars skins.This one looks, from the limited demo, to be quite good.

this demo is making me SOOO excited for the full game.

Ditto. I played for another hour tonight and I can't wait for this one on Feb 15th.

Holy cow, just got done playing the demo twice in a row. This is everything I wanted Battlegrounds to be, and everything that turned based game from the late ninties should have been. I can't wait for mid Feb.