Once built you can send your fleets and armies out to conquer the galaxy. The game isn’t a real 4X game, but more of a 4X lite, with a heavy focus on combat. Develop your planets, build up fleets and armies, research new tech and send characters on missions. Here you can do all the classics of a 4X game. Most of the game take places on the galaxy map, which depending on the mode can have over 100 individual planets.
You can play either in a story focused mode, or a sand box Galactic Conquest mode. In it, you take control of either the Empire or the Rebellion and lead them through the events of the Galactic Civil War. The game was something of a spiritual successor to the also amazing Star Wars: Rebellion (the video game, not the board game).
What Is Empire At War?Įmpire At War is an epic large scale real-time strategy game released in 2006. Today, lets take a look at why this game is still an amazing play. That game is the 2006 title, Star Wars: Empire At War. Others are Kinect Star Wars.Īmid a massive number of games, of varying quality one game really stands out. Some like TIE Fighter, or Knight of the Old Republic are hit games with a cult following.
Star Wars has a long history of video games, going back to the very earliest days of the franchise. Let’s talk about why Star Wars: Empire At War was so great.
