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Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (Mac)

Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (Mac)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Fun, challenging and addictive. A must have Mac game.
Review: I will agree with some here. This game is involved and engaging. It does require LOTS of time to complete. You will click your finger off. This is just part of the game. The only game you can compare this to is the game it was built on...Age of Empires II. If you like AOEII, you will like this game as well. If you like Star Wars, you will LOVE this game. That is what makes this game fun, it is NOT like all the other games. I enjoyed Starcraft and Warcraft. But this game is much more than these.

Unlike others below, I have had no problems running the program in OS9 or OSx. Never crashed once. I use a B&W G3 upgraded to G4 with the stock Rage 16mb card.

At first I thought this game was going to involve "micromanagement". With the 4 resources you need, you will never look for something to do. However, I find these things necessary to the game and did not tire in collecting them. I found the standard campaigns to be challenging and fun. Frustrating at times, but rewarding. I think the thing to remember is to keep an open mind and not box yourself into thinking this game has to be like all the others. It is refreshing to have something different. Also, you do not need to just do what the game tells you. You can start a single player custom map and do what you want. The options are many with this game.

Kudos to Aspyr for the conversion of this game and the upcoming Clone Campaigns. Mac users should feel grateful and support companies like this.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Mostly for Star Wars Fans, but Still Very Playable
Review: If you have played Age of Empires II, it won't take very long to get the hang of this game. However, that might make this game boring if you've worn out your interest of that game. Even so, the AE II engine has been completely reworked into the Star Wars Galaxy, with much of the familiar characters, vehicles, and planets of the movies. Playing the scenarios lets you use various main characters such as Darth Vader and Chewbacca. Many sound bytes have been used from the various movies, though a few get overused, especially the "Ahh!!" when some units get killed. The graphics are decent and it ran well on my G4 400 which is getting too slow for most newer games.
Despite the fact that most of the game feels like Star Wars, it would have been interesting if more unique units and features were available since in regular game play, it doesn't matter how many resources you have gathered or how advanced your technologies are, you aren't going to get the Millennium Falcon or a Star Destroyer. At least you can get an AT-AT or X-wing. Overall, I recommend Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, especially for Star Wars fans. I just have to wonder if there is a Spaceballs mod out there somewhere??

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not as good as the game it borrowed its engine from
Review: Now the game itself is very fun and challenging and has a lot to offer but the engine they used was AOE2s. They did a bad job using it. I found that there was very poor path finding and the AI was pretty crappy. Besides those downsides a solid RTS

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: disappointed so far
Review: REVIEW for MAC.
(Unlike StarCraft), this game runs pretty slow on Powerbook titanium 550.You can only have the game resolution up to 1024x768 on the laptop. I feel there is too much background graphic information which make the game pretty slow. There are some lags when things explode, for example. The game play is smoother (speed-wise) on a G4, 800 tower and you can play at a higher resolution on 1280x1024 which makes the graphics look much nicer.
If you are a fan of Age of Empires II, you will probably enjoy this game. If you are playing StarCraft now and looking for another cool strategy game, you will probably be disappointed. I was disappointed for several reasons:
1. game play is slow, you have to collect 4 different types of resources and then build so many buildings
2. i don't like the idea of having to build walls. it takes forever to attack someone behind walls and it takes time to build walls.
3. fighters move too slowly for me. battles are slow and the gamer usually have to micromanage fighers.

I wish it was build on StarCraft game engine where soldiers move fast and attacks fast and battles can last from a few seconds to minutes.
I see a lot of potential in Star Wars, but I have to play a lot more to enjoy it. But then, I dont know how it can beat StarCraft.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: ye-ya
Review: The game plays alot like Age of Empires 2, but with alot more stuff. I'm not a Starwars nerd and i thought the game was cool.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST GAME IN THE UNIVERSE
Review: this game is awesome, the best! I play it all the time! Anyone who thinks this game isn't good has a problem

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Don't hold your breath.
Review: This was possibly created by the most inept minds in the industry. A realtime strategy game based on Star Wars? This game has many flaws, which I won't go into detail with, but some other ones that really stick out.

1. The graphics. Come on. This is the 21st century. We should expect good graphics for any game on a Mac. These graphics are wicked blocky, and most of the explosions look pasted on at best.

2. What kind of Jedi hacks buildings with his lightsaber? I didn't see Obi-Wan hacking the Mos-Eisley cantina. Or maybe Darth Vader duking it out with a a in the Death Star.

3. The havesting of minerals, or money, whatever it was, seemed really unrefined. you couldn't have machines come through and annihilate an entire forest for wood, could you? I mean, it is far in the future! In Warcraft III you had more hi-tech harvesting tools, i.e. the goblins with buzzsaw wooden mechs.

Aside from this, I urge you to go with a Warcraft title, or Starcraft before you try your hand at the destruction of games as we know it. Although, if you like this kind of Star Wars [stuff], go with this. It's not too bad.


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