Posted on: January 8, 2018
Hanglyman
Verified ownerGames: 444 Reviews: 141
Starwarscraft Is Pretty Fun
It's Star Wars, it's RTS, and it's fairly decent! Cons: The ground battles are a bit clumsy and hard to control- walkers get stuck, your guys attack things you don't want them to, and trying to manage everyone's special abilities at once is a nightmare. The story modes for the original Rebel and Empire missions are a bit lackluster (especially for the Rebels), and end sooner than you'd expect. There's a game-breaking bug in Forces of Corruption that makes it impossible to start a mission. I had to start over completely and didn't get it the second time, luckily. The original game is incredibly laggy. I managed to fix it with compatibility settings, but then the sound stuttered. The expansion has no such problems. Pros: The story mode for the expansion makes up for the originals, and is a lot more interesting. It's great fun to blow up planets with the Death Star and cool to see the story diverge from the movies when you play as the Empire. You can auto-complete battles, so the ground combat is optional (if costly), and the space combat is actually fun. The game throws pretty much everything from the Star Wars Expanded Universe in- from the prequels, to Timothy Zahn's Admiral Thrawn, to the Eclipse from the Dark Empire comics, to Dark Force's Dark Troopers and even the TIE Phantoms from Rebel Assault 2, it's pretty much all here, and even a casual fan will find tons of references to games, books and other media outside the main movies. It makes the game world feel much more complex and alive. Overall, it would be maybe a three star game with the bugs and other shortcomings taken into account, but the expansion makes up for a lot of that. Definitely worth a look!
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