This game is basically a reskin of Age of Empires II and very blatantly so, but that means it has many of the strengths of that game. Like Age of Empires II, you play a number of factions that share units and are basically palette swaps of each other, with different technologies and one to a few unique units per faction to differentiate the factions. Nevertheless, the factions here play more uniquely than Age of Empires II, because there are only 8 of them. And the factional choice is very interesting, you get to use the Wookiees and the Gungans for example, not necessarily the most obvious choices but great for something different in the Star Wars galaxy. HOWEVER, what truly makes this game shine and in my view a worthy purchase, is the fantastic mods available. I would like to call out Expanding Fronts in particular, an ambitious fan-made mod that basically acts as a huge DLC, adding new factions, a ton of maps, and lots and lots of assets. It also modernises the game for modern PCs, fixes many of the bugs and lets you play at 60FPS. And the development team continues to work on new features, assets and balance fixes regularly. Since installing Expanding Fronts, there simply isn't any going back to the base game. The game with Expanding Fronts installed is an absolute steal at its asking price, IMO.
