![]() Before you think I'm giving the game a bad slam here, let me remind you that Warcraft 3 was made to be different than all the rest RTS games out there. Defensive structures are limited to towers with projectile ability only. Food production only calls for a farm unit to built, and upgrades are rare. Troop production is limited to only 90 odd units. You have land troops and air but no naval support. Warcraft 3 is not much like it¿s predecessor. The gameplay lends more to massive invasion than rouge killing bands. Jedi and Sith are handled by building temples for the respective religion, and adventuring to find holocrons (ancient Jedi and Sith information containers) to up your energy reserves faster. Farms can produce faster, X-Wing plants can up production and study new types of craft, Hutt traders allow you to trade resources and temples provide new Force powers. You have many buildings to construct and even walls, gates, and tolls to stop the enemy early. ![]() Food production requires actual land to be seeded, units to tend the gardens, and a silo to dump food in. There is no limit to troop or unit production, (unless you set them) and different levels of technology to evolve to. You have land troops, air support, full navy and special units in each area. Both games represent the pinnacle of each art, 2D and 3D, yet in my opinion, WC3¿s ability to zoom in and out, as well as the satisfaction of building in real 3D space give it the edge here. Even on the lowest settings the game moves very convincingly and the characters are diverse in design. Warcraft 3 uses 3D models for units and terrain, and does it very well. The animation is very smooth for a 2D title, leaving everything from light footed Jedi to lumbering AT AT units moving authentically. The terrain, units and buildings are made of very detailed 2D sprites, and painted with some very nice and diverse color pallets. Graphics:SWGB uses the gorgeous Age of Empires engine. This game deserves to be weighed on it¿s own merits, yet reader feedback demands I compare the title to WC3. Is it a better game? That¿s a question I did not want to answer at first. No ¿hero¿ units, no limits in troop production, and full air, land and sea units. While a lot of you were yawing through my game description, most of you will see that the above situation is a common occurance in Star Wars Galatic Battlegrounds.In many ways, SWGB is more of a sequel to Warcraft 2 than Warcraft 3 is. A mind trapped in a body that he no longer owned, the dark master was now a weapon for the enemy. ![]() A Jedi master slowly walked through the verge and smiled. Shamed and offended he suddenly knew who was pulling his strings. Panic stricken he cut down three more of his own men before they abandoned formation into the thick woods. Sweat continued to stain his blade as he flipped his body foreword and cut down his best sniper in lead position. His body refused command and his head swirled. He had battled all night and stood on the verge of invading the base¿ yet. Now, only 2 weeks later he stands in the same spot. The smell of illegal spices assured him there was trading with the Hutt Syndicate, and where the Hutts did business, so did assassins, mercs and some of the highest corrupted officials in the galaxy. They had Jedi training temples, an air force and land troops. Suddenly the Empire¿s interest in Naboo was validated and he knew why Lord Vader was playing the pawns as he were.He could see they were at technology level 3. Fate saw that he not venture in vain as one night¿s hunt uncovered a nest of rebel scum populating a nearby mountain range. He spent his days helping build the Sith temples and his nights hunting surrounding wildlife searching for something more fierce than he. Seemed innocent enough when the Empire first landed there. Damn volatile planet this Naboo had become. Crafted during his final rights, he¿d personally seen it through three Jedi Knights during the first wars of the season. The unnamed Sith dropped his eyes to his ruby red light saber, scanning it the same way the suns were scalding him under their harsh gaze.
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