Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns (PC)

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Ok its still buggy. Its still a complete rip off of Age of Empires and lests face it the Republic is a total rip off of the empire. But hey its a whole load of fun. I loved the first Galactic Battlegrounds and i loved the expansion. Mostly because of the diversity it brought to the random ... Read review





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vehicle and ship units and takes you through the
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units, orders and effects all selectable in the
older campaigns. All the new and old armies are
selectable in the Multiplayer and Skirmish modes,
ensuring youll be needing to re-evaluate those
tactics for warfare against the new combatants.
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squadrons. They're all inStar Wars Galactic
Battlegroundsand they're all, happily, superb in
this real-time strategy affair based on the highly
successfulAge of Empiresengine.There's nothing
essentially new here for the hardened RTS gamer.
Resources need to be mined, units built and
technologies researched in the race to crush the
opposition. What gives this the edge is theStar
Warssetting and the quality of the graphics, which
are visually appealing and stay accurate to the
wealth ofStar Warsinformation that already
exists.There are six basic "races": human Rebels,
the Empire, Gungans, Wookiees, the Trade
Federation and the Naboo, each with their own
specific weapons and tools--there's nothing quite
like sending a squadron of AT-ATs into battle and
watching them smash the Alliance to bits.In
addition to the standard hardware afforded each
side, Force alliances come into play and it's
possible to side with either the Jedi or the Sith
depending on your preference. It's also possible
to conjure up Jedi Knights and Sith Dark
Lords.Clone Campaignsis the first add-on disk.
This content mainly comes in the form of two new
campaigns: the Old Republic and the Confederacy of
Independent Systems. You can choose to either take
control of the shiny new Jedi controlled Army of
the Republic, forefathers of those pesky Imperial
Stormtroopers, or the combined armies of the
Confederacy complete with the insect-like
Genosians and Techno Droids.The action inClone
Campaignscommences on Geonosis, with the aftermath
of the big battle scene at the end of the movie.
Each campaign features seven missions to complete
and over 200 new troop, vehicle and ship units and
takes you through the beginning of the infamous
clone wars. New features are also added to the
original game with new units, orders and effects
all selectable in the older campaigns. All the new
and old armies are selectable in the multi-player
and Skirmish modes, ensuring you'll need to
re-evaluate those tactics for warfare against the
new combatants. Overall this is a great add-on
which adds to and enhances an already fantastic
game. --Laurent S Hall
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A review by CharlotteK4 on Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns (PC)
November 6th, 2007


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Advantages: More diverse play
Disadvantages: Not many changes

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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Ok its still buggy. Its still a complete rip off of Age of Empires and lests face it the Republic is a total rip off of the empire. But hey its a whole load of fun.

I loved the first Galactic Battlegrounds and i loved the expansion. Mostly because of the diversity it brought to the random multiplayer games with more tech and more factions.

I have to say playing a multiplayer game with another person and holocrons in play is where this expansion really comes into its own. The new units and advances allow you to build vast sprawling fortresses and diverse armies that can render the Age of Empires 'Throw basic soldiers at it till it dies' technique obsolite and really make the players think about how to defeat each other.

Particularly the ability to demolish areas of forest with bombarding artilery units made the whole dynamics of play and particularly defence stand out so much.

The new campaigns are good, not great and your left feeling it was all rather pointless at the end but its still fun to play. Particularly the confederacy campaign. But then i always loved being the bad girl.

Id definatley recomend the expansion to fans of the first game but dont expect sweeping changes to, well, anything lol. XCX 
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Not a bad expansion
Review of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns (PC) by TallanKhan

Advantages: New units tech and storylines
Disadvantages: Tired and unsatisfying

The Clone Campaigns is a good expansion to the original Galactic Battlegroads game. It adds more two new campaigns, that you play as the republic and the CIS (Confederacy of Independant Starsystems). The two campaigns, starting with the CIS campaign follow on from each other and tell the story of a Jedi Knight, Echuu Shen-Jon whos aprentice is killed by Sev\'rance Tann, the aprentice of Count Dooku at the battle of Genosis. In the Confederacy campaign ...
...develop a weapon, the decimator, and capture the energy mining facility on Sarapin to hold Coruscant hostage. In the Republic campaign you play as Echuu and his new aprentice, the sister of his murdered first aprentice and you are guided by Mace Windu. You goal is basically to destroy the decimators and recapture Sarapin before moving on to the final showdown on Krant where Tann and Echuu have their final duel. While the story here is more in depth ... Read review

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