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Empire at War screenshots available on web 12 Feb, 2005, 14:31 / 5 comments

By Jake


LucasArts updated the Star Wars Empire at War website to show some screenshots which honestly look quite nice. The game is being developed by Petroglyph, a game studio composed largely of ex-Westwood employees (you know, the creators of the classic Command and Conquer RTS series), which is pretty cool in itself. I'm hesitant to blindly post Star Wars news these days, but this stuff is at least worth taking a look at.
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  • cappuchok on 14 Feb, 2005, 11:17…
    Amazing. Looking at the screenshots, I have yet to determine if I'm looking at a traditional pseudo-3D sprite-based game or if it's really 3D (if it is, that's some nice anti-aliasing). If it is indeed all 3D, I shudder to imagine the polygon counts involved. At a guess, even my all-singing, all-dancing gaming rig would be strained to put out as nice a visual as the screenshots seem to suggest.
    Still, I'm trusting the guys at Petroglyph not to mess this up - it seems to be the first decent Star Wars game in years (mainly, I'm sure, due to the fact that LucasArts isn't making it in-house).
  • jp-30 on 14 Feb, 2005, 18:15…
    >> seems to be the first decent Star Wars game in years

    I've heard good things about that 'Knights of the Old Republic' game. ;-)
  • Metallus on 14 Feb, 2005, 19:39…
    The last couple Jedi Knight games haven't hurt too much either.
  • Metallus on 13 Feb, 2005, 01:35…
    This game seems to have fantastic visuals. I'm used to being disappointed by the screenshots LucasArts puts up, but I really dig the overall style and look that the shots suggest.
  • itchythesamurai on 12 Feb, 2005, 20:40…
    Woot, more importantly Tim plugs Mojo!