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Date |
: Dec 3rd, 2001 |
| Genre |
: Strategy |
| Developer |
: LucasArts |
| Author |
: Jin-Ning Tioh |
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Identically to the massively popular Age of Empires, several game modes are available to future generals. Six different campaigns will be made available, including a tutorial campaign. Each campaign has up to seven missions, including a bonus "What If?" mission each. For example, scenarios such as "What if the Gungan Grand Army had truimped in the battle on the grassy plains?" are considered. Mostly however, campaigns tend to revolve around the exploits of several major heroes and villians such as Darth Vader, Princess Leia and Boss Nass, all taking place at different time periods, spanning a total of 5,000 years. In the tutorial campaign, Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn and his newly accepted padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi joins Chewbacca and his father Attichitcuk, nicknamed Itchy, in colonizing the lush planet of Alaris Prime. There, Qui-Gon will train the wookiee colonists in various basic tasks such as foraging, fishing, constructing crucial buildings, exploring and repelling the Trade Federation who has illegally settled there. In the second campaign, which takes place during the events in Episode I, you command vast armies of battle droids as the battle droid commander OOM-9, leading the Trade Federation to victory. In the third campaign, you command the massive Faamba Shield Generators and Gungan troopers as the leader of the Gungans - Boss Nass. In the fourth campaign, you assume control of the forces of the Galactic Empire and follow the Dark Lord of the Sith as he hunts down the rebel scum in the aftermath of the destruction of the Death Star. The fifth campaign has you leading the Rebel Alliance as Princess Leia in a desperate struggle against the Galactic Empire. Finally, in the sixth campaign, you lead Chewbacca and his smuggler buddy Han Solo, together with an army of angry wookiees against the forces of the empire as well as the merciless Trandoshan slavers.
However, multiplayer games are also available. Similarly to Age of Empires II, the multiplayer component supports up to a maximum of eight players over a LAN or internet connection. Players can also receive tributes and trade with each other by constructing spaceports. The game will primarily use Microsoft's Zone as its server-browsing medium. As the game comes with a scenario and campaign editor, capable of randomly generating maps and scenarios, hopefully we'll be able to see more campaigns and map sets springing up online soon in the future.
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