I STILL Can't Believe This is REAL - Star Wars: Empire at War 2022 Review - Star Wars Day Special

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY AND MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!

Now that that's out of the way, I thought I'd do something special this day and month! For the month of May, we're doing a series on Star Wars games, beginning with none other than Star Wars: Empire at War, also known as the best Star Wars strategy game of all time, and one that definitely deserves a sequel! Empire at War was fantastic when it released in 2006, and is still a unique marvel today. But what exactly makes it so great? That's what we're here to find out!

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[asgerkrogh]

Not to mention that Petroglyph pulled a fast one and released a patch after 15 years for the game that made it even more accessible for modders :D

[mowtow]

This game still holds to this day. Whats even better is the modding community. The 3 major mods "Republic at war", "the Clone Wars", "Thrawn's revange" gave it new life.

[Asraeks]

Great game, from a more civilized age.

[jaywerner]

Remember, THIS GAME CAME OUT IN 2006! 2000-2010 truly was the golden age of gaming. And its Arguably BETTER THEN TOTAL WAR these days. And they KEPT SUPPORTING IT even till this day, they even reenabled Multiplayer. (Steam version only) The most unique thing about Empire At War is that it combines GROUND AND SPACE battles, in REAL TIME with TACTICAL BATTLES. (seriously this is just Total War in Real Time)

The base game is grate, still has a bug or 2 but with the support the game continues to get (i hope) im sure they will eventually be fixed. the MODS are where its at though, Fall of the Republic if your looking for Clone Wars, Awakening of the Rebellion if your looking for something similar yet different.

Then their is EAW played it yet but, it changes ALOT of things about the game that i feel makes it different from EAW is supposed to be. BUT THOSE GRAPHICS, the game never looked SO GOOD.

[BluMacaw]

Funny fact, this was the first game I played as a kid and it’s still high on my list due to have good and replayable it is.

[NightshadeDE]

As I’m sure other mention the modding community has kept this game alive. Modern huge overalls that might as well be sequels like Awakening of the Rebellion, Thrawns Revenge, Fall of the Republic (best prequel era mod IMO), And the “Remake” mod. Sincerely despite this never getting an official sequel, try out some of those mods and you will not be disappointed!

[samrickard]

I always thought it would be cool to start a game as a leader in the Clone Wars, and then after Order 66 to be forced to chose a side in the Galactic Civil war... taking some of those resources from the previous conflict with you.

[cornblaster]

I love the mods in this game, they make it a completely new experience. I hope if they ever make a sequel to this game they'll keep mod support

[kingarthur]

This was from made when great games were made. Before EA ruined it all. Before micro transactions. Starwars empire at war was amazing....lve never seen a strategy game as good ..can't believe it hasn't been remade....everyone would buy it.

[julonkrutor]

One thing you forgot to say: It got an update around a year ago from the devs for the modders .... and the mods are just outright better then most "modern" RTS´s

[KaiserMattTygore]

its just true, that Video games in the 00's gave us more out of the box.

so many games in the last decade and some change have been ridden with mtx and content reserved for a future payment.

[Da__goat]

If petroglyph could release a new updated version of the game people would go absolutely nuts. The game engine really slows things down and it’s a significant bottleneck. The modding community for this game has kept it alive for so long. The 4.0 release of the galactic civil war mod, Thrawns revenge, the Republic at war mods, show how much potential the game has

[cmdrpanorpa]

An amazing game to check out would be X-wing alliance from the 90s.
There is a huge community modding project for that game that has redone basically the entire game at this point, integrated head tracking, improved the engine, and more. On top of that there is a team that brought the old Tie Fighter flight game into this new updated X-wing alliance engine, and are working on a re-imagining of the tie fighter campaign with much bigger battles taking advantage of modern technology.

[taahasiddiqui]

This game, og battlefront and age of empires was my childhood for PC games. On PlayStation it was gran Turismo games.

[beaupeterson]

Some of you may not know this, but this game was a sort of successor to Star Wars Rebellion 1998. I don’t know why we haven’t got a new land and space Star Wars strategy game with modern graphics. It could be so great.

[jameslewis]

It's not the stock campaigns that make this game great, it's the mods. Mods like Thrawns Revenge have been continuously developing and tweaking this game ever since it was releassed all the way up to this day. There are story campaigns that when played in sequence can cove all the way from the Clone Wars right the way up to shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. There are also newer multi-player modes but the single player campaigns are what show the real strengths of this game. Also some of the mod campaigns actually manage to make the ground combat fun which is something that the original never really managed to do.

[l.s.]

The Ewok-Suicide-Bomber unit from the Syndicate still lives rent free in my mind today.

[jonathanbeutel]

I'm not sure why my comment was removed. That is super annoying.

I just wanted to say that this game was a big slice of my childhood and Star Wars is my Fandom of choice (although I do enjoy many!).

It was nice to come home after my trip to see this video! I used to love scrolling through the star wars website for hours as a kid!

I would love to watch you play one of the new mods! I only dipped my toes recently but it is so good!

By the way, you asked if the drink I mentioned was Japanese or not on a previous video. I was enjoying a grape juice with bits of aloe while watching this video. You can get it only in the vending machines here!

[alejandrop.s.]

Which one is the best galactic strategy game? Sins of a Solar Empire, Endless Space, Stellaris, this one...?

[JIMvc]

Another weakness of the Imperial ships is the MC30c frigate. The Rebel A.I loves to spam that ship lol.

Amazing video! :D