Star Wars: Empire at War

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Star Wars: Empire at War is the latest Star Wars Real Time Strategy game to be released by LucasArts in 2005. Set two years before the original film, Star Wars: A New Hope, the game is set to include content from the new trilogy as well as the original trilogy, and will feature both vehicles and planets memorable from both.

The game is being developed by Petroglyph, a development team comprised of many developers from the Westwood studio, which was responsible for the ground breaking, Command & Conquer series, as well as the legendary Dune RTS game, reknowned for inventing the genre. Obviously, with the impresive background of developers, hopes are high for the game. Early screenshots show the game is progressing very well, and the game is set for a release in Autumn (Fall) of 2005.

[edit] New look on RTS games

According to previews and interviews with the development team, the game sets out to remove the more boring elements of RTS games, and increase the activity on the more player-central activities. Additionally, the game not only has combat on the surface of the planets, it also has space combat, which both rely on each other. For example, much like Return of the Jedi, a player may be required to deactivate a sheild device before an attack can commence.