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Star Wars: Empire at War Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-01-27 00:04:00.0


Finally tonight, PC.IGN has slapped up a quick preview on Petroglyph's upcoming strategy title, Star Wars: Empire at War. Here's a bit on the space combat:

It's clear that the space battles have received the most attention so far. The developers, all veterans of land-based RTS games, have obviously tried to nail down the space segments before tackling the ground action. While there's still a lot of work to be done in this area, we were very impressed with the results so far. In particular, the damage modeling for the large ships is awesome. Blue and orange explosions erupt from the hull of damaged Star Destroyers. If you damage them enough, you'll even see parts of the geometry fly off. I remember one space battle with a Star Destroyer that looked like someone had taken a bite out of it. That's a great touch.

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