Petroglyph About To Release Their First Game

[Ioncannon]

Petroglyph, the reincarnation of the best company in the world, Westwood, has just got their first game to go gold: Starwars Empire at War. The screenshots look awsome, and music is composed by (best composer EVER) Frank Klepacki. Also there is a demo you can find on there site, just click game info, and scroll to the part with the demo.

Petroglyph: http://www.petroglyphgames.com/
The game Site http://www.lucasarts.com/games/swempireatwar/indexFlash.html
Where I got the info: http://frankklepacki.com/

[chickenman]

Wow that looks coool :P

[Playbahnosh]

hmm...looks good, but I'm not a big fan of Star Wars... I prefer Star Trek... but maybe I give it a try sometime...

[SirPeter]

Looks good. Probably needs a massive pc though :(

[Don Andy]

I'm looking forward this game for about the whole last year now. I'm glad it'll be released around 15th February.

Didn't know it was made by "Weestwood" though.

[gufu1992]

WESTWOOD! WESTWOOD! WESTWOOD!
I meant..
PETROGLYPH! PETROGLYPH! PETROGLYPH!
*plays Nod Crush from TS*
Nod Crush (http://rapidshare.de/files/12643444/nod_crush.wav.html)

[gregor]

seems like C&C only this time with star wars theme. lame...

[gufu1992]

C&C forever!

exept generals - westwood was terrorized by EA to make this game!

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by gregor@Feb 5 2006, 10:45 PM
seems like C&C only this time with star wars theme. lame...
You should play the demo, it's nothing great really, but I always wanted to play a decent Star Wars strategy game. It has some nice features though.

And hell, I'm gonna enjoy blowing up planets as soon as I can control the Death Star ^_^

[gufu1992]

Originally posted by Don Andy+Feb 5 2006, 10:01 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Don Andy @ Feb 5 2006, 10:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-gregor@Feb 5 2006, 10:45 PM
seems like C&C only this time with star wars theme. lame...
You should play the demo, it's nothing great really, but I always wanted to play a decent Star Wars strategy game. It has some nice features though.

And hell, I'm gonna enjoy blowing up planets as soon as I can control the Death Star ^_^ [/b][/quote]
I'm with ya!
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[Lucullus]

I guess it was to be expected really, but I'm surprised that we didn't see one earlier... like 15 years ago ;) Or right after C&C came out. But better late than never... I wonder if Darth Vader will be powerful enough as he is in the movies... wouldn't that be dangerous? :)

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by Lucullus@Feb 5 2006, 11:23 PM
I guess it was to be expected really, but I'm surprised that we didn't see one earlier... like 15 years ago ;) Or right after C&C came out. But better late than never... I wonder if Darth Vader will be powerful enough as he is in the movies... wouldn't that be dangerous? :)
There actually was one. Don't know anymore what is was called anyway :/
Had pretty much the same gameplay as StarCraft, and you could play through the entire Episode 1 if I remember it right.

And it had only land/air battle, no real space battle like in Empires at war.

That of course, if I remember everything right.

[Partizanka]

Empire at War is actually very little like Command and Conquer, and more like The Total War series, or Rebellion, if anyone here played that. There is a story based compaign, but what I'm looking forward to is the Galactic Conquest mode.

The battles, in the primary mode, do not involve base building or resource gathering. Instead you fight tactical battles with just the units you brought. There is a mod that unlocks the Galactic Conquest mode in the demo, and its really quite good. I'm very much looking forward to the finished version.

[SupSuper]

:Brain:

PETROGLYPH FOREVER!!!

[SirPeter]

Downloading demo.
I read that there was no resource management that could be big problem for me. But dunno lets see.

[gufu1992]

Originally posted by SirPeter@Feb 6 2006, 04:41 PM
Downloading demo.
I read that there was no resource management that could be big problem for me. But dunno lets see.
The game is conquier and forget...
quiet simple really...
No more harvesters? :cry:

[Partizanka]

Well I've got it, and its quite good. The Galactic Conquest mode plays the way Rebellion should have back in the day. The space combat is about perfect, the ground combat still needs work.

If you like slower paced strategy games, or Star Wars, I reccomend it highly.

EDIT

Oh, and if anyone wants to get a galactic conquest multiplayer game going, let me know, because I'm up for one.

[bruno]

it can maybe be a great game. For me i like.

[SirPeter]

Originally posted by gufu1992+Feb 6 2006, 09:53 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gufu1992 @ Feb 6 2006, 09:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-SirPeter@Feb 6 2006, 04:41 PM
Downloading demo.
I read that there was no resource management that could be big problem for me. But dunno lets see.
The game is conquier and forget...
quiet simple really...
No more harvesters? :cry: [/b][/quote]
Indeed.

Its very adicting though. I've been downloading the mods for the demo to get the extra ships. However it looks like that the retail game wont have any new ships in it. I find it very limited if thats true.

It reminded me a little of Masters of Orion. Its that kind of an addiction.