Star Wars: Empire at War is, we think, LucasArts’ apology for LucasFilm… and Force Commander… and Rebellion, while they’re at it. It contains only minimal references to the three new movies, three different real-time strategy systems that cover the strategic game, land battles, and of course space combat. In short, just about everything you’d think you’d want in a Star Wars strategy game seems to be here. Given the nearly total lack of new movie references, it’s like LucasArts is going out of its way to say “see, Star Wars doesn’t have to suck!”

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