I haven’t played Age of Empires in a long time, and the sexy HD version I bought during sale time has just been shamefully festering among the ranks of my ever expanding steam collection. That’s not the case in a standard game though, as your AI opponents are resource munching machines hell-bent on conquest. The campaigns do a good job of varying the gameplay but they always seem to have you set up to win against the AI. However, if you don’t like messing with the lore, there’s canonically accurate campaign modes to enjoy featuring real battles such as Hoth and Endor.
You can pit Wookiees against the Confederacy, The Empire against the Rebels or even have the Republic square up to the Gungans… because you can. There’s a total of 8 armies to choose from so you’ll have no problem recreating your favourite conflicts from the Star Wars universe. It’s all eerily familiar, but the full host of Star Wars units available through all the civilizations makes for a real geeky treat if you’re a fan of the movies. Gather enough of these resources and you’ll be able to progress to another stage of technological advancement, unlocking higher spec buildings and units. You start off with a Base and a few workers tasked with gathering resources needed to build military and agricultural structures like barracks and farms. The majority of Gameplay is practically a copy and paste job.
Similarities between age of empires and galactic battlegrounds don’t simply end with the visuals though. For the sake of purity however, I’ve been playing the game as it was back in ’01 with a max resolution of 1280 x 1024. Galactic Battlegrounds is no different in that regard, and has amassed a significant cult following that have produced widescreen patches, custom campaigns and fully fledged expansions as late as December 2016. That’s not exactly a bad thing considering the recent HD remaster of AOA II proved that there’s still a large and loyal fan-base out there for traditional RTS games, no matter how old. The best way to describe the game would be as an elaborate and well executed Star Wars mod for Age of Empires II. I’d been aware of Galactic Battlegrounds for a long time, but never had a chance to play it until now.
Today I’ll be taking a look back at 2001’s Galactic Battlegrounds a traditional RTS based on the same engine as Age of Empires – one of my all time favourite strategy games. The only two currently on Steam however are Galactic Battlegrounds and Empire at War. For a hugely popular fictional universe centred around a constant intergalactic conflict between good and evil, you’d think that Star Wars would have more RTS games than it has.
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