We've been promised that bounty hunters, storm troopers, X-Wings, AT-ATs, snowspeeders, AT-STs, Wookie Kas tanks and droids will all be making an appearance, and best of all, you'll be able to send Jedi Knights into the heat of battle. There'll be plenty of races and units that will be instantly familiar to any Star Wars fan. LucasArts has likened the gameplay to AOE2, so hopefully all the depth and charm from that game will also be present in Galactic Battlegrounds. Let's just hope that we're not subjected to another C&C type game though, in which you simply mass your forces before charging the enemy. This large diversity of units will allow you to take part in epic battles, based on any number of battlegrounds, be they an asteroid belt or an underwater city, with armies reaching sizes of up to 200 units.
In all there'll be 300 different land, air and sea units and structures for you to research and construct. You'll also be able to take charge of Wookies, the Rebel Alliance, Royal Naboo, the Trade Federation and yes, those bloody annoying Gungans too. Using an enhanced version of the Age Of Empires engine, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds will span the entire Star Wars saga, which means you'll be guaranteed an opportunity to mash up some annoying aliens at some stage, especially if you decide to play as the Galactic Empire. Wouldn't it be great (I thought) to lead their race to an ignominious end, a massacre of such epic proportions that we'd never be bothered by their annoying high-pitched voices and incomprehensible phrases that sound like someone catching their fingers in a slamming door? Of course it would, and with LucasArts announcing its latest Star Wari-based RTS, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, you'll have the opportunity to do just that. The clincher was the Gungan army, that stupid race of bungling alien halfwits who take on an army of laser-wielding robots with catapults and slings - good plan boys. By the time the epic final sequence came to an end, I wasn't quite sure what was worse - the film Dr the violent attack of the squits that had kept me off work for three days and stripped me of a stone in weight.
A few days ago I sat through The Phantom Menace -again.
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