Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1309 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2006-10-27
• Platform: Windows XP

Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The Empire at War universe expands with a whole new faction of criminals and scoundrels, with dozens of new units and an engaging new single player campaign.

The lowdown:
Star Wars hasn’t had a lot of luck when it comes to strategy games but Empire at War is certainly the most convincing yet, with a clever mix of grand strategy and both space and land based real-time combat. The original game featured the two obvious original trilogy factions, but this includes a third in the form of a criminal empire lead by Tyber Zahn. As such, you no longer invade planets but corrupt them, enabling you to siphon off money and sabotage ground installations. Apart from this, the core gameplay hasn’t really changed but the new single player campaign is excellent, with a good variety of missions and cameos obscure and obvious from the classic trilogy.

Most exciting moment:
The best bit about the new single player campaign is the imaginative range of missions you must complete as the Tyber Zahn, in order to successfully corrupt planets. These include kidnapping, piracy, assassination and various other forms of skulduggery that are much more interesting than just destroying all the enemy units on a map.

Since you ask:
Zahn’s criminal consortium has all its own unique ships, but the most anticipated new units are those MIA from the first game, such as the B-wing, TIE Interceptor and Super Star Destroyer. A few units from previous Star Wars games also appear including TIE Defenders and Dark Troopers.

The bottom line:
One of the rare expansions to prove almost a necessity for fans of the original.-HARRISON DENT

Computeractive
This is a highly recommended update that adds plenty of new content.

Manufacturer's Description
In the best-selling Star Wars: Empire at War, you controlled an entire war for the Star Wars galaxy as the Rebel Alliance or the Galactic Empire. Now, face off against them in Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption This expansion pack presents a new, unique point of view of the Galactic Civil War as, for the first time ever, you play as an aspiring Underworld figure. Corruption runs through your veins and drives your desire to become the most notorious criminal leader since Jabba the Hutt.

The Rebels have just destroyed the Death Star, and the galaxy is in turmoil. In other words, it's just the time that you, an ambitious criminal genius named Tyber Zann, have been waiting for. Quench your thirst for power as you build and lead your own forces of scum and villainy. Spread corruption throughout the galaxy using new strategic gameplay elements to influence other factions, steal their funds, slow their production, spy on them and more.

Exciting new land-tactical options like customizable, upgradeable bases and guerrilla warfare allow for innovative battlefield tactics. Take command of and confront new fighting units for all factions (Rebel B-wings, Imperial TIE interceptors, Super Star Destroyers and more). Take down anyone who stands in your way of ruling the Underworld, be they new battlefield heroes like Luke Skywalker and Yoda, or even your most bitter rival - Jabba the Hutt.

The ultimate prize awaits: an immense Super Star Destroyer known as the Eclipse. Spanning the length of nearly 11 of the Star Destroyers seen in the original Empire at War, this deadliest capital ship in the galaxy comes equipped with a superlaser rivalling that of the Death Star. With it under your control, no one will remember the name Jabba the Hutt - Tyber Zann will be the most feared crime lord the Underworld has ever seen.

Customer Reviews

Star Wars: Empire at War Forces of Corruption
This is a very good game. Initally it starts of a little bit slow and is hard to get into when compared to the orgional star wars game. However once you get into then the game is really good fun and the end battle is reall top class

Left me cold!
I was expecting great things in this expansion pack.

Unfortunately I was left disappointed.

I found the new features a bit boring and added little to the game - I realise it's an expansion pack, but I did find that the new features weren't terribly engaging . This is nothing like as engaging at the original game which arguably is my fave game ever!

I actually sold this game as I didn't ever see myself playing it again

So I give a 2

Utter rubbish...and bad for your PC
Empire at War, despite a few bugs, was a great game. This, frankly, isn't. It has bugs that crash your system; longer load times; and a hugely overpowered new faction. This game is *irritating* to play.

But worse than that (after all, there are fan-made mods to improve games like this) was that it actually resets my PC's sound scheme; so if you've customized any sounds at all- ie, Windows navigation, etc- you have to redo your work. And even worse, it somehow trashed the NVIDIA control panel for my graphics card, making me re-install the drivers.

Not even worthy of one star.