Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 http://pff.swrebellion.com/index.php?topic=3627.0 This is an Excerpt from the PC Gamer (UK) magazine George Lucas gets some things right: he may have desecrated the SW universe with his hideous attempts at the Prequels, but the recent RTS StarWars: Empire At War stepped into the original films' timeline and was all teh better for it. You Spread your corruption through the galaxy Far Far Away, using your dark influence to earn money, suck up resources and wage space-and ground-based real-time battles. The Expansion brings you a new challenge, to go Jabba on the younglings. You're Aspiring crime lord Tyber Zann, who is undermining the Empire, Rebels and Everyone else for the ULTIMATE PRIZE: A SUPER STAR DESTROYER, ELEVEN TIMES the size of the original. There's a Machievellian undercurrent to the action, as you spy, cajole, threaten and steal from the rest of teh universe to fuel your own Infamy Looks like they've dropped the ball on this....Anyone heard of the Crime Lord Xizor??? They're introducing a New Crimelord with no mention of Diplomacy... However the little Picture I have before me shows TIE Phantoms, Interceptors, Defenders and the SSD.... I wish they had done a larger pic. You can hardly see it.... http://legacy.gamemod.net/images/EAW%20XPACK.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Xizor was from Shadows of the Empire, surprised you missed that, twas even a happy little game in addition to the book and soundtrack. He pretty much headed up the Black Sun. http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/princexizor/ Kinda weird though that they made the main civ a crime lord civ...should be interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destroyder121 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Though not exactly what i was wishing for from a expansion, this sounds great nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 I was being Sarcastic...Why have A New Character when you can do Xizor's Rise to power... http://pff.swrebellion.com/index.php?topic=3627.msg50794#msg50794 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henda Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 I don't like this, they have so much material to use and then they add another section to it, obviously this won't be the last expansion but I'm worried as to how many more expansions that probably won't be worth buying. Ofc I won't be buying it since they havent fixed the exception error thats been around for over 2 months (which i've got). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord hobo Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 i say wait to E3 for more details before we make assumtions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyvik Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Boy, I nailed this one on the head. When asked by Nick over at PetroMW what was the most likely to be included in an EaW expansion, my first reply: "A Fringe Faction" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuyanxu Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 nice screenshot, lucky we can see the SSD from this shot, it's not as big as it says on the article tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCorris Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 i suppose this is what they ment by going sideways, they just better include some ep5-6 campaigns and stuff problem being this isnt really what we wanted in an expansion, and if they give us this crime lord stuff and not anything what we really had asked for, i cant see many people buying this or any future expansions anyway il stay positive, just hope they know what there doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popcorn2008 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Well at least we know there are going to be new imperial TIEs. If you look closely you can see a TIE Defender! Eeek!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Oh...umm. Not what I excepted...I was hoping for a prequel sequel. Meh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord hobo Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 i agree a prequel would be good but that would put some mods out of work, for example imperial assult2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 EMPIRE AT WAR!! NOT REPUBLIC AT WAR!!! YOU WANT A PREQUEL THING GO AND FIND GALACTIC BATTLEGROUDNS!!! FFS Sorry but I am annoyed that you are all worked up that it is not a Prequel Game....It is set in the Post Clone Wars Era....MOVING INTO THE GCW!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henda Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Doesn't matter if they make an expansion that a mod has made, in the end it's gonna be a different story, new features (hopefully) offical voices etc... so it's worth buying but still a KOTOR or NJO expansion would of been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popcorn2008 Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Personally, Im glad they decided to do something out of the ordinary. C'mon! We all expected either prequel or ESB-RoTJ. Now that they are doing this we can expect them to focus more on: > Unique Storyline > More features > New Units > New Planets etc. etc... but if they did say a prequel expansion, they would have to create a TON of more units and such to make it work. This would make it were they couldnt put as much focus on other apsects of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Torpid-PG Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 I assure you, that article merely scratched the surface. There's lots of new stuff coming. However, I can't really say anything until the official announcement. Expect to see/hear a lot more on Wednesday (E3) and during the developer chat later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediturkey Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Any expansion that doesn't cover Anakin in his wooden acting, temper tantrum, sappy puppy love years is fine with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Thanks for that little Cherry on top there Torpid....You add a completely new Character Noone has EVER heard of and thats Just the Surface..... Great...Fantastic.... What about the known characters Like Prince Xizor, Talon Karrde, THRAWN, ZAARIN!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyvik Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Thanks for that little Cherry on top there Torpid....You add a completely new Character Noone has EVER heard of and thats Just the Surface..... Great...Fantastic.... What about the known characters Like Prince Xizor, Talon Karrde, THRAWN, ZAARIN!! I suggest you calm yourself, Fosh. It's called CREATIVE WRITING. Ever take a good look at my mod? None of the people exist in real Star Wars. Yet I can guarentee that it will kick butt because I am not limited to the constraints of Lucas "good guys always win despite any odds" formula. So chill out, sit back, relax, and most importantly, BREATHE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediturkey Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Okay seriously .. if the expansion is going to be this far along, why not make a second game vs. an expansion? By the time the expansion hits the shelves most people will have moved on to other games and probably misplaced their original copies of EAW. Seems a bit silly. No? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DarthMaulUK Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Great news. Expect to see some screenshots VERY soon! DMUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 SWEET...I actually had a Message Deleted... LMAO Ok...Look here: The Fact is that XIZOR is already in the game...Just not completely. It would have been a 2 day job adding him back and then as a SubFaction for the Empire add it in. They could have developed the story through the Intervening Years, the Yavin Blockade, Derra IV, Circapous IV, the TIE and B-wing Development Programs, Hoth, Shadows of the Empire....It would have been so Fun to revisit events you play through in XWA, XVsT, X-wing, TIE-Fighter... As I said...Maybe the Expansion will be pushed Back to February so that they can get the feedback required to Actually make the game We want.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyvik Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 SWEET...I actually had a Message Deleted... LMAO Ok...Look here: The Fact is that XIZOR is already in the game...Just not completely. It would have been a 2 day job adding him back and then as a SubFaction for the Empire add it in. They could have developed the story through the Intervening Years, the Yavin Blockade, Derra IV, Circapous IV, the TIE and B-wing Development Programs, Hoth, Shadows of the Empire....It would have been so Fun to revisit events you play through in XWA, XVsT, X-wing, TIE-Fighter... As I said...Maybe the Expansion will be pushed Back to February so that they can get the feedback required to Actually make the game We want.... Correction: they would be making the game you want. That is not a game I want, for one. And I can bet its not a game a lot of other people want either. Why? Because other games already deal with that. That would be like making an RTS version of battlefront. Petroglyph is doing something different so we don't retread the same old stories and the same old crap, they are giving us something new. So don't generalize your wants for the community's wants. It's not very becoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foshjedi2004 Posted May 8, 2006 Author Share Posted May 8, 2006 Sorry Xyvik.... Look. This is Star Wars. There is a wealth of Material to work From. IMO they shouldn't have tried to make this game unless they knew that they would piss off the HC SW fans who want to see all the fighters in their Canon Roles. I just want a game that has everything that happened during the GCW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xyvik Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Sorry Xyvik.... Look. This is Star Wars. There is a wealth of Material to work From. IMO they shouldn't have tried to make this game unless they knew that they would piss off the HC SW fans who want to see all the fighters in their Canon Roles. I just want a game that has everything that happened during the GCW What I suggest is that you wait for more information. It's really hard to tell what the X-Pak is going to entail from those paragraphs. Perhaps this new crimelord is a subordinate of Xizor. Black Sun IS a big organization, you know. And there are hundreds of potential stories in Star Wars that have nothing to do with your main characters. Just look at all the work done in the "Tales From..." books. People looked beyond the established characters and crafted people, worlds, and stories outside the box, some with excellent results, some with not so excellent results. The point is that the Star Wars universe is huge. There are billions of inhabitants. Why waste time retreading a story that has already been done in at least 3 other games when you can create something new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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