Welcome to the Star Wars: Empire At War course. This course is intended to give you an overview of the platform as well as explain the different units, strategies and tactics. Read over the course notes and then proceed to the exam. All but one of the answers is in the course notes.

It has been over a decade since Lucas Arts started making games. They used to be renowned in the 1990s for their great space simulations and adventure games. Then as the prequels started coming out, like the films, some of the new games were pretty poor. Especially RTS games like, Rebellion, Force Commander and Galactic Battlegrounds. These games were not completely forgotten however and quite a few people seemed to enjoy them despite popular opinion.

Star Wars: Empire At War, released in early 2006 was somewhat inspired from these three titles and takes components of each of these games. And even though the previous titles were considered sub standard, EaW definitely seems to have impressed the gaming community.

In Star Wars: Empire At War, you will take the role of the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance in a quest to gain control of the galaxy and restoring peace and order. You will be fighting both on the ground and in space with a braod range of units and heroes from the movies, novels and games.

System Requirements

-Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible computer (comes with the CD)
-Required: Intel Pentium 1.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
-Recommended: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2.0 GHz
-Required: 256 MB RAM
-Recommended: 512 MB RAM
-Required: 32 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Transform and -Lighting (T&L) Capability
-Recommended: 64 MB 3D Graphics card with Hardware Vertex and -Pixel Shader (VS/PS) Capability
-Required: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible PCI, USB, or Onboard -Audio Device
-Required: 8X Speed CD-ROM drive
-Recommended: 16X Speed CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
-Required: Keyboard and mouse

Installation

Installation requires 2.5 GB of free hard drive space. We recommend that you have an additional 500 MB of free space available after installing the game for save games and Windows file caching.