

Read our update policy to learn more.The Star Wars Saga continues with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the highly anticipated sequel to the fastest-selling Star Wars game ever created, which has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.

This review was first published on July 22, 2014.

The game lets you battle it out across land, air and sea battles on a number of planets and combining all of the factions together gives you well over 300 units and structures so there is no shortage of strategy to explore. The gameplay is pretty standard and definitely not going to blow anybody away but it’s well designed and the integration with the Star Wars universe is impressive. The game features four different tech levels for players to advance through with each new age requiring larger amounts of the rarer resources to unlock. Players will have to find and extract the resources available in the game (food, carbon, nova crystals and ore) to create their buildings and eventually their army. Gameplay wise you’ll find an experience very similar to other games in the real time strategy genre. Every faction has their own campaign except for the Royal Nabbo so there is plenty of campaign action to enjoy (especially for Star Wars fans). The original game lets you take control of several factions including the Rebels, the Empire, the Gungans, the Wookies, the Trade Federation and the Royal Nabbo. It was released in 2001 with an expansion (Clone Campaigns) being released a year later, adding two new factions and campaigns. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds takes the Star Wars franchise into the RTS game genre. The game uses the same engine as Age of Empires (1 and 2) so it has a very AoE style feel to its gameplay.
