STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

Buy98%

Overwhelmingly Positive · 43k player reviews · High confidence

Yes, worth buying.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Petroglyph · Strategy · May 26, 2010

Player review score
98%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Price
$19.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
0
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
5
Full audio3 of 5
Subtitles5 of 5

Should I buy STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 31 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 18 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Crashes: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Performance: 3 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 43k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
30% of themes are praise40% are divided30% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
31 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Compared to the main RTS games of its day like Command and Conquer (The developers, Petroglyph, were former Westwood employees) the game is somewhat simplistic and small scale, with max unit limits, no tactical base building and active resource gathering, and a fairly strict rock-paper-scissors approach to gameplay.
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The Imperial Campaign is definitely the easiest, and a great entry point to get you started.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
18 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
When I returned to mods, I began to copy the textures/models/files from various characters or units that I liked and started putting them into my reworked version.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay31 reviews
Story and characters23 reviews
Graphics18 reviews
Divided opinion
Combat
100% still recommend
Bugs
80% still recommend
Multiplayer
100% still recommend
Audio
100% still recommend
Players complain
Crashes
86% still recommend
Difficulty
100% still recommend
Performance
100% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player
  • Online PvP
  • PvP
  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Cloud

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$19.99

The lowest we've tracked is $6.99.

6 points recordedtoday · $19.99