By Brad Cook
Watch out: there’s an attack of the clones headed for your Mac. We’re talking about Clone Campaigns, Aspyr Media’s new expansion pack for the popular real-time strategy game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. Drawing on the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones for inspiration, Clone Campaigns offers two new factions, new combat units and planets, and plenty of gameplay enhancements.
You can choose from the Confederacy of Independent Systems or the Galactic Republic, in addition to the six factions available in the original game, and play one of two new single-player campaigns or head off to the Mac-only service GameRanger for some multiplayer action. You can also replay the original campaigns with the new combat units and gameplay enhancements and see how you fare a second time around.
Packed With Extras
The new campaign’s storyline occurs after the events in Attack of the Clones. You can take either the Confederacy side, assisting devious Sith Lord Count Dooku, or the Galactic Republic side, helping the venerable Jedi Mace Windu. When you complete both campaigns, you’ll unlock a special bonus mission that includes a unique combat unit.
Among the other new combat units, you’ll find air cruisers, which are powerful ships that change the balance of power for any of the factions that favor air-based warfare, such as the Royal Naboo. And the new power droids offer mobile power sources that you can use to establish outposts on the edge of your galactic kingdom. The gameplay enhancements include the ability to control up to 250 units at one time, upgradeable shields, and little visual touches to complete the ultimate Star Wars experience.
The Clone Campaigns expansion pack also allows you to visit new planets, including Coruscant, the galactic capital, Geonosis, home to a massive droid factory and site of the climactic battle in Attack of the Clones, and Sarapin, which is covered by dangerous volcanoes and rivers of white-hot lava.
Look below to learn how to build your own fleet
of Death Stars, Star Destroyers, and Blockade Runners.
of Death Stars, Star Destroyers, and Blockade Runners.
Available from Aspyr Media
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System Requirements:
Full version of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds required to play Mac OS X version 10.1 or Mac OS 9.0 or higher 128MB of RAM Carbon Lib 1.4 or higher ATI Rage 128, NVidia GeForce2 MX, or better video card (Radeon or GeForce3 strongly recommended)
Confederacy of Independent Systems: Led by Count Dooku, a good Jedi gone bad, the Confederacy includes the Trade Federation, the Techno Union, and other intergalactic organizations. As they plan their secession from the Galactic Republic, they begin to amass a droid army even more formidable than the one unleashed on Naboo in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
